Pipedream is the first solo album from Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne (band)

Lindisfarne were a British folk/rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne established in 1970 and fronted by singer/songwriter Alan Hull. Their music combined a strong sense of yearning with an even stronger sense of fun...

 singer Alan Hull

Alan Hull

Alan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band, Lindisfarne.-Career:...

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Releases and chart performance

The album was first released in 1973 following the breakup of Lindisfarne. It spent three weeks in the UK album chart, peaking at #29.

Pipedream was rereleased in 2005 with a number of new bonus tracks to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hull's death.

Track listing

All songs written by Alan Hull

Alan Hull

Alan Hull was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of the Tyneside folk rock band, Lindisfarne.-Career:...

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1. "Breakfast"
2. "Justanothersadsong"
3. "Money Game"
4. "STD 0632"
5. "United States of Mind"
6. "Country Gentleman's Wife"
7. "Numbers (Travelling Band)"
8. "For The Bairns"
9. "Drug Song"
10. "Song for a Windmill"
11. "Blue Murder"
12. "I Hate To See You Cry"

Personnel

• Alan Hull - vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, "Guiness"
• John Turnbull - guitar, "orange juice, health foods"
• Colin Gibson
  Colin Gibson (musician)
  Colin Gibson is a bass player and composer.-Biography:Gibson and guitarist John Turnbull were childhood friends and played together in a band called The Primitive Sect, wth Bob Sergeant on organ. In summer 1966, Gibson and Turnbull joined unsigned, Newcastle band The Chosen Few...
  
   - bass, "mental indecision, snuff and herbal tobacco"
• Ken Craddock
  Kenny Craddock
  Kenny Craddock was an instrumentalist, composer and producer. Throughout his career he worked with artists including Ringo Starr, Ginger Baker, Billy Bragg, Gerry Rafferty and Alan White...
  
   - piano, organ, harmonium, electric piano, guitar, "Guiness, wine, tequila, Pernod, Coca-cola and anything else around at the time"
• Ray Laidlaw - drums, "common sense"
• Ray Jackson - harp, mandolin, vocals, "Rude noises"
• Dave Brooks - saxophone on "For The Bairns"
• Micky Sweeney - producer, "high level energy"
• Roy T. Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker
  Roy Thomas Baker is a multiple award-winning Anglo-American music producer, songwriter, arranger and Recording Academy Governor, who has produced Platinum and Gold certified pop and rock records from the 1970s to the present.- Career :Baker began his career at Decca Records in England at the age...
  
   - engineer, mixing, "woofy woofy"
• Ken Scott
  Ken Scott
  Ken Scott is an English record producer and recording engineer.-Career:Scott started at the age of 16 working in the tape library at Abbey Road Studios. He became a recording engineer working with such acts as The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Procol Harum...
  
  , Mike Stone - engineer