HUMBLE PIE
‘AS SAFE AS YESTERDAY IS’
HUMBLE PIE’S DEBUT ALBUM AS IT WAS MEANT TO SOUND!
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, ‘AS SAFE AS YESTERDAY IS’ HAS BEEN CUT FROM THE CORRECT MASTER TAPE FOR IMMEDIATE RECORDS’ 60th ANNIVERSARY
EXPANDED EDITION CD FORMAT FEATURES SIX EXTRA TRACKS (INCLUDING FOUR OUTTAKES FROM RECORDING SESSIONS AT MORGAN & OLYMPIC STUDIOS)
CURATED BY SURVIVING HUMBLE PIE MEMBERS PETER FRAMPTON & JERRY SHIRLEY
SPECIAL IMMEDIATE RECORDS 60th ANNIVERSARY FORMATS INCLUDE 1,000 NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION GOLD VINYL LPs EXCLUSIVELY FROM NICE RECORDS WEBSITE www.nicerecords.co.uk
OUT 29th AUGUST 2025
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, ‘AS SAFE AS YESTERDAY IS’ HAS BEEN CUT FROM THE CORRECT MASTER TAPE FOR IMMEDIATE RECORDS’ 60th ANNIVERSARY
EXPANDED EDITION CD FORMAT FEATURES SIX EXTRA TRACKS (INCLUDING FOUR OUTTAKES FROM RECORDING SESSIONS AT MORGAN & OLYMPIC STUDIOS)
CURATED BY SURVIVING HUMBLE PIE MEMBERS PETER FRAMPTON & JERRY SHIRLEY
SPECIAL IMMEDIATE RECORDS 60th ANNIVERSARY FORMATS INCLUDE 1,000 NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION GOLD VINYL LPs EXCLUSIVELY FROM NICE RECORDS WEBSITE www.nicerecords.co.uk
OUT 29th AUGUST 2025
Humble Pie shot through gauze for rejected 'As Safe As Yesterday Is' sleeve (c) Immediate Records Archive courtesy Nice Records Ltd
“Thanks for the care you are giving these old chestnuts.” Peter Frampton, July 2025
“It sounds like it should sound. It sounds a lot cleaner. Everything is in its place and where it should be. It sounds fabulous! You should be very proud of yourselves. I know I couldn't be happier with it all.” Jerry Shirley, July 2025
“It sounds like it should sound. It sounds a lot cleaner. Everything is in its place and where it should be. It sounds fabulous! You should be very proud of yourselves. I know I couldn't be happier with it all.” Jerry Shirley, July 2025
Nice Records owner Kenney Jones (Small Faces/Faces/The Who) is very pleased to announce the next in his series of very special archive releases in celebration of Immediate Records’ 60th anniversary.
Set for release via Kenney’s own Nice Records on 29th August , almost sixty years after its original issue by Immediate, Humble Pie’s ground-breaking debut album ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ has been mastered from the correct tape for the first time ever by Nick Robbins (with lacquers cut at London’s AIR Studios).
This fully mastered Immediate Records 60th anniversary version of ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ has been lovingly curated and overseen by surviving Humble Pie members Peter Frampton & Jerry Shirley.
New LP formats feature a facsimile of Gered Mankowitz’s original LP sleeve and inner lyric bag plus a fully-illustrated 4-panel insert. The newly expanded CD comes with a 24-page booklet. Both LP and CD formats include a new commentary by Jerry Shirley.
Formed in January 1969, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, hardest-rocking live acts of the 1970s. In Steve Marriott, the one-time Small Faces frontman, ‘The Pie’ had the best showman & biggest voice in the business. Peter Frampton, the ‘Face of ‘68’ with The Herd had a new role - guitar hero extraordinaire. And with hard-hitting powerhouse drummer Jerry Shirley & ex-Spooky Tooth bassist supreme Greg Ridley, Humble Pie quickly developed into a sophisticated studio unit where tough riffs, rustic rock & bursts of blissed-out psychedelia earned the band instant chart success & critical acclaim.
‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ was Humble Pie’s debut album for Immediate Records, originally released on 1 August 1969 and reaching No.32 in the UK charts. Recorded at Olympic & Morgan Studios with top engineer Andy Johns, the album featured a blend of heavy blues, hard rock, pastoral folk & acoustic songs, all superbly produced.
Set for release via Kenney’s own Nice Records on 29th August , almost sixty years after its original issue by Immediate, Humble Pie’s ground-breaking debut album ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ has been mastered from the correct tape for the first time ever by Nick Robbins (with lacquers cut at London’s AIR Studios).
This fully mastered Immediate Records 60th anniversary version of ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ has been lovingly curated and overseen by surviving Humble Pie members Peter Frampton & Jerry Shirley.
New LP formats feature a facsimile of Gered Mankowitz’s original LP sleeve and inner lyric bag plus a fully-illustrated 4-panel insert. The newly expanded CD comes with a 24-page booklet. Both LP and CD formats include a new commentary by Jerry Shirley.
Formed in January 1969, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, hardest-rocking live acts of the 1970s. In Steve Marriott, the one-time Small Faces frontman, ‘The Pie’ had the best showman & biggest voice in the business. Peter Frampton, the ‘Face of ‘68’ with The Herd had a new role - guitar hero extraordinaire. And with hard-hitting powerhouse drummer Jerry Shirley & ex-Spooky Tooth bassist supreme Greg Ridley, Humble Pie quickly developed into a sophisticated studio unit where tough riffs, rustic rock & bursts of blissed-out psychedelia earned the band instant chart success & critical acclaim.
‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ was Humble Pie’s debut album for Immediate Records, originally released on 1 August 1969 and reaching No.32 in the UK charts. Recorded at Olympic & Morgan Studios with top engineer Andy Johns, the album featured a blend of heavy blues, hard rock, pastoral folk & acoustic songs, all superbly produced.
Unknown at the time was the controversy surrounding the disappearance of the master tape enroute from Olympic Studios in London to the mastering studio in New York. Panicked phone calls for a replacement only yielded a much-played listening copy, not intended for production & certainly not to the quality needed to cut an LP. The band were horrified when they heard the finished LP with its flat, muffled sound. Despite Immediate label boss Andrew Loog Oldham’s wholehearted support of Humble Pie above the other artists on his label, Immediate Records were in financial difficulties and could not afford to withdraw the LP. By March 1970, Immediate Records were in liquidation, with its master tapes either lost or stolen. Immediate LPs soon disappeared from record store racks, including ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ - its master tape never found. Later CD & LP reissues were all copied from old vinyl, with labels seemingly not realising (or not caring) that the sound quality was poor. Until now that is…
For many years, Nice Records owner Kenney Jones along with Immediate Records reissue producer Rob Caiger had searched archives around the world for missing Immediate tapes for the Small Faces. As part of that global search, tapes for a number of Kenney’s fellow Immediate artists have been found, including a safety master for Humble Pie.
Now, almost sixty years later, ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ can finally be heard as it should have been experienced in 1969 – and now with even more power & clarity!
Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley have also restored Humble Pie’s debut hit single ‘Natural Born Bugie’ to where it should have been on the original UK LP. The newly remastered CD adds UK LP track ‘Growing Closer,’ four outtakes from Olympic & Morgan Studios recorded during June & July 1969 and B-side ‘Wrist Job’, one of the last tracks to be recorded alongside ‘Natural Born Bugie’ in sessions for the first album during spring 1969.
All newly mastered vinyl LP & CD formats will be released via Kenney Jones’ Nice Records on 29th August, including a standard black vinyl LP, CD (now expanded to 70 minutes and including six bonus tracks) plus a gold vinyl LP edition, limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies and exclusively available via www.nicerecords.co.uk
For many years, Nice Records owner Kenney Jones along with Immediate Records reissue producer Rob Caiger had searched archives around the world for missing Immediate tapes for the Small Faces. As part of that global search, tapes for a number of Kenney’s fellow Immediate artists have been found, including a safety master for Humble Pie.
Now, almost sixty years later, ‘As Safe As Yesterday Is’ can finally be heard as it should have been experienced in 1969 – and now with even more power & clarity!
Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley have also restored Humble Pie’s debut hit single ‘Natural Born Bugie’ to where it should have been on the original UK LP. The newly remastered CD adds UK LP track ‘Growing Closer,’ four outtakes from Olympic & Morgan Studios recorded during June & July 1969 and B-side ‘Wrist Job’, one of the last tracks to be recorded alongside ‘Natural Born Bugie’ in sessions for the first album during spring 1969.
All newly mastered vinyl LP & CD formats will be released via Kenney Jones’ Nice Records on 29th August, including a standard black vinyl LP, CD (now expanded to 70 minutes and including six bonus tracks) plus a gold vinyl LP edition, limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies and exclusively available via www.nicerecords.co.uk