| The Fool Circle | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Nazareth |
| Cover: | The Fool Circle.jpg |
| Released: | [1] |
| Studio: | AIR (Montserrat) |
| Genre: | Hard rock |
| Length: | 36:23 |
| Label: | NEMS |
| Producer: | Jeff Baxter |
| Prev Title: | Malice in Wonderland |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | 'Snaz |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
The Fool Circle is the twelfth studio album by Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in February 1981. "Cocaine" was a live cover of the song written by J. J. Cale and recorded in 1977 by Eric Clapton. There are remastered editions of the album with different sets of bonus tracks.
Because in 1997 Castle Communications was unwilling to produce a 2-CD set of the double live album 'Snaz, four tracks were removed so that a remastered version could be released on a single CD. Rob Corich, who was doing the remastering, included these songs here as bonus tracks to rectify this.
The Fool Circle is notable for a reggae sound on many of the songs. In an interview bassist Pete Agnew commented:"'Fool Circle' was the nearest we came to making a concept album, trying to inject a bit of humour into a pretty heavy subject. I think the fact that we recorded it on the island of Montserrat might account for a teeny bit of reggae poking its way through."[2]