Description
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1974 album remastered with 2 bonus tracks: Jarrow Song and In Times Like These (single versions).
Our Overview.
First coming to prominence as a founding member and keyboard player of The Animals, Alan Price embarked on a solo career following his departure from the group in 1965. By the early 1970s he had adapted his musical approach to one of insightful and intelligent social commentary. His musical score for Lindsay Anderson’s classic 1973 film ‘O Lucky Man!’ and the resulting soundtrack album gained him much critical praise (as did his appearance in the picture).
Whilst “O Lucky Man!” was acerbic in its commentary, it was with Price’s 1974 album ‘Between Today & Yesterday’ that he took this one stage further (earning a UK album chart position in the process). A loosely conceptual work, the album was divided between songs reflecting “Yesterday” on one side and “Today” on the other, drawing on musical influences as wide as rock, blues and music hall. On works such as ‘Left Over People’ and ‘In Times Like These’ Price reflected on social commentary equal to anything written by his contemporary Ray Davies, but it was the track ‘Jarrow Song’ (a UK hit single) that saw Price capture this perfectly. The album’s second side was equally inciteful, particularly the superb ‘You’re Telling Me’ and the album’s title track. ‘Between Today & Yesterday’ is now regarded as the finest of Alan Price’s solo works.