| Eat It | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Humble Pie |
| Cover: | Eatithumblepie.jpg |
| Released: | April 1973 |
| Studio: | Steve Marriott's Clear Sounds home studio, (Essex) Green’s Playhouse, Glasgow (side 4) |
| Genre: | Blues rock, hard rock |
| Length: | 64:30 |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Humble Pie |
| Prev Title: | Smokin' |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Thunderbox |
| Next Year: | 1974 |
Eat It is the sixth album by English rock band Humble Pie, released in April 1973 through A&M Records. Released as a double album, it peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, number 34 in the UK Albums Chart,[1] [2] and number 9 in Australia.[3]
Steve Marriott had been talking to the group about having backing singers from early on. During the recording of Eat It, he had been in touch with Venetta Fields and asked her to find two other women to help her out. Fields chose Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews (both previously with Raeletts) to become the Blackberries and flew to London. When Marriott asked them to perform on tour with Humble Pie, Sherlie Matthews declined due to other commitments, including her two children and her husband. Matthews chose Billie Barnum to be missing member of the Blackberries.
Each side of this double album is different: side 1 features Steve Marriott penned rock and roll; side 2 has classic R&B covers; side 3 is a collection of acoustic Steve Marriott songs; side 4 features Humble Pie live in concert at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow, Scotland.
Eat It was the band's seventh official album release and their fifth for A&M Records. [This was also their third double LP (two-record set) within 18 months, the other two being 1971's ''[[Performance Rockin' the Fillmore|Performance Rockin' The Fillmore]] and the late 1972 A&M compilation - Lost & Found.]
Marriott produced the album and it was the first album recorded in Marriott's newly built home recording studio Clear Sounds, in a converted barn at Beehive Cottage, Moreton, Essex.[4]
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