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 RICHARD COUGHLAN, PYE HASTINGS, DAVID SINCLAIR, RICHARD SINCLAIR

Musically inventive progressive rock band that came out of the Canterbury scene 

with a gift for melody as well as imaginative improvisation, 

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

"CARAVAN"

<reissue, originally published in 1969>

Produced by TONY COX

Recorded at Advision Studios, London, October 1968

LP     VERVE FORECAST RECORDS      SVLP 6011  STEREO

MADE IN EUROPE    LATE-80S UNOFFICIAL REPRESSING    'PILLAR' SLEEVE

Released in a unlaminated cover and without flipback

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  VERVE FORECAST -  GREEN/BROWNISH LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover (rear only): SVLP 6011     

Catalog on labels: SVLP. 6011 (SVLP.6011A / VLP.6011B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 210070-93-AO

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 210070-93-BO

On labels: upper rim text reads "M.G.M. Records Ltd.   Made in Gt. Britain"

Made under licence from Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Inc., owners of the trade mark "Verve"

®1969 on both labels (on the labels the release year appears at 9 o'clock)

Rights Society: Robbins Music Corp. Ltd

On Back Sleeve:

All songs written by: Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair and Sinclair 

'Where but for Caravan would I' written with further assistance from Brian Hopper'

MGM Records Limited, London England

Made under licence from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Inc. owners of the trade mark 'Verve' 

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: PLACE OF MY OWN - RIDE - POLICEMAN

LOVE SONG WITH FLUTE - CECIL ROOM

Side B: MAGIC MAN - GRANDMA'S LAWN

WHERE BUT FOR CARAVAN WOULD I

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RECORD NEAR MINT (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR MINT (please, see pictures and read above description)

For their first album, Caravan was surprisingly strong. 

While steeped in the same British psychedelia that informed bands such as Love Children, 

Pink Floyd, and Tomorrow, Caravan relates a freedom of spirit and mischief 

along the lines of Giles, Giles & Fripp or Gong. The band's roots can be traced to a 

British blue-eyed soul combo called the Wilde Flowers. Among the luminaries to have passed 

through this Caravan precursor were Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, and Hugh Hopper 

and Brian Hopper (pre-Soft Machine, naturally). By the spring of 1968, Caravan had settled 

nicely into a quartet consisting of Pye Hastings (guitar/bass/vocals), 

Richard Coughlan (drums), David Sinclair (organ/vocals), and Richard Sinclair (bass/guitar/vocals). 

Inspired by the notoriety and acclaim that Soft Machine encountered 

during the burgeoning days of London's underground scene, 

Caravan began a residency at the Middle Earth club...(AllMusic)