Hatfield and the North is the first album by the English Canterbury scene rock band Hatfield and the North, released on 1 March 1974.
In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #34 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".Q Classic: Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, 2005. In 2025, French label Musea Records released a new vinyl reissue of the album, the first since 1982.
Album cover The cover of the original vinyl release was designed by Laurie Lewis. The front and back outer cover is a panoramic photograph of Reykjavík, with the sky on the right merged with a transparency of a 15th-16th century fresco in Orvieto Cathedral by Luca Signorelli, "The Damned". The inside gatefold is a collage that includes photographs of the personnel and guests involved in the music, the cast of the TV show Bonanza, together with a cropped photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue of a man throwing a dog.
Track listing
The 1987 CD re-release of the album added two bonus tracks, the A- and B-sides of a 1974 single, previously available on the 1980 compilation Afters:
"Let's Eat (Real Soon)" (Sinclair, Pyle) – 3:16 "Fitter Stoke Has a Bath" (Pyle) – 4:35
The 2009 Esoteric Recordings reissue (ECLEC2139) also included the above, along with a further bonus track:
"Your Majesty Is Like a Cream Donut Incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime" – 6:08 Taken from the Virgin Records Sampler (VD 2502) from January 1975.
Personnel Hatfield and the North Phil Miller – electric guitar , acoustic guitars Dave Stewart – Fender Rhodes electric piano , Hammond organ , Hohner Pianet , piano , tone generator , Minimoog Richard Sinclair – bass guitar , vocals Pip Pyle – drums , percussion , sound effects Guest musicians Robert Wyatt – vocals Barbara Gaskin – vocals Amanda Parsons – vocals Ann Rosenthal – vocals Geoff Leigh – tenor saxophone , flute Didier Malherbe – tenor saxophone (uncredited) Jeremy Baines – pixiephone , flute Sam Ellidge – voice Cyrille Ayers – vocals
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