Stonehenge / Avebury / Silbury Hill music

VenerableBottyBurp Mar 31, 2008 12:35:41

Can anyone add to or correct this list of songs ?

Ten Years After, ‘Stonehenge’ 1968

Roxi Hedges ‘Silbury Hill’ (BBC television unreleased) 1969

Richie Havens, ‘Stonehenge’ 1970

Fred Wedlock ‘Silbury Hill’ on ‘The Folker’ 1971

David Hanselmann and Chris Evans
‘The Stones of Avebury’ and ‘Silbury Hill’ 1980
‘Salisbury Plain’ 1980

Spinal Tap, ‘Stonehenge’ 1983 ?

Black Sabbath, ‘Stonehenge’ (Born Again) 1983

Jana Runnalls ‘Bloodstream’ (Swallowhead Springs 1981) on Wild Women ‘Ruff’ 1994

Julian Cope ‘By the Light of the Silbury Moon’

( is ‘Adam and Eve hit the road’ Avebury?) ‘Stone Circles and You’ 1995

Tom and Barbara Brown ‘Silbury Hill’ 2000

Abbie Lathe ‘Avebury Song’ 2002

Robin Williamson ‘American Stonehenge’ 2004

Wojtek Godzisz ‘Silbury Hill’ 2008

common era Mar 31, 2008 14:19:04

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

It really depends how far you want to go into this! I am currently doing research for and writing my dissertation for my MA and the question I am posing is "How did the Neolithics Influence Rock 'n'Roll?"

Basically I am looking at as many instances I can find where magalithic iconography has inspired music, whether in the form of sleeve artwork, or lyrics, stage sets, fashions etc. More importantly, after identifying cases I then want to attempt to answer why this connection exists despite the millennia that separate it.

Believe me, once you open this can of worms, the list just goes on and on, and if you then look at poets and artists, well...

The Stone Pages have a few listed, but there are many more:

http://www.stonepages.com/recordcover.html

A few are:

Hawkwind
Ten Years After
Time Machine
Ultravox
David Bacha Band
Runestone
Paul McCartney
Clannad
Van Morrison

Now, most of these connected to this via album cover artwork. A useful site for searching lyrics is:

www.allmusic.com

Don't forget the Queen Elizabeth track Avebury: The Arranged Marriage of Heaven and Earth!

wysefool Apr 1, 2008 10:01:14

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

ten years after is 'stoneDhenge' (being the late 1960's and all that).

I will try to post up the hawkwind 'live at stonehenge & watchfield festivals' image (it's in the old vinyl collection somewhere....)

Is it just limited to Stonehenge / Avebury / Silbury Hill, or can I have songs related to Uffington WHH as well?

great thread
cheers VBB

WFx

baza Apr 1, 2008 18:10:14

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Mark Brain. Stonehenge. 2001

http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF1206226-02-01-01.mp3

fauny fergus Apr 4, 2008 09:41:07

Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Hawkwind - 'Stonehenge Decoded' "Stonehenge decoded, I was there/Sacrificed to this land so fair"

Inner City Unit - 'Stonehenge Who Knows' (Presidents Tapes lp)

The Disrupters - 'Stonehenge' (Gas the punx lp)

There was a 60s band, 'The Druids of Stonehenge' who brought a self-titled album but I can't remember what it's like.

Wojtek Godzisz - Silbury Hill (which you can hear here)

Non-specific:

Flying Saucer Attack - 'Standing Stone'
Hawkwind - 'D-Rider' "We're astral-planing, floating free/On our continuum frequency/A ring was formed out of the stone/Metamorphose, tetraform" :-)

in fact quite a few non-specific and don't forget the 'Mystic Stones' label!