Lucifer's Friend - Banquet Album

Tracklist

1	High Flying Lady - Goodbye Written-By – Lawton, Hesslein	3:41
2	Spanish Galleon Soprano Saxophone, Soloist – Herb GellerWritten-By – Lawton, Hesslein	11:55
3	Sorrow Flute – Herb GellerWritten-By – Lawton, Hesslein	11:49
4	Dirty Old Town Written-By – Horns, Lawton, Hesslein	4:44
5	Thus Spoke Oberon Written-By – J. F. Barcardi, J. O'Brian Docker	6:45

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Herb Geller
• Arranged By [Horns & Strings] – Peter Hecht
• Baritone Saxophone – Karl-Hermann Lüer
• Bass, Backing Vocals – Dieter Horns
• Bassoon – Wilfried Schoberanzky
• Cello [Violincello] – Kurt Donocik, Luigi Schaufuß, Walter Hillinghaus
• Choir – Dave Brian, Elvira Herbert, Sheila McKinley
• Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Herbert Bornhold
• Engineer [Sound Engineer] – Volker Heintzen
• English Horn – Hans Alves
• Flute – Klaus Holle
• French Horn – Rolf Lind
• Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Peter Hesslein
• Oboe – Franz Behle
• Photography By – S.F.B. Dietrich
• Piano, Organ, Synthesizer [Moog], Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Peter Hecht
• Producer, Arranged By – Lucifer's Friend
• Tenor Saxophone – Stefan v. Dobrzynski
• Trombone – Günter Fulisch, Heinz Reese, Waldemar Erbe, Wolfgang Ahlers
• Trumpet – Bob Lanese, Heinz Habermann, Manfred Moch
• Viola – Bruno Korzuschek, Günter Grünig, Werner Knupke
• Violin – Fritz Köhnsen, Günter Klein , Günther Zander, Heinz Donocik, Helmut Jochens, Helmut Rahn, Ingeborg Kaufmann, Otto Kaufmann, Reinhold Gabriel, Senia Daschewski
• Vocals – John Lawton

Notes

Recorded + mixed at Studio Maschen in January + June 1974.

Herausgeber: Phonogram GmbH
℗ 1974 Phonogram GmbH

Catalog# on back cover with boxed D behind.

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Phonogram GmbH
• Record Company – Phonogram GmbH
• Published By – Happy Music
• Recorded At – Studio Maschen
• Mixed At – Studio Maschen
• Lacquer Cut At – Phonodisc GmbH
• Pressed By – Phonodisc GmbH

Short intro

Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974. By this time there was no hard rock sound, it was now strictly progressive rock mixed with jazz fusion. The song Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band was the opening track on some versions i. the U. version of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Repertoire Records CD release of their self-titled debut. Songs in album Lucifer's Friend - Banquet 1974. Lucifer's Friend - Spanish Galleon. Lucifer's Friend - Thus Spoke Oberon. Lucifer's Friend - High Flying Lady Goodbye. Lucifer's Friend - Sorrow. Lucifer's Friend - Dirty Old Town. On Banquet, Lucifer's Friend finally pulled together the many different elements to their sound prog, soul, jazz, hard rock into one cohesive and totally distinctive style. This time out, the primary focus of the album is epic prog numbers with complex instrumentation that go through a variety of surprising and ambitious changes in their arrangements. The standout example is the opening track, Spanish Galleon: this pirate-themed epic starts with a Latin-flavored rock groove, that is given further power by the addition of horns, segues into a lyrical, pirate-themed song secti. Listen free to Lucifer's Friend Banquet Our World Is A Rock 'N' Roll Band, Spanish Galleon and more. 6 tracks 42:12. Lucifer's Friend. Hard Rock 's Friend : Banquet,album, review, tracklist, mp3, lyrics. Band Name Lucifer's Friend. Album Name Banquet. Type Album. Released date 1974. Labels Vertigo. Music StyleHard-Rock. Members owning this album1. Re-Issue in 1994 by Repertoire Records. The American vinyl release from 1972 of the first Lucifer's Friend album on Billingsgate Records, recorded in November 1970. a heavy metal 's Friend is a German hard rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy metal and progressive rock they also incorporated elements of jazz and fusion into their music, especially in their fourth album Banquet of 1974. Beyond heavy metal, the band has been cited, too, as one of the pioneers of doom metal, helping to define both. Lucifers Friend. Released 1974. Banquet Tracklist. Thus Spoke Oberon Lyrics. Dirty Old Town Lyrics. About Banquet. Banquet Q&A. More Lucifers Friend albums. Im Just a Rock n Roll Singer. Where the Groupies Killed the Blues. Show all albums by Lucifers Friend. Is Banquet the best album by Lucifer's Friend brings together thousands of 'greatest ever album' charts and calculates an overall ranking. Banquet by Lucifer's Friend 1974 Overall rank: 45,766th. Average Rating: 71100 from 5 votes. Accolades: Top albums of 1974 458th. Top albums of the 1970s 4,716th. Best albums of all time 45,766th