Whatever Happened to Jugula?

Whatever Happened to Jugula? is the thirteenth studio album by English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper. It was first released in 1985. Jimmy Page contributes.

History

With a working title of Rizla, Whatever Happened to Jugula? was released on the Beggars Banquet label (BBL60) and reached the UK Top 20. It is recorded in a fresh and spontaneous manner, often with only the unique sound of Ovation guitars and vocals. Occasionally, the arrangements are filled with synthesizer and electric guitar. The album's cover art shows (an unravelled orange Rizla pack.

The album was partially recorded in the basement of an old school friend's house in Lytham. Boiler House Studios were run by Tony Beck who encouraged Harper to renew his acquaintance with Jimmy Page. Together they began work on what was to become this album.^[1]

'Jugula' exposed Harper to a new and wider audience, mainly due to his and Jimmy Page's appearances at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1984, an album tour (of which four performances were filmed and exist on archive footage^[1]) and a 15-minute televised interview by Mark Ellen on the Old Grey Whistle Test (16 November 1984). The interview featured Harper and Page playing their acoustic guitars on the side of Side Pike in the English Lake District, a somewhat different and unusual interview for the time. Songs played included "Hangman" and a section from "The Same Old Rock".^[2]

The album was the fifth that Harper and Page had worked on, though the first entire record they made together.^[3] Page's guitar playing is quite evident throughout the album, and is a natural complement to Harper's unique guitar work. The first track, "Nineteen Forty-Eightish", a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, crescendos with lead guitar by Page. Other tracks include "Hangman", a song that expresses the feelings of an innocent man condemned to die and "Frozen Moment", a song played entirely in the chord of C♯.

The title for 'Jugula' came from playing Trivial Pursuit, in order to explain to everyone how they should go about answering the questions as straight and honestly as possible I'd say, "Go for the jugula". It was going to be 'Harper & Page' for a while, but that's like selling Jimmy's name, then it went to '1214' which is the year that the Magna Carta was signed... but that was a bit esoteric. So one day we were talking and "jugula" came up, so I phoned the artist and they'd designed up to the 'Whatever happened to...' bit so I said leave it there and put Jugula at the end.^[4]

The track "Hope" originated as a tune written by David Gilmour for his second solo album About Face.^[5] He asked Pete Townshend to supply lyrics, but felt that he couldn't relate to them, so Townshend used the song instead, as "White City Fighting", with Gilmour playing guitar,^[5] on his album White City: A Novel.^[5] Gilmour sent the same tune to Harper, whose lyrics had the same effect on Gilmour.^[5] Harper used the result, "Hope", which has a markedly slower tempo,^[5] on this album, with his son Nick Harper (16 years old at the time), playing the lead guitar (not Gilmour as is often mistakenly stated).

"Hangman" is about the feelings of an innocent man condemned to be executed for a crime he did not commit. Of capital punishment Harper stated "That people can even think about bringing back the death penalty is profane. Yes, some people deserve to be locked up forever, but they're the responsibility of society. They are part of what we are. We have to be able to civilise, to teach with heart, and to keep the savage in ourselves under scrutiny rather than allowing the mob in us to rule."^[6]

Cover version

A cover version of "Hope" (with "Bad Speech" read by Harper as an introduction) can be found on the album Eternity by the Liverpudlian band Anathema.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nineteen Forty-Eightish"	Harper	9:45
2.	"Bad Speech"	Harper	1:17
3.	"Hope"	Harper, Gilmour	4:31
4.	"Hangman"	Harper	7:09

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Elizabeth"	Harper	6:39
2.	"Frozen Moment"	Harper	3:18
3.	"Twentieth Century Man"	Harper	4:27
4.	"Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)"	Harper	8:19

Singles

"Elizabeth", a song that originally appeared on Harpers 1984 release Born in Captivity, was re-recorded and released as a 12" single. Again the artwork featured an unravelled Rizla package, this time in green. The 12" was released on Beggars Banquet Records (BEG 131T).

Side A – "Elizabeth"
Side B –
1. "Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)"
2. "I Hate The White Man" (Live) (Recorded at Poynton, 18 October 1984)^[7]

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Peak Position
1985	UK Albums Chart^[8]	44
1985	US Billboard The 200 Albums Chart^[9]	60

Personnel

Roy Harper – acoustic guitar and/or electric guitar
Jimmy Page – acoustic guitar and/or electric guitar
Tony Franklin – Bass guitar
Nik Green – keyboards. mixing desk
Ronnie Brambles – drums
Steve Broughton – drums
Preston Heyman – drums
Nick Harper – semi-acoustic guitar

References

1 2 Boiler House Studios
↑ Live performance history
↑ Roy Harper official site
↑ Naming The Album
1 2 3 4 5 Miles, Barry; Andy Mabbett (1994). Pink Floyd the visual documentary ([Updated ed.] ed.). London :: Omnibus,. ISBN 0-7119-4109-2.
↑ http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14749067.Singer_songwriter_Roy_Harper_returns_for_Scottish_gig/?ref=fbshr Singer-songwriter Roy Harper returns for Scottish gig 2016
↑ Harper single discography
↑ Warwick, Neil (2004). "Jimmy Page – 16 March 1985". The Complete Book of the British Charts (3rd ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 821. ISBN 1-84449-058-0.
↑ "The Billboard 200 – March 1985". billboard.com. Retrieved 17 January 2009.

External links

Roy Harper

Studio albums	Sophisticated Beggar Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith Folkjokeopus Flat Baroque and Berserk Stormcock Lifemask Valentine HQ Bullinamingvase The Early Years The Unknown Soldier Work of Heart Born in Captivity Whatever Happened to Jugula? Descendants of Smith Loony on the Bus Once Death or Glory? Commercial Breaks Garden of Uranium Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles The Dream Society The Green Man Man and Myth

Live albums	Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion In Between Every Line Born in Captivity II Unhinged Live At Les Cousins Royal Festival Hall Live – June 10th 2001 Beyond the Door

Compilations	An Introduction to ..... Hats off East of the Sun Today Is Yesterday Counter Culture From Occident to Orient Songs of Love and Loss

Collaborations	"Have a Cigar" "Breathing" The Edges of Twilight "Time"

Singles / 12" Singles / EPs	"When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease" "The Death of God"

Songs & poems	"Another Day" "Three Hundred Words"

Related articles	Nick Harper Science Friction "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper"

Jimmy Page

Studio albums and EPs	Little Games (with The Yardbirds) No Introduction Necessary (with Albert Lee and John Paul Jones) Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends (with Screaming Lord Sutch and John Bonham) The Honeydrippers: Volume One (with The Honeydrippers) Whatever Happened to Jugula? (with Roy Harper) The Firm (with The Firm) Mean Business (with The Firm) Outrider Coverdale-Page (with David Coverdale) Walking into Clarksdale (with Robert Plant)

Live albums	Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page (with The Yardbirds) No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded (with Robert Plant) Live at the Greek (with The Black Crowes)

Compilations	Blues Anytime Hip Young Guitar Slinger

Soundtracks	Death Wish II Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks

Related articles	Discography Led Zeppelin The Honeydrippers Page and Plant The Firm XYZ Coverdale•Page David Coverdale The Yardbirds Immediate All-Stars Scarlet Page It Might Get Loud Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page

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