Various Artists - Lazy Days: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1975 [3CD] (CD Box Set)

While received wisdom among pop pundits is that 1975 was merely the calm before the following year's punk-instigated storm, there was plenty of vibrant, vital music being made in Britain and Ireland during that largely overlooked 12-month period.

Roxy Music, 10cc and ELO were still firing on all cylinders, Thin Lizzy and post-Free act Bad Company were emerging as prime contenders for stardom, Hawkwind remained linchpins of the still-thriving free festival circuit, and cult live performers The Sensational Alex Harvey Band unexpectedly achieved top 10 singles success after covering a melodramatic Tom Jones' ballad.

The London-based pub rock scene housed the likes of Ace, Brinsley Schwartz, The Kursaal Flyers and the game-changing Dr. Feelgood, successful glam-era bands like Slade and Sweet were still producing the goods, while a handful of '60s stalwarts - Manfred Mann, The Pretty Things, The Kinks - were updating their sound to appeal to a new generation of record-buyers.

All these and more are documented in Lazy Days, a four-hour, 3CD box set that, like every other release in the series, includes a 48-page booklet with photos, cuttings and the story behind each song.

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Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Good Lovin' Gone Bad - Bad Company
2. Imagine Me, Imagine You - Fox
3. Right or Wrong - Stealers Wheel
4. In for a Penny - Slade
5. Wild One - Thin Lizzy
6. My White Bicycle - Nazareth
7. Riding for a Fall - Moonrider
8. Everybody's a Star (Starmaker) - The Kinks
9. Precious Love - Stray
10. Jean Cocteau - Be Bop Deluxe
11. Both Ends Burning - Roxy Music
12. Blue Guitar - Justin Hayward & John Lodge
13. Good News - 10CC
14. Evil Woman - Electric Light Orchestra
15. Dan the Plan - Alan Hull
16. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Ronnie Lane
17. I'll Regret It All in the Morning - Richard & Linda Thompson
18. Carol - Al Stewart
19. Ain't Gonna Stand for This No More (Single Version) - Ace
20. A Whole Pot of Jelly (For a Little Slice of Toast) - Pete Wingfield
21. Private Number - Babe Ruth

CD 2:
1. Fox on the Run (Single Version) - Sweet
2. Won't Get Burned Again - David Essex
3. In the Future - Sparks
4. Nothing to Do With Us - Jet
5. You Go to My Head - Bryan Ferry
6. Frontera - Phil Manzanera
7. Share It - Hatfield and the North
8. Stuck in a Hole - Caravan
9. Go and Sit Upon the Grass - Ivor Cutler
10. Sad Sing - Tom Newman
11. Run Billy Run - The Shadows
12. Heard It All Before - Pilot
13. Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning) - Stackridge
14. Titles - Barclay James Harvest
15. Someone to Love - Speedy Keen
16. Hit Records - Kursaal Flyers
17. Lonely Eyes - Method
18. Summer Song - Clive John
19. Blue Eyed Boy - Heavy Metal Kids
20. Delilah (Live) - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
21. Raingame - Streetwalkers
22. Arms of Mary - Sutherland Brothers & Quiver
23. There's a Cloud in My Heart - The Brinsleys

CD 3:
1. Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Single Edit) - Ian Hunter
2. Play Don't Worry - Mick Ronson
3. By Tonight - Mott
4. Running Through the City - Brian Protheroe
5. Spirits in the Night (Single Edit) - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
6. Minstrel in the Gallery (Single Edit) - Jethro Tull
7. Highfly - John Miles
8. Take It Away - Kestrel
9. Sad Eye - Pretty Things
10. Trust in Dick - The Winkies
11. Hard Times - Peter Skellern
12. L'Hippie Nationale - The Neutrons
13. Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean) - Steve Harley/ Cockney Rebel
14. La Maison de L'Amour - Son-Of-A-Gun
15. Mad Dog (Single Mix) - John Entwistle's Ox
16. Kings of Speed - Hawkwind
17. Odd Man Out - Agnes Strange
18. Shoot Shoot - UFO
19. Lazy Day - Oddsocks
20. Back in the Night - Dr. Feelgood
21. Birthday Special - Peter Hammill