Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day

Infobox Album |
Name = Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day
Type = Album
Artist = Man


Released = 1972
Label = United Artists Records
Producer = Man & Dave Edmunds
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfyxqw5ldte link]
* GSD Harvard University [http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/users/staffba3/man5.html link] |
Last album = "Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth"
(1972)
This album = "Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day"
(1972)
Next album = "Christmas at the Patti"
(1973)

"Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day" is the seventh album by the Welsh progressive rock band Man.

Issued just one month after the previous album, Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth, it features a radically different line up. Martin Ace having left, and Deke Leonard having been fired, Clive John returned, bringing with him Phil Ryan and Will Youatt, with whom Clive had formed "Iorwerth Pritchard and the Neutrons" when he left Man in 1971. This is the only studio album by this particular line-up, which also recorded the live "Christmas at the Patti" before Clive John left again.

The LP had a prize-winning gatefold sleeve that, when opened, automatically unfolded a 2' x 2' cartoon map of Wales, showing the origins of numerous Welsh bands, including Man, and other places of interest. The inner sleeve featured "Man's Family Jungle" [ [http://www.manband-archive.com/evolution/family-jungle.php Man's Family Jungle] Retrieved 8 October 2008] , Man's family tree, similar to those prepared by Pete Frame, but a scrawled version drawn by Deke Leonard, although he had been fired. Unfortunately the map is unreadably small in the CD issues, which do not include the "Family Jungle".

Track listing

# "C'mon" (Jones/Ryan/Williams/John) – 11:03
# "Keep on Crinting" (Jones/Ryan/Williams/John) – 8:15
# "Bananas" (Jones/Ryan/Williams/John) – 9:26
# "Life on the Road" (Jones/Ryan/Williams/John) – 7:14

Personnel

*Micky Jones — guitars, vocals
*Clive John - guitars, vocals
*Phil Ryan - keyboards, vocals
*Terry Williams — drums, percussion
*Will Youatt - bass, vocals

Releases & Reissues

The original LP was released in October 1972 in the UK (United Artists UAG 29417), Japan (Liberty LLP-80784) and the USA (United Artists UA-LA 077)
This album was released on CD by Beat Goes On in 1991 (BGO CD 14)

In 2007 Esoteric remastered and re-released the album (ECLEC 2019) with two bonus tracks:
# "Bananas"
# "Rockfield Jam"

These bonus tracks were recorded at Rockfield, in the spring of 1972, by the previous line up (Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, Martin Ace & Terry Williams) and show how "Bananas" developed with the change of line-up [Sleeve notes to CD re-release] although the writing credits for this track were only given to the new line up.

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