Alasdair Clayre Adam & The Beasts 1976 Full Album///+Alasdair Clayre – Adam & The Beasts/+Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:
UK, New Year'
Output:
1976
Kind:
Folk, World, & Country
Style:
///+Track list
A1 A Gentle Easy-Flowing River
A2 Sell Your Beauty
A3 Adam And The Beasts
A4 Lullaby And Come Afloat
A5 Springtime Song, New10014
A6 Irish Girl
A7 Motorway Promoter
A8 An Old Wind Blows
B1 Two Evenings
B2 Ballad Of London
B3 Guerilla
B4 Snow
B5 Old Rich World's Daughter
B6 Hawthorn Berries, New Year's Day
B7 Mass Production Song
B8 Travelling North//+Bass, Guitar, Clavichord, Piano, Drums, Percussion, Arranged By – Nick Bicat (2)
Clavichord, Recorder, Piano, Organ, Arranged By – Andrew Parrott
Design – Humphrey Stone
Recorded By – Colin Sanders
Sleeve Notes – John Wain
Vocals – Emma Kirkby
Vocals, Guitar – Victoria*
Written-By, Vocals, Producer, Arranged By – Alasdair Clayre///+Alasdair Early life and career
Clayre was born in Southampton, Hampshire on 9 October 1935. He won a scholarship to Winchester College, where he became head boy, and a further scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford where, as an undergraduate, his intellect was compared to that of Isaiah Berlin. He graduated with a congratulatory first class degree - the highest class of degree awarded at Oxford (see British undergraduate degree classification) - and won a Prize Fellowship to All Soul's College - one of the highest academic honours in the United Kingdom.Selected publications
The Heart of the Dragon (London: Collins, 1984), based on a TV series he produced, wrote, directed and presented about China at a time when the country was just opening up to the West
Nature and Industrialisation: an Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 1977)
The Political Economy of Co-operation and Participation: a Third Sector (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974)
The Impact of Broadcasting; or, Mrs Buckle's Wall is Singing (Salisbury: Compton Russell, 1973), which includes a foreword by Asa Briggs
100 Folk Songs and New Songs, a songbook which he compiled; some of the new songs are his own compositions...
A Fire by the Sea (London: Calypso Press, 1965; 2nd edn Salisbury: Compton Russell, 1973), a book of poems
The Window (n.p.: Cape, 1961)
Dialogue (Newport: n.p., 1959), co-edited with P. Jay
Clayre recorded two albums of songs including many of his own compositions: Alasdair Clayre (Elektra Records) and Adam and the Beasts (Folkways Records). He also appears on the Elektra folk song compilation A Cold Wind Blows. His English translation of \"La Colombe\" (The Dove\") by Jacques Brel has been recorded by Judy Collins and Joan Baez. Another of his compositions, Train Song, has been recorded by Vashti Bunyan, while Adam and the Beasts has been recorded by Barry Dransfield and Shusha Guppy.///++///+ I have no words, as I do not own the copyright for this wonderful music album,DVD..,if society and administration consider that I am a copyright violator I will delete it and remove it, from my channel, my deep respect and great thanks!!!
