John Lees / A Major Fancy (album)
UK Harvest SHSM 2018 (Jul.1977)
バークレイ・ジェームス・ハーヴェストのギタリスト、ジョン・リーズのソロ・デビュー・アルバム。1972年12月からアビーロード・スタジオとストロベリー・スタジオでレコーディング、1973年に完成するがお蔵入りしてしまう。4年後の1977年になってから曲を差し替えてリリースされた。エリック・スチュアートやケヴィン・ゴドレイ、ゾンビーズのロッド・アージェントやプリティ・シングスのスキップ・アレンらが参加している。
track list
Untitled No. 1 - Heritage (Lees)
Child Of The Universe (Lees)
Kes (A Major Fancy) (Lees)
Untitled No.2 (Lees)
Sweet Faced Jane (Lees)
Witburg Night (Lees)
Long Ships (Lees)
Untitled No. 3 (Lees)
credit
All titles composed and sung by John Lees
Produced by Wally Waller
Recorded at EMI Studios, Abbey Road and Strawberry Studios, Stockport.
Engineers: Tony Clark - EMI / Peter Tattersall - Strawberry
"Kes (A Major Fancy)""Untitled No.2" recorded at Strawberry . Mixed at Abbey Road, December 1972, January 1973.
John Lees photographs: Doug McKenzie
Kestrel Photograph: E. Breeze-Jones/Bruce Coleman Ltd.
Retouching: Michael Mann Studio
"Untitled No. 1 - Heritage"
Acoustic/Electric Guitars: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Piano: Gordon Edwards
Organ: Rod Argent
Congas & Timbals: Wally Waller
Vocal: John Lees
Harmony vocals: Lees - Waller
"Child Of The Universe"
Acoustic Guitars & Vocal: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Piano: Gordon Edwards
Arrangement for Choir & String: Graham Preskett
"Kes (A Major Fancy)"
Acoustic Guitars: John Lees - Eric Stewart
ELectric Guitars: John Lees
Electric Twelve String: Wally Waller
Percussion: Skip Allen
"Untitled No.2"
Acoustic Guitar & Vocal: John Lees
Bass: Wally Waller
Drums: Skip Allen
Electric Piano: Graham Preskett
Ashtray, Beerbottle & Fire Extinguisher: Kev Godley
Timbals: Wally Waller
Tambourine: Skip Allen
"Sweet Faced Jane"
Acoustic/Electric Guitars: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Piano: Gordon Edwards
Violin parts scored & played by : Graham Preskett
Tenor Sax: Rex Morrison
Tambourine: Skip Allen
Vocal: John Lees
Harmony vocals: Lees - Waller
"Witburg Night"
Acoustic/Electric Guitars: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Piano/Electric Piano: Gordon Edwards
Vocal: John Lees
Vibes & Tubular Bells: Wally Waller
Tambourine: Skip Allen
"Long Ships"
Acoustic/Electric Guitars: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Vocal: John Lees
Harmony vocals: Lees - Waller
Link Piece
Guitars: John Lees
Arrangement & Moog: Wally Waller
"Untitled No. 3"
Acoustic/Electric Guitars: John Lees
Drums: Skip Allen
Bass: Wally Waller
Piano: Gordon Edwards
Melotron: Wally Waller
Violin: Graham Preskett
singles
John Lees/Child Of The Universe
1977
Harvest SHAR 5132
Child Of The Universe / Kes (A Major Fancy)
promotion item
John Lees/Child Of The Universe
2012
Air Mail Recordings AIRPROMO-046
Child Of The Universe
current products
John Lees / A Major Fancy
2012
CD Air Mail Recordings AIRAC-1673
Untitled No.1 - Heritage / Child Of the Universe / Kes (A Major Fancy) / Untitled No.2 / Sweet Faced Jane / Witburg Night / Long Ships / Untitled No.3
Untitled No. 8 (previously unreleased song) / Child Of The Universe (first version) / Witburg Night (first mix) / Untitled No. 2 (first version) / Untitled No. 1 - Heritage (first version) / Best Of My Love / You Can't Get It / Please Be With Me / Child Of The Universe (single edit)