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I bought this album in December 1975, at Hillbrow Record Centre in Johannesburg, on a sale and immediately fell in love with its tongue-in-cheek humour and superstar line-up. I remember receiving a 12-page comic with an issue of NME and not with the album itself. It has a full comic-strip of the story of Flash Fearless and almost all the lyrics.
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Tracks
- Trapped – Elkie Brooks [4.18]
- I’m Flash – Alice Cooper [3.11]
- Country Cooking – Jim Dandy [5.05]
- What’s Happening – James Dewar [6.37]
- Space Pirates – Alice Cooper [3.13]
- Sacrifice – Elkie Brooks [3.55]
- To The Chop – John Entwistle [2.40]
- Supersnatch – Frankie Miller [3.24] US LP only
- Georgia Syncopator – Maddy Prior [2.54] UK LP only
- Blast Off – Jim Dandy [4.34]
- Trapped (reprise) – Eddie Jobson [1.22]
Album recorded at the Chrysalis Studio, London between 1st October and 31st December 1974.
Release information
LP (USA): Chrysalis CHR 1072, February 1975
LP (UK): Chrysalis CHR 1081, May 1975
CD: RPM, RPM 147, January 1995
Composers
- Steve Hammond [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11]
- Dave Pierce [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 9, 11]
- Bonnie Pierce [2, 10]
- Rick Jones [3, 4, 8]
- Terence Hillyer [6]
Musicians
- John Entwistle: Bass, synthesized bass [on all tracks except 11]
- Mick Grabham: Guitar [1, 8]
- Carmine Appice: Drums [1, 8]
- Nicky Hopkins: Piano, clavinet [1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10]
- Mike Deacon: Piano [1, 8]
- Graham Deakin: Percussion [1, 4, 6, 9]
- Thunderthighs: Backing vocals [1, 6]
- Robert A. Johnson: Guitar [2, 6, 7, 9, 10]
- Johnny Weider: Guitar [2, 6, 9]
- Bill Bruford: Drums [2, 4, 6, 9]
- Kenny Jones: Drums [3, 5, 7, 10]
- Justin Hayward: Electric and acoustic guitars [3, 5]
- Jim Frank: Mouth harp (harmonica) [3]
- Eddie Jobson: Strings, violin, synthesizer [4, 9, 11]
- Keith Moon: Long John Silver (speech) [5], Timpani [8]
- Steve Pettican: Slide guitar [5]
- Chick Churchill: Organ [6]
- Howie Casey: Sax [7]
- Leslie Duncan, Doreen Chanter & Jill Mackintosh: Backing vocals [7, 10]
- Kirk Duncan: Piano [9]
- Kay Garner: Backing vocals [10]
All brass parts arranged by Howie Casey and played by the Boss Brass.
All tracks arranged and produced by John Alcock.
Comments
“To The Chop” is my favourite track. It’s based on the old Danny And The Juniors track “At The Hop”, and manages to fit a piano solo, a guitar solo, a couple of sax breaks and a bass solo into 2 minutes and 40 seconds!
I eventually bought the CD reissue in February 2002.
Review
Comic
Courtesy of Alice Cooper eChive
Captain Crash vs. The Zzorg Women Chapters 5 & 6
A musical soundtrack was released sometime in 1981, based on the original Flash Fearless. The hero’s name was changed so as not to be confused with Flash Gordon, the movie, which had come out in December 1980 with a soundtrack by Queen.