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An Apple A Day: Expanded Edition

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Format: CD

Cat No: CRSEG079

Release Date:  25 September 2020

Label:  Grapefruit / Cherry Red

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5013929187924

Genres:  Rock  

  • Description


    • They made one of the rarest albums of the psychedelic era (a copy recently sold on eBay for just under £4,000), while their two singles included one of the genre’s most enduring surrender-to-the-void creations in the much-compiled ‘The Otherside’.



    • Nevertheless, so little information has ever surfaced about Apple that UK underground rock guide book Galactic Ramble described them as “probably the only legendary UK psych band still shrouded in mystery”.



    • Finally, however, we have some kind of closure with this first-ever band-approved reissue of “An Apple A Day”, which also includes mono mixes of their aforementioned brace of single releases.



    • More than half-a-century after they split, band leader Jeff Harrad spills the beans for the first time on their murky genesis in Cardiff, from their pre-Apple days on the local beat/R&B scene to the band’s brief relocation to London and brushes with guitarist Caleb ‘Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad’ Quaye and Kinks/Troggs manager Larry Page, who signed them to his Page One label.



    • Apart from the singles, “An Apple A Day” featured such psych-pop gems as ‘Queen Of Hearts Blues’, ‘Mr. Jones’ and ‘Photograph’, whose combination of brass/orchestral arrangements and Alice In Wonderland-style lyrical surrealism conjured up images of Syd Barrett fronting The Kinks.



    • With a new essay on the band that includes numerous quotes from Harrad, rare band photos and re-mastered sound quality, this new digipak edition of “An Apple A Day” is the definitive release of a classic, much-loved late Sixties UK psychedelic pop period piece.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Let’s Take A Trip Down The Rhine
      • 2. Doctor Rock
      • 3. The Otherside
      • 4. Mr. Jones
      • 5. The Mayville Line
      • 6. Pretty Girl Love You
      • 7. Rock Me Baby
      • 8. Buffalo Billycan
      • 9. Photograph
      • 10. Psycho Daisies
      • 11. Sporting Life
      • 12. Queen Of Hearts Blues
      • 13. Let’s Take A Trip Down The Rhine (Mono Single Version)
      • 14. Buffalo Billycan (Mono Single Version)
      • 15. Doctor Rock (Mono Single Version)
      • 16. The Otherside (Mono Single Version)