Herbie Hancock: Blow-Up (soundtrack)

There's no prize, but can you spot the connection between this album and yesterday's?

Put an extra Mars bar in your stocking tonight if you said Steve Howe. Immediately before replacing Peter Banks, and making his Yes recording debut on The Yes Album, Howe played in Tomorrow, who feature on my (1996) release of the soundtrack album, even though they never made it onto the soundtrack of the film itself.

Apparently Antonioni was going to use Tomorrow, but dropped them when he had the chance to use The Yardbirds for this scene:

According to Wikipedia, that's Steve Howe's guitar that Jeff Beck is smashing up and David Hemmings is carrying out.

I saw the film not that long ago. Can't remember quite where or why, but the London locations are fascinating. One day I'll pay a visit to Maryon Park, which apparently has changed very little. I thought I spotted one location not mentioned in the Wikipedia list, where David Hemmings is driving along what looked to me like it might have been a still-bomb-ravaged London Wall, before the large office developments that now dominate it.

As for Tomorrow, they got a smaller place in posterity when Joe Boyd drew on his experiences with them for both the opening and the title of his book, White Bicycles. I find their brief contributions to this album more interesting than Herbie Hancock's, which seem a little perfunctory.

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[Fred Stagg]

Merry Christmas, David.

[David]

Cheers, Fred! And the same to you and yours...