''Banquet'' is the fourth album by German progressive rock band

Lucifer's Friend Lucifer's Friend was a German rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy met ...

, released in 1974. By this time there was no hard rock sound, it was now strictly progressive rock mixed with jazz fusion. The song "Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band" was the opening track on some versions (i.e. the U.S. version) of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Repertoire Records CD release of their self-titled debut.

Track listing

U.S. Vinyl Release

Personnel

Band

* John Lawton – lead vocals * Peter Hesslein – electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string guitar, percussion, backing vocals * Dieter Horns – bass, backing vocals * Herbert Bornhold – drums, percussion, backing vocals * Peter Hecht – piano, organ, Moog synthesizer, electric piano ( Fender Rhodes)

Additional musicians

* Herb Geller – alto saxophone (track 1), flute (track 4) * Karl-Hermann Lüer – baritone saxophone * Stefan Dobrzynski – tenor saxophone * Wilfried Schoberanzky – bassoon * Klaus Holle – flute * Franz Behle –

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...

* Rolf Lind –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

* Hans Alves – English horn * Kurt Donocik, Luigi Schaufub, Walter Hillinghaus –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

* Günter Fulisch, Heinz Reese, Waldemar Erbe, Wolfgang Ahlers –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

* Bob Lanese, Heinz Habermann, Manfred Moch –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Bruno Korzuschek, Günter Grünig, Werner Knupke –

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* Fritz Köhnsen, Günter Klein, Günther Zander, Heinz Donocik, Helmut Jochens, Helmut Rahn, Ingeborg Kaufmann, Otto Kaufmann, Reinhold Gabriel, Senia Daschewski –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

* Dave Brian, Elvira Herbert, Sheila McKinley –

choir A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...

Production

– producer, arranger * Peter Hecht – horns & strings arrangement * Sebastian F.B. Dietrich – photography * Volker Heintzen – engineer

External links

References

1974 albums Lucifer's Friend albums Repertoire Records albums Vertigo Records albums {{1970s-album-stub