| New Worlds Fair | ||||
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| Released | March 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1974/5 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock[1] | |||
| Label | United Artists Records | |||
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New Worlds Fair is a 1975 concept album by UK rock group Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix.
The brainchild of science-fiction author Michael Moorcock, bassist Steve Gilmore, and guitarist Graham Charnock, Fair featured a host of guest players, among them members of Hawkwind and guitarist Snowy White. In one review, it is described as a concept album.[3]
Moorcock had contributed lyrics to Hawkwind and occasionally performed with them. In 1974, he was offered a record deal by Andrew Lauder, Hawkwind's A&R man for United Artists Records, although Moorcock insisted that his compatriots Steve Gilmore and Graham Charnock should have significant input into the album.
The single "Dodgem Dude"/"Starcruiser" had been recorded just prior to the album, but United Artists passed on the idea of releasing it. Some time later as Moorcock was visiting his former manager Douglas Smith, with whom he was in dispute, he discovered the tapes for the single lying around the office. Without Smith's knowledge he took them, passing them onto Frenchy Gloder, who gave the single a belated release on his Flicknife Records label (FLS200, December 1980).[4]
The album has received multiple re-releases featuring various bonus tracks, in 1995 on Griffin (USA) and Dojo (UK), and in 2008 on Esoteric (UK). In 2004, Voiceprint Records released an alternate version of the album as Roller Coaster Holiday.