No Going Back is a folk/rock album by Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...

 released in 1979, his second solo album.

The album was produced by Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin

Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...

 and engineered by John Acock and Mick Dolan. It was recorded at Millstream Studios, Cheltenham

Cheltenham

Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...

 during the summer of 1979. It includes contributions from Coppin's road band members of the time, plus guests including former Decameron

Decameron (band)

Decameron were a British folk-rock band.Initially formed in 1968 in Cheltenham by Johnny Coppin and Dave Bell, the band were augmented in 1971 by the addition of Al Fenn and Geoff March...

 colleague Dik Cadbury

Dik Cadbury

Dik Cadbury is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, principally known as a bass guitarist and as former member of Decameron and the backing band of former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.-Career:...

.

No Going Back was originally released by Rola Records as a vinyl LP, catalogue number R002 with sleeve artwork by Tony Price Studios and photography by Kenneth Griffiths. It has never been released on CD, though some tracks have appeared on subsequent Coppin compilations.

Track listing

(All composed by Johnny Coppin)

1. "No Going Back"
2. "Can You Feel It"
3. "Young Girl Town"
4. "Falling For You"
5. "Run To Her"
6. "Part In My Heart"
7. "Believe In You"
8. "Birmingham"
9. "He Will Let You Know"
10. "We Shall Not Pass"

Personnel

• Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin
  Johnny Coppin is an English singer/songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled Folk Roots which he has produced and presented every...
  
   - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
• Phil Beer
  Phil Beer
  Phil Beer is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and one half of English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.-Biography:...
  
   - violin, guitar, vocals
• Tony Bennett - lead guitar, Spanish guitar, vocals
• Mick Candler - drums, percussion, vocals
• Steve Hutt - bassguitar, vocals

with

• Mick Dolan - guitar
• Pete 'Bimbo' Acock - sax
• Chris Richardson - keyboards
• Anthony Head
  Anthony Head
  Anthony Stewart Head , usually credited as Anthony Head, is an English actor and musician. He rose to fame in the UK following his role in television advertisements for Nescafé Gold Blend , and is known for his roles as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and as Uther Pendragon in...
  
   - backing vocals
• Regine Candler - backing vocals
• Gilly Elkins - backing vocals
• Gilly Darby - backing vocals
• Dik Cadbury
  Dik Cadbury
  Dik Cadbury is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, principally known as a bass guitarist and as former member of Decameron and the backing band of former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.-Career:...
  
  - backing vocals