Description

Double album on dolphin blue and fresh green vinyls with gatefold cover featuring a new artwork by Rodney Matthews and 2 bonus live tracks. Limited 500 numbered copies

Magnum consisted mainly of Bob Catley on vocals and Tony Clarkin on guitar. Their breakthrough album came in 1985 with On A Storyteller’s Night. Bob Catley”s third solo album, Middle Earth, continued to show that he was one of the UK”s best vocalists. Middle Earth is a conceptual affair based upon the mythical Tolkien tales. Maintaining his lyrical acumen and the melodic splendour seen on The Tower and countless Ten releases, Gary Hughes and Bob Catley proved that there’s really was a magic created in this working relationship, and Catley’s voice caressed the words with some of his best vocal performances ever. Gary Hughes produced and his Ten band mates Burns, McKenna and Cooksey all evidence the record also benefitted from the backing vocals of Tracy Hitchings. A little heavier at time than its predecessor, songs like opener The Pain really took the Melodic Rock world by storm, and those lamenting the current hiatus of Magnum at the time found their appetites well and truly whetted.

Track list:
1. The Wraith Of The Rings
2. The Fields That I Recall: Emissary, The Fields That I Recall (Reprise)
3. City Walls
4. Against The Wind
5. Where You Lead I’ll Follow: Stormcrow And Pilgrim
6. Return Of The Mountain King
7. The End Of Summer
8. This Gallant Band Of Manic Strangers
9. The Fellowship
10. Deep Winter-live
11. Fire And Ice-live