| EVERYONE
INVOLVED during a rehearsal session in 1972
From left to right:
Oskar Lanchester (percussion), Gillian Dickinson (vocals), (Nigel Stewart (keyboards,
vocals), Michael Klein (guitar, vocals), Peter Granger (sound engineer)
James
Asher (drums, violin, piano).
(Several key players wouldn't come up to the
roof for this picture.) |
| In the late 1960s and early 1970s a musician friend
called Michael Klein and I composed dozens of songs together to express our growing
awareness of humanity's responsibility for the damage we were (and are) doing
to our amazing planet. We formed a band called EVERYONE
INVOLVED, made an album called EITHER/OR
and somehow rustled up enough cash to print 1000 copies. The 16 or so contributors
got 60 copies each with "DON'T
PAY FOR THIS RECORD! IT IS FREE..."
printed on the label. (Despite which, I hear single copies now change hands for
hundreds of pounds as collectors' items. Is there no end to human folly?!) So
here, in the same spirit as our idealistic younger selves, I offer visitors to
my website EITHER/OR
still free as EVERYONE
INVOLVED originally
intended. | Music
by Michael Klein ~ Lyrics by Alan Wakeman ~ Arrangements by Everyone Involved
All words and music copyright © Arcturus Music Ltd. 1972 & 2003
| The following people contributed their ideas, their
skills, their premises, their
equipment, their time and their love to make
this music available to you free: |
| Alan Wakeman |
Michael Klein |
Peter Granger
|
Gillian Dickinson |
| Nigel Stewart |
James Asher |
| Richard Court |
Vincenzo Crucioli |
| Freya Lynn Hogue |
Simon Tedd |
| Josh Boon |
Martin Hyde |
| Diana Zwar |
Keith Hargreaves |
| Brian Dawes |
Richard (Oskar) Lanchester |
| Among members of the Gay Liberation Front
who joined in on The Gay Song, were: |
| Sylvia Room
| Manue
de Maurepas | Brian
Burt
| Allana
Ellaway | | Danielle
Juving | Mark
Tarben | | Alfredo
Abascal | plus
many others who left before we could get their names |
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