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/ rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper's second album and was released in 1967. The album was re-issued in 1977 as ''The Early Years'', re-issued once more on Compact disc in 1991, and was re-released again in December 2017 in both

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ed, 180 Gram

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and CD formats.

History

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, recognising Harper's potential, hired American producer

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to produce the album. Talmy later claimed that 'Harper was difficult... truculent... we battled. But we got round to it'. The album was orchestrated by

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. Musically, the album was notable for the 11-minute track "Circle" comprising several

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, "a soundscape of Harper's difficult youth" that, according to Harper, was "totally unlike anything anyone else was doing.

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weren’t doing anything like that at the time. The Stones weren’t doing anything like it, either. No-one was" Career-wise, the album was notable for establishing a broadening in Harper's musical style away from the more traditional side of contemporary

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then played. Harper had an interest in traditional folk but did not consider himself a bona fide member of the folk scene. He later explained:- Harper's record company had different expectations. "They wanted me to write commercial pop songs and when they heard the album... they didn’t have a clue. They wanted hits. And I gave them "Circle"".

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contributed sleeve notes for the album. The first song on the album is called "Freak Street" on the back cover of the Science Friction CD but "Freak Sweet" in the liner notes; elsewhere it is referred to as "Freak Suite". During this period, Harper was managed by American music entrepreneur Jo Lustig; manager of The Pentangle and former agent to

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Single

The same sessions produced a non-album single (CBS 3371), "Life Goes By", with "You Don't Need Money" on the B-side. The A-side, also produced by Talmy and orchestrated by Mansfield, has never been reissued.

Re-releases

In 1977 the album was re-issued by

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with different cover art under the title ''The Early Years''. In 1991 the album was re-released again by Awareness Records with new artwork and additional content. The 2017 remastered album removed those 1991 bonus tracks, reverting to the original 1968 tracklist. The track "You Don't Need Money" appeared on the first bargain priced

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, ''

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'', as "Nobody's Got Any Money In The Summer".

Track listing

Personnel

*Roy Harper – vocals, instruments *

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– additional musician *

– additional musician, orchestral arrangements ;Technical *Lippa Pearce – design layout *Wayne Millar – photography *

–

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References

{{Authority control 1968 albums Roy Harper (singer) albums Albums produced by Shel Talmy CBS Records albums Science Friction albums Awareness Records albums