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Looking Through A Glass Onion - The Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966-72

Various
CD  |  Rock  |  25 Sep 2020
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A 3-CD set, Looking Through A Glass Onion assembles these disparate strands into one cohesive package, with the studio day trippers, the cultural pranksters, the genre-benders, the folk club stalwarts and the hair-down-to-his-knees prog-rock brigade all grooving up slowly to the starting line. Though largely forgotten now, Liverpool quartet The Beatles were the toppermost of the poppermost in the Sixties, responsible for some of the biggest-selling singles of all time and a series of ground-breaking albums that dictated musical trends until their next LP emerged.

With those albums containing numerous potential hit singles, it was inevitable that producers and groups would wait impatiently for the latest Beatles LP to land in order to rush into the studio and clone a track with the aim of scoring a cheap hit single.

That process continued unabated for the rest of the bands career, but the results became more interesting with the arrival of the psychedelic and progressive era, when rock started to take itself more seriously and a more self-respecting, artistic approach was called for.

Suddenly the cheap imitations were joined by more adventurous interpretations of Beatles material, including some startling re-imaginings of songs that dated back to the salad days of the Lennon/McCartney writing partnership, with early efforts like Every Little Thing and You Cant Do That given radical treatments to reflect the changing musical times.

The result is the proverbial Magical Mystery Tour, a Fab Four parallel universe, a Looking-Glass world in which Strawberry Fields Forever can be an Elizabethan garden party madrigal or a churning slice of Fudged-up sludge, where a spaced-out Duffy Power takes the lyrics of Fixing A Hole perhaps a little too literally, Penny Lane becomes avant-garde easy listening, the likes of Nick Lowe, Alex Harvey and Ritchie Blackmore try out early identities, and the Walrus was Lol.

Containing nearly four hours of music and a 40-page booklet, Looking Through A Glass Onion features 68 tracks from various UK acts, with tons of memorabilia and rare photos as well as the usual verbose smartarse annotation shamelessly passed off as informed musical commentary. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. Well, almost all.

Title: Looking Through A Glass Onion - The Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966-72

Format: CD

Release Date: 25 Sep 2020

Artist: Various

Sku: 2600453

Catalogue No: CRSEG077T

Category: Rock

DISC 1

01. Mystery Tour – Camel

02. Help – Deep Purple

03. Every Little Thing – Yes

04. I Am The Walrus – Affinity

05. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds – Rainbow Ffolly

06. If I Needed Someone – The Hollies

07. Tomorrow Never Knows – The Mirage

08. In My Life – Kippington Lodge

09. Yesterday – Eyes Of Blue

10. Flying – Sounds Nice

11. Strawberry Fields Forever – Design

12. Here There And Everywhere – Episode Six

13. Got To Get You Into My Life – Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers

14. Birthday – Hair Rave-Up

15. Eleanor Rigby – Blonde On Blonde

16. Dear Prudence – Atlantic Bridge

17. Across The Universe – Jawbone

18. Fixing A Hole – Duffy Power

19. Oh! Darling – Trucial States

20. Good Day Sunshine – The Tremeloes

21. Taxman – Infinity

22. You Never Give Me Your Money / Carry That Weight – Orange Bicycle

DISC 2

01. I Am The Walrus – Spooky Tooth

02. Strawberry Fields Forever – Plastic Penny

03. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill – Rainbow Ffolly

04. Within You Without You – Big Jim Sullivan

05. Hey Bulldog – The Gods

06. Cry Baby Cry – Freedom

07. Day Tripper – Don Fardon

08. Norwegian Wood – The Frugal Sound

09. The Two Of Us – Penny Arcade

10. You Can't Do That – Andy Ellison

11. She Said She Said – Grand Union

12. Mother Nature's Son – Davey Graham & Holly

13. Back In The USSR – Cliff Bennett & His Band

14. With A Little Help From My Friends – The Young Idea

15. Paperback Writer – The Shadows

16. One And One Is Two – Phillip Goodhand-Tait & The Stormsville Shakers

17. A Hard Day's Night – The Majority

18. Birthday – Trucial States

19. Get Back – Linda Peters

20. Drive My Car – Bo Street Runners

21. Maxwell's Silver Hammer – The Good Ship Lollipop

22. The Fool On The Hill – Stone The Crows

23. I Will – Young Blood

24. Yellow Submarine – The Hi-Fis

25. Yesterday – The Tomcats

26. I Am The Walrus – Lol Coxhill

DISC 3

01. Come Together – Jason Crest

02. Strawberry Fields Forever – Tomorrow

03. Norwegian Wood – Circus

04. She's Leaving Home – Big Jim Sullivan

05. Exposition / We Can Work It Out – Deep Purple

06. A Day In The Life – Affinity

07. Help – Andy Ellison

08. Please Please Me – The Score

09. Taxman – Loose Ends

10. Good Day Sunshine – The Eyes

11. Penny Lane – The Wilson Malone Voiceband

12. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill – Young Blood

13. I Will – Real Mccoy

14. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – The Spectrum

15. Rocky Raccoon – Brian Bennett

16. Day Tripper – The Ice

17. We Can Work It Out – The Sorrows

18. I Am The Walrus – Octopus

19. Northern Medley – Hardin & York

20. Good Night – Vera Lynn


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