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Hatfield and the North
Studio album by Hatfield and the North
Released	February 1974
Recorded	October 1973 – January 1974
Genre	Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length	46:10
Label	Virgin
Producer	Hatfield and the North Tom Newman
Hatfield and the North chronology
Hatfield and the North (1974) The Rotters' Club (1975)

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Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released in February 1974.

In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

Album cover

The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.

Track listing

The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:

1. "Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (Sinclair, Pyle) – 3:16
2. "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" (Pyle) – 4:35

The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:

1. "Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08

Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.

Personnel

Hatfield and the North

• Phil Miller – electric guitar (2–14), acoustic guitars (6)
• Dave Stewart – Fender Rhodes electric piano (1–8, 10–15), Hammond organ (3–5, 7–9, 12–14), Hohner Pianet (1, 5, 7, 9, 13–15), piano (2–5, 8, 9), tone generator (5, 7–9, 12), Minimoog (9)
• Richard Sinclair – bass guitar (2–14), vocals (2, 4, 6, 8, 10–12)
• Pip Pyle – drums (2–9, 11–14), percussion (6, 7, 9), sound effects (7–9, 11)

Guest musicians

• Robert Wyatt – vocals (4, 12)
• Barbara Gaskin – vocals (5, 13)
• Amanda Parsons – vocals (5, 13)
• Ann Rosenthal – vocals (5, 13)
• Geoff Leigh – tenor saxophone (5), flute (5, 13)
• Didier Malherbe – tenor saxophone (7) (uncredited)
• Jeremy Baines – pixiephone (5), flute (13)
• Sam Ellidge – voice (7)
• Cyrille Ayers – vocals (8)

References

1. AllMusic review by Dave Thompson
2. Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005.
3. calyx2016. "A closer look at the first Hatfield and the North album's cover". canterburyscene.wordpress.com. Retrieved 25 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

• 1974 debut albums
• Hatfield and the North albums
• Albums produced by Tom Newman (musician)
• Virgin Records albums