Released April 1971 Producer The Nice Release date April 1971 Genre Progressive rock | Length 39:27 Artist The Nice Label Mercury Records | |
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Recorded 19–20 December 1969
live at The Fillmore East, New York Elegy
(1971) Autumn '67 - Spring '68
(1972) Similar The Nice albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
Elegy the nice 1971 full album
Elegy was the final official album release by the Nice, Keith Emerson having moved on to Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Lee Jackson to Jackson Heights and Brian Davison to Every Which Way. It consists of live versions of songs from earlier releases and a cover of "My Back Pages". Released after the Nice had disbanded, the album achieved number 5 in the UK album chart.
Contents
- Elegy the nice 1971 full album
- The nice hang on to a dream elegy
- Cover art
- Side one
- Side two
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
"Hang on to a Dream" and "America" were recorded live at Fillmore East, New York during the group's 1969 tour.
The nice hang on to a dream elegy
Cover art
The UK edition came in a gatefold sleeve. It was designed by Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell), well known as designers of album covers for Pink Floyd and other progressive rock bands. The front and back covers show a Sahara desert scene with a line of fifty red footballs (credited to Mettoy Playcraft) receding towards a distant dune. The inside of the cover shows, in the distance, a mesa or plateau; in front is a gravelly landscape strewn with memorabilia of the Nice such as older album covers, publicity shots, press releases and a scrapbook of press cuttings.
Side one
- "Hang On to a Dream" (Live) (Tim Hardin) – 12:43
- "My Back Pages" (Bob Dylan) – 9:12
Side two
- "Third Movement, Pathetique" (Group Only) (Tchaikovsky; arranged by The Nice) – 7.05
- "America" (Live) (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, The Nice) – 10:27
Personnel
Songs
1Hang on to a Dream12:43
2My Back Pages9:12
33rd Movement Pathétique Symphony (live)7:05