Soldier on the Wall

Original Vinyl Release Date 1983
Soldier rerelease

Remastered CD, with liner notes by Trudy Harvey, released 2003

Track information comes from Ian Macgregor; cover shots and liner info courtesy boB Jordan; photos of the booklet enclosed in the original LP by Jeff Swick, courtesy boB Jordan.

ALBUM TRACKS

side one
1. Mitzi
2. Billy Bolero
3. Snowshoes Thompson
4. Roman Wall Blues

side two
1. The Poet and I
2. Nervous
3. Carry That Water
4. Flowers Mr. Florest
5. The Poet and I (reprise)

ALEX'S MUSICIANS

Tony Lambert .................... Keyboards
George Hall .................... Keyboards
Ian Taylor .................... Guitar
Jack Dawe .................... Bass
Colin Griffin .................... Drums
Andy Nolan .................... Percussion

Produced by Alex Harvey and Kevin D. Nixon
Engineered by Chas Watkins at Kingsway Recorders, January 1982
Mix Engineer: Roy Neave at Fairview, Hull, October 1983
Front Cover by Viv Ratcliffe
Artwork by Charles Daykin
CD cover photo by Janet Macoska

"I only met Alex Harvey once. It was the same day I first met Maggie Bell, and while I was traveling from her house to his Alex gave her a call to make sure I was 'kosher'. We met that afternoon so I guess I must have passed the test.

"I was making a documentary about Scottish pop music, so typically Alex and I talked about Roy Rogers and the Pioneers, the relationship between rock and roll and denim jeans, and about the first time he heard 'What D'I Say', telling me it renewed his faith in rock and roll which he described as having gone through a bad Bobby Rydell stage.

"Rock and roll is going through one of those 'bad Bobby Rydell stages' right now, so there's not a lot of room for 'Vambo Rules', 'The Faith Healer' or 'Next' but whenever I get the chance I'm always going to play them on the radio."

B. A. Robertson, October 1983

The Booklet
booklet photo

booklet photo