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Jack Lancaster

Died 4 May 2025United Kingdom5 albums

British multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer

Biography

Jack Lancaster (1945 – May 2025) was an English composer, record producer and musician. In the late 1960s, Lancaster co-founded the British rock group Blodwyn Pig with Jethro Tull guitarist Mick Abrahams and in the late 1970s he was a member of the British progressive rock group Aviator with former Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker, former Manfred Mann's Earth Band guitarist Mick Rogers, and former Caravan and Quantum Jump bassist John G. Perry that released two albums on the EMI America Records label (Lancaster appeared only on the band's debut). In between these high-profile projects, he collaborated with keyboardist Robin Lumley in the studio band The Soul Searchers with a line-up that included guitarists Gary Moore and John Goodsall, bassist Percy Jones, and drummer Bill Bruford. This group released one 7" single Scaramouche b/w Head Stand in 1975 for EMI Records. Lancaster performed on two jazz fusion records with Lumley that were released by RSO Records in the mid-1970s. The first was The Rock Peter and the Wolf (1975), a rock version of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and the second was Marscape (1976); both albums featured the contributions of members...

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People

Member of

Blodwyn PigLiquorice John DeathWild Connections

Songs written

  1. Deep Greencomposer, lyricist1980 · 17 releases
  2. The Modern Alchemistcomposer1969 · 9 releases
  3. Ain't Ya Coming Home?composer1969 · 7 releases
  4. Backwashcomposer1969 · 7 releases
  5. Carlin Howwriter1980 · 7 releases
  6. Kilten Castlecomposer1980 · 7 releases
  7. North Country Girlwriter1980 · 7 releases
  8. Old Man of the Oceanwriter1980 · 7 releases
  9. Save a Place for Mewriter1980 · 7 releases
  10. Skinningrove Baywriter1980 · 7 releases
  11. The Abbess St. Hildawriter1980 · 7 releases
  12. Arrivalcomposer1976 · 6 releases
  13. Duststormcomposer1976 · 6 releases
  14. Hoppercomposer1976 · 6 releases
  15. Sail on Solar Windscomposer1976 · 6 releases
  16. Take Offcomposer1976 · 6 releases
  17. With a Great Feeling of Lovecomposer1976 · 5 releases
  18. Homelightcomposer1976 · 4 releases
  19. Olympus Monscomposer1976 · 4 releases
  20. Releasecomposer1976 · 4 releases

Songs recorded

  1. Cat and Duck4 versions
  2. Grandfather4 versions
  3. Homelight4 versions
  4. Olympus Mons4 versions
  5. Release4 versions
  6. Bird and Peter3 versions
  7. Blowholes (The Pipes of Mars)3 versions
  8. Capture of Wolf3 versions
  9. Cat in Tree3 versions
  10. Duck Escape3 versions
  11. Final Theme3 versions
  12. Hopper3 versions
  13. Hunters3 versions
  14. Introduction3 versions
  15. Peter’s Chase3 versions
  16. Pond3 versions
  17. Rock and Roll Celebration3 versions
  18. Threnody for a Duck3 versions
  19. Wolf Stalks3 versions
  20. Arrival2 versions
  21. Carlin How2 versions
  22. Cat2 versions
  23. Cat Dance2 versions
  24. Deep Green2 versions
  25. Duck Theme2 versions
  26. Duck and Bird2 versions
  27. Dust‐Storm2 versions
  28. Kilten Castle2 versions
  29. North Country Girl2 versions
  30. Old Man of the Ocean2 versions
  31. Peter’s Theme2 versions
  32. Realisation2 versions
  33. Realization2 versions
  34. Sail on Solar Winds2 versions
  35. Save a Place for Me2 versions
  36. The Abbess St. Hilda2 versions
  37. Wolf2 versions
  38. Wolf and Duck2 versions
  39. African Violet
  40. Alligators Snakes & Me
  41. Amoeba (feat. Jenna Lancaster)
  42. An Evil Dream Came Down
  43. Aquarium
  44. Arrival: Into Martian Orbit
  45. Atomic Boogie Hour
  46. Aural Exciter
  47. B U
  48. Camel Silk Road
  49. Claudia
  50. Deep Green (remix)
  51. Dinos Fossils & Bones
  52. Disgruntled Employee
  53. Doin the Dodo (feat. Michael Milner)
  54. Duck’s Theme
  55. Dust Storm
  56. Early Morning Jones
  57. Elephant Song (feat. Madge’s Choir)
  58. Envy
  59. Feeling of Love
  60. Fortuna
  61. Ghost of the Yellow Dog
  62. Gunfire in the Night
  63. Hopper (single version)
  64. Lion
  65. Marscape
  66. Memphis Psychosis
  67. Nyala
  68. Opening/Festival Carnival
  69. Penguin Island (feat. Michael Milner)
  70. Peter Is a Hero
  71. Peter's Theme
  72. Phobos and Deimos
  73. Phobos and Deimos: The Twin Moons of Mars
  74. Phobos and Demos
  75. Primates (feat. Michael Milner)
  76. Sail on Solar Winds: The Journey
  77. Skinningrove Bay, Part 1
  78. Skinningrove Bay, Part 2
  79. Skinningrove Bay: Part 1 / Part 2
  80. Symbiosis (feat. Michael Milner)
  81. Take Off
  82. Take Off: Into Earth Orbit
  83. Take‐Off
  84. Tales of Beatnik Glory
  85. The Swan (feat. Michael Milner)
  86. The Whale’s Song
  87. Tiger Rug (feat. Michael Milner)
  88. Tyger Tyger
  89. We Were Lions
  90. When the World Was Young
  91. Wild Connections
  92. Wild Stag of Ireland (feat. Anita Mansfield)
  93. With a Great Feeling of Love (a)
  94. With a Great Feeling of Love (b)
  95. With a Great Feeling of Love (single version)
  96. With a Great Feeling of Love: Inner Warmth and Feelings of Affinity
  97. With a Great Love: Marscape
  98. Your Home
  99. Zapruder’s Film

Albums

Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the WolfJack Lancaster & Robin Lumley · 1975
Marscape
MarscapeJack Lancaster and Robin Lumley · 1976
Skinningrove Bay
Skinningrove BayJack Lancaster · 1980
The Deathray Tapes
The Deathray TapesMick Farren & Jack Lancaster · 1995
Jack Lancaster’s Carnival of the Animals
Jack Lancaster’s Carnival of the AnimalsJack Lancaster · 2016

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