Tomorrow (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Tomorrow
Type = Album
Artist = Tomorrow


Recorded =
Released = February 1968
Genre = Psychedelic rock
Length = 38:31
Label = Parlophone PMC/PCS 7042 (mono/stereo)
Producer = Mark P. Wirtz
engineers: Geoff Emerick, Peter Bown
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jb6atr29kl1x~T1 link] | Last album =
This album = "Tomorrow" (1968)
Next album = "50 Minute Technicolor Dream"
(1998)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = album


Lower caption = Reissue (See For Miles Records)|

"Tomorrow" is a 1968 album by the English psychedelic rock group Tomorrow. It was originally released by EMI Parlophone in the U.K. in a black and white sleeve. A slightly different version of the album was also released in the U.S. in 1968 as Sire Records SES 97012, one of the first releases on that label. Though it was not a success when first released it is now widely regarded as one of the best psychedelic rock albums ever made.

The lack of commercial success can be explained by the long delay between initial recording sessions in spring 1967 and final release in February 1968. By the time the album arrived in record stores the psychedelic trend had already started to die out. EMI provided a very small recording budget and would not allow prints of a color album cover to be made, though some later re-issues were printed with a modified color cover.

Tomorrow's September 1967 single "Revolution" was likely the primary inspiration for the John Lennon song of the same name which was released a year later. Tomorrow's lyric "Have your own little revolution, NOW!" sounds like it prompted Lennon's response "You say you want a revolution." Though Tomorrow's song was not a hit the group was well known to insiders of the London music scene. Tomorrow also released a version of Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever in February 1968, so there is little doubt that Lennon was already familiar with the group before writing his own little "Revolution" in May 1968.

Track listing

ide one

#"My White Bicycle"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 3:17
#"Colonel Brown"* (Hopkins, Burgess)– 2:51
#"Real Life Permanent Dream" (Hopkins) – 3:15
#"Shy Boy"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
#"Revolution"* (Hopkins, Howe) – 3:48

ide two

#"The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase" (Hopkins) – 3:17
#"Auntie Mary's Dress Shop"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:44
#"Strawberry Fields Forever" (Lennon, McCartney) – 3:58
#"Three Jolly Little Dwarfs"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
#"Now Your Time Has Come" (Hopkins) – 4:51
#"Hallucinations"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:37

Personnel

*Keith West - vocals
*Steve Howe - guitar
*John "Junior" Wood - bass
*John "Twink" Alder - percussion
*Mark P. Wirtz - keyboard
*Songwriters: Keith West (as "Keith Hopkins"), Ken Burgess, Steve Howe
*Production: Mark P. Wirtz with engineers: Geoff Emerick, Peter Bown*

1999 CD reissue bonus tracks

In 1999, EMI released a CD (EMI 4988192) with additional tracks by Aquarian Age (band members Twink and Junior) and singer Keith West. "Why" is a cover of the Byrds' B-side to Eight Miles High.

#"Claramount Lake" – 3:02 (b-side of "My White Bicycle")
#"Real Life Permanent Dream" – 2:24 (studio demo recording)
#"Why" (McGuinn/Crosby) – 3:59 (studio demo recording)
#"Revolution" – 3:50 (phased mono version, studio demo recording)
#"Now Your Time Has Come" – 3:05
#"10,000 Words In a Cardboard Box" (by Aquarian Age) – 3:27
#"Good Wizzard Meets Naughty Wizzard" (by Aquarian Age) – 4:42
#"Me" (by Aquarian Age) – 3:12
#"On a Saturday" (Keith West solo) – 3:13
#"The Kid Was a Killer" (Keith West solo) – 2:31
#"She" (Keith West solo) – 2:30
#"The Visit" (Keith West solo) – 4:05

Personnel

Keith West solo tracks:
*Steve Howe - guitar
*Ronnie Wood - bass
*Aynsley Dunbar - percussion