Camel are an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band formed in 1971. An important group in the Canterbury scene

Canterbury Scene

The Canterbury scene is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s...

, they have been releasing studio and live recordings steadily, with considerable success, since their formation.

1970s

Andrew Latimer

Andrew Latimer

Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....

 (guitar), Andy Ward (drums) and Doug Ferguson (bass) had been playing as a trio called The Brew around the Guildford

Guildford

Guildford is the county town of Surrey. England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

 area of England. On February 20, 1971, they auditioned to be the back-up band to singer/songwriter Phillip Goodhand-Tait

Phillip Goodhand-Tait

Phillip Goodhand-Tait is a singer-songwriter, record producer and keyboard player.-Life and career:Goodhand-Tait is his real surname, although at school and into the mid 1960s, he was known as Phil Tait. His mother taught piano and his father was an active Trades Unionist...

 and released an album with him in August 1971 titled "I Think I'll Write a Song" on DJM Records

DJM Records

DJM Records was the record label set up in the 1970s by British music publisher, Dick James, distributed by Pye Records in the UK and various other companies around the world, including the USA...

. This would be their first and last album with Goodhand-Tait. They recruited Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...

 (keyboards) and after an initial gig to fulfill a Bardens commitment on 8 October 1971 in Belfast

Belfast

Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...

, Northern Ireland under the name of Peter Bardens' On, they changed their name to Camel. Their first gig was at Waltham Forest Technical College, London

Waltham Forest College

Waltham Forest College located in Walthamstow, North-East London enrols around 10,000+ students a year.As a foreign student you can combine language studies with vocational options, or study together with UK students on lots of career courses from the College's mainstream programme...

 supporting Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash are a British rock band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s. Their popular records included Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub , and New England...

 on 4 December.

In August 1972 Camel signed with MCA Records

MCA Records

MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...

 and their eponymous debut album was released six months later. The record was not a success and the band moved to the Deram Records

Deram Records

Deram Records was a subsidiary record label established in 1966 by Decca Records in the United Kingdom. At this time U.K. Decca was a completely different company than the Decca label in the United States, which was then owned by MCA Inc. Deram recordings were also distributed in the U.S. through...

 division of Decca Records

Decca Records

Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....

 (UK).

In 1974 they released their second album, the critically acclaimed Mirage

Mirage (Camel album)

Mirage is Camel's second album, released in 1974. It features some of their best-known songs, including "Nimrodel" and "Lady Fantasy". It is also a showcase for Andrew Latimer's flute, notably on "Supertwister"....

on which Latimer showed he was adept on flute. Although failing to chart at home, it gained success on the U.S. west coast, prompting a three month tour there.

Released in 1975, the instrumental, orchestrated concept album

Concept album

In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...

 Music Inspired by The Snow Goose, had been inspired by the Paul Gallico

Paul Gallico

Paul William Gallico was a successful American novelist, short story and sports writer. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures...

 short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 of the same name. This was the breakthrough album that brought Camel wider attention, but not without controversy. Gallico, who loathed smoking, thought the band were related to the cigarette brand

Camel (cigarette)

Camel is a brand of cigarettes that was introduced by American company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in the summer of 1913. Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco. Early in 2008 the blend was changed as was the package design.-History:In 1913, R.J...

 and threatened to take legal action. Camel avoided this by adding the prefix 'Music inspired by...' to the album's cover. The album's success led to a prestigious sell out concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, with the London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra is a major orchestra of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the best-known orchestras in the world. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in London's Barbican Centre.-History:...

 in October 1975.

A fourth album, Moonmadness

Moonmadness (album)

Moonmadness is an album released in March 1976 by English progressive rock band Camel. It was their 4th album and the last to feature the original line-up...

in 1976, continued the success, but was the last to feature the original line up. Mel Collins

Mel Collins

Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...

' saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

 and flute

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 augmented the band for the subsequent tour, beginning an eight year association. Drummer Ward was pushing for a more jazz direction and this demand on Ferguson led to Ferguson's departure in early 1977. Ferguson is now a property developer.

Richard Sinclair

Richard Sinclair

Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:...

 (previously in Caravan

Caravan (band)

Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan. Caravan rose to success over a period of several years from 1968 onwards into the 1970s as part of the Canterbury scene, blending...

) replaced Ferguson and this line-up released Rain Dances

Rain Dances

Rain Dances is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. It was released in 1977, with Deram Records, and brought a major change to the band's lineup, by replacing bassist Doug Ferguson with ex-Caravan Richard Sinclair and by adding saxophonist Mel Collins, former King Crimson...

(1977) and Breathless

Breathless (Camel album)

Breathless is the 6th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel, released in 1978. It is the last album to feature the group's original keyboardist Peter Bardens, who left the group before the tour for the album...

(1978). The latter was the last album to feature Bardens, who announced his departure before the supporting tour. He was replaced by two keyboard players: Dave Sinclair

Dave Sinclair

David Sinclair , is a keyboardist who has been part of the progressive rock Canterbury Scene...

 (cousin of Richard and also from Caravan) and Jan Schelhaas

Jan Schelhaas

Jan Russell Schelhaas is an English musician, mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel....

 (also of Caravan). The Sinclair cousins both left the band after the tour, replaced by Kit Watkins

Kit Watkins

Kit Watkins is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man.-Beginnings:...

 and Colin Bass

Colin Bass

Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...

.

This line up recorded the more commercial I Can See Your House from Here

I Can See Your House from Here

I Can See Your House from Here is the 7th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel. Released in 1979, a new line up was introduced...

(1979), an album which caused problems for the advertisers due to its irreverent cover, displaying a crucified astronaut looking at earth. Despite some fans' reservations about commercial leanings, the album concludes with a ten minute instrumental 'Ice', showcasing Latimer's lead guitar skills.

1980s

Camel returned to the concept album for their next recording. Nude (1981), is based on a true story about a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese soldier

Soldier

A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...

 (Hiroo Onoda

Hiroo Onoda

is a former Japanese army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and did not surrender until 1974, having spent almost 30 years holding out in the Philippines. He held the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.-Early life:...

) found on an island many years after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 had ended, not having realised the war was over. Duncan Mackay

Duncan Mackay (musician)

Duncan Mackay is a British composer, singer, arranger, and keyboard player.-External links:...

 provided most of the keyboards in lieu of Watkins and Schelhaas, who were involved in other projects, but returned for the tour. This was the first album to feature lyrics by Latimer's future wife Susan Hoover (who had in fact contributed lyrical ideas, albeit anonymously, to I Can See...). In mid-1981, Ward stopped playing drums due to alcohol

Alcohol abuse

Alcohol abuse, as described in the DSM-IV, is a psychiatric diagnosis describing the recurring use of alcoholic beverages despite negative consequences. Alcohol abuse eventually progresses to alcoholism, a condition in which an individual becomes dependent on alcoholic beverages in order to avoid...

 and drug abuse

Drug abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...

 and Camel quietly disbanded. Years later it was revealed that Ward had attempted suicide.

Without a band, but a contract to fulfill and pressure from Decca for a 'hit song', Latimer was joined by an array of guest and session musicians, including David Paton

David Paton

David Paton is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist...

, Chris Rainbow

Chris Rainbow

Chris Rainbow is a Scottish rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs, "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" in the 1970s....

 and Anthony Phillips

Anthony Phillips

Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis. He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass...

 at Abbey Road studio in early 1982. The resultant album, ironically entitled The Single Factor

The Single Factor

The Single Factor, released in 1982, is the 9th studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. The title refers to the fact that guitarist Andy Latimer was the sole remaining original member, though original keyboardist Peter Bardens makes a guest appearance on 'Sasquatch'...

, was a far cry from the band's early hard rock/progressive sound, but it scraped the lower regions of the charts and enabled a successful Tenth Anniversary Tour, featuring Paton, Rainbow, Watkins, Stuart Tosh (drums) and Andy Dalby

Andy Dalby

Andy Dalby is an English rock guitarist, who was largely active in the 1970s and early 1980s....

 (guitar) accompanying Latimer. Legal wranglings over royalties then began with their former manager which took five years to resolve.

Ton Scherpenzeel

Ton Scherpenzeel

Ton Scherpenzeel is a keyboardist and a founding member of the Dutch rock band Kayak, together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek Lyceum ....

 (of Dutch prog-rock band Kayak

Kayak (band)

Kayak are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in 1972 in the city Hilversum by Ton Scherpenzeel and Pim Koopman. In 1973, their debut album "See See The Sun" was released, including 3 hit singles. Their main popularity was in the Netherlands, with their top hit reaching #6 on the Dutch charts in...

) joined Latimer as Camel's new keyboardist with Paul Burgess on drums for 1984's Stationary Traveller

Stationary Traveller

Stationary Traveller is the 10th studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. Like much of Camel's output, it is a concept album, in this case centering around the trials of East German refugees attempting to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin....

. Bass returned (for good) to fill the bass position for the tour, which also included Rainbow on backing and occasional lead vocals and some keyboards. For the Hammersmith Odeon shows which were filmed, an additional keyboard player, Richie Close (who died a few years later from Legionnaires' disease) was also added, and former members Peter Bardens and Mel Collins made guest appearances.

After the release of the resulting live Pressure Points

Pressure Points (album)

Pressure Points: Live in Concert is a live album by progressive rock band Camel, released in 1984.-Side One:#"Pressure Points" – 7:17#"Drafted" – 3:51#"Captured" – 3:02#"Lies" – 5:16#"Sasquatch" – 4:09-Side Two:#"West Berlin" – 5:19...

in late 1984, Camel disappeared without trace as far as the public was concerned. Finishing the contract with Decca, Latimer was unable to interest other British record companies and eventually moved to California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 when the lawsuit ended in his favor.

1990s

After a seven year hiatus, Latimer revived the Camel name, releasing a new album, Dust and Dreams, in 1991. Part of it had actually been recorded as early as 1988, before Latimer's departure to the US, and featured all members of the previous incarnation, i.e. Bass, Burgess, Scherpenzeel, alongside a number of additional musicians. The album was largely instrumental and inspired by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...

's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962....

. It was released under Latimer's own label Camel Productions and, whilst according to some it was a triumphant return to their progressive roots, to others it was a disappointingly middle-of-the-road effort.

Scherpenzeel's fear of flying made him largely unavailable for touring. So former Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

 and Fish

Fish (singer)

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of Marillion.-Biography:...

 keyboardist Mickey Simmonds

Mickey Simmonds

Mickey Simmonds is an English session keyboardist, arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel and Fish...

 joined Latimer, Bass and Burgess for the 1992 "comeback" world tour from which in 1993 a double live CD, recorded in Holland, Never Let Go

Never Let Go

Never Let Go is a 1960 British thriller film starring Peter Sellers and Richard Todd. It concerns a man's purchase, loss of, and attempt to recover a Ford Anglia car. Sellers played a London villain, in one of his rare straight roles.-Plot:...

, was released. In 1994, former members Bardens and Ward formed Mirage

Mirage (band)

Mirage were a progressive rock offshoot from Camel in the 1990s.The band was formed by drummer Andy Ward and keyboardist Peter Bardens, both former members of Camel, having last been together in the band in 1977. Also in the original line-up were guitarist Steve Adams and bassist Rick Biddulph...

 with members of Caravan

Caravan (band)

Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area, founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings and Richard Coughlan. Caravan rose to success over a period of several years from 1968 onwards into the 1970s as part of the Canterbury scene, blending...

. In this incarnation, it played a short European tour, with a setlist including numerous Camel pieces, but it quickly gave way to a Bardens-led band with no other Camel or Caravan alumni.

Inspired by the death of Latimer's father, he and Hoover then wrote Harbour of Tears

Harbour of Tears

Harbour of Tears is a studio concept album by English progressive rock band Camel. It tells the story of an Irish family who is painfully separated as their young ones depart to the United States to seek a better future...

(nickname for Cobh

Cobh

Cobh is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour. Facing the town are Spike Island and Haulbowline Island...

 harbour in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 from which many sailed off to the USA during the Potato Famine) under the Camel name, which was released in 1996.

In 1997 Camel again toured the west coast of the U.S., Japan and Europe (as they had in 1992) with Latimer supported by Bass, Foss Patterson (keyboards) and drummer Dave Stewart. The tour resulted in Coming of Age

Coming of Age (Camel album)

Coming of Age is a live album by progressive rock band Camel released 1998.- CD One :# "Lunar Sea" – 8:57# "Hymn to Her" – 6:34# "Rhayader" – 2:53...

, a live double-CD and DVD.

In 1999 Latimer, Stewart, Bass and guest Scherpenzeel, recorded Rajaz

Rajaz

Rajaz is the 13th studio album by Camel, released in 1999. The album's songs have been composed on the camel's walking metre. Praised by fans & critics alike, the album is a return to form.-Track listings:#"Three Wishes" – 6:58...

. Set in ancient times, Rajaz

Rajaz

Rajaz is the 13th studio album by Camel, released in 1999. The album's songs have been composed on the camel's walking metre. Praised by fans & critics alike, the album is a return to form.-Track listings:#"Three Wishes" – 6:58...

was a spontaneous composition inspired by the rhythm of the camel

Camel

A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as humps on its back. There are two species of camels: the dromedary or Arabian camel has a single hump, and the bactrian has two humps. Dromedaries are native to the dry desert areas of West Asia,...

's footsteps to help weary travelers reach their destination. Latimer was smitten with the theme, and this album truly took Camel back to their prog-rock roots.

2000s

Stewart left the band when he was offered the chance to manage a drum store in Scotland before the following live tour, to be replaced by French Canadian Denis Clement on Drums. The 2000 tour was augmented by Guy LeBlanc

Guy LeBlanc

Guy LeBlanc is a Canadian keyboardist and composer. He leads his own progressive-rock band - Nathan Mahl, and was a member of the British progressive band Camel from 2000-2003...

 on keyboards. Latimer, Bass, LeBlanc and Clement then went to a tour of South America in 2001.

In 2002 this quartet released A Nod and a Wink

A Nod and a Wink

A Nod and a Wink is the 14th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel released in July 2002 on the label Camel Productions. It is their latest studio album...

, - a reflective, mellow album, prominently featuring Latimer's flute. The album was dedicated to Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens

Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...

, who died in January 2002.

Following somewhat-troubled live tours of recent years, Camel Productions announced the 2003 tour to be Camel's "Farewell Tour". Guy LeBlanc had to quit shortly before going on the road due to the illness of his wife, and was replaced by Tom Brislin

Tom Brislin

Tom Brislin is an American keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from New Jersey. He is the founding member of the rock band Spiraling, and plays or has played keyboards with several well-known acts...

 (in the US) and a train-travelling Ton Scherpenzeel (European leg). The US leg of the tour was highlighted by a headline appearance at NEARfest

NEARfest

The North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest for short, is a multi-day event celebrating the resurgence of progressive and eclectic music in the United States and around the world. The event is held annually in early summer in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, approximately one hour north of Philadelphia...

, the world's most prestigious progressive rock festival.

Latimer started work on unplugged

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 (acoustic) versions of old Camel material, but this was aborted. In 2006, Latimer accepted an invitation to audition for a guitar/vocal role on Roger Waters

Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...

 tour, the position eventually being filled by Dave Kilminster

Dave Kilminster

Dave Kilminster is a British guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and music teacher. He is known for touring with Keith Emerson and with Roger Waters on his The Dark Side Of The Moon 2006 - 2008 tour, performing much of the guitar and vocal duties that are originally David Gilmour's...

.

In October 2006 Latimer completed a move back to the UK with intentions of recording and releasing future Camel albums from his home country and completing a project started in 2003 with Andy Ward and Doug Ferguson.

In May 2007, Susan Hoover announced through the Camel Productions website and newsletter that Andrew Latimer has suffered from a progressive blood disorder Polycythaemia vera since 1992 which has progressed to Myelofibrosis

Myelofibrosis

Myelofibrosis, also known as myeloid metaplasia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, osteomyelofibrosis and primary myelofibrosis is a disorder of the bone marrow...

. This was part of the reason why Camel ceased extensive touring. Latimer underwent chemotherapy

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen....

 and a bone marrow transplant

Bone marrow transplant

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cell or blood, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood stem cells, or umbilical cord blood...

 in November 2007. He responded well to treatment, but has suffered from fatigue and cycles of severe joint pain. In the September 2008 newsletter, she reported that Latimer was gradually regaining strength and they are adopting a positive frame of mind that Camel will eventually be able to play a mini-tour and release a new studio album.

2010s

Latimer's health has progressed and he contributed guitar solos and vocal tracks to David Minasian's album Random Acts of Beauty (released August 2010). In September 2010 Camel Productions announced that Latimer and Denis Clement have started writing material for a new Camel album.

Legacy

The 2005 release Fuera de Tiempo by Argentinean band Rockaphonia contains three Camel "tribute" covers.

A tribute band

Tribute band

A tribute act is a music group, singer, or musician who specifically plays the music of a well-known music act - sometimes one which has disbanded, ceased touring or is deceased. Probably the largest class of tributes acts are Elvis impersonators, individual performers who mimic the songs and style...

, The Humps, in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, routinely performs some of the band's material.

Another tribute band named Fritha (after the song on the Snowgoose album) is performing in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 

In Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 there is a tribute band named Lady Fantasy (after the song on the Mirage album).

A band named Raha in Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

 is doing covers of Camel songs.

In Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

, Andromida is also doing covers of Camel amongst their set.

In 2010, a Norwegian progressive band who has taken the name Mirage after the title of Camel's second album, is including Camel songs amongst a set of Yes

Yes (band)

Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...

, Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

, and King Crimson

King Crimson

King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...

 pieces.

About the same time, an Italian Camel tribute band has also taken the name Mirage. The material they have released so far is from the Snowgoose suite.

Band members

Most recent line-up

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , recorder
  Recorder
  The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes—whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle. The recorder is end-blown and the mouth of the instrument is constricted by a wooden plug, known as a block or fipple...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (1971-)
• Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals, keyboard, acoustic guitar (1979–1981, 1984-)
• Denis Clement - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   (2000-)
• Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel is a keyboardist and a founding member of the Dutch rock band Kayak, together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek Lyceum ....
  
   - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   (1984, 1991, 1999, 2003-)

Former members

• Doug Ferguson - bass, vocals (1971–1977)
• Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...
  
   - keyboards, vocals
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   (1971–1978)
• Andy Ward - drummer
  Drummer
  A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
   (1971–1981)
• Richard Sinclair
  Richard Sinclair
  Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:...
  
   - bass, vocals (1977–1978)
• Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
   - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  s, flute (1977–1979)
• Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Russell Schelhaas is an English musician, mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel....
  
   - keyboards (1979–1981)
• Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man.-Beginnings:...
  
   - keyboards, flute (1979–1982)
• Paul Burgess - drums, percussion (1984–1992)
• Dave Stewart - drums, percussion (1997–2000)
• Guy LeBlanc
  Guy LeBlanc
  Guy LeBlanc is a Canadian keyboardist and composer. He leads his own progressive-rock band - Nathan Mahl, and was a member of the British progressive band Camel from 2000-2003...
  
   - keyboards, vocals (2000–2003)

Additional studio musicians

• 'Eddie' - congas on Camel
• Tony Cox
  Tony Cox (South African musician)
  Tony Cox is a Zimbabwean born guitarist and composer based in Cape Town, South Africa. A master of the Fingerpicking style of guitar playing, he has won the SAMA for best instrumental album twice...
  
   - synthesizer on Camel
• David Bedford
  David Bedford
  David Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....
  
   - orchestral arrangements on Music Inspired by The Snow Goose
• Martin Drover - trumpet on Rain Dances
• Malcolm Griffiths - trombone on Rain Dances
• Brian Eno
  Brian Eno
  Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
  
   - keyboards on Rain Dances
• Fiona Hibbert - harp
  Harp
  The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...
  
   on Rain Dances
• Dave Sinclair
  Dave Sinclair
  David Sinclair , is a keyboardist who has been part of the progressive rock Canterbury Scene...
  
   - keyboards on Breathless
• Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
  
   - percussion on I Can See Your House From Here
• Duncan Mackay
  Duncan Mackay (musician)
  Duncan Mackay is a British composer, singer, arranger, and keyboard player.-External links:...
  
   - keyboards on Nude and The Single Factor
• Chris Green
  Chris Green
  Chris Green may refer to:* Chris Green , British writer* Chris Green , British comedian and writer* Chris Green , NFL defensive back* Chris Green , Porn star of the 1990s...
  
   - cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
   on Nude
• Gasper Lawal - percussion on Nude
• Herbie Flowers
  Herbie Flowers
  Herbie Flowers is an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double-bass and tuba. He is noted as a member of Blue Mink, T...
  
   - tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
   on Nude
• David Paton
  David Paton
  David Paton is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist...
  
   - bass, vocals on The Single Factor and Harbour of Tears; vocals on Dust and Dreams
• Graham Jarvis
  Graham Jarvis
  Graham Jarvis was a Canadian character actor in US films and TV from the 1960s.Born in Toronto, Jarvis attended Williams College before moving to New York to pursue a career in theater...
  
   - drums on The Single Factor
• Dave Mattacks
  Dave Mattacks
  Dave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist...
  
   - drums on The Single Factor
• Simon Phillips
  Simon Phillips
  Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
  
   - drums on The Single Factor
• Anthony Phillips
  Anthony Phillips
  Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis. He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass...
  
   - guitar, keyboards on The Single Factor
• Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow is a Scottish rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs, "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" in the 1970s....
  
   - vocals on The Single Factor and Stationary Traveller
• Haydn Bendall
  Haydn Bendall
  Haydn Bendall is a British music record producer, engineer and mixer. He was Chief Engineer at Abbey Road Studios for ten years and was awarded the Audio Pro Industry Excellence Award for Best Studio Engineer in 2009.-Career:...
  
   - keyboards on Stationary Traveller
• Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman
  Francis Monkman is an English rock, classical and film score composer, and a founding member of the progressive rock band Curved Air.-Career:...
  
   - harpsichord synclavier on The Single Factor
• Tristian Fry - glockenspiel
  Glockenspiel
  A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...
  
   on The Single Factor
• Jack Emblow - accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
   on The Single Factor
• Mae McKenna - vocals on Dust and Dreams and Harbour of Tears
• Christopher Bock - drums on Dust and Dreams
• Don Harriss - keyboards on Dust and Dreams
• Neil Panton - oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
   on Dust and Dreams; oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
  , soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
  The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
  
  , harmonium on Harbour of Tears
• Kim Venaas - timpani
  Timpani
  Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...
  
  , harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   on Dust and Dreams
• John Burton
  John Burton
  John Burton may refer to:*John Burton , British stage and television actor*John Burton , American slalom canoer*John Burton , co-founder of the nonprofit environmental organization World Land Trust...
  
   - French horn on Dust and Dreams and Harbour of Tears
• Mickey Simmonds
  Mickey Simmonds
  Mickey Simmonds is an English session keyboardist, arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel and Fish...
  
   - keyboards on Harbour of Tears
• John Xepoleas - drums on Harbour of Tears
• Barry Phillips
  Barry Phillips
  Barry Phillips is a musician, arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic, world and American folk music on the Gourd Music label.Barry received a Masters of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1990...
  
   - cello on Harbour of Tears and Rajaz
• Karen Bentley - violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
   on Harbour of Tears
• Anita Stoneham - violin on Harbour of Tears
• Terry Carleton - drums, percussion, backing vocals on A Nod and a Wink
• JR Johnston - backing vocals on A Nod and a Wink

Touring musicians
1971-1976

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...
  
   - Andy Ward - Doug Ferguson

1976

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...
  
   - Andy Ward - Doug Ferguson - Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
  

1977

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens
  Peter Bardens was a keyboardist and a founding member of the British progressive rock group Camel. He played organ, piano, synthesizers and mellotron and wrote songs with Andrew Latimer...
  
   - Andy Ward - Richard Sinclair
  Richard Sinclair
  Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:...
  
   - Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
  

1978-1979

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Andy Ward - Richard Sinclair
  Richard Sinclair
  Richard S. Sinclair is a progressive rock bassist, guitarist and vocalist who has been a member of several bands of the Canterbury scene.-Biography:...
  
   - Mel Collins
  Mel Collins
  Mel Collins is a British saxophonist and flautist and session musician.He has worked in a wide variety of contexts ranging from R&B and blues rock to jazz, but is perhaps known for his work in progressive rock, as with King Crimson, Camel and the Alan Parsons Project.-Career:Collins has worked...
  
   - Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Russell Schelhaas is an English musician, mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel....
  
   - Dave Sinclair
  Dave Sinclair
  David Sinclair , is a keyboardist who has been part of the progressive rock Canterbury Scene...
  
  

1979-1981

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Andy Ward - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Schelhaas
  Jan Russell Schelhaas is an English musician, mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel....
  
   - Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man.-Beginnings:...
  
  

1982

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins
  Kit Watkins is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man.-Beginnings:...
  
   - David Paton
  David Paton
  David Paton is a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel. He has also worked as a solo artist, session musician, and sometime vocalist...
  
   - Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow is a Scottish rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs, "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" in the 1970s....
  
   - Stuart Tosh
  Stuart Tosh
  Stuart MacIntosh is a drummer, songwriter and vocalist.Also known as Stuart Tosh, MacIntosh recorded and toured with a succession of well-known and respected bands during the 1970s and 1980s, including Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, 10cc and Camel. Stuart now lives in the Bridge of Don area of...
  
   - Andy Dalby
  Andy Dalby
  Andy Dalby is an English rock guitarist, who was largely active in the 1970s and early 1980s....
  
  

1984

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Paul Burgess - Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow
  Chris Rainbow is a Scottish rock singer and musician who had two minor hit songs, "Give Me What I Cry For" and "Solid State Brain" in the 1970s....
  
   - Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel is a keyboardist and a founding member of the Dutch rock band Kayak, together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek Lyceum ....
  
   - Richie Close

1992

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Paul Burgess - Mickey Simmonds
  Mickey Simmonds
  Mickey Simmonds is an English session keyboardist, arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel and Fish...
  
  

1997

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Dave Stewart - Foss Patterson

2000-2001

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Denis Clement - Guy LeBlanc
  Guy LeBlanc
  Guy LeBlanc is a Canadian keyboardist and composer. He leads his own progressive-rock band - Nathan Mahl, and was a member of the British progressive band Camel from 2000-2003...
  
  

2003 (U.S.)

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Denis Clement - Tom Brislin
  Tom Brislin
  Tom Brislin is an American keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from New Jersey. He is the founding member of the rock band Spiraling, and plays or has played keyboards with several well-known acts...
  
  

2003 (Europe)

• Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer
  Andrew Latimer is an English musician and one of the original members of the progressive rock band Camel. He is mainly a guitarist and singer, but also a flautist and keyboardist....
  
   - Colin Bass
  Colin Bass
  Colin Bass, also known as Sabah Habas Mustapha , is an English progressive rock musician, bassist, record producer, and an active member of the British progressive-rock band Camel.-History:...
  
   - Denis Clement - Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel
  Ton Scherpenzeel is a keyboardist and a founding member of the Dutch rock band Kayak, together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek Lyceum ....
  
  

Studio albums

• 1973 - Camel
  Camel (album)
  Camel is the first studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. It was released in 1973. Although most fans agree the best was yet to come Camel is the first studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. It was released in 1973. Although most fans agree the best was yet to come...
  
  
• 1974 - Mirage
  Mirage (Camel album)
  Mirage is Camel's second album, released in 1974. It features some of their best-known songs, including "Nimrodel" and "Lady Fantasy". It is also a showcase for Andrew Latimer's flute, notably on "Supertwister"....
  
  (US Billboard #149; (13 weeks on chart))
• 1975 - The Snow Goose (UK
  UK Albums Chart
  The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
  
   #22; (13 weeks on chart)); Certified Silver
• 1976 - Moonmadness
  Moonmadness (album)
  Moonmadness is an album released in March 1976 by English progressive rock band Camel. It was their 4th album and the last to feature the original line-up...
  
  UK #15; (6 weeks on chart); Certified Silver
• 1977 - Rain Dances
  Rain Dances
  Rain Dances is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. It was released in 1977, with Deram Records, and brought a major change to the band's lineup, by replacing bassist Doug Ferguson with ex-Caravan Richard Sinclair and by adding saxophonist Mel Collins, former King Crimson...
  
  (UK #20; (8 weeks on chart); US Billboard #136)
• 1978 - Breathless
  Breathless (Camel album)
  Breathless is the 6th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel, released in 1978. It is the last album to feature the group's original keyboardist Peter Bardens, who left the group before the tour for the album...
  
  (UK #26; (1 week on chart); US Billboard #134)
• 1979 - I Can See Your House from Here
  I Can See Your House from Here
  I Can See Your House from Here is the 7th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel. Released in 1979, a new line up was introduced...
  
  (UK #45; (3 weeks on chart); US Billboard #208)
• 1981 - Nude (UK #34; (7 weeks on chart))
• 1982 - The Single Factor
  The Single Factor
  The Single Factor, released in 1982, is the 9th studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. The title refers to the fact that guitarist Andy Latimer was the sole remaining original member, though original keyboardist Peter Bardens makes a guest appearance on 'Sasquatch'...
  
  (UK #57; (5 weeks on chart))
• 1984 - Stationary Traveller
  Stationary Traveller
  Stationary Traveller is the 10th studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. Like much of Camel's output, it is a concept album, in this case centering around the trials of East German refugees attempting to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin....
  
  (UK #57; (4 weeks on chart))
• 1991 - Dust and Dreams
• 1996 - Harbour of Tears
  Harbour of Tears
  Harbour of Tears is a studio concept album by English progressive rock band Camel. It tells the story of an Irish family who is painfully separated as their young ones depart to the United States to seek a better future...
  
  
• 1999 - Rajaz
  Rajaz
  Rajaz is the 13th studio album by Camel, released in 1999. The album's songs have been composed on the camel's walking metre. Praised by fans & critics alike, the album is a return to form.-Track listings:#"Three Wishes" – 6:58...
  
  
• 2002 - A Nod and a Wink
  A Nod and a Wink
  A Nod and a Wink is the 14th studio album by the English progressive rock band Camel released in July 2002 on the label Camel Productions. It is their latest studio album...
  
  

Live albums

• 1973 - Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall
  Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall
  Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall is a 1974 live double album by various artists recorded at an October 1973 Greasy Truckers concert at the Dingwalls Dance Hall at Camden Lock in Camden Town, London...
  
  (Various Artists. Includes 19 minute version of Camel's 'God of Light Revisited)
• 1978 - A Live Record
  A Live Record
  A Live Record is the first live album by the progressive rock band Camel, released in 1978. It is a double LP, composed of recordings from three different tours....
  
  (live, various venues 1974, 1975, 1977)
• 1984 - Pressure Points: Live in Concert (live, 11 May 1984, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK)
• 1992 - On the Road 1972
  On the Road 1972
  On the Road 1972 is a live album by Camel released in 1992.-Track listings:#"Lady Fantasy" - 13:45#"Six Ate" - 6:11#"White Rider" - 9:56#"God of Light Revisited" - 14:24-Personnel:...
  
  (live, venue unspecified)
• 1993 - Never Let Go
  Never Let Go (live)
  Never Let Go is a live album by the progressive rock band Camel released in 1993. It was recorded in Enschede, Holland, September 5, 1992.-Track listing:Disc one# "Never Let Go"  – 7:22# "Earthrise"  – 8:02...
  
  (live, 5 September 1992, Enschede, NL)
• 1994 - On the Road 1982
  On the Road 1982
  On the Road 1982 is a live album by Camel released in 1994.-Track listing:#"Sasquatch" – 4:30#"Highways of the Sun" – 4:38#"Hymn to Her" – 5:23#"Neon Magic" – 4:04...
  
  (live, Dutch radio, 13 June 1982, Congresgebouw, Den Haag, NL)
• 1997 - On the Road 1981 (live, BBC radio, 2 April 1981, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK)
• 1998 - Coming of Age
  Coming of Age (Camel album)
  Coming of Age is a live album by progressive rock band Camel released 1998.- CD One :# "Lunar Sea" – 8:57# "Hymn to Her" – 6:34# "Rhayader" – 2:53...
  
  (live, 13 March 1997, Billboard, Los Angeles, USA)
• 2000 - Gods of Light '73-'75
  Gods of Light '73-'75
  Gods of Light '73-'75 is a live album by progressive rock band Camel released 26 September 2000.-Track listing:#"God of Light Revisited" – 16:11#"White Rider" – 8:54#"Lady Fantasy" – 11:35#"Arubaluba" – 6:52...
  
  (live, various venues)
• 2001 - The Paris Collection
  The Paris Collection (Camel album)
  The Paris Collection is a live album by progressive rock band Camel released 30 October 2001.-Track listing:# "Ice" – 8:47# "Chord Change" – 8:52# "Fingertips" – 6:40...
  
  (live, 30 September 2000, Bataclan-Club, Paris, France). Note: CD wrongly states concert as 30 October.

Compilation albums

• 1981 - Chameleon - The Best Of Camel
  Chameleon - The Best Of Camel
  Chameleon - The Best Of Camel is a compilation album that features songs from 1975-1981. The compilation was only released on LP in 1981.-Side two:#"Remote Romance"#"Nude"#"Drafted"#"Lies"#"Supertwister"#"Unevensong"#"Rainbow's End"-Personnel:...
  
  
• 1985 - The Collection
  The Collection (Camel album)
  The Collection is a compilation album of the British progressive rock band Camel released 1985.- LP Track listing:# "Aristillus" – 1:41# "Freefall" – 5:55# "Supertwister" – 3:20# "Spirit of the Water" – 1:59...
  
  
• 1986 - A Compact Compilation
  A Compact Compilation
  -Personnel:* Andrew Latimer – guitar, vocals* Andy Ward – drums, percussion* Doug Ferguson – bass, vocals * Peter Bardens – keyboards, vocals* Richard Sinclair – bass...
  
  
• 1991 - Landscapes
  Landscapes (Camel album)
  Landscapes is a compilation album of the British progressive rock band Camel released 8. December 1991.-Track listing:# "Landscapes" – 2:36 # "Spirit Of The Water" – 2:02 # "Your Love Is Stranger Than Mine" – 3:20 # "Beached" – 3:31...
  
  
• 1993 - Echoes: The Retrospective
  Echoes: The Retrospective
  Echoes: The Retrospective is a compilation album of the British progressive rock band Camel released 20. July 1993.-Track listing:# "Never Let Go" – 6:16# "Freefall" – 5:50...
  
  
• 1997 - Camel - Master Series (25th Anniversary Compilation)
• 2001 - Lunar Sea
  Lunar Sea
  Lunar Sea is a compilation album of the British progressive rock band Camel released 24. July 2001.-Track listing:# "Never Let Go" – 6:22# "Slow Yourself Down" – 4:45# "Freefall" – 5:53...
  
  
• 2010 - Rainbow's End: An Anthology 1973-1985

Singles

• 1973 - "Never Let Go" / "Curiosity"
• 1975 - "Flight of the Snow Goose" / "Rhayader"
• 1975 - "The Snow Goose" / "Freefall"
• 1976 - "Another Night" / "Lunar Sea" (Live)
• 1977 - "Highways of the Sun" / "Tell Me"
• 1978 - "Breathless (Sin Respiracion)" / "Rainbows End" (Spanish)
• 1979 - "Your Love is Stranger Then Mine" / "Neon Magic"
• 1979 - "Remote Romance" / "Rainbows End" / "Tell Me"
• 1981 - "Lies" / "Changing Places" (Dutch)
• 1982 - "No Easy Answer" / "Heroes" (Canadian)
• 1982 - "Selva" (Dutch)
• 1984 - "Long Goodbyes" / "Metrognome" (German)
• 1984 - "Cloak And Dagger Man" / "Pressure Points"
• 1984 - "Berlin Occidental" (West Berlin) Stereo Version / Mono Version (Mexican)

DVDs

• 2002 - Coming Of Age (live, 13 March 1997, Billboard, Los Angeles, USA)
• 2003 - Pressure Points (live, 11 May 1984, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK)
• 2003 - Curriculum Vitae
• 2004 - Footage
• 2005 - Footage II
• 2007 - Total Pressure (full version of Pressure Points concert).
• 2007 - Moondances (live, 14 April 1976, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK and 22 September 1977, Hippodrome, Golders Green, London, UK)
• 2010 - The Opening Farewell (live, 26 June 2003, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, USA)

External links

• Camel Productions, the official Camel web site
• Camel Performances