Once is the sixteenth studio album by English

English people

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 rock

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/folk

Folk music

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 singer-songwriter

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 Roy Harper

Roy Harper

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, released in 1990..

History

David Gilmour

David Gilmour

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, Kate Bush

Kate Bush

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, Nick Harper

Nick Harper

Nick Harper is an English singer-songwriter/guitarist. He is the son of English folk musician Roy Harper.-Early life:Nick Harper was born in London in 1965 to the famous folk singer-songwriter Roy Harper...

 and Nigel Mazlyn Jones

Nigel Mazlyn Jones

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 appear on the album, with Gilmour and Bush both on the title track.
Harper supported the release of the album by touring the UK. One of the concerts took place at the Dominion Theatre

Dominion Theatre

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 (a West End theatre

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 on Tottenham Court Road

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 in the London Borough of Camden

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) and was filmed. The concert took place on the 22 November 1990, the same night Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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 announced her resignation as Prime Minister

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. The concert film

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 was later released as Roy Harper Once - Live.

Track listing

1. "Once"
2. "Once in the Middle of Nowhere"
3. "Nowhere to Run to"
4. "The Black Cloud of Islam"
5. "If"
6. "Winds of Change"
7. "Berliners"
8. "Sleeping at the Wheel"
9. "For Longer Than it Takes"
10. "Ghost Dance
    Ghost Dance
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