10-487: Three Friends may refer to: Three Friends (album) , a 1972 album by Gentle Giant Three Friends (1913 film) , an American short silent Western film Three Friends (2024 film) , a French romantic comedy-drama film Three Friends (TV series) , a South Korean drama/sitcom See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Three Friends Three Amigos (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
20-411: A multitude of other instruments such as the cello, tenor recorder , and classical percussion (including vibraphone , marimba , xylophone , timpani and snare drum ). He also composed the original musical soundtrack for the 1996 video game Azrael's Tear along with Ray Shulman. In the years following the dissolution of Gentle Giant, Minnear was a member of a Christian music band, The Reapers, in
30-540: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Three Friends (album) Three Friends is the third studio album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant , released in 1972. It was the band's first release to chart in America, peaking at #197 on the Billboard 200 . It is the only album by Gentle Giant to feature drummer Malcolm Mortimore following
40-525: The progressive rock band Gentle Giant from 1970 to 1980. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London with a major in musical composition. As a member of Gentle Giant , he contributed to all 11 albums over the 10 years life of the band. Though he is adept at several instruments, he primarily played keyboards and provided back up and lead vocals. In addition to keyboard, he also played
50-458: The album for decades, being carried over to the CD releases and even to online digital music distributors such as iTunes and Spotify. It has since been corrected. All tracks are written by Kerry Minnear , Derek Shulman , Phil Shulman , and Ray Shulman Kerry Minnear Kerry Churchill Minnear (born 2 January 1948) is a multi-instrumentalist musician. He is known primarily for his work with
60-497: The departure of Martin Smith . A concept album, Three Friends deals with three childhood friends whose lives take them very different places. However, each of the three friends are unsatisfied with their new lives. The closing song ends the story on a cliffhanger; whether or not the three friends ever reunite is never revealed. The album is predominantly instrumental, with some tracks having only brief vocal interludes. Three Friends
70-453: The design from the self-titled UK debut Gentle Giant . The album title and band name were added over the forehead of the giant image and the colour tinting of the cover was changed. The US edition on Columbia also has the marker for track 6 in the wrong place. On this version, track number 5 ends early at 3:23 instead of 5:51 while incorrectly extending the length of track six from 3:04 to 5:32. This mistake remained in place on US releases of
80-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Three Friends . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Three_Friends&oldid=1259446574 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
90-404: The song: "We started off using the sound effects of the schoolyard so it would be very nostalgic, and that's a whole song about being at school together, and how these friends went their own different ways. One goes into manual labour, one goes into white-collar work, and one is an artist." For the U.S. and Canadian edition, on Columbia Records, the album cover was changed to a modified version of
100-569: Was the band's first self-produced album. The two former albums were produced by Tony Visconti , who had previously worked with David Bowie and T.Rex . Gary Green's guitar solo on "Peel the Paint" uses an echoplex belonging to Mike Ratledge that Green's brother Jeff, a roadie with Ratledge's band Soft Machine , had borrowed. The song "Schooldays" starts off with the sounds of a schoolyard playground in England. Ray Shulman told Songfacts about
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