Roman Wall Blues

Roman Wall Blues is an album by Alex Harvey made after the Soul Band, and his time in the Hair pit band. This album was released in 1969 and contains one song from Hair ("Donna"), plus some Harvey originals he would later re-record ("Midnight Moses", "Roman Wall Blues" and "Hammer Song"). The title track was a couplet sonnet by W.H. Auden about the life of a Roman soldier.

The album was recorded at Philips (Phonogram) Studio, London.

Track listings

All tracks composed by Alex Harvey; except where indicated

"Midnight Moses"

"Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis)

"Broken Hearted Fairytale" (Harvey, Andy McMaster)

"Donna" (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot)

"Roman Wall Blues" (W. H. Auden, Alex Harvey)

"Jumping Jack Flash" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)

"Hammer Song" (Alex Harvey)

"Let My Bluebird Sing"

"Maxine" (Foray)

"(Down at) Bart's Place"

"Candy"

Personnel

Alex Harvey - Guitar, vocals

Leslie Harvey - Guitar

Mickey Keene - Guitar

Bud Parkes - Trumpet

Derek Watkins - Trumpet

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List of Roman walls

Walls built by Ancient Rome include, in chronological order of construction:

Servian Wall, built around Rome in the early 4th century BC

Chester city walls, originating as part of the fortress of Deva Victrix between 70 and 80 AD

York city walls, originally constructed around 71 AD when York was a Roman colony

Hadrian's Wall, built in England beginning in 122 AD at the edge of Roman conquest to keep out the Scots

Antonine Wall, a short-lived, advanced frontier wall built in Scotland north of Hadrian's Wall beginning in 142 AD

London Wall, built around Londinium between 190 and 225, probably between 200 and 220

Roman Walls of Lugo, built between 263 and 276 AD to defend the Roman town of Lucus Augusti (in what is now Spain)

Aurelian Walls, the later wall of Rome, built in the late 3rd century AD

Walls of Constantinople, a great defensive wall that defended the metropolitan capital from the fourth century AD until 1453

Anastasian Wall, a wall named after Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I to ensure extra defenses for Constantinople; there is evidence that the fortification existed in 469, prior to his reign

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