HIMSELF: Salvo's Collector's Edition Arrives November 7th! Gilbert's best-selling and highly acclaimed debut album, is remastered with 8 bonus tracks and a 20 page booklet with full lyrics, rare photos and memorabilia. The CD is presented in a digipack with new sleevenotes by Chris Ingham who interviewed Gilbert recently. The feel of the original gatefold sleeve is persevered throughout the booklet. The Gilbert automobile collage is reproduced inside the gatefold sleeve across the inside of the digipack. By the time Gilbert's debut album was released in August 1971, the UK record-buying public were already quite familiar with this singular composer-singer-pianist thanks to his debut single, 'Nothing Rhymed' in October 1970. This tuneful and artful, emotive and poetic, this strangely affecting record alerted the listening world to a very unusual talent! However, as interesting as 'Nothing Rhymed' was, the public's alertness to Gilbert was largely due to his Bisto Kid image. With his flat cap, pudding-basin haircut and Charlie Chaplin jacket, Gilbert was simply unforgettable. The music press was understandably wary of such blatant publicity-seeking but the public, on the other hand, was amused, intrigued and baffled by this plaintive, piano-thumping Buster Keaton character, but most importantly, it was aware of him. When Himself finally appeared in August 1971, the public's anticipation and appetite was stoked; the LP reached number 5 and stayed in the UK album charts for 86 weeks. Listening again, forty years on, to this ambitious, thoughtful, varied and intensely musical record, it's not hard to hear why Melody Maker's Michael Watts called Gilbert, "the only genuinely interesting and original new talent to appear in the Britain in the seventies." August 2011 marked the 40th Anniversary of the release of Himself! Please check out these websites www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk and www.salvo-music.co.uk |Home||Music||Lyrics||Multimedia||Images||Links||Biography||FAQ||About Us||Email|