Anthony Moore

6-2-10

Anthony Moore

A member of Slapp Happy who isn’t Dagmar Krause or Peter Blegvad!

7" CATCH A FALLING STAR / BACK TO THE TOP VIRGIN UK VS 144

1976 2 TRKS no pic sleeve

CD FLYING DOESN'T HELP VOICEPRINT UK VP 177CD

1979 10 TRKS

LP FLYING DOESN'T HELP QUANGO UK HMG 98

1979 10 TRKS original issue

12" INDUSTRIAL DRUMS PARLOPHONE UK 12R 6072

1984 3 TRKS with pic sleeve

7" JUDY / LUCIA (PS) QUANGO UK HMGS 10

1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

12" ONLY CHOICE, THE PARLOPHONE UK 12R 6081

1984 3 TRKS with pic sleeve

LP ONLY CHOICE, THE PARLOPHONE UK EJ 240210.1

1984 9 TRKS original issue

CD OUT VOICEPRINT UK VP 165CD

1976? 12 TRKS ('97 issue) CD-only release?

CD PIECES FROM THE CLOUDLAND BALLROOM POLYDOR JPN POCP-2402

1971 3 TRKS

LP PIECES FROM THE CLOUDLAND BALLROOM POLYDOR DE 2310 165

1971 3 TRKS

CD SECRETS OF THE BLUE BAG POLYDOR JPN POCP-2403

1972 3 TRKS

LP SECRETS OF THE BLUE BAG POLYDOR DE 2310 179

1972 3 TRKS original issue

LP WORLD SERVICE DO IT UK RIDE 7

1981 8 TRKS

7" WORLD SERVICE / DIVING GIRLS (PS) DO IT UK DUN 16

1981 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

7" WORLD SERVICE / RUN RIGHT BACK (PS) DO IT UK DUN 22

1982 2 TRKS with pic sleeve

Not sure when I first became aware of Anthony Moore – perhaps I had read that he appears on Faust’s “The Faust Tapes”? Or was it finding the “Catch A Falling Star” b/w “Back To The Top” 45 on Virgin UK about ’76 or so? “Back To The Top” had been one of my favorite all-time songs for years…

Knowing of his Faust connection, I dutifully obtained German original LP’s of “Pieces From The Cloudland Ballroom” and “Secrets Of The Blue Bag” – ‘new musik’, to be certain. But the pop songs of “Flying Doesn’t Help” appealed more. At the time of the “Catch A Falling Star” 45, I expected there to be a Virgin label LP…which was not to be. Had to wait 20+ years for the CD of “Out”.

“World Service” was real good and “The Only Choice” even better – end of story? Mr. Moore certainly doesn’t make too many LP’s!

How many of you noticed that Moore became Pink Floyd’s lyricist for “Momentary Lapse Of Reason” and “The Division Bell”? It ain’t on Wikipedia, but I always heard that it was David Bowie who pulled Moore up out of the gutter and got him onto EMI UK.