Latest instalment of Grapefruit's popular year-by-year overviews of the more melodic end of the early 70s UK progressive rock scene. A four-hour compilation featuring big hits, key album tracks, cult classics and rarities from 1973. 1973 was another significant year in British pop, with the recent arrival of glam - including the Bryan Ferry-led Roxy Music, who proved that "avant rock" could be a commercial proposition - inspiring many underground bands to adopt a more streamlined sound. That more song-based approach helped give the 1973 singles chart a new energy, with memorable 45s from Mott The Hoople, Manfred Mann's Earthband, Faces, Status Quo, Medicine Head and Nazareth. Though they fell short of the charts, some of the era's more idiosyncratic singer-songwriter talents - Kevin Ayers, Al Stewart, Kevin Coyne - also issued much-loved, radio-friendly singles. On the live circuit, the UK free festival scene was dominated by a new hippie/glam/space rock convergence, with brand leaders Hawkwind joined by the likes of The Pink Fairies and Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come. Featuring all of the above names as well as Thin Lizzy, The Kinks, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Caravan, Procol Harum, Stealers Wheel, Roy Wood, Rare Bird, Badfinger, Free, Family and many others, 'High In The Morning' is a fascinating three-CD, four-hour appraisal of the 1973 British rock and pop scene. Housed in a clamshell box that features a classic crowd shot from that year's Windsor free festival, 'High In The Morning' includes a 48-page booklet that's packed with rare photos, quotes and biographical information.

Tracklist:

All the Way from Memphis (Album Version) - Mott the Hoople
Joybringer - Manfred Mann's Earthband
Surprise, Surprise - Caravan
Marlene - Kevin Coyne
The Sergeant Says - Spirogyra
Wildfire - Rococo
Medusa - Dr. Marigold's
Randolph's Tango - Thin Lizzy
A Rum Tale - Procol Harum
Terminal Eyes- Al Stewart
An Appointment with the Master (Single Version) - Bachdenkel
Star - Stealers Wheel
Ragged Rain Life - Duncan Browne
High in the Morning - Rare Bird
Birdman - Joe Soap
Urban Guerrilla - Hawkwind
Love Is Easy - Badfinger
Mr. Custer - Paul Brett
All the Fallen Teen Angels - Mouse
Towers - Mick Audsley
Too Hot to Handle (Alternative Early Mix) - Ducks Deluxe
Pick Up the Phone - Patto
Do the Strand - Roxy Music
Caribbean Moon - Kevin Ayers
(I Don't Wanna Love You) But You Got Me Anyway - Sutherland Brothers and Quiver
Travellin' in Style - Free
Pale Green Vauxhall Driving Man - Prowler
Running Away - Duffy
Showdown - England's Glory
On the Frontier - Shoot
Caroline (Album Version) - Status Quo
The Award - Fantasy
Temple Song - Greenslade
Orange Song - Rupert Hine
Rising Sun - Medicine Head
Dreams (Story of Our Time/Beneath This Sky) - Ithaca
Hold on to Your Fire - Libido
Sweet Desiree - Family
Legal Eagle Shuffle - the Spencer Davis Group
Come Alive (Aka Slow Rock) - Kingdom Come
City Kids - Pink Fairies
Dirty Dick - Streak
Buffalo (Full-Length Version) - Writing on the Wall
Swampsnake - Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Broken Down Angel - Nazareth
16 and Savaged - Silverhead
Man from Galilee - Fairfield Ski
Girl Said to Me - Liverpool Echo
Always - the Big Three
Fool's Gold - Hemlock
Pool Hall Richard - Faces
Gold Medallions - Tucky Buzzard
World - Curved Air
Moving Moor - Complex
English Morning - Jade Warrior
I Don't Need Nobody - Shape of the Rain
Not Fade Away - Frank White
Forever - Roy Wood
I'll Always Be Your Friend - Byzantium
Out on the Road - Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Bank Holiday - Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts
Sitting in the Midday Sun - the Kinks
I'm Gonna Get You - Reform
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Album Version) - Bryan Ferry
Do the Stanley - Stackridge

UPC: 5013929191709
Label: Grapefruit
Release Date: 9.23.22
Format: CD

High In The Morning: British Progressive Pop / Var - High In The Morning: British Progressive Pop / Var (CD)