Interview (album)

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Released April 23, 1976 Producer Gentle Giant Release date 23 April 1976		Length 36:47 Artist Gentle Giant Label Capitol Records

Recorded February – March 1976 at Advision Studios, London Interview (1976) Playing the Fool - The Official Live (1977) Genres Progressive rock, Experimental rock Similar Free Hand, The Missing Piece, Giant for a Day, Playing the Fool, In a Glass House

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Interview (stylized ĭn′terview) is the eighth album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant which was released in 1976. A concept album, it is a unique concept in the canon of Gentle Giant work in that it is conceived as a radio interview. Three of the tracks integrate brief "interview" sections which were staged in the studio. The title song has lyrics derived from the type of question and answer dialogue they had encountered while talking to the music press. This album was less successful with critics and in the charts than their previous albums.

The album was mixed in quadraphonic sound by the band in 1976 but the 4-channel mix was not released until 2012 when it finally appeared in DVD-Audio format.

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Track listing

(Copyright Clipchoice Ltd. & Moth Music, Inc.)

All tracks written by Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, and Ray Shulman.

Personnel

Gary Green – electric guitar (track 7), electric guitars (tracks 1, 2, 4-6), acoustic guitar (tracks 5, 7), alto recorder (track 7), backing vocals

Kerry Minnear – Minimoog (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7), piano (tracks 1, 4-6), Hammond organ (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6), Clavinet (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5), electric piano (tracks 1, 2, 5), synthesizer (tracks 1, 5), RMI Electra Piano (tracks 2, 7), clavichord (tracks 2, 7), marimba (track 2), percussion (track 3), lead vocals on tracks 3, 7, backing vocals

Derek Shulman – lead vocals, alto saxophone (tracks 5, 6), percussion (track 3)

Ray Shulman – bass (tracks 1, 2, 4-7), electric violin (tracks 5, 6), violin (track 7), 12 string guitar (track 5), percussion (track 3), backing vocals

John Weathers – drums, tambourine (tracks 4, 7), percussion (track 3), finger cymbal (track 1), cowbell (tracks 1, 2), cabasa (track 2), güiro (track 2), gong (track 7), backing vocals, co-lead vocals on track 1

Phil Sutcliffe – interviewer(tracks 1, 3, 6, 7)

Release details

1976, UK, Chrysalis Records CHR-1115, Release Date April 23, 1976, LP

1976, U.S., Capitol Records ST-11532, Release Date May 4, 1976, LP

1976, U.S., Capitol Records ST-11532, Release Date ? April 1976, Cassette

?, U.S., Capitol Records SN-16047, Release Date ? ? ?, LP (reissue without picture sleeve)

?, U.S., Capitol Records CD 18732, Release Date ? ? ?, CD

1994, UK, Terrapin Trucking TRUCKCD005, Release Date ? July 1994, CD (Re-Master)

1996, U.S., One Way CD 18467, Release Date ? ? 1996, CD

1999, UK, BGO BGOCD421, Release Date 1 October 1999, CD (2 x CD with Free Hand) (This version is missing a few seconds of dialogue at the end of the "Interview" album.)

2005, UK, DRT Entertainment RTÉ 00357, Release Date 13 September 2005, CD (35th Anniversary Enhanced Re-Master)

2012, UK, EMI/Chrysalis Records CHRDX 1115, CD + DVD (DVD contains audio enhanced tracks of the album)

Songs

1Interview
2Give It Back5:08
3Design4:59

References

Interview (album) Wikipedia

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