Whatever Happened to Jugula?

album

March 4, 1985

Jimmy Page

Roy Harper and I did some further work together in 1984. Roy’s album was called Whatever Happened to Jugula? and, in reference to George Orwell, the first track is called ‘Nineteen Forty-Eightish’ — 1948 being the year in which Orwell completed his book Nineteen Eighty-Four.

A

  1. 1Nineteen Forty-Eightish
  2. 2Bad Speech
  3. 3Hope
  4. 4Hangman

B

  1. 1Elizabeth
  2. 2Frozen Moment
  3. 3Twentieth Century Man
  4. 4Advertisement (Another Intentional Irrelevant Suicide)

Info

Recorded at various locations including Clapham, Hereford, Berkshire, Lytham and West Cork, released 4 March 1985 on Beggars Banquet. JP plays guitar throughout, and the pair performed songs from the album at the Cambridge Folk Festival on 28 July 1984.

Roy Harper

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 jugular”. 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.

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