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Released | December 1967 | |||
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Producer | Edward Kassner | |||
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Explosion, also known as Equals Explosion, is the second studio album by The Equals, released in December 1967. [1] [2]
Two songs on the album were originally written by recently deceased Bobby Fuller for his group The Bobby Fuller Four. [3] The starting track, " Giddy Up a Ding Dong" was originally a '50s number by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. [3] All of their original numbers were written by either Eddy Grant, Derv Gordon, or Lincoln Gordon (all three wrote four tracks, Grant-only wrote two, Grant-D. Gordon wrote one, and D. Gordon-L. Gordon also wrote one [4]).
The album's catalogue number is PTLS 1015. [2] [5]
The album cover is a photo of the band sat on the floor huddled together, superimposed onto a psychedelic pattern. The cover personnel is (from left to right): John Hall, Lincoln Gordon, Eddy Grant, Derv Gordon, Pat Lloyd.
The album peaked at number 32 in the UK.
Explosion was rated 3.54 / 5 on Rate Your Music, [6] and 4.17 on Discogs. [7] Their track " Police On My Back" was covered by The Clash in 1980. [8]
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Explosion | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | December 1967 | |||
Genre |
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Producer | Edward Kassner | |||
The Equals chronology | ||||
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Singles from Explosion | ||||
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Explosion, also known as Equals Explosion, is the second studio album by The Equals, released in December 1967. [1] [2]
Two songs on the album were originally written by recently deceased Bobby Fuller for his group The Bobby Fuller Four. [3] The starting track, " Giddy Up a Ding Dong" was originally a '50s number by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. [3] All of their original numbers were written by either Eddy Grant, Derv Gordon, or Lincoln Gordon (all three wrote four tracks, Grant-only wrote two, Grant-D. Gordon wrote one, and D. Gordon-L. Gordon also wrote one [4]).
The album's catalogue number is PTLS 1015. [2] [5]
The album cover is a photo of the band sat on the floor huddled together, superimposed onto a psychedelic pattern. The cover personnel is (from left to right): John Hall, Lincoln Gordon, Eddy Grant, Derv Gordon, Pat Lloyd.
The album peaked at number 32 in the UK.
Explosion was rated 3.54 / 5 on Rate Your Music, [6] and 4.17 on Discogs. [7] Their track " Police On My Back" was covered by The Clash in 1980. [8]
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