Biography
Mark Ashton is a British painter, musician, compositer, ex-drummer of an English progressive rock band Rare Bird. He joined his first band The Vikings as a drummer at 11 years old. The 2nd bad Corvettes was voted the best band in Kent, U.K and played in a band which opened for acts such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and The Yardbirds, at this time he began writing music. Formed his first band in 1965 Turnstile at 16 years old, began composing and released their first single Riding A Wave (Side B “Trot”) on Pye Records. devoted to the original songs, as early as the single “Riding Wave” will be released by pie record.After “Rare Bird”, he quit the drums and concentrate to writing music. In 1974 Mark formed “HEADSTONE” and made two albums with Trident Production – EMI Records, 1st album Bad Habit (1974), the 2nd album Headstone (1975). Producer John Anthony has already produced the 1st Album of Yes (1968) and Queen(1973). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ashton_(musician)#Discography
Album & Cover
This is the second solo album by Mark Ashton.
According to Aubrey Powell, the singed photograph for this cover was achieved by putting a C-Type print in an oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes which became distorted and boiled in a visual way. The idea of the cover was that Ashton was such ‘hot property’ at the time and Storm Thorgerson realised the concept of Hot, Hot everywhere, including the location in Morocco.
Cover Location: The Mamounia Hotel, Marrakesh, Morocco.
Who Did What: Photography – A. Powell. Cover Design – Storm Thorgerson/Hipgnosis
Label: Ariola ARL 5023(UK&IRL)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Click on the image for Mark Ashton Bio that comes with the album.
Tracklist
| Side One Dancing In The Street Blue Blue Nights That’s The Way It Is In The Street |
Side Two So Many Do Down To You Boy Thinking Of You One Road At A Time When I’m Out West |
Credits
Bass – Mick Feat, Terry Wilson
Drums – Peter Van Hooke, Phil Wainman, Tony Braunagel
Engineer – Guy Bidmead, Phil Brown, Rhett Davies
Guitar – Bob Weston, Steve Gould, Winston Delandro
Guitar, Vocals – Mark Ashton
Keyboards, Synth – Derek Austin
Percussion – Chris Fletcher
Steel Drums – Miguel Barrados
Written-By – Mark Ashton (tracks: A1 to B3, B5)
