Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

1973 Hard Rock Heavy Metal Prog Rock

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Tracklist

A1 Breadfan
A2 Baby Please Don’t Go
A3 You Know I’ll Always Love You
A4 You’re The Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk
B1 In The Grip Of A Tyre Fitter’s Hand
B2 Riding My Nightmare
B3 Parents

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Production

BudgieProducer (Produced By)

Also credited. Composed By: Big Joe Williams. Engineer: Kingsley Ward, Pat Moran. Lacquer Cut By: L. Photography By (Photography): Fin Costello. Sleeve (Drawn): Roger Dean. Design: Roger Dean.

Release notes

This is the original UK release in matt gatefold cover, on black/silver print MCA Records labels.
First catalogue number on cover and labels, 2nd (Int. No.) in parentheses inside gatefold and on labels.
Poly-lined [blue-stereo-box] standard company inner sleeve with record handling instructions, ‘Made In England’ and ‘Patent No. 1,072,844’.

All titles composed by Bourge/Shelly/Phillips, except for A2: Williams
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, South Wales.
Lyrics reproduced by permission of Essex Music Limited.

℗ 1973 MCA Records Inc.

B1 appears as “In The Grip Of A Tyre Fitter’s Hand” in cover’s tracklist, but as “In The Grip Of A Tyre Fitters Hand” in cover’s lyrics and on label.

Sleeve printed in England by Robert Stace & Co Ltd
MCA Records, Decca House, 9 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7SW.
Manufactured in Great Britain by the Decca Record Company Ltd., Licensed by MCA Records Inc., Universal City, California, USA.
Made In England • The Decca Record Co. Ltd.

Published by Essex Music Int., except A2: Leeds Music

First issued [by DECCA] on the all black label as pictured, later reissued [by EMI] on the black/rainbow label, even later on the blue sky/rainbow label.