National Health

National Health was a progressive rock band, which is attributed to the Canterbury scene. In the original formation in 1975, it consisted of the keyboardists Dave Stewart ( Hatfield and the North) and Alan Gowen ( Gilgamesh ), guitarists Phil Miller and Phil Lee, bassist Mont Campbell and drummer Bill Bruford. Bruford was soon replaced by Pip Pyle; Campbell was replaced by Neil Murray and then John Greaves.

In ever-changing formations, the band toured extensively and released two albums of mostly long, mostly instrumental and complex set compositions. In 1980, she broke up and went after the death of Alan Gowen in May 1981, once to Album DS Al Coda record, a collection of mostly previously unrecorded compositions Gowen.

National Healths albums and other archive material have now been released on CD. Their album Of Queues and Cures ( 1978), on which Peter Blegvad participated with guitar and vocals and Georgie Born on cello, currently ranks third of 63000 of the best records in Gnosis.

Discography

• National Health (1977 )
• Of Queues and Cures ( 1978)
• D. S. Al Coda (1982 )
• Complete ( 1990, includes three studio albums and two bonus tracks )
• Missing Pieces ( 1996, Archival, mostly from the times before the first National Health album )
• Play Time (2001 live recordings from 1979 )