Pipedream (Alan Hull album)

Pipedream is the first solo album from Lindisfarne singer Alan Hull.

Pipedream
Studio album by
Alan Hull
Released1973
GenreFolk rock, Folk
Length40:00
Label Charisma Records
Elektra Records
ProducerMicky Sweeney, Alan Hull
Alan Hull chronology
Pipedream
(1973)		 Squire
(1974)

Cover artwork

The cover artwork is based on a painting by René Magritte.[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Alan Hull. [2][3]

  1. "Breakfast"
  2. "Justanothersadsong"
  3. "Money Game"
  4. "STD 0632"
  5. "United States of Mind"
  6. "Country Gentleman's Wife"
  7. "Numbers (Travelling Band)"
  8. "For The Bairns"
  9. "Drug Song"
  10. "Song for a Windmill"
  11. "Blue Murder"
  12. "I Hate To See You Cry"

Charts
Chart (1973) Peak
position
UK Charts (Official Charts Company)29[4]
Australian (Kent Music Report)51[5]

Personnel
  • Alan Hull - vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, "Guinness"
  • John Turnbull - guitar, "orange juice, health foods"
  • Colin Gibson - bass, "mental indecision, snuff and herbal tobacco"
  • Ken Craddock - piano, organ, harmonium, electric piano, guitar, "Guinness, wine, tequila, Pernod, Coca-cola and anything else around at the time"
  • Ray Laidlaw - drums, "common sense"
  • Ray Jackson - harp, mandolin, vocals, "Rude noises"
  • Dave Brooks - saxophone on "For The Bairns"
Technical

References
  1. Rene Magritte - Culture
  2. BBC - Music - Review of Alan Hull's Pipedream
  3. allmusic : Pipedream
  4. Chart Stats - Alan Hull - Pipe Dream
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 143. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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