Roy Harper, 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease'

Reference

AV/5/58

Date:

1975

Level of description

item

Extent

1 33 RPM Record: Two sides, total time 40 minutes 39 seconds

Part of

Vinyl (AV/5)

Scope and Content

1 vinyl record entitled 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease' by Roy Harper. The record contains the songs 'The Game (Parts 1-5)', 'The Spirit Lives', 'Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children', 'Referendum (Legend)', 'Forget Me Not', 'Hallucination Light', 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease', all written by Roy Harper. Publisher: Chrysalis Records Ltd. Producer: Peter Jenner. Engineered by John Leckie. Recorded at EMI Studios. Performers on the album included Chris Spedding, Dave Cochran, Bill Bruford, Dave Gilmour, John Paul Jones, Steve Broughton, Dave Bedford, Ray Warleigh and the Grimethorpe Colliery Band. The front of the sleeve contains a photograph of a topless male cricketer walking with his bat. The reverse of the sleeve includes a panoramic view of Lord's Cricket Ground, pictures of a bat, ball and wicket, and an overview of the Laws of Cricket. The song 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease' is the only one whose lyrics refer to cricket, and the lyrics reference cricketers Geoffrey Boycott and J A Snow.

Side 1 is 20 minutes 50 seconds long and consists of the following songs:
[0:00-13:35] 'The Game (Parts 1-5)'
[13:35-17:52] 'The Spirit Lives'
[17:52-20:50] 'Grown Ups Are Just Silly Children'.

Side 2 is 19 minutes 49 seconds long and consists of the following songs:
[0:00-3:50] 'Referendum Legend'
[3:50-6:20] 'Forget Me Not'
[6:20-12:35] 'Hallucination Light'
[12:35-19:49] 'When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease'.

Associations

Roy Harper
Peter Jenner
John William Leckie
Chris Spedding
William Scott Bruford
David Jon Gilmour
John Paul Jones
Steve Broughton
David Vickerman Bedford
Raymond Kenneth Warleigh
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
EMI
John Augustine Snow
Geoffrey Boycott

Subject

laws of cricket

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 33 RPM Record: Two sides, total time 40 minutes 39 seconds

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