Hats Off (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Hats Off
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = Roy Harper


Released = 2001
Recorded = England
Genre = Rock
Length = 71:54
Label = The Right Stuff Records 72435-27640-2-0
Producer = Roy Harper
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aajgtq9zpu45 link]
Last album = "Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles"
(1997)

This album = "Hats Off"
(2001)

Next album = "East Of The Sun"
(2001)

"Hats Off" is a 2001 compilation album by Roy Harper featuring 14 of Harper's own songs "..."accompanied by some of rock's most legendary performers"." (From rear album cover).

This compilation spans 28 years of Harper's recorded output and features a number of guest musicians, including; Jimmy Page, David Bedford, Keith Moon, Ronnie Lane, David Gilmour and Kate Bush.

The albums title perhaps refers to the tributary song "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper" by Led Zeppelin, found on their third album, "Led Zeppelin III". Fans should take note that several of the songs have been edited in order to squeeze them onto the CD.

Track listing

#"Death Or Glory?" - 5:05 (from "Death Or Glory?")
#"Commune" - 4:35 (from "Valentine")
#"Me And My Woman" (Edit) - 3:52 (from "Stormcock")
#"Male Chauvinist Pig Blues" - 3:33 (from "Valentine")
#"Highway Blues" - 6:32 (from "Lifemask")
#"You" - 4:34 (from "The Unknown Soldier")
#"Nineteen Forty-Eightish" (Edit) - 5:27 (from "Whatever Happened to Jugula?")
#"Another Day" (Live) - 3:58 (from "Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion")
#"Don't You Grieve" - 2:34 (from "Flat Baroque and Berserk")
#"Ten Years Ago" - 3:21 (from "Commercial Breaks")
#"These Fifty Years" (Edit) - 6:34 (from "The Dream Society")
#"One Of Those Days In England (Part 1)" - 3:25 (from "Bullinamingvase")
#"The Same Old Rock" (Edit) - 11:37 (from "Stormcock")
#"The Game" (Edit) - 6:55 (from "HQ")

Personnel

*Roy Harper
*Ian Anderson
*David Bedford
*Bill Bruford
*Kate Bush
*David Gilmour
*John Paul Jones
*Ronnie Lane
*Alvin Lee
*Paul McCartney
*Linda McCartney
*Keith Moon
*Jimmy Page
*Chris Spedding

External links

* [http://www.royharper.com/ Roy Harper Official Site]
* [http://www.iki.fi/musicnaut/royharper.html Excellent Roy Harper resource]