Track listing

All songs written by Dave Cousins

1. "Two Weeks Last Summer" – (3:07)
2. "October to May" – (2:27)
3. "Blue Angel" – (9:48)

   "Divided"

   "Half Worlds Apart"

   "At Rest"

4. "That's the Way It Ends" (including "The World") – (3:00)
5. "The Actor" – (4:28)
6. "When You Were a Child" – (3:02)
7. "Ways and Means" – (4:22)
8. "We'll Meet Again Sometime" – (4:48)
9. "Going Home" – (3:24)

on the CD, the tracks "The World" and "That's the Way It Ends" are listed separately with timings of 1:45 and 1:15 respectively.

Personnel

• Dave Cousins
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   – lead vocal, guitar
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  s, piano
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• Dave Lambert
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   – guitars, backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
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• Miller Anderson
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   – lead guitar
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  , slide guitar
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• Jon Hiseman
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   – drums
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  , percussion
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• Roger Glover
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   – bass guitar
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• Tom Allom
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   – organ
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  , backing vocals
• Rick Wakeman
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   – organ, piano
• Tom Newman
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   – backing vocals
• The Robert Kirby
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   Wind Septet

The track "Going Home" is credited with personnel "Lampoon". The track had originally been planned as a Dave Lambert single before he joined Strawbs. Cousins replaced Lambert's vocals with his own and released it as a single. It is believed that the other musicians were Blue Weaver

Blue Weaver

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 on keyboards, John Ford on bass guitar and Richard Hudson

Richard Hudson (musician)

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 on drums. This would have been the first time that this new Strawbs line-up recorded together.

Recording

• Dave Cousins – producer
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• Tom Allom – producer, engineer

Recorded at The Manor

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, Kidlington

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, Oxford

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 in June 1972.

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...		A&M Records A&M Records A&M Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group that operates under the mantle of its Interscope-Geffen-A&M division.-Beginnings:...	stereo Stereophonic sound The term Stereophonic, commonly called stereo, sound refers to any method of sound reproduction in which an attempt is made to create an illusion of directionality and audible perspective...  LP Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	AMLH 68118
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...		A&M Records	stereo LP	SP 9008
		A&M Records	compact cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	ZCAM 68118
		A&M Records	8-track cartridge	Y8AM 68118
United Kingdom		SDR Records	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	SDRCD 010