Whatever Happened to Jugula?

"Whatever Happened to Jugula?" is a 1985 album by Roy Harper and Jimmy Page.

Infobox Album |
Name = Whatever Happened to Jugula?
Type = Album
Artist = Roy Harper & Jimmy Page


Released = 1985
Recorded = Clapham
Hereford
Berkshire
Mamaraneck, West Cork
Boilerhouse Studios, Lytham
Genre = Rock (Album notes to "File Under Science Fiction")
Length = 45:25
Label = Beggars Banquet BEGA 60,
Science Friction HUCD032
Producer = Roy Harper
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:v5n20r2ac48z link]
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Roy Harper
Type = album
Last album = "Born in Captivity"
(1984)

This album = "Whatever Happened to Jugula?"
(1985)

Next album = "Descendants of Smith"
(1986)
Extra chronology 2
Artist = Jimmy Page
Type = album
Last album = "Death Wish II"
(1982)
This album = "Whatever Happened to Jugula?"
(1985)

Next album = "Outrider"
(1988)

History

With a working title of Rizla due to the albums cover art (an unravelled orange Rizla pack), Jugula, as this album is often called, was released on the Beggars Banquet label and reached the UK Top 20. The album contains a number of well crafted, original songs written by Harper. It is recorded in a fresh and spontaneous manner, often with only the unique and beautiful sound of Ovation guitars and vocals. Occasionally, the spacious arrangements are filled with synthesizer and electric guitar.

This album in particular brought Harper to a new and wider audience, mainly due to Harper and Jimmy Pages appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1984, an album tour and a 15 minute, televised interview by Mark Ellen on the Old Grey Whistle Test (16th November 1984). The interview featured Harper and Page playing their acoustic guitars on the side of Scafell Pike in the English Lake District, a somewhat different and unusual interview for the time. Songs played included "Hangman" and part of "The Same Old Rock". [ [http://www.iki.fi/musicnaut/royharper/live.html Live performance history] ]

The first track, "Nineteen Forty-Eightish", a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, crescendos with a fine piece of lead guitar by Page. This album was the fifth that Harper and Page had worked on, but the first entire record they made together [ [http://www.royharper.com/ Roy Harper official site] ] . For those used to Page's guitar playing, his input is quite evident throughout the album. Page is a natural and perfect complement to Harper's deft, fresh and unique guitar playing. Other standout tracks include "Hangman", a powerful song that expresses the feelings of an innocent man condemned to die and "Frozen Moment", a particularly beautiful song played entirely in the chord of C.

Title

"Hope"

David Gilmour wrote the music for the third track, "Hope" [ [http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews/other/other85.html Interview] ] , Harper penned the lyrics, and Nick Harper (Harper's 16 year old son at the time), played the lead guitar on this track (not Gilmour as is often mistakenly stated). A faster tempo version of this melody with different lyrics, appears on the "" album by Pete Townshend, entitled "White City Fighting".

A cover version of "Hope", with "Bad Speech" as an introduction, can be found on the album "Eternity" [Cover version of Harper song "Hope"] by the Liverpudlian band Anathema, an album that Harper also makes an appearance on.

Track listing

ide One

#"Nineteen Forty-Eightish" – 9:45
#"Bad Speech" – 1:17
#"Hope" – 4:31
#"Hangman" – 7:09

ide Two

#"Elizabeth" – 6:39
#"Frozen Moment" – 3:18
#"Twentieth Century Man" – 4:27
#"Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)" – 8:19

Singles

"Elizabeth", a song that originally appeared on Harpers 1984 release "Born in Captivity", was re-recorded and released as a 12" single. Again the artwork featured an unravelled Rizla package, this time in green. The 12" was released on Beggars Banquet (BEG 131T).

#Side A – "Elizabeth"
#Side B –
## "Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)"
## "I Hate The White Man" (Live) (Recorded at Poynton, 18th October 1984) [ [http://www.iki.fi/musicnaut/royharper/discography/singles.html Harper single discography] ]

Personnel

*Roy Harper – acoustic guitar and/or electric guitar
*Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar and/or electric guitar
*Tony Franklin – electric bass
*Nik Green - keyboard
*Ronnie Brambles – drums
*Steve Broughton – drums
*Preston Heyman – drums
*Nick Harper – semi-acoustic guitar
*Nik Green – mixing desk

References

External links

* [http://www.royharper.com/ Roy Harper Official Site]
* [http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews/other/other85.html Roy Harper Interview]
* [http://www.iki.fi/musicnaut/royharper/live.html Roy Harper Live Performance Archive]
* [http://www.terrascope.org/harper.html A Useful Roy Harper Resource]
* [http://www.harperspace.com/index.html Nick Harper Official Site]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/sets/1264259/ Link to Rizla inspired art]