Biography
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. In 1971, the band decided that existence as a power trio was limiting, and asked Victor Unitt, who had been playing meanwhile in The Pretty Things, to rejoin the band. In May, with the new lineup, they released their eponymous third album, which contained “Evening Over Rooftops” (again with strings by David Bedford). Edgar Broughton Band contained heavy blues and even country influences. The album is known among fans as “The Meat Album”, because the album cover features lots of meat on hangers in a warehouse; a human being can also be seen hanging among the meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Broughton_Band
Album & Cover
Oora is the fifth album by psychedelic rock group, the Edgar Broughton Band, first released in 1973. It was the Broughtons’ last album for Harvest Records. The original vinyl album came in an elaborate package, with a conventional gatefold album jacket enclosed in a transparent vinyl sleeve printed with the group’s name and band pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oora
The original vinyl album came in an elaborate package, with a conventional gatefold album jacket enclosed in a transparent vinyl sleeve printed with the group’s name and band pictures.
Location:
Who Did What: Photography – A. Powell. Sleeve Design – Chris Smith. Artwork – Barney Bubbles. Other Photographs – Edgar Broughton, Krista Guziolek, Steve Broughton. Design – Steve Broughton
Label: Capitol ST-11304(US), Harvest SHVL 810(UK)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One Hurricane Man Rock ‘N’ Roller Roccococooler Eviction Oh You Crazy Boy! Things On My Mind |
Side Two Exhibits From A New Museum Green Lights Face From A Window Pretty Hi-Jack Boogie Slow Down Capers |
Credits
Arranged By [Strings, Wind Instruments] – David Bedford
Mixed By – Rufus Cartwright
Producer – Edgar Broughton Band
Recorded By – Alan O’Duffy
Synthesizer – Victor Peraino
Written-By – RE Broughton (tracks: A1a To A2, B1a, B1b), Edgar Broughton Band* (tracks: B2c, B3), SA Broughton(tracks: A3, A5, B2a), VB Unitt (tracks: A4, B2d)
Notes
Cover: gatefold cardboard in printed plastic bag.
Recorded at Olympic, Morgan and the Manor, June 1972 to December 1972.
Inner sleeve with lyrics and track and recording information.
