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It's Only a Movie is the seventh studio album by the British progressive rock band Family, released in 1973, and their last original studio album before they disbanded that year.

It's Only a Movie

Studio album by

Family

Released

September 1973

Recorded

Summer 1973

Studio

Knowle Hall, Somerset, Olympic Studios, Air Studios

Genre

Progressive rock, psychedelic rock

Length

39:06

Label

Raft Records (UK), United Artists (US)

Producer

Family

Family chronology

Bandstand
(1972)

It's Only a Movie
(1973)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[2]
Hi-Fi News & Record Review	A:1[3]
The Rolling Stone Record Guide	[4]

Track listing

All selections by Whitney and Chapman except "Check Out" by Whitney, Chapman and Cregan.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's Only a Movie"	5:08
2.	"Leroy"	5:43
3.	"Buffet Tea for Two"	5:23
4.	"Boom Bang"	3:06

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Boots 'n' Roots"	5:00
6.	"Banger" (instrumental)	3:07
7.	"Sweet Desiree"	3:47
8.	"Suspicion"	3:20
9.	"Check Out"	4:34

Note: 2 track timings are incorrectly listed on the original LP label. "Boom Bang" is listed as 3:30 and "Check Out" as 4:45. Above timings are correct.

The CD release on Mystic Records also contains the following bonus tracks:
No.	Title	Length
10.	"Hometown"
11.	"Holding the Compass" (live)
12.	"The Weaver's Answer" (live)
13.	"Dim" (live)
14.	"Procession / No Mule's Fool" (live)

Personnel

Family

Roger Chapman - lead vocals
John "Charlie" Whitney - guitar, banjo
Tony Ashton - keyboards, backing vocals
Jim Cregan - bass
Rob Townsend - drums, percussion

Additional Personnel

Peter Hope-Evans - harmonica (2)
Del Newman - string and horn arrangements

References

Dougan, John (2011). "It's Only a Movie - Family | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: F". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
"Review: Family — It's Only a Movie" (PDF). Hi-Fi News & Record Review (magazine). Vol. 34, no. 12. Croydon: Link House Magazines Ltd. December 1989. p. 147. ISSN 0142-6230. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021 – via World Radio History.
Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (Editors). The Rolling Stone Record Guide, 1st edition, Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1979, p. xiii/136.

v t e Family
Roger Chapman John "Charlie" Whitney Jim King Ric Grech Rob Townsend Harry Ovenall John Weider John "Poli" Palmer John Wetton Jim Cregan Tony Ashton
Studio albums	Music in a Doll's House Family Entertainment A Song for Me Anyway Fearless Bandstand It's Only a Movie
Compilations	Old Songs New Songs
Singles	"No Mule's Fool" "The Weaver's Answer" "In My Own Time" "Burlesque" "My Friend the Sun"
Related articles	Discography

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