{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Marvellous Year | type = studio | artist = Don McGlashan | cover = Don McGlashan and the Seven Sisters - Marvellous Year, album cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2009|03|02}} | recorded = July 2007 to October 2008 | venue = | studio = Roundhead Studios, Auckland | genre = Rock | length = {{Duration|m=48|s=21}} | label = Arch Hill Recordings | producer = Don McGlashan and Sean Donnelly | prev_title = Warm Hand | prev_year = 2006 | next_title = Lucky Stars | next_year = 2015 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001282098|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref> | rev2 = The Courier-Mail | rev2score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>Matt Connors, ''The Courier-Mail'', 13 August 2009</ref> | rev3 = New Zealand Herald | rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10561129 Russell Baillie, ''New Zealand Herald'', 11 March 2009]</ref> | rev4 = Sunday Herald Sun | rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>Graeme Hammond, ''Sunday Herald Sun,'' 12 July 2009</ref> }} '''''Marvellous Year''''' is a 2009 album by New Zealand songwriter Don McGlashan and The Seven Sisters.
The album was recorded at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios in Auckland, and featured Finn on backing vocals on two tracks, "18th Day" and "C2006P1 (Make Yourself at Home)".
The title is drawn from a line in the Allen Curnow poem "The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch": <blockquote> "Not I, some child, born in a marvellous year,<br /> Will learn the trick of standing upright here."<ref name="Stuff.co.nz_2391728">{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/entertainment/2391728/Dons-anchor |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223063043/http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/entertainment/2391728/Dons-anchor |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 February 2013 |title=Don's anchor |author=Cowdrey, Alice |date=7 May 2009 |work=The Nelson Mail |accessdate=20 October 2011 }}</ref> </blockquote>
"Bathe in the River" had appeared originally on the soundtrack to the film ''No. 2'', where it had been sung by Hollie Smith. The song won the APRA Silver Scroll in 2006. The closing track, "The Colossus of Roadies", is from a stage show McGlashan worked on with Toa Fraser, director of ''No. 2''.
==Track listing== (All songs by Don McGlashan) # "The Switch" – 4:29 # "Bad Blood" – 5:42 # "Not Ready" – 4:14 # "You're the Song" – 4:21 # "Everything's Broken; Life's So Sweet" – 3:58 # "18th Day" – 6:16 # "Marvellous Year" – 4.42 # "Radio Programmer" – 3:33 # "C2006P1 (Make Yourself at Home)" – 3:05 # "Bathe in the River" – 5:20 # "Theme From 'The Colossus of Roadies'" – 2:42
==Personnel== * Don McGlashan – vocals, guitars, piano, French horn, euphonium, vibraphone, glockenspiel, mandolin, DM100, bells, backing vocals * Dominic Blaazer – electric piano, Hammond organ, theremin, moog synthesizer, mandolin, backing vocals * Chris O'Connor – drums, percussion, hand drum, shaker, backing vocals * Maree Thom – bass, cello, accordion, backing vocals * John Segovia – electric guitars, slide guitar, pedal steel guitar, dobro, backing vocals
===Additional personnel=== * Sean Donnelly – bass ("Not Ready") * Neil Finn – backing vocals ("18th Day", "C2006P1") * Kingsley Melhuich – trumpet ("C2006P1") * Haydn Godfrey – trombone ("C2006P1") * Strings on "Not Ready": Ashley Brown, Miranda Adams, Justine Cormack, Christine Bowie
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090902153811/http://www.premierartists.com.au/uploads/artists/571/bio.pdf Marvellous Year press release] [pdf]
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