Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology

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Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology
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Compilation album by
Released9 March 2018
Genre Progressive rock
Label Peter Banks Musical Estate
Peter Banks chronology
The Self-Contained Trilogy
(2018)
Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology
(2018)

Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky... The Anthology is a compilation of solo and related work by the British guitarist Peter Banks, [1] released by the Peter Banks Musical Estate in March 2018 on the fifth anniversary of Banks' death. [2]

Contents

The release draws on Banks' solo releases – The Two Sides of, Instinct, Self-Contained, Reduction and Can I Play You Something? – with additional tracks from other projects, including the Yes tribute album Tales from Yesterday and the Flashback collaboration with Gerard Johnson. "Knights (Revisited)" is a previously unreleased track, based on an unfinished guitar track by Banks and completed posthumously by Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen, who had all separately worked with Banks over the years.

Track listing

CD 1—The Best of Peter Banks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."No Place Like Home" Peter Banks 1:41
2."All Points South"Banks/Gerald Goff6:34
3."Fogbound"Banks2:13
4."The Age of Distortion"Banks4:27
5."Knights"Banks6:14
6."Fade to Blue"Banks2:48
7."It's All Greek to Me – Oriental Bent"Banks5:12
8."It's All Greek to Me – In an Idyll Momentum"Banks1:29
9."Tone Down"Banks6:40
10."Dirty Little Secret"Banks3:48
11."As Ever"Banks1:55
12."Small Beginnings (Flashback Version)"Banks/Colin Carter3:10
13."Knights (Reprise)"Banks2:12
14."Massive Trouser Clearance"Banks/Goff7:17
15."Lost Days"Banks2:29
CD 2—Can I Play You Something More?
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
16."Can I Play You Something?"Banks0:15
17."Bang/Crash"Banks0:21
18."Peter Gunn Theme (live)"Mancini5:25
19."Hippee Loop"Banks; based on a Mabel Greer's Toyshop sample0:57
20."Warning: Rumble Strips"Banks6:22
21."Dancing Angel"Banks5:38
22."Lima Loop"Banks0:16
23."Astral Traveller" Jon Anderson 7:00
24."Knights (Revisited)"Banks1:21
25."Yesterdays"Banks0:53
26."Endless Journey (Endless Version)"Banks5:56
27."Cinnamon Touch"Banks1:30
28."As Night Falls… and Continues…"Banks6:01
29."Small Beginnings (Epic Flashback Version)"Banks/Carter19:32
30."No Time"Banks2:24

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Musicians
Production

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References

  1. "Peter Banks: Be Well, be Safe, be Lucky... The Anthology".
  2. "Yesworld Remembers Peter Banks (1947–2013)". 7 March 2018.