Rhayader

The second piece on The Snow Goose is named for Philip Rhayader, the story's central character, a disabled outsider living in a lighthouse on the Essex marshes. It is an instrumental, with Latimer's flute leading over Bardens' piano. Jim Allen of uDiscover described it as a portrait of "the lonely artist at the center of the Paul Gallico novel". On the album it runs straight into Rhayader Goes to Town, and its theme returns in Rhayader Alone.

It was recorded in London in January 1975 by Latimer, Bardens, Ferguson and Ward, with David Bedford's orchestral arrangements. Decca put it on the B-side of the Flight of the Snow Goose single that year, and a 3:09 single edit was added to the 2002 remaster. Radio Paradise has it in rotation.

Live

setlist.fm counts 222 Camel performances, making it their third most played song after Lady Fantasy and Rhayader Goes to Town, with the first logged on 1 June 1975 in Horsham. The pair appear on A Live Record, from the Royal Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, on Pressure Points (1984), with Bardens back as a guest on organ, and on the In from the Cold and Ichigo Ichie films. The upload in the hypersongs web is the original 1975 album version.