Richard Clapton - Goodbye Tiger (2024 Remaster) (1977) [Hi-Res]

"Goodbye Tiger" was Ralph’s fourth studio album and featured Down in the Lucky Country, Deep Water, Winter in Amsterdam, and of course – Goodbye Tiger.

Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Goodbye Tiger as Clapton’s, “most celebrated work, an album full of rich, melodic and accessible rock with a distinctly Australian flavour. It established Clapton’s reputation as one of the most important Australian songwriters of the 1970s.”

Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist, Richard Clapton, started writing tracks for his fourth studio album after he and a group of friends were at Sydney Town Hall to see American journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, in October 1976. Clapton was referred to as "Tiger" by "[his] 'beat poet' buddies." They got drunk and the binge continued until he got on a flight to Germany before crashing out at a friend's place in Frankfurt.

He wrote the title track at that friend's apartment and later recalled, "It was the only time I've ever written a song and then not gone back and changed a word. It seemed like it had been the end of our innocence or something." He was later snowed in at a resort in Denmark, where there was a blizzard and they were trapped, "but we had enough beer so it didn't really matter." It was there that he wrote most of Goodbye Tiger.

Celebrate 50 years of Australian music icon Richard Clapton - with remastered versions of three of his most acclaimed albums available on HIGHRESAUDIO for the first time in decades!

Richard Clapton, vocals, guitar
Tony Ansell, keyboards
Tony Buchanan, saxophone (tracks 2, 7, 8)
Dalvanius, Diane McLennan, backing vocals
Gunther Gorman, bass (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7), lead guitar (track 2)
Michael Hegerty, bass
Kirk Lorange, lead guitar
Cleis Pearce, viola
Jim Penson, drums (track 5)
Greg Sheehan, drums, percussion

Digitally remastered