| Pieces of Me | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | November 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1971 | |||
| Genre | Jazz Rock | |||
| Length | 43:55 | |||
| Label | Vertigo | |||
| Producer | Pete King | |||
| Linda Hoyle chronology | ||||
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Pieces of Me is a solo album by former Affinity vocalist Linda Hoyle. [1] Only 300 copies of the album were pressed. It is one of Vertigo's rarest albums. [2] [3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Backlash Blues" | Nina Simone | 5:55 |
| 2. | "Paper Tulips" | Linda Hoyle, Karl Jenkins | 3:34 |
| 3. | "Black Crow" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 3:17 |
| 4. | "For My Darling" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 3:58 |
| 5. | "Pieces of Me" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 4:08 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. | "Lonely Women" | Laura Nyro | 4:06 |
| 7. | "Hymn to Valerie Solanas" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 4:03 |
| 8. | "The Ballad of Morty Mole" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 4:33 |
| 9. | "Journey's End" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 3:15 |
| 10. | "Morning for One" | Hoyle, Jenkins | 4:23 |
| 11. | "Barrel House Music" | Mildred Bailey | 2:43 |
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins,, HonFLSW is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song "Adiemus", the Adiemus album series; Palladio; The Armed Man; his Requiem and his Stabat Mater (2008).
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Pieces of Me may refer to:
Rarity scale: R4.
The rarity-scale [is] the usual one from COMMON [...], through SC (scarce) and further getting ever rarer from R1 to R5 [...].
