Whatever Happened to Jugula?

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The title for Jugula came from playing Trivial Pursuit , in order to explain to everyone how they should go about answering the questions as straight and honestly as possible I'd say, "Go for the jugular". It was going to be Harper & Page for a while, but that's like selling Jimmy's name, then it went to 1214 which is the year that the Magna Carta was signed... but that was a bit esoteric. So one day we were talking and "jugula" came up, so I phoned the artist and they'd designed up to the Whatever happened to... bit so I said leave it there and put Jugula at the end. [5]

The track "Hope" originated as a tune written by David Gilmour for his second solo album About Face . [6] He asked Pete Townshend to supply lyrics, but felt that he couldn't relate to them, so Townshend used the song instead entitling it "White City Fighting", with Gilmour playing guitar, [6] on his album White City: A Novel . [6] Gilmour sent the same tune to Harper, whose lyrics had the same effect on Gilmour. [6] Harper used the result, "Hope", which has a markedly slower tempo, [6] on this album, with his son Nick Harper (who was 16 years old at the time), playing lead guitar.

"Hangman" is about the feelings of an innocent man condemned to be executed for a crime he did not commit. Of capital punishment Harper stated: [7]

That people can even think about bringing back the death penalty is profane. Yes, some people deserve to be locked up forever, but they're the responsibility of society. They are part of what we are. We have to be able to civilise, to teach with heart, and to keep the savage in ourselves under scrutiny rather than allowing the mob in us to rule.

Reissues

In 1999, the album was reissued on Harper's own Science Friction label and retitled Jugula, the cover art being altered accordingly. In 2019, the album was remastered and reissued, maintaining the later 1999 artwork.

Singles

12" Single cover Roy Harper Single Elizabeth.jpg
12" Single cover

"Elizabeth", a song that originally appeared on Harper's 1984 release Born in Captivity , was re-recorded and released as a 12" single. Again the artwork was based on an unfolded Rizla packet, this time in green. The 12" was released on Beggars Banquet Records (BEG 131T).

  1. Side A –
    1. "Eizabeth"
  2. Side B –
    1. "Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)"
    2. "I Hate The White Man" (Live) (Recorded at Poynton, 18 October 1984) [3]

Cover version

A cover version of "Hope" (with "Bad Speech" read by Harper as an introduction) can be found on the album Eternity by the Liverpudlian band Anathema.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Roy Harper except where noted

Whatever Happened to Jugula?
Roy Harper & Jimmy Page - Whatever Happened to Jugula%3F album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released4 March 1985
Recorded Clapham
Hereford
Berkshire
Mamaraneck, West Cork
Boilerhouse Studios, Lytham
Genre
Length45:25
Label Beggars Banquet BEGA 60,
Science Friction HUCD032
Producer Roy Harper
Roy Harper chronology
Born in Captivity
(1984)
Whatever Happened to Jugula?
(1985)
Descendants of Smith
(1988)
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Nineteen Forty-Eightish" 9:45
2."Bad Speech" 1:17
3."Hope"Harper, David Gilmour 4:31
4."Hangman" 7:09
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Elizabeth"6:39
2."Frozen Moment"3:18
3."Twentieth Century Man"4:27
4."Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)"8:19

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Whatever Happened to Jugula?
Chart (1985)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [8] 44
US Billboard 200 [9] 60

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