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Levelling the Land is the second full-length album by the Brighton folk-punk group the Levellers, released in 1991. The album reached number 14 in the UK album charts, and was certified Gold by the BPI. The original album pressing contained ten tracks but following the success of the single "Fifteen Years", which peaked at #11 on the UK charts in May 1992, the song was added as track three to later pressings. This was the first Levellers album to feature the input of Simon Friend as songwriter, vocalist and musician. He replaced Alan Miles, who had sung and played guitar and mandolin on the previous album, A Weapon Called the Word. "Liberty Song" on this album was co-written by Miles. The single "One Way" peaked at #51 in the UK singles chart in 1991, and again at #33 following a 1999 re-release. Reviewed in the Hard Report as featuring an "upbeat tempo that never waivers throughout", the song is known as the bands "all-time theme song". The album track "Battle of the Beanfield" describes the 1985 police action undertaken against New Age travellers. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelli...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
