The Liverpool Scene
In the early 60s. There was great excitement about the music that was going on, what we had heard had happened in America—poetry and jazz. But then, all the poetry and jazz I'd heard seemed to be a battle between the jazz and the words. On the other hand, music expects lyrics. So it seemed logical to (a) work with what was to hand (the Beat groups) and (b) work in an idiom that was word-friendly rather than word-antipathetic. Pop music is a vehicle for words.
Adrian Henri, interviewed in The Argotist magazine, 1996
Discography
The Amazing Adventures of...
Released 1968 - UK: RCA SF 7995
Released 1968- US: RCA Victor LSP-4189
Side One
Tramcar to Frankenstein (Evans & Roberts)
The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
Gliders, Parks (Hart)
Burdock River Run (Roberts)
The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
Universe (Band)
Side Two
Bat Poem (Henri & Roberts)
The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm (Roberts)
Happy Burial Blues (Cockrill, Evans & Roberts)
Palms (Hart)
The Amazing Adventures of Che Guevara (Evans)
Love Story (Henri & Roberts)
Bread On The Night
Released 1969 - RCA SF 8057
Side One
The day we danced at the Dole (Evans)
The Raven (Roberts)
GBS Blues (Evans)
The entry of Christ into Liverpool (Band)
64 (Roberts)
Side Two
Come into the perfumed garden Maud (Henri)
See the conkering heroine comes (Henri & Roberts)
Winter Poem (Henri & Jones)
I've got those Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, John Mayall can't fail blues (Henri)
ST. ADRIAN CO., Broadway and 3rd
Released Early 1970 - RCA SF 8100
Side One
Made in the USA (Henri & Evans)
Side Two
Human Tapeworm (Roberts)
Night Song (Henri, Roberts)
Bomb Commercials (Henri)
Colours (Evans)
Baby (Henri, Roberts)
Heirloon
Released Late 1970 - RCA SF 8134
Side One
Love Is
Gunner from Daker
The Morning The Sky Went Away
Moon King
Im Just A Simple Boy
The Woo-Woo
Mental Astronaut
Side Two
Tramcar To Frankenstein
The Little Car
The Boathouse
Wildwest
The Liverpool Scene Featuring Adrian Henri & Andy Roberts
Released Early 1970 - Polydor 2310 055
Side One
Human Tapeworm (Roberts)
I've Got Those Fleetwood Mac Shicken Shack John Mayell Can't Fail Blues (Henri)
Creepy John (Koerner)
Moths And Lizards In Detroit (Roberts)
G.B.S. Blues (Evans)
Side Two
Made in the USA (Henri & Evans)
Recollections
Released 1972 - Charisma CS. 3
Side One
The Woo Woo (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
The Day We Danced At The Dole (Evans)
Bat Poem (Henri, Roberts)
64 (A. Roberts)
Colours (Evans)
I've Got Those Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack, John Mayall, Can't Fail Blues (Henri)
Side Two
Love Is (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool (Henri, Roberts, Dodson, Evans, Jones)
Love Story (Henri, Roberts)
The Amazing Adventures Of...
Released Early 2009 - Esoteric Recordings ECLEC 22138
CD One
Love Is
Batpoem
Son, Son
Tramcar To Frankenstein
The Woo Woo
Burdock River Run
Happy Burial Blues
Universes
I'm Just A Simple Boy
Baby
Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm
Bomb Commercials
Elsie Straws Saga
Wildwest
Colours
Gliders, Parks
Love Story
CD Two
The Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool
We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die
Human Tapeworm
The Morning The Sky Went Away
Mental Astronaut
See The Conkering Heroine Come
Winter Poem
Come Into The Perfumed Garden, Maud
The Raven
The Only Thing It Needed Was You
I've Got These Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues
64
Night Song
G.B.S. Blues
Made In U.S.A.
Rainbow Poem
Recorded Live for Granada Television, 1969
The Liverpool Scene Photo Gallery
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