Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire

Solar Fire
Album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Solar Fire is the fourth studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released in 1973. It spent 15 weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at number 96 on 11 May 1974. It was initially intended to be a full adaptation of The Planets Suite but Gustav Holst's heir, who had previously given permission to the adaptation of Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity in the hit single Joybringer, didn't allow this to happen, so the band made their own cosmic album using mostly original themes, although the most well known song is the Bob Dylan composition Father of Day, Father of Night, which is in the Earth Band's live set to this day and remains a popular song on rock radio. Pluto the Dog and the two-part Saturn, Lord of the Ring/Mercury, the Winged Messenger are instrumentals, and Earth the Circle Part 2 features only two lines of sung vocals.

Tracks:
--Side one--
01 Father of Day, Father of Night 9:55
02 In the Beginning, Darkness 5:22
03 Pluto the Dog 2:48
--Side two--
04 Solar Fire 5:15
05 Saturn, Lord of the Ring/Mercury,
The Winged Messenger[nb 2] 6:31
06 Earth, The Circle Part 2 3:23
07 Earth, The Circle Part 1 3:56