Another Day

Roy Harper wrote "Another Day", the sixth track of Flat Baroque and Berserk, 2:57, recorded in September 1969 at Abbey Road with Peter Jenner producing and David Bedford arranging. Wikipedia describes a man who briefly meets a former lover, with regret and missed opportunity, the perspective shifting to the woman midway and returning to the man, and calls it widely considered one of the high points of Harper's career. In a 1972 concert he said the song was about a split second.

Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel sang it as a duet on her 1979 BBC Christmas special, with the roles swapped and Harper's guitar riff played on piano; the broadcast date of December 28, 1979 comes from a search snippet. It led to Harper singing backing vocals on Bush's "Breathing" and the duet "You" on The Unknown Soldier. This Mortal Coil's version, with vocals and arrangement by Elizabeth Fraser, 2:54, is on It'll End in Tears (4AD, October 1, 1984) and renewed interest in Harper; Ivo Watts-Russell considered editing out what he called Kate Bush-isms. Oliver Coates recorded a strings-only version with Chrysanthemum Bear singing in 2013.

Harper's live version is on Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion (1974). Setlist.fm lists it as his most played song, 45 in its statistics, with recent plays at Glastonbury on June 29, 2025, where it followed "How Does It Feel", and in autumn 2025 at the London Palladium and in Manchester and Birmingham. Our upload is titled only "Another Day", so we cannot say which of these versions it is.