Darren Douglas Danahy
What makes a good covers or tribute album to me, is when the artist manages to both keep what is great about the original while making the song their own.
Every track on "1967 - Vacations In The Past" fits this description to me while also telling me that Robyn Hitchcock and I share similar favorite songs from the period.
A must for fans of Robyn or of music that recalls the summer of love.
Favorite track: Waterloo Sunset.
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robyn hitchcock is simply the best single songwriter, he gave us sooo many incredible songs. when he cover songs they transform into ones that sounds like they were by himself. in his wonderful book he describes, why 67 was so essential to him musically. wonderful interpretations, made with love and passion in his unique style. thanks, robyn, tubby, ringo, perry and emma of course.
Favorite track: See Emily Play.
"Osaka"
Robyn tells the story of 1967 in the words of the musicians who defined it, paying tribute not just to songs or singers, but to a pivotal moment in his own life.
Favorite track: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
1967: Vacations in the Past is a collection of covers from 1967 (with one original song by Robyn) recorded to accompany his memoir, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.
This compact disc comes in a 4 panel digipak with liner notes from Robyn.
The official release date is September 13 and we will ship all orders in early September.
Includes unlimited streaming of 1967: Vacations in the Past
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Streaming + Download
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Poster/Print
Beautiful limited edition psychedelic screen print poster to celebrate the release of Robyn's new book 1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Left and album 1967: Vacations in the Past.
This poster was designed by Mishka Westell, a UK based artist now living in Austin, TX.
The poster comes signed by Robyn and ships from Nashville from July 30.
Measures 18" x 24".
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Book/Magazine
‘Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock’s ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny, finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacrificing its sense of the breath-taking sweep of time. I absolutely adored every line of 1967 and every moment I spent reading it’ MICHAEL CHABON
‘1967 . . . in which our hero looks down from the future at his squeaky realm of boyhood, a world of dayglo sunsets, and would-be denizens of music and the mind. Cometh the year, cometh the groover’ JOHNNY MARR
‘Page Turner could be the name of a lead singer in a sixties psychedelic band, but it’s not – it’s a description of Robyn Hitchcock’s tender and hilarious memoir’ JOE BOYD
A bright, obsessive compulsive boy is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school just before he reaches his thirteenth birthday; just as Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles’ Revolver explodes.
In January 1966, Robyn Hitchcock is still a boy pining for his green Dalek sponge and his family’s comforting au pair, Teresa. By December 1967, he’s mutated into a 6 ft 2-inch rabid Bob Dylan fan, whose two ambitions in life are to get really stoned and move to Nashville.
In between, as the hippie revolution blossoms in the world outside, Hitchcock adjusts to the hierarchical, homoerotic world of Winchester (think Gormenghast via Evelyn Waugh), threading a path through teachers with arrested development, some oafish peers and a sullen old maid – a very English freak show. On the way he befriends a cadre of bat-winged teenage prodigies and meets their local guru, the young Brian Eno. And his home life isn’t any more normal . . .
At the end of 1967, all the ingredients are in place that will make Robyn Hitchcock a songwriter for life. But then again, does 1967 ever really end?
PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS THE AMERICAN EDITION OF THE BOOK AND ALL BOOKS COME SIGNED BY ROBYN AND SHIPPED FROM THE USA.
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Other Apparel
100% Organic Cotton Canvas Tote Bag with gusset
Perfect for carrying vinyl, books, groceries! Created to celebrate the release of Robyn's fab new memoir, 1967:How I Got There and Why I Never Left, as well as the accompanying record, 1967: Vacations in the Past.
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Shirt
This fun cream t-shirt is designed to go with Robyn's fab new book, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left and companion album 1967: Vacations in the Past.
The t-shirts are screen printed in Nashville and ship from July 30, 2024.
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LIMITED EDITION PINK VINYL
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
1967: Vacations in the Past is a collection of covers from 1967 (with one original song by Robyn) recorded to accompany his memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.
This limited edition vinyl comes in vibrant pink and only 500 copies are available.
The official release date is September 13 and we will ship all orders in early September.
Includes unlimited streaming of 1967: Vacations in the Past
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
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LIMITED EDITION MAGENTA VINYL
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
1967: Vacations in the Past is a collection of covers from 1967 (with one original song by Robyn) recorded to accompany his memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.
This limited edition vinyl comes in vibrant magenta and only 500 copies are available.
The official release date is September 13 and we will ship all orders in early September.
Includes unlimited streaming of 1967: Vacations in the Past
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"1967: Vacations in the Past" is a collection of covers from 1967 (with one original song by Robyn) recorded to accompany his memoir, "1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.
Here's a note from RH about the album:
For me, 1967 was the portal between childhood and the adult world, where these songs flickered in the air to greet me like hummingbirds. They're full of saturated colour and melancholy, just as I was charged with hormones and regret as one part of me said goodbye to the other. Perhaps I peaked then - at the supernova of boyhood
- the black hole of the grownup world awaited me with its dwarf
-star mentality, all beige and hell and compromise.
Forever after, I've wandered beneath the dayglo Waterloo Sunset and burned the MidnightLamp, yearning for that time. A Whiter Shade of Pale, she's the wan ghost that haunts me in summer twilight, all the way down to the river where the spectre of Emily plays, Ophelia-like, with strands of green waterweed. Look - they're full of dead minnows! See, now she's draping wet strips of it over her hair!
By coincidence, the world was changing as fast as I was, and music embodied that change. The world grew hair, became infused with new desires and crawled out of its grey nest to test its
fresh, multicoloured plumage. We all crash eventually, but at least some of us take off first: if we are left only with sullen cravings and a sense of loss, well, so be it. 1967 is a phantom heart that glows inside me, lighting me up like a lamp on a good day. "So long, Mum! Thank you, Dad! I'm
off to infinity! Please leave my dinner in the oven."
Love on ya,
Robyn Hitchcock
credits
released September 13, 2024
Side A
A WHITER SHADE OF PALE
(Gary Brooker, Keith Reid & Matthew Fisher)
Essex Music Inc.
Robyn Hitchcock -lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar
Charlie Francis - keyboard
ITCHYCOO PARK
(Steve Marriott & Ronnie Lane)
Universal Music Corp, EMI Music Publishing and Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc.
Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar & backing vocals
Lee Cave-Berry - backing vocals
Charlie Francis - keyboard
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP
(Jimi Hendrix)
Experience Hendrix LLC
MY WHITE BICYCLE
(Keith West & Ken Burgess)
Unichappell Music, Inc. o/b/o Gunnell Music, Ltd
Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar, reverse guitar & backing vocals
Charlie Francis - reverse piano
NO FACE, NO NAME, NO NUMBER
(Steve Winwood & Jim Capaldi)
Kobalt Music Publishing and Universal Songs of Polygram International Inc. Tiny Ghost and BMG
Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Charlie Francis - keyboard
WAY BACK IN THE 1960s
(Robin Williamson)
Warner - Tamerlane Pub Corp.
Robyn Hitchcock - lead & backing vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
VACATIONS IN THE PAST
(Robyn Hitchcock)
Tiny Ghost and BMG
Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - guitar, backing vocals, keyboard & bongos
Charlie Francis - piano
Kelley Stoltz - sitar
A DAY IN THE LIFE 5:18
(John Lennon & Paul McCartney)
Sony/ATV Tunes LLC dba ATV o/b/o ATV (Northern Songs Catalog)
Robyn Hitchcock - lead vocal & acoustic guitar
Davey Lane - piano & backing vocals
Charlie Francis - keyboard, sound effects
Kelley Stoltz - sitar
Mixed & mastered by Charlie Francis at Stwdio Penty
Produced by Robyn Hitchcock & Charlie Francis
Front cover design: Nico Taylor & Robyn Hitchcock
Artwork and layout: Jeremy Fetzer
Special thanks to Team Tiny Ghost: Emma Swift, Gina Bacon & Geoffrey Weiss
supported by 220 fans who also own “1967: Vacations in the Past”
Gonzo. Passion. The Ming Vase. Haunting and beautiful. Every listen brings a new favorite.
Do something like this again, Miss Emma. Please let the answer be yes. Please let the answer be yes! alien9
supported by 154 fans who also own “1967: Vacations in the Past”
These Boys didn't lose their edge. in the time apart they spun the gold of their talents into something namelessly richer. without discarding an ounce of boogie and quirk, an atom of jangle and punch. Reunited they gel into an intoxicating solution- the ingredients haven't Softened, rather distilled to an alchemical purity. the classic recipe still fresh as day one. obiwanquixote
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