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The Ollie Halsall Song Book

The Ollie Halsall Song Book

To mark the 20th anniversary of Ollie's death, we are compiling an online album featuring demo versions of his songs.

Listen to the latest contributions  . . . here

 

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"Ollie may not have been the world's best guitarist, but he was certainly among the top two"
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The Ollie Halsall Archive
was established in 1985 with the aim of documenting and promoting the work of a unique musician.

This site contains a chronolliegy of Ollie's musical career and a detailed antholliegy of the recordings held by the Archive together with selected audio and video clips.

It also provides reproductions of sleeve notes and published newspaper and magazine articles together with the latest news

The Biolliegraphy provides a convenient starting point for beginners.

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Latest News

April 2012

The Strange Case of Ollie Halsall: Rock's Forgotten Legend

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A great little article from Russell Hall on no less than the official Gibson website . . more

 

 

 


Pete Kelly's Solution

An interesting artefact from March 1968 pointed out by Steve 'Fag Ash Lil' Norris. Ollie doing a session with Pete Kelly's Solution, a Southport outfit which evolved from R&B Incorporated [which included Halsall on drums].

This track features a fairly rudimentary but perfectly competent guitar solo from Ollie [on his white Telecaster?] March 2012


Marchl 2012

Horden Pavillion, Sydney 1972

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"I went to see Joe Cocker on the opening night of his stint at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. The Hordern is a huge hall in the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds in Sydney. At that time it had been fitted with a flat seating arrangement and a raised stage to cater for touring rock bands like Cocker's . . . more

 

Warts and All Warts & All
Patto
The ONLY live Patto album - at The Black Swan, Sheffield

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Caves Caves
Ollie Halsall
Ollie's long-lost solo album from 1979. Available again with revamped artwork
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Abbots Langley Abbots Langley
Ollie Halsall with
John Halsey
An album of
previously unreleased recordings

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Shapes and Sounds Shapes & Sounds
BBC Radio 1 sessions 1968 | 1969. Including 4 live Timebox tracks
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Abbots Langley Beggin
Timebox
A welcome revamp of the Timebox catalogue
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Scraps album cover - John Otway Scraps
John Otway
TRIPLE album including 7 Otway and Halsall 1979 collaborations
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Still Life with Guitar Still Life With Guitar
Kevin Ayers
Ollie's final collaboration with Kevin Ayers

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Please do not be tempted by the Flawed Gems 'label' bootleg of Roll'em, Smoke, 'em, Put Another Line Out, which has the sheer audacity both to pose as a legitimate release and to include copies of The Archive BBC sessions as 'bonus' tracks

 


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