MUSIC

Marxist progressive rock band, active 1968-78. See also Slapp Happy, Art Bears.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chris Cutler	Drummer	4-Jan-1947		Henry Cow
Fred Frith	Guitarist	2-Feb-1949		Avant garde rock guitarist
Dagmar Krause	Singer	4-Jun-1950		Slapp Happy, Henry Cow

DISCOGRAPHY

Leg End (1973, Virgin)

1	Nirvana for Mice
2	Amygdala
3	Teenbeat (Introduction)
4	Teenbeat
5	Nirvana Reprise
6	Extract From "With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star"
7	Teenbeat (Reprise)
8	The Tenth Chaffinch
9	Nine Funerals of the Citizen King
10	Bellycan

Unrest (1974, Virgin)

1	Bittern Storm over Ulm
2	Half Asleep; Half Awake
3	Ruins
4	Solemn Music
5	Linguaphonie
6	Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon
7	Arcades
8	Deluge
9	The Glove
10	Torchfire

In Praise of Learning (1975, Virgin)

1	War
2	Living in the Heart of the Beast
3	Beginning: The Long March
4	Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army With Banners
5	Morning Star
6	Lovers of Gold

Collaboration with Slapp Happy.

Desperate Straights (1975, Virgin)

1	Some Questions About Hats
2	The Owl
3	A Worm Is at Work
4	Bad Alchemy
5	Europa
6	Desperate Straights
7	Riding Tigers
8	Apes in Capes
9	Strayed
10	Giants
11	The Excerpt from the Messiah
12	In the Sickbay
13	Caucasian Lullaby

Collaboration with Slapp Happy. Henceforth, Slapp Happy would be subsumed into Henry Cow.

Concerts (1976, Caroline Compendium)

1	Beautiful as the Moon; Terrible as an Army With Banners / Nirvana For Mice / Ottawa Song / Gloria Gloom / Moon Reprise
2	Bad Alchemy / Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road
3	Ruins
4	Groningen
5	Groningen Again
6	Oslo
7	Off the Map
8	Cafe Royal
9	Keeping Warn in Winter / Sweet Heart of Mine
10	Udine

Live album. Robert Wyatt plays piano on Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road.

Western Culture (1979, Broadcast)

1	Industry
2	The Decay of Cities
3	On the Raft
4	Falling Away
5	Coretels Tale
6	Look Back
7	1/2 the Sky

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