Album Title
Colosseum
Those Who Are About to Die Salute You (1969)
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01) Walking in the Park
02) Plenty Hard Luck
03) Mandarin
04) Debut
05) Beware the Ides of March
06) The Road She Walked Before
07) Backwater Blues
08) Those About to Die
09) I Can't Live Without You
10) A White Spade Than Mayall
11) Walking in the Park
12) Beware the Ides of March
13) Plenty Hard Luck
14) Walking in the Park

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First Released

1969

Genre

Progressive Rock

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Sophisticated

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Rock/Pop

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Those Who Are About to Die Salute You - Morituri Te Salutant is the debut album by Colosseum, released in 1969 by Fontana. It is one of the pioneering albums of jazz fusion. The title is a translation of the Latin phrase morituri te salutant that according to popular belief (but not academic agreement), gladiators addressed to the emperor before the beginning of a gladiatorial match.
The album reached number 15 in the UK Albums Chart.
Dave Greenslade - organ, vibraphone, piano, backing vocal on "The Road She Walked Before"
Dick Heckstall-Smith - saxophones
Jon Hiseman - drums
James Litherland - guitar (except on "Backwater "Blues"), lead vocals
Tony Reeves - bass guitar
Jim Roche - guitar on "Backwater Blues"
Additional personnel
Henry Lowther - trumpet on "Walking in the Park"



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