_______Artist:
Tony Hazzard_______Album: Go North -The Bronze Anthology
_______Label: Castle Music Ltd.
_______The Copyringht in this Compilation is owned by
_______℗ & © 2005 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
_______Catalog#: CMDDD 1094
_______Made in the E.U._______Genre: Pop, Rock, Folk, Psychedelic
_______Format: FLAC (track+.cue+log)
_______Bitrate: lossless
_______Cover: JPG, 200 dpi - Full Scan
_______Duration: 02:21:21
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• And about bloody time too! Tony Hazzard, much like Graham Gouldman (surely his closest stylistic contemporary), has been appallingly ill served by the digital age. There are no anthologies of his work as a hit-making songwriter for Manfred Mann, The Hollies, Lulu, Herman's Hermits and Andy Williams amongst others and his own three wonderful albums and smattering of singles released between 1966 and 1973 remain beloved artefacts in the collections of the lucky few who have bothered to track down original copies. Until now.
• Sanctuary has compiled all of the material Tony cut for the Bronze label between 1971 and 1973. It charts his transition from Eurovision-friendly but equally underground-savvy commercial pop writer to bandleader and rural troubadour in the tradition of The Band, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman. Well, didn't everybody have to at least dabble with that sound in 1971? But for all of Tony's Woodstock aspirations (which include covering everything in dense layers of acoustic guitar, pedal steel and piano courtesy of B J Cole, Mike Batt, Caleb Quaye, Dave Greenslade and the biggest session names of the day), he could never escape his northern English roots and effortless pop nous. And it's those qualities that have saved his solo work from going the way of so many Heads, Hands And Feets...
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