Pipedream

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Carl and the Passions – So Tough’ (1971) http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-beach-boys-carl-and-passions-so.html Crosby, Stills and Nash' (1969) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/review-29-crosby-stills-and-nash-1969.html Evolution' (1967) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/review-11-hollies-evolution-1967.html

Live/Solo/Compilation/US Editions/Covers Albums Part Two 1976-2014 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/the-hollies-livesolocompilationouttakes_21.html The Kinks Part One: Solo/Live/Compilation/US Albums 1964-1996 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-kinks-part-one-solo-dave.html Spitfire' (1976) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/jefferson-starship-spitfire-1976-album.html Justanothersadsong, the second number up, is anything but – more positive than the opener, leading into the philosophical Money Game, Thirty-Three And A Third' (1976) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/george-harrison-thirty-three-and-third.html

Versions

Big Ones’ (1976) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-beach-boys-15-big-ones-1976.html Extra Texture (Read All About It)' (1975) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/george-harrison-extra-texture-read-all.html Sunflower' (1970) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/review-36-beach-boys-sunflower-1970.html effective strangled guitar and the song's last word - "Dead" - goes through some agonising phasing. In The Hollies Style' (1964) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-hollies-in-hollies-style-1964-album.html

Little Deuce Coupe' (1963) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.nl/2016/09/the-beach-boys-little-deuce-coupe-1963.html

Live It Up!' (CSN) (1989) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/news-viedws-and-music-issue-104-crosby.html Modern Times' (1981) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/jefferson-starship-modern-times-1981.html Outside of Lindisfarne, Hull gamely plugged away at an on and off solo career from the mid 70s onwards until his sad passing in 1995. His solo albums never received much in the way of promotion from the record company or press at the time of release and as a result, they form the arc of a solo career that has remained relatively unheralded and overlooked to this day, outside of the likes of Mojo magazine having a minor celebration over the re-release of his long unavailable sophomore effort Squire. For me though, it’s Hull’s solo debut, the rather beautiful Pipedream that deserves reappraisal. Imagine' (1971) http://www.alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/john-lennon-imagine-1971-album-review.html We’re hoping in the future to phase out the old stuff. I don’t mind playing it. It’s just lost its brilliance to me. I just sort of do it automatically.”

The Hollies' (1974) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/the-hollies-hollies-1974-album-review.html Just Hull and acoustic guitar ... Imagine Dylan being born and raised in Newcastle on Tyne. Ah, you have to smile hearing Hull singing about the fruits of temptation. Yoko: 'A Story' (1974/1998) http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/news-views-and-music-issue-89-yoko-ono.html I always wondered about the offbeat title - I know STD is an acronym for sexually transmitted diseases, but somewhere I read the tune was actually meant as a tribute to his hometown Newcastle On Tyne. I'll go with the latter interpretation. Anyhow, 'STD 0632' was a sweet, breezy instrumental that gave every band member a chance to share the spotlight, Alan Hull passed away unexpectedly in 1995, at the too-young age of fifty. The obituary in the Independent touchingly described him as follows: “Alan Hull . . . was essentially a humanist, whose wryly observant lyrics came from heartfelt concern for the underprivileged and the misunderstood.” Americans have pretty much ignored his body of work despite his lyrical excellence, his gift for melody and his deep concern for the human race. His vision, expressed in “When the War is Over,” is a clearer and more accessible message than John Lennon’s “Imagine,” as it is uncontaminated by any egoistic request to “join us.” Instead, he encouraged each of us to find ourselves. The war he describes is not the physical war, but the constant, petty war of competition and distrust we wage with each other in our daily lives; his hope is that those silly battles will become distant memories, and people will begin to truly engage each other, openly and honestly:Non-Album Recordings 1969-1980 http://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-non-album.html Essay: Why The ‘Dead’ Made Fans Feel So ‘Alive’ https://alansalbumarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/grateful-dead-essay-why-dead-makes-fans.html