Neil Christian: He's Got The Action! Anthology 1962-1974, 2CD Digipak

• 2CD set featuring 57 tracks including the A and B sides of Neil Christian’s singles and EPs released in the UK, Germany, France and Portugal. 

• Plus single sessions out-takes and his originally unreleased four song audition recorded for legendary producer Joe Meek, a BBC session, and more rarities. 

Musicians in Christian’s band, The Crusaders included at different times a pre- Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and pianist Nicky Hopkins. Christian’s debut single, ‘The Road To Love’ was also the first released recording to feature the teenage Jimmy Page. 

Teaming up with producer Miki Dallon, Christian scored the UK Top 20 hit ‘That’s Nice’ followed up by pirate radio favourite, ‘Oops’, and ‘Two At A Time’ and he supported the Small Faces on Radio England’s Swinging 66 Tour that year. 

Christian became a star in Germany and had several releases there not issued in his home country including the wild 1968 single ‘My Baby Left Me’ backed by ‘Yaketty Yak’ that features the searing guitar playing of Ritchie Blackmore. 

Includes numerous rare tracks including Christian’s four song audition for legendary producer Joe Meek and sessions for Christian’s Meek produced debut single, ‘The Road To Love’ and B side, ‘The Big Beat Drum’, all taken from Meek’s Tea Chest Tapes. We’ve included versions of the two songs from Christian’s debut single without Meek’s overdubs so the guitar played by Jimmy Page can be heard clearly for the first time. 

Never commercially released versions of the singles ‘That’s Nice’ and ‘Oops’ feature, drawn from BBC World Service programme Top Of The Pops. 

1974 recordings including ‘She’s Got The Power’ show Christian experimenting with glam rock.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

Audition For Joe Meek 1962 

1 Fountain Of Love

2 I Feel In A Mood

3 Just A Dream

4 Twenty Flight Rock The 1960s Singles & EPs 5 The Road To Love 

6 The Big Beat Drum

7 A Little Bit Of Someone Else

8 Get A Load Of This

9 Honey Hush

10 One For The Money

11 Lifetime Of Loneliness

12 Give The Game Away

13 That’s Nice

14 She’s Got The Action

15 I Like It

16 Let Me In

17 Oops

18 She Said Yeah

19 Two At A Time

20 Wanna Lover

21 You’re All Things Bright And Beautiful 22 I’m Gonna Love You Baby

23 Countdown

24 Bad Girl

25 Bit By Bit

26 Let Me Hear You Laugh

27 My Baby Left Me

28 Yakety Yak

29 Happy Go Lucky

30 I’m Living My Life 

DISC TWO

Rarities 

1 Crusading

2 Feel In The Mood

3 Ooh Poo Pah Doo

4 When I Was 16

5 Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

6 What Would Your Mama Say Now

7 I Remember

8 All Last Night

9 Oops (Live at the BBC 1966)

10 Neil Christian - That’s Nice (Live at the BBC 1966)

Joe Meek Sessions

11 The Road To Love (Early Version)

12 The Big Beat Drum (Early Version)

13 The Road To Love (No Overdubs)

14 The Road To Love (Overdubs Session Take 5) 15 The Big Beat Drum (No Overdubs)

16 The Big Beat Drum (Overdubs Session Take 1) 1974 Satril label Recordings

17 She’s Got The Power

18 Someone’s Following Me Around

19 Comet Kohoutek

20 Skylab Theme

21 Spaceman Boy

22 Golden Boy

23 Sandwich Board Man

German Language Singles

24 Baby In Love (Two At A Time In German)

25 Was Ich Dir Noch Sagen Wollte (Oops In German)

26 Molly Melone (The Mulberry Tree)

27 Jeder Tag Hat 24 Stunden