Strawbs Hero and Heroine

Download Complete Album - Hero and Heroine - the Strawbs

Hero and Heroine is a studio album by English band Strawbs. After the tour supporting the previous album, Bursting at the Seams, there was an acrimonious split leaving only Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert to rebuild the band. The new line-up gelled very quickly and studio sessions were very productive. The album was released first in the US to a warm reception, and then in the UK where reviews were more negative. The album only reached number 35 on the UK Album Charts[1] and the band increasingly began to look to North America for a successful future.

The album, although still recognisably Strawbs, contains tracks with harsh "straight talking" lyrics, in contrast to the more lyrical approach shown on Bursting at the Seams. The music is more Gothic and doom-laden with washes of mellotron and guitar power chords, especially on the longer tracks.

All band members made writing contributions, notably Chas Cronk with whom Dave Cousins would write many songs on future albums.

Side one
1. "Autumn" – 8:27 - "Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken), "Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins), "The Winter Long" (Cousins).
2. "Sad Young Man" (Rod Coombes) – 4:09
3. "Just Love" (Dave Lambert) – 3:41
4. "Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46
Side two
1. "Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:29
2. "Midnight Sun" (Chas Cronk, Cousins) – 3:06
3. "Out in the Cold" (Cousins) – 3:19
4. "Round and Round" (Cousins) – 4:44
5. "Lay a Little Light on Me" (Cousins) – 3:27
6. "Hero's Theme" (Lambert) – 2:28


Bonus tracks
The following tracks did not feature on the original vinyl release and were included as bonus tracks on the A&M reissue.

1. "Still Small Voice" (Cousins) – 2:28
2. "Lay a Little Light on Me (early version)" (Cousins) – 2:20

  Line Up

* Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

* Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

* John Hawken – organ, piano, electric piano, mellotron, synthesizer

* Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer

* Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion

* Claire Deniz – cello on "Midnight Sun"

Download all song titles (you don't have to wait to download more than one file at a time, you can download them all simultaneously)
Just Love

Hero and Heroine

"Autumn" – 8:27 - "Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken), "Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins), "The Winter Long" l

Shine on Silver Sun

Sad Young Man

Hero and Heroine

Midnight Sun

Lay A Little Light On Me (includes HerosTheme)

Round and Round
 Out in the Sun

Micheal Moorcocks Deep Fixx - New Words Fair

New Worlds Fair is a 1975 concept album by UK rock group Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix.
Moorcock was an established science fiction author who had contributed lyrics and occasionally performed with Hawkwind. In 1974 he was offered a record deal by Andrew Lauder, Hawkwind's A&R man for United Artists Records, although Moorcock insisted that his compatriots Steve Gilmore and Graham Charnock should have significant input into the album.
The single "Dodgem Dude"/"Starcruiser" had been recorded just prior to the album, but United Artists passed on the idea of releasing it. Some time later as Moorcock was visiting his former manager Douglas Smith, with whom he was in dispute, he discovered the tapes for the single lying around the office. Without Smith's knowledge he took them, passing them onto Frenchy Gloder who gave the single a belated release on his Flicknife Records label (FLS200, December 1980)

Candy Floss Cowboy

The album has received two re-releases featuring various bonus tracks, in 1995 on Griffin (USA) and Dojo (UK), and in 2008 on Esoteric (UK). In 2004, Voiceprint Records released an alternate version of the album as Roller Coaster Holiday.

Fair Dealer

Side One
"Candy Floss Cowboy" (Michael Moorcock)
"Fair Dealer" (Moorcock)
"Octopus" (Steve Gilmore)
"Sixteen Year Old Doom" (Moorcock)
"You're A Hero" (Graham Charnock)
"Song For Marlene" (Sam Shepard/Gilmore)
Side Two
"Come To The Fair" (Charnock)
"In The Name Of Rock And Roll" (Charnock)
"Ferris Wheel" (Gilmore)
"Last Merry Go Round" (Moorcock)
"Dude's Dream (Rolling In The Ruins)" (Moorcock)

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Ferris Wheel 
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In The Name Of Rock And Roll  http://www.ziddu.com/download/10109982/11IntheNameofRockandRoll.mp3.html
Brothel in Rosenstrasse
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Dude's Dream (Rolling In The Ruins)
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Starcruiser
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Octopus

Michael Craven Moorcock (born 18 December 1939, in London) is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination. He became editor of Tarzan Adventures in 1956, at the age of 16, and later moved on to edit Sexton Blake Library. As editor of the controversial British science fiction magazine New Worlds, from May 1964 until March 1971 and then again from 1976 to 1996, Moorcock fostered the development of the science fiction "New Wave" in the UK and indirectly in the United States. His serialization of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron was notorious for causing British MPs to condemn in Parliament the Arts Council's funding of the magazine.

During this time, he occasionally wrote under the pseudonym of "James Colvin," a "house pseudonym" used by other critics on New Worlds. A spoof obituary of Colvin appeared in New Worlds #197 (January 1970), written by "William Barclay" (another Moorcock pseudonym).

Moorcock, indeed, makes much use of the initials "JC", and not entirely coincidentally these are also the initials of JesusChrist (as well as that of John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs' main character in The Gods of Mars), the subject of his 1967 Nebula award-winning novella Behold the Man, which tells the story of Karl Glogauer, a time-traveller who takes on the role of Christ. They are also the initials of various "Eternal Champion" Moorcock characters such as Jerry Cornelius, Jerry Cornell and Jherek Carnelian. In more recent years, Moorcock has taken to using "Warwick Colvin, Jr." as yet another pseudonym, particularly in his "Second Ether" fiction. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Moorcock in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"

In the name of Rock and Roll

Moorcock in music
Moorcock collaborated with the British rock band Hawkwind on many occasions: The Hawkwind track "The Black Corridor," for example, included verbatim quotes from Moorcock's novel of the same name, and he worked with the band on their album Warrior on the Edge of Time. Moorcock also penned the lyrics to "Sonic Attack," a Sci-Fi send-up of the public information broadcast, that was part of Hawkwind's Space Ritual set. Hawkwind's album The Chronicle of the Black Sword was largely based on the Elric novels. Moorcock appeared on stage with the band occasionally during the Black Sword tour. His contributions were removed from the original release of the Live Chronicles album, recorded on this tour, due to legal reasons, but has subsequently appeared on some double CD versions. He can also be seen performing on the DVD version of Chronicle of the Black Sword.

Moorcock also collaborated with former Hawkwind frontman and resident poet, Robert Calvert (who gave the chilling declamation of "Sonic Attack"), on Calvert's albums Lucky Leif and the Longships and Hype.
Moorcock has his own music project, which records under the name Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix. The first album New Worlds Fair was released in 1975. The album included a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. A second version of the album Roller Coaster Holiday was issued in 2004. In 2008, The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions was released. These were sessions for planned albums based on two of his novels: Glorianna and The Entropy Tango. The albums were never completed. (The Deep Fix was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by James Colvin published in the 1960s. The Deep Fix was also the fictional band fronted by Moorcock's character Jerry Cornelius.)

Moorcock wrote the lyrics to three album tracks by the American band Blue Öyster Cult: "Black Blade," referring to the sword Stormbringer in the Elric books, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" showing us Elric's emotions at a critical point of his story (this song may also refer to the "Warriors at the Edge of Time," which figure heavily in Moorcock's novels about John Daker; at one point his novel The Dragon in the Sword they call themselves the "veterans of a thousand psychic wars"), and "The Great Sun Jester," about his friend, the poet Bill Butler, who died of a drug overdose. Moorcock has performed live with BÖC (in 1987 at the Atlanta, GA Dragon Con Convention) and Hawkwind.

 

Moorcock appeared on five tracks on the Spirits Burning CD Alien Injection, released in 2008. He is credited with singing lead vocals and playing guitar and mandolin. The performances used on the CD were from the The Entropy Tango & Gloriana Demo Sessions.
The first of an audio book series of unabridged Elric novels, with new work read by Moorcock, have recently begun appearing from AudioRealms. The second audiobook in the series - The Sailor on the Seas of Fate—was published in 2007.

Good Girl, Bad Girl

Dodgem Dude

Links;
Official Moorcock website  Wikipedia - Micheal Moorcock

Download Strawbs album Hero and Heroine

Hero and Heroine is a studio album by English band Strawbs. After the tour supporting the previous album, Bursting at the Seams, there was an acrimonious split leaving only Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert to rebuild the band. The new line-up gelled very quickly and studio sessions were very productive. The album was released first in the US to a warm reception, and then in the UK where reviews were more negative. The album only reached number 35 on the UK Album Charts, and the band increasingly began to look to North America for a successful future.

 

The album, although still recognisably Strawbs, contains tracks with harsh "straight talking" lyrics, in contrast to the more lyrical approach shown on Bursting at the Seams. The music is more Gothic and doom-laden with washes of mellotron and guitar power chords, especially on the longer tracks.

All band members made writing contributions, notably Chas Cronk with whom Dave Cousins would write many songs on future albums. (Wikipedia)

Strawbs - Hero and Heroine - Complete Album download

Band members:
Dave Cousins – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Dave Lambert – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Hawken – organ, piano, electric piano, mellotron, synthesizer
Chas Cronk – backing vocals, bass guitar, synthesizer
Rod Coombes – backing vocals, drums, percussion
Claire Deniz – cello on "Midnight Sun"
Produced by Dave Cousins e Tom Allom, Recorded by Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen.

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Track List:
1."Autumn" – 8:27 including:
"Heroine's Theme" (John Hawken)
"Deep Summer Sleep" (Dave Cousins)
"The Winter Long" (Cousins)
2."Sad Young Man" (Rod Coombes) – 4:09
3."Just Love" (Dave Lambert) – 3:41
4."Shine on Silver Sun" (Cousins) – 2:46
5."Hero and Heroine" (Cousins) – 3:29
6."Midnight Sun" (Chas Cronk, Cousins) – 3:06
7."Out in the Cold" (Cousins) – 3:19
8."Round and Round" (Cousins) – 4:44
9."Lay a Little Light on Me" (Cousins) – 3:27 includes "Hero's Theme" (Lambert) – 2:28

Released 1974
Recorded November 1973, Rosenberg Studios, Copenhagen
Genre Progressive rock, Length 39:36, Label A&M, (UK)
Producer Dave Cousins, Tom Allom

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Mr Fantasy (1967) UICY-93640 210MB
Traffic (1968) UICY-93642 354MB
Heaven Is In Your Mind (1969) UICY-93641 346MB
Last Exit (1969) UICY-93643 263MB
John Barleycorn Must Die (1970) UICY-93644 418MB
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (1971) UICY-93646 317MB
Welcome To The Canteen (1971) UICY-93645 286MB
Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory (1973) UICY-93647 270MB
On The Road (1973) UICY-93643 524MB
When The Eagle Flies (1974) UICY-93649 273MB
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Mr Fantasy (1967) 210MB
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Last Exit (1969) 263MB   
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John Barleycorn Must Die (1970) 418MB     
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The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (1971) 317MB   
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Welcome To The Canteen (1971) 286MB
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Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory (1973) 270MB
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On The Road (1973) 524MB           
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When The Eagle Flies (1974) 273MB
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