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The Gordon Giltrap Band on Top of the Pops in 1978 playing Heartsong.

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March 7th 2019 is a day we as a family will never forget!This wonderful honour has been so special for us and may have gone a small way towards healing the wounds of grief since the loss of Jamie at the beginning of 2018. I know he would have been thrilled,and maybe his spirit was with us during the events.

Gordon Giltrap is an English guitarist and composer. His discography consists of 22 studio albums, 7 live albums, 15 compilations, 2 videos, 1 EP, and 11 singles. 1968: Gordon Giltrap (Transatlantic) - later reissued on cassette as The Early Days (Allegro ALC) with a different track sequence. 1969: Portrait (Transatlantic). 1971: A Testament of Time (MCA). 1973: Giltrap (Philips)

Having found more success in this arena than with his singer/songwriter albums, he formed the Gordon Giltrap Band and toured in support of Visionary while completing his 1977 follow-up, Perilous Journey, another instrumental prog album that became his most successful release to date. A chart success reaching number 29 on the . albums chart, Perilous Journey also yielded the hit single "Heartsong," which was eventually used as the theme song for the BBC travel television show Holiday. While 1979's The Peacock Party expanded on his prog rock approach, it also marked the re-emergence of Giltrap as an acoustic guitarist on several tracks, a trend he would continue with 1982's Airwaves and 1984's In at the Deep End, two albums that leaned more heavily toward new age than progressive.

Gordon Giltrap's albums. Kpm 1000 Series: In at the Deep End. 1984 soundtrack. 1979: The Peacock Party (PVK). 1982: Airwaves (PVK). 1984: In At The Deep End (KPM). 1987: Elegy (Filmtrax) - reissued in 2000 by La Cooka Ratcha. 1987: A Midnight Clear (Modern Music) - a collection of Christmas carols. 2003: The Gordon Giltrap Band Live 1981 (La Cooka Ratcha). 2003: Fingers Of Fire (ARC) - various live performances - reissued in 2006 on Hypertension as Captured From a Point in Time with bonus track "The Dodo's Dream". 2004: Live at Ambergate (La Cooka Ratcha, Voiceprint) - live 20-22 August 2002 in Shining Cliff Woods, Ambergate, Derbyshire - a binaural recording. 2006: Gordon Giltrap And Friends At The Symphony Hall Birmingham (La Cooka Ratcha).

Background information. Giltrap started to learn the guitar at the age of twelve. Never receiving any formal tuition on the instrument, he gradually developed his own style and technique. His musical career started to take off in the 1960s, when he played on the folk scene in London alongside contemporaries such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Mike Oldfield. Giltrap's next album, Fear of the Dark, was released in 1978. In the 1990s Giltrap played a key role in Cliff Richard's Heathcliff musical, playing the musical narrator. He also composed a number of pieces for the show.

Only for completionists (0%). Apart from Giltrap himself, the band consists of no less than two keyboard players in Rod Edwards and Eddie Spence, John Gustafson (who was also part of the Ian Gillan Band) on bass, and Ian Mosley (who also played with Steve Hackett and later became a member of Marillion) on drums. While most of the show is instrumental, there are a few numbers with Shirley Roden on vocals. The parts on which she sings lead remind me of the band Renaissance. The main source of material is "Fear of the Dark", the most recent album at the time of the concert, and it would be hard to imagine that those tracks represented here are not more fully realized than the studio versions.