Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted


Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
The Original Animals
(LP) 1977 UK - Barn 2314 104
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Side One:	Side Two:
1. Brother Bill (The Last Clean Shirt)	1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. It's All Over Now Baby Blue	2. Just A Little Bit
3. Fire On the Sun	3. Riverside County
4. As the Crow Flies	4. Lonely Avenue
5. Please Send Me Someone To Love	5. The Fool





Also released in LP format in West Germany (Barn Records 2365 106) and Italy (Barn Records 2314 104 A).
In 1975 the original members of The Animals (Burdon, Price, Valentine, Chandler and Steel) gathered at Chas Chandler's house in Surrey (east of London) to record the tracks that appear on this album. This was their first new music together for more than a decade. The album wasn't released until two years later on Chandler's Barn label in 1977 (due to ongoing legal complications between Burdon and Gold/Goldstien). Despite good reviews where some critics referred to the tracks as their best music ever, record sales of the album were poor.
Burdon comments in his 2001 book "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" that a release from a reunited 60's band in 1975 was highly anticipated, however it's eventual release in 1977 in the thick of the punk revolution was laughable".
Kojak recommends the album to any Burdon/Animals fan as an interesting and enjoyable collection of tracks from an obviously talented group of singers/musicians .... in particular their version of Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"; a great opening track in "Last Clean Shirt"; a blues gem in the Burdon/Price/Valentine/Chandler/Steel original "Riverside County", and a must-listen-to-again track in "Lonely Avenue".


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