Dreamer

It is credited to Hodgson and Davies, but Hodgson composed it. He wrote it at about nineteen on a Wurlitzer electric piano at his mother's house and recorded a demo on a two-track machine, layering harmonies and using tin cans, lampshades and cardboard boxes for percussion; the band struggled to recapture the demo's feel. He told Goldmine in 2015 that he wrote it in about an hour, that it literally exploded out of him, and that it was the first time he had a Wurlitzer to himself. He told Correio do Povo in 2017 that it was terrifying and exciting to have his first hit.

The studio recording of 1974 has Hodgson and Davies on Wurlitzer, Davies on Hammond organ, Helliwell on glass harp, Siebenberg on drums and glockenspiel and Thomson on bass. It was a UK single on November 1, 1974, with "Bloody Well Right" on the B-side, reaching 13 in February 1975. The live version from Paris was a US single in September 1980, reaching 15 on the Hot 100 and number one in Canada. They played it on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test in 1974, with Helliwell playing a wine glass rim. Setlist.fm counts 200 plays among 1,027 setlists. We could not verify which version our upload is, and found no covers or samples.