''Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day'' is the sixth album by the Welsh
rock
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band
Man
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Issued just two months after the previous album, ''
Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth
''Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth'' is the fifth album by Man, released in September 1972. It was the band’s first live album although they had previously been featured on two tracks totalling 26m 46s (Spunk Rock and Angel Easy) on a "vario ...
'', it features a radically different line-up. Martin Ace having left, and
Deke Leonard
Roger Arnold "Deke" Leonard (18 December 1944 – 31 January 2017) was a Welsh rock musician, "serving a life sentence in the music business".Phil Ryan and Will Youatt, with whom Clive had formed ''Iorwerth Pritchard and the Neutrons'' when he left Man in 1971. This is the only studio album by this particular line-up, which also recorded the live ''
Christmas at the Patti
''Christmas at the Patti'' is a live album, recorded at Man's Christmas party, held at the Patti Pavilion, Swansea, on 19 December 1972. The album features Man and Help Yourself with guests Deke Leonard, Dave Edmunds and B J Cole, together wit ...
'' before Clive John left again.
The LP had a prize-winning gatefold sleeve that, when opened, unfolded a 2' by 2' (61 cm by 61 cm) cartoon map of
Wales
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, showing the origins of numerous Welsh bands, including Man, and other places of interest. The country was shown as an island, separated from England by a large channel of water, and being pushed away from her neighbour by ten men using long poles.
The inner sleeve featured 'Man's Family Jungle', Man's family tree, similar to those prepared by
Pete Frame
Peter Frame (born 10 November 1942 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England) is an English music journalist and historian of rock music.
He has produced outlines of the history of rock bands for various magazines, such as ''Sounds'', ''NME'', '' Melody ...
, but in a scrawled version drawn by Leonard, despite him having been recently fired from the band, as is acknowledged on the chart. Unfortunately, on the earlier CD issues (prior to 2007) the map was unreadably small and the 'Family Jungle' was missing.
Due to the complications of a previous publishing contract, newly arrived bassist Will Youatt did not appear in the writing credits despite allegedly making a significant contribution to the songs.
guitar
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s,
vocals
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keyboards
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percussion
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The original LP was released in November 1972 in the UK (United Artists UAG 29417), Japan (Liberty LLP-80784) and the USA (United Artists UA-LA 077).
This album was released on CD by Beat Goes On in 1991 (BGO CD 14)
In 2007
Esoteric
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remastered and re-released the album (ECLEC 2019) with two bonus tracks:
# "Bananas"
# "Rockfield Jam"
These bonus tracks were recorded at
Rockfield Studios
Rockfield Studios is a residential recording studio located in the Wye Valley just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales. It was originally founded in 1963 by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward.
Facilities
Rockfield is a two- ...
, in the spring of 1972, by the previous line-up (Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, Martin Ace and Terry Williams) and show how "Bananas" developed with the change of line-up Sleeve notes to CD re-release although the writing credits for this track were only given to the new line-up.
This re-issue also greatly improved the situation of the cover artwork, i.e. the map and the 'Family Jungle' which were now readable.
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