A 3-CD set, “Looking Through A Glass Onion” assembles these disparate strands into one cohesive package, with the studio day trippers, the cultural pranksters, the genre-benders, the folk club stalwarts and the hair-down-to-his-knees prog-rock brigade all grooving up slowly to the starting line.
The result is the proverbial Magical Mystery Tour, a Fab Four parallel universe, a Looking-Glass world in which ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ can be an Elizabethan garden party madrigal or a churning slice of Fudged-up sludge, where a spaced-out Duffy Power takes the lyrics of ‘Fixing A Hole’ perhaps a little too literally, ‘Penny Lane’ becomes avant-garde easy listening, the likes of Nick Lowe, Alex Harvey and Ritchie Blackmore try out early identities, and the Walrus was Lol.
CD1
01. Camel - Mystery Tour (00:05:26)
02. Deep Purple - Help (00:06:00)
03. Yes - Every Little Thing (00:05:44)
04. Affinity - I Am The Walrus (00:04:04)
05. Rainbow Ffolly - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (00:03:10)
06. The Hollies - If I Needed Someone (00:02:20)
07. The Mirage - Tomorrow Never Knows (00:02:36)
08. Kippington Lodge - In My Life (00:03:21)
09. Eyes Of Blue - Yesterday (00:04:27)
10. Sounds Nice - Flying (00:03:55)
11. Design - Strawberry Fields Forever (00:02:28)
12. Episode Six - Here There And Everywhere (00:02:11)
13. Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers - Got To Get You Into My Life (00:02:32)
14. Hair Rave-Up - Birthday (00:02:31)
15. Blonde On Blonde - Eleanor Rigby (00:03:16)
16. Atlantic Bridge - Dear Prudence (00:07:56)
17. Jawbone - Across The Universe (00:03:48)
18. Duffy Power - Fixing A Hole (00:02:31)
19. Trucial States - Oh Darling (00:03:42)
20. The Tremeloes - Good Day Sunshine (00:01:58)
21. Infinity - Taxman (00:03:00)
22. Orange Bicycle - You Never Give Me Your Money - Carry That Weight (00:02:36)
CD2
01. Spooky Tooth - I Am The Walrus (00:06:26)
02. Plastic Penny - Strawberry Fields Forever (00:04:23)
03. Rainbow Ffolly - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow (00:03:25)
04. Big Jim Sullivan - Within You Without You (00:03:12)
05. The Gods - Hey Bulldog (00:03:16)
06. Freedom - Cry Baby Cry (00:03:43)
07. Don Fardon - Day Tripper (00:02:54)
08. The Frugal Sound - Norwegian Wood (00:01:57)
09. Penny Arcade - The Two Of Us (00:03:10)
10. Andy Ellison - You Cant Do That (00:02:48)
11. Grand Union - She Said She Said (00:03:04)
12. Davey Graham And Holly - Mother Natures Son (00:01:57)
13. Cliff Bennett And His Band - Back In The USSR (00:02:40)
14. The Young Idea - With A Little Help From My Friends (00:02:33)
15. The Shadows - Paperback Writer (00:03:07)
16. Phillip Goodhand - One And One Is Two (00:02:06)
17. The Majority - A Hard Days Night (00:03:34)
18. Trucial States - Birthday (00:02:13)
19. Linda Peters - Get Back (00:02:03)
20. Bo Street Runners - Drive My Car (00:02:28)
21. The Good Ship Lollipop - Maxwells Silver Hammer (00:03:20)
22. Stone The Crows - The Fool On The Hill (00:04:05)
23. Young Blood - I Will (00:01:52)
24. The Hi-Fi s - Yellow Submarine (00:02:30)
25. The Tomcats - Yesterday (00:02:06)
26. Lol Coxhill - I Am The Walrus (00:03:53)
CD3
01. Jason Crest - Come Together (00:03:04)
02. Tomorrow - Strawberry Fields Forever (00:03:59)
03. Circus - Norwegian Wood (00:07:18)
04. Big Jim Sullivan - Shes Leaving Home (00:02:37)
05. Deep Purple - Exposition-We Can Work It Out (00:07:07)
06. Affinity - A Day In The Life (00:06:05)
07. Andy Ellison - Help (00:02:29)
08. The Score - Please Please Me (00:02:43)
09. Loose Ends - Taxman (00:02:29)
10. The Eyes - Good Day Sunshine (00:02:03)
11. The Wilson Malone Voiceband - Penny Lane (00:02:26)
12. Young Blood - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (00:03:33)
13. The Real McCoy - I Will (00:01:39)
14. The Spectrum - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (00:03:06)
15. Brian Bennett - Rocky Raccoon (00:02:45)
16. Ice - Day Tripper (00:02:05)
17. The Sorrows - We Can Work It Out (00:04:20)
18. Octopus - I Am The Walrus (00:05:03)
19. Hardin And York - Northern Medley (00:10:15)
20. Vera Lynn - Good Night (00:03:19)
