Biography
The Edgar Broughton Band, founded in 1968 in Warwick, England, was an English psychedelic rock group.The band started their career as a blues group under the name of The Edgar Broughton Blues Band, playing to a small following in the region around their hometown of Warwick. However, when the band began to lean towards the emerging psychedelic movement, dropping the ‘Blues’ from their name as well as their music, Victor Unitt left. In 1968, the Edgar Broughton Band moved to Notting Hill Gate, London, seeking a recording contract and a wider audience, and were picked up by Blackhill Enterprises. Blackhill landed them their first record deal, on EMI’s progressive rock label Harvest Records, in December 1968. Their first single was “Evil”/”Death of an Electric Citizen”, released in June 1969, which was also the first single released by Harvest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Broughton_Band
Album & Cover
In 1979, Edgar Broughton Band regrouped as The Broughtons to release ‘Parlez-Vous English?’. The members: Robert Edgar Broughton, Steve Broughton, Arthur Grant. Supplementary musicians (Tom Nordon, Pete Tolsen and Richard DeBastion) joined for the album. Parlez-Vous English? is the seventh album by psychedelic rock group. The album was created after serious legal action, which occurred during the release of their previous album Bandages, this resulted with the band splitting up for four years before finally reuniting under a different moniker, “The Broughtons”. The album was originally released as Infinity INS 3027 in 1979, and saw the band on new label, Infinity Records and with a more punk/rock sound, as opposed to their other psychedelic rock releases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlez-Vous_English
According to Aubrey Powell the concept for this cover came from the album title. Two tourists in a café looking for directions, with all the words written in different typographic styles as a graphic on the cover. It entices the viewer to peruse and engage to make sense of what is happening.
Cover Location: French Café somewhere in France
Who Did What: Photography – P. Christopherson with R. Brimson.
Label: Infinity INS3027(UK & Europe)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One Little One Waiting For You Drivin’ To Nowhere Meglamaster Didecoi April In England |
Side Two Revelations One Anthem Down In The Jungle Rent A Song Young Boys All I Want To Be |
Credits
Backing Vocals, Percussion, Bass – Arthur Grant
Drums, Vocals, Percussion – Steve Broughton
Guitar – Pete Tolsen
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Tom Nordon
Guitar, Synthesizer [Moog], Effects, Vocals, Percussion – Edgar Broughton
Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Richard De Bastion
