Caravan

UK Progressive rock band from Canterbury, Kent. formed in 1968.

Caravan were one of the more formidable progressive rock acts to come out of England in the 1960s, though they were never much more than a very successful cult band at home, and, apart from a brief moment in 1975, barely a cult band anywhere else in the world. They only ever charted one album in their first six years of activity, but they made a lot of noise in the English rock press, and their following has been sufficiently loyal and wide to keep their work in print for extended periods during the 1970s, the 1990s, and in the new century.

Caravan grew out of the breakup of the Wilde Flowers, a Canterbury-based group formed in 1964 as an R&B-based outfit with a jazzy-edge. The Wilde Flowers had a lineup of Brian Hopper on guitar and saxophone, Richard Sinclair on rhythm guitar, Hugh Hopper playing bass, and Robert Wyatt on drums. Kevin Ayers passed through the lineup as a singer, and Richard Sinclair was succeeded on rhythm guitar by Pye Hastings in 1965. Wyatt subsequently became the lead singer, succeeded byRichard Coughlan on drums. Hugh Hopper left and was replaced by Dave Lawrence, then Richard Sinclair, and Dave Sinclair, Richard's cousin, came in on keyboards. Finally, in 1966, Wyatt andAyers formed Soft Machine and the Wilde Flowers dissolved. In the wake of the earlier group's dissolution, Hastings, Richard Sinclair, Dave Sinclair, and Richard Coughlan formed Caravan in January of 1968.

Caravan ?– Caravan

Label:

Polydor ?– 2485 228

Matrix ? : Side one : 2485 228 1y1 p.1969  670  113  04

                Side two : 2485 228 2y1  p.1969  670  115  04

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album,

Country:

Netherlands

Released:

 1969 y.

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Folk Rock, Prog Rock, Classic Rock

TracklistHide Credits

Credits

• Design [Design And Graphics] – Peter Dale (5)
• Design [Sleeve Conception], Photography – Richard Bennett Zeff
• Drums – Richard Coughlan
• Engineer – Gerald Chevin
• Guitar, Bass, Vocals – Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair
• Organ, Vocals – David Sinclair
• Producer – Tony Cox
• Written-By – Brian Hopper (tracks: B3), Sinclair* (tracks: all tracks), Hastings* (tracks: all tracks),Coughlan* (tracks: all tracks), Sinclair* (tracks: all tracks)

Notes

Recorded at Advision Studios, London, October 1968.

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