Years active 1968–1969 Active until 1969 | Labels Tetragrammaton Records | |
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Origin England, United Kingdom (1968) Albums Sweet Thursday, Hidden World Members Nicky Hopkins, Jon Mark, Brian Odgers Genres Rock music, British blues, Folk rock Similar Alun Davies, Mark‑Almond, Johnny Almond, Screaming Lord Sutch and the S, Cyril Davies | ||
Sweet Thursday was a short-lived late-1960s English rock band.
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The group included famed session keyboard player Nicky Hopkins, who had worked with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, and many others; folk guitarist, singer, and past session man Alun Davies (subsequently a frequent collaborator of Cat Stevens'); and singer, guitarist, composer and past Davies cohort Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond). Thus Sweet Thursday was arguably a minor instance of the "supergroup" phenomenon. Other members were drummer Harvey Burns and bassist, woodwinds player and songwriter Brian Odgers.
In December 1968 Tetragrammaton released a single which contained "Getting It Together" (Side A) and "Mary On The Runaround" (Side B) which were composed by Jon Mark but were not included on the group's lone album. Both songs were released as bonus tracks on a CD edition of the group's debutalbum Sweet Thursday.
The group's lone album Sweet Thursday was released in August 1969 in the U.S. on Tetragrammaton Records (the band had signed with that label in November 1968). It is most remembered for the ten-minute-long progressive rock radio turntable hit "Gilbert Street". The record company went bust soon thereafter, after only a very limited record pressing. Sweet Thursday dissolved.
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Songs
Cobwebs2010
Long Way YetHidden World · 2010
SacredHidden World · 2010