Whatever Happened to Jugula?
| Whatever Happened to Jugula? | |||||
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| Studio album by Roy Harper & Jimmy Page | |||||
| Released | March 4, 1985 | ||||
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Clapham Hereford Berkshire Mamaraneck, West Cork Boilerhouse Studios, Lytham |
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| Genre | Rock, folk rock, progressive folk | ||||
| Length | 45:25 | ||||
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Beggars Banquet BEGA 60, Science Friction HUCD032 |
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| Producer | Roy Harper | ||||
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Whatever Happened to Jugula? is the thirteenth studio album by English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper. It was first released in 1985. Jimmy Page contributes.
With a working title of Rizla, Whatever Happened to Jugula? was released on the Beggars Banquet label (BBL60) and reached the UK Top 20. It is recorded in a fresh and spontaneous manner, often with only the unique sound of Ovation guitars and vocals. Occasionally, the arrangements are filled with synthesizer and electric guitar. The album's cover art shows (an unravelled orange Rizla pack.
The album was partially recorded in the basement of an old school friend's house in Lytham. Boiler House Studios were run by Tony Beck who encouraged Harper to renew his acquaintance with Jimmy Page. Together they began work on what was to become this album.
'Jugula' exposed Harper to a new and wider audience, mainly due to his and Jimmy Page's appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1984, an album tour (of which four performances were filmed and exist on archive footage) and a 15-minute televised interview by Mark Ellen on the Old Grey Whistle Test (16 November 1984). The interview featured Harper and Page playing their acoustic guitars on the side of Side Pike in the English Lake District, a somewhat different and unusual interview for the time. Songs played included "Hangman" and a section from "The Same Old Rock".
The album was the fifth that Harper and Page had worked on, though the first entire record they made together. Page's guitar playing is quite evident throughout the album, and is a natural complement to Harper's unique guitar work. The first track, "Nineteen Forty-Eightish", a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, crescendos with lead guitar by Page. Other tracks include "Hangman", a song that expresses the feelings of an innocent man condemned to die and "Frozen Moment", a song played entirely in the chord of C♯.
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