Back to the Story

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Skeleton and the Roundabout
  2:26
• 2
  Happy Birthday
  0:23
• 3
  The Birthday
  3:00
• 4
  I Like My Toys
  2:12
• 5
  Morning Sunshine
  1:48
• 6
  Follow Me Follow
  2:48
• 7
  Sitting in My Tree
  1:59
• 8
  On With the Show
  2:22
• 9
  Lucky Man
  2:38
• 10
  Don't Put Your Boys in the Army, Mrs. Ward
  2:14
• 11
  Pie in the Sky
  2:27
• 12
  The Lady Who Said She Could Fly
  2:22
• 13
  End of the Road
  2:09
• 14
  Come With Me
  2:45
• 15
  Sea of Dreams
  3:13
• 16
  Going Home
  3:44
• 17
  Reminds Me of You
  2:54
• 18
  Mr. Crow and Sir Norman
  3:17
• 19
  Please No More Sad Songs
  3:20
• 20
  Girl at the Window
  3:44
• 21
  Big Chief Woolly Bosher
  5:15
• 22
  Someone Knocking
  2:56
• 23
  A Better Life (The Weatherman Knows)
  2:45
• 24
  Hurry Up John
  3:33
• 25
  Lucky Man
  2:35
• 26
  Follow Me Follow
  1:56
• 27
  Days of the Broken Arrows
  3:39
• CD 2
• 1
  Here We Go Round the Lemon Tree
  2:44
• 2
  My Father's Son
  2:15
• 3
  Impostors of Life's Magazine
  2:21
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Knocking Nails Into My House
  2:27
• 5
  Days of the Broken Arrows
  3:51
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Worn Red Carpet
  3:03
• 7
  In the Summertime
  2:58
• 8
  Told You Twice
  3:38
• 9
  Neanderthal Man
  3:56
• 10
  Victim of Circumstance
  3:36
• 11
  Dancing Flower
  2:14
• 12
  Sad o' Sad
  3:28
• 13
  The Clock
  3:22
• 14
  I Will See You
  3:11
• 15
  By the Sun
  6:42
• 16
  Alcatraz
  4:02
• 17
  And the Rain
  2:52
• 18
  She Sang Hymns Out of Tune
  3:07
• 19
  Bitter Green
  3:45
• 20
  We Want It All
  4:13
• 21
  It's Only the Dog

  The Nightriders
  2:15
• 22
  Your Friend

  The Nightriders
  3:21

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Release credits

• Claire Francis
  producer [21-22]
• Dave Pritchard
  design, guitar [1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22, 2.3, 2.21-22], vocal [1.17, 1.22, 2.22]
• David Arden
  associate [11-20]
• Eddy Offord
  engineer [1.4, 1.8-10, 2.3], producer [2.1-4, 1.1-13]
• Gerald Chevin
  engineer [2.3, 1.4, 1.8-10], producer [1.1-13, 2.1-4]
• Greg Masters
  bass [2.3, 2.21-22, 1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22]
• Jeff Lynne
  arranger [14-24], guitar [1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22, 2.3, 2.21-22], producer [1.14-24, 2.5-6], vocal [1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 1.16, 1.19-20, 2.3]
• Kenneth Young
  producer [11-20]
• Noel Walker
  producer [5, 7-10]
• Roger Spencer
  drums (drum set) [1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 1.16-17, 1.19-20, 1.22, 2.3, 2.21-22], vocal [21]
• The Idle Race
  producer [1.1-13, 2.11-20]

Issues

• 

  B
  Back to the Story

  2x CD
  1996
• B
  Back to the Story

  2x CD
  2007