{"id":14479,"date":"2020-12-28T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:44:09","slug":"fairport-convention-collect-together-the-recordings-on-alan-simons-rock-operas-including-excalibur-the-celtic-rock-opera-on-the-album-fame-and-glory-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/12\/28\/fairport-convention-collect-together-the-recordings-on-alan-simons-rock-operas-including-excalibur-the-celtic-rock-opera-on-the-album-fame-and-glory-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairport Convention Collect Together the Recordings on Alan Simon\u2019s Rock Operas, Including &#8216;Excalibur: The Celtic Rock Opera&#8217;, on the Album &#8216;Fame and Glory&#8217; \u2013 Out Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fairport Convention has collected together its recordings created for Alan Simon\u2019s various rock operas, including\u00a0<em>Excalibur: The Celtic Rock Opera<\/em>, on a \u2018catch all\u2019 release for fans to buy the recordings in one place.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The band previously made this compilation available to its fans, but this mainstream release adds three tracks including a previously unreleased studio recording \u2018Goodbye My Friends\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Simon Nicol described working on the songs:\u00a0<em>\u201cFairport Convention don\u2019t often get asked to collaborate on outside projects, but none have been more exciting and artistically rewarding than those inspired by Alan Simon. One of the musical highlights of my professional life &#8211; and some of the most enjoyable times on and off stage. It\u2019s great to have Fame and Glory as a souvenir of happy times.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dave Pegg said of the release\u00a0<em>\u201cI am so pleased to see this great album available again but with bonus tracks. It was such a joy to record and play on these lovely songs with some of my favourite musicians. Do get hold of a copy &#8211; it will make a nice Xmas prezzie!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The line-up on this compilation is: Gerry Conway (drums and percussion), Dave Pegg (bass guitar), Simon Nicol (guitars, vocals), Ric Sanders (violin) and Chris Leslie (vocals, bouzouki, mandolin and violin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>Fame and Glory<\/em>\u00a0features the special guests: Martin Barre, John Wetton, John Helliwell, Dan Ar Braz, Alan Simon, Pat O\u2019May, Andreas Vollenweider, Laurent Tixier, Jacqui McShee, James Wood &amp; Dave Mattacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>French musician Alan Simon, creator of the rock operas, described the release:\u00a0<em>\u201cThis has got all the famous songs from my collaborations with Fairport Convention.\u00a0 This album is considered some of Fairport at its best.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Fame and Glory<\/em>\u00a0is OUT NOW via the below links:<\/strong><br>Amazon CD:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGloryCD\">https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGloryCD<\/a><br>iTunes:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGloryi\">https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGloryi<\/a><br>Spotify:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGlorys\">https:\/\/geni.us\/FameAndGlorys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairport Convention has collected together its recordings created for Alan Simon\u2019s various rock operas, including\u00a0Excalibur:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[1429,1428],"class_list":["post-14479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-alan-simon","tag-fairport-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14481,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions\/14481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}