High Flyers: The Best of Trapeze

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High Flyers: The Best of Trapeze
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Greatest hits album by
Released1996
Recorded1970–1974
Genre Hard rock
Producer Galley, Holland, Hughes
Trapeze chronology
Welcome to the Real World - live 1992
(1993)
High Flyers: The Best of Trapeze
(1996)
Way Back to the Bone
(1998)
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High Flyers is a compilation album by the band Trapeze with the original line up of Galley, Holland, and Hughes.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Send Me No More Letters
  2. Your Love Is Alright
  3. Black Cloud
  4. Medusa
  5. Coast To Coast
  6. Will Our Love End
  7. You Are The Music
  8. Good Love
  9. Dat's It
  10. Send Me No More Letters (US single version)

Personnel


Additional Musicians

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References

  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "High Flyers: The Best of Trapeze". Allmusic . Retrieved 29 May 2012.