Back to Front (Caravan album)

Back to Front
Back to Front
Studio album by Caravan
Released	July 1982
Recorded	November 1981–January 1982
Studio	Oak Studios, Herne Bay, Kent
Genre	Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length	42:53
Label	Kingdom
Producer	Caravan
Caravan chronology

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Back to Front is the tenth album by English progressive rock band Caravan, released in 1982. Back to Front featured the original lineup of Richard Coughlan, Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair and David Sinclair after 1971's In the Land of Grey and Pink and is the last studio album to feature that lineup.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Back to Herne Bay Front"	Richard Sinclair	5:55
2.	"Bet You Wanna Take It All / Hold On, Hold On"	Pye Hastings	5:20
3.	"A.A. Man"	Richard Sinclair	5:02
4.	"Videos of Hollywood"	John Murphy, Dave Sinclair	5:11

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sally Don't Change It"	Dave Sinclair	4:06
2.	"All Aboard"	Hastings	4:08
3.	"Taken My Breath Away"	Hastings	4:52
4.	"Proper Job / Back to Front"	Dave Sinclair	8:19

Personnel

Caravan

Pye Hastings – lead vocals (tracks A2, B2–4), guitar; guitar solo (track B4)
Dave Sinclair – piano, organ, Minimoog and Prophet synthesizers; lead vocals (track B1)
Richard Sinclair – lead vocals (tracks A1, A3 & A4), bass guitar; guitar solo on "A.A. Man" (track A3)
Richard Coughlan – drums and percussion; talking voice (track B4)

Additional personnel

Saxophone solos by Mel Collins
Recorded by Graeme Quinton-Jones and Jeremy Darby

Release information

LP Kingdom 5011 (1982)
CD Eclectic 1010 (2004 remaster)
CD Eclectic 230448 (2005 remaster)

References

↑ Kurtz, Peter. "Back to Front - Caravan | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

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[1] Kurtz, Peter. "Back to Front - Caravan | AllMusic". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

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v t e Caravan
Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Jan Schelhaas Jim Leverton Mark Walker Richard Coughlan Richard Sinclair Dave Sinclair Steve Miller Derek Austin Stuart Evans John G. Perry Mike Wedgwood Dek Messecar Doug Boyle Simon Bentall Jimmy Hastings
Studio albums	Caravan If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You In the Land of Grey and Pink Waterloo Lily For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Cunning Stunts Blind Dog at St. Dunstans Better by Far The Album Back to Front Cool Water The Battle of Hastings The Unauthorized Breakfast Item Paradise Filter It's None of Your Business
Live albums	Caravan and the New Symphonia Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert Live: Canterbury Comes to London Songs for Oblivion Fishermen Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77 Surprise Supplies Green Bottles for Marjorie: The Lost BBC Sessions
Compilation albums	The Show of Our Lives The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales Travelling Man All Over You...Too The Show of Our Lives – Caravan at the BBC 1968–1975 The World Is Yours – The Anthology 1968-1976
Related bands	Bruford Camel Delivery Earthworks Egg Gong Hatfield and the North In Cahoots Khan Matching Mole National Health Soft Heap Soft Machine Uriel The Wilde Flowers