Where are all the joys of yesterday?
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?

Roaring Forties

1. Sharply Unclear
2. The Gift of Fire
3. You can't want what you always get
4. A Headlong Stretch

i. Up Ahead
ii. Continental Drift

iii. The Twelve
iv. Long Light
v. Backwards Man
vi. As You Were
vii. Or So I Said

5. Your Tall Ship

Peter Hammill - Roaring Forties

Peter Hammill - Guitars, Keyboards and Vox
Nic Potter - Bass (1 and 3)
Simon Clark - Organ (2)
Manny Elias - Drums
David Jackson - Saxes and Flute (2-4)
Stuart Gordon - Violin (1, 3 and 4)

Cover by Paul Ridout
(Paul Ridout won second prize for computer graphics in a competition run by MacWorld magazine, for the "Roaring Forties" cover.)

Released on Fie!
Producer Peter Hammill

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The Roaring Forties is a name given, especially by sailors, to the latitudes between 40°S and 50°S, so called because of the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds.
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