My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows much of the subsequent Tyrannosaurus Rex catalogue. "My People Were Fair" was released on 5 July 1968 by Regal Zonophone. It reached No. 15 in the UK Album Chart upon initial release. The album was paired with Tyrannosaurus Rex's follow-up album "" (1968) and released in 1972 as the double album "Tyrannosaurus Rex: A Beginning", following the success of T. Rex's "Electric Warrior" (1971) and "The Slider" (1972) albums. It reached No. 1 in the UK. The double release remains the longest album title of any UK No. 1 album. In 1985 it was re-released on Sierra Records. An expanded
The Electric Light Orchestra (album) in this format in South America. Many of these "quad" tracks appeared with the SQ encoding intact on the "First Light" series edition of the album and on a later double-CD release entitled "Early ELO, 1971–1974" (available only as an import in the US). The entire "quad" version with SQ encoding intact has since been released on disc 3 of the "Harvest Years" compilation. The original album art was designed by Hipgnosis and the photographs of the band on the back of the album cover, dressed in seventeenth century period costume, were taken at the Banqueting House in Whitehall, adding