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"Hero and Heroine" is a song by

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band Strawbs featured on their 1974 album of the same name. It is written by

Dave Cousins Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson; 7 January 1945) is an English musician who has been the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. Career Cousins is a founder member of the Strawbs, which started out as the Str ...

and has obvious drug allusions, the main reason it didn't get much airplay on

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radio. The song is in a similar vein to an earlier track "Witchwood" but with rather more obvious allegory. Dave Cousins originally demonstrated the song to the band on banjo and the guitar picking under the verses does indeed retain a bluegrass feel. Keyboardist

John Hawken John Christopher Hawken is an English keyboard player, best known as a member of The Nashville Teens, Renaissance, and the Strawbs. He also played in Spooky Tooth, Third World War, Vinegar Joe, Illusion, as well as being a session musician. ...

and guitarist Dave Lambert added mellotron and guitar power chords between the verses which gives the whole song a more epic bearing.

B-Side

The B-side track "Why" is another Dave Cousins composition, not released on any studio album. It forms the first part of the composite song "Why and Wherefore" which appears on the compilation/rarities album '' Halcyon Days''.

Personnel

*Dave Cousins –

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, acoustic guitar * Dave Lambert –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...

Chas Cronk Chas Cronk is an English musician, best known as the bass player and acoustic guitarist for the Strawbs from 1973 to 1980 and again from 2004 to the present. Chas also toured and recorded with Steve Hackett and Rick Wakeman in the 1980s and C ...

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– Mellotron, Hammond organ *

Rod Coombes Rodney Coombes (born 15 May 1946) is an English musician. He was mostly known from playing drums with British bands Stealers Wheel in 1972 to 1973 and again in 2008 and Strawbs from 1974 to 1977 and again from 2004 to 2010. Career He has pla ...

– drums

Sampling

The song was sampled by the producing duo Sid Roams for the beat ''"Intro/S.R. Anthem"'', in their album ''"Strictly Nstrmntl"''.

References

"Hero and Heroine" at Strawbsweb

External links

Lyrics to "Hero and Heroine" at Strawbsweb official siteLyrics to "Why" at Strawbsweb official site
1974 singles Strawbs songs 1974 songs Songs written by Dave Cousins {{1970s-rock-song-stub