Baroque & Roll
Overview
 
Baroque and Roll is a studio album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Acoustic Strawbs. Acoustic Strawbs were formed by accident after Dave Cousins
Dave Cousins
Dave Cousins has been the leader, singer and most active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967.-Career:...

 and Brian Willoughby
Brian Willoughby
Brian Willoughby is a British guitarist. He has worked with many musicians , as well as releasing solo work.-With other artists:...

 were booked to perform as a duo in Twickenham
Twickenham
Twickenham is a large suburban town southwest of central London. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan...

 in 2000. Cousins damaged his wrist and Dave Lambert
Dave Lambert (British musician)
Dave Lambert is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who was a member of The Strawbs in the 1970s.-Career:...

 stepped in to cover while Cousins sang. The format was successful and tours were arranged. Brian Willoughby stepped down in 2004 to concentrate on his work with Cathryn Craig and he was replaced by Chas Cronk
Chas Cronk
-Strawbs:*Hero and Heroine *Ghosts *Nomadness *Deep Cuts *Burning for You *Deadlines *Heartbreak Hill *Blue Angel *Déjà Fou *Strawbs Live at Nearfest 2004...

 who added bass pedals
Bass pedals
Bass pedals are an electronic musical instrument with foot-operated pedal keyboard with a range of one or more octaves. The earliest bass pedals from the 1970s consisted of a pedalboard and analog synthesizer tone generation circuitry packaged together as a unit...

 and acoustic bass guitar
Acoustic bass guitar
The acoustic bass guitar is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually somewhat larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar...

 as well as extra vocals and guitar.
Quotations

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Yesterday (song)|"Yesterday", from Help!|Help! (1965)

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)

She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.

About Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview after the Beatles received their MBEs from her (26 October 1965)

I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

"Here, There and Everywhere" (1966)

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away

"Lovely Rita" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?

"When I'm Sixty-Four" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.

Hey Jude|"Hey Jude" (1968)

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

The End (The Beatles song)|"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (album)|Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)

 
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