Three Friends
by Gentle Giant
- Type: Album
- Released: 14 April 1972
- Label: Vertigo
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 35:19
- Community rating: 4.17/5 from 5 ratings
Artists on this release: Malcolm Mortimore, Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Gentle Giant's third album is a brilliant, remarkably cohesive concept record exploring the diverging paths of three childhood companions. 'Three Friends' is a fiercely technical, wonderfully eclectic progressive rock triumph, driving deeply complex, wildly shifting time signatures with incredibly quirky, playfully melodic vocal counterpoint.
Genres
Descriptors: progressive, complex, conceptual, uncommon-time-signatures, technical
Tracklist
- Prologue (6:12)
- Schooldays (7:35)
- Working All Day (5:11)
- Peel The Paint (7:30)
- Mister Class And Quality? (5:51)
- Three Friends (2:58)
Credits
- Gentle Giant - primary artist, producer, written-by
- Ray Shulman - bass [basses], violin, twelve-string guitar [12 string guitar], vocals
- Rick Breach - design [sleeve design]
- Malcolm Mortimore - drums
- Martin Rushent - engineer
- Gary Green - guitar [guitars], percussion
- Kerry Minnear - keyboards, vibraphone, percussion, synthesizer [moog], vocals
- Philip Shulman - saxophone [saxes], vocals
- Derek Shulman - vocals
- Calvin Shulman - voice [boy's voice]