Timings

The shortest track on the 14 track album A Beard of Stars is the opener Prelude (1:04") and the longest the closer Elemental Child (5' 33").

The track A Beard of stars (1' 37") like Prelude is an instrumental track. All the other tracks feature vocals, though there are no words on Elemental Child after 1' 50".

Most tracks feature electric guitar but two are largely acoustic (Woodland Bop, 1' 40" and Dragon's Ear, 2' 36"). Organ Blues (2' 47") is distinctive in featuring only minimal organ and percussion.

Most of the tracks are between 2' 37" and 2' 49".

The original first side lasted 19' 9" and the second side a shorter 16' 29". That is a total length of 35' 38" and so it takes under 40 minutes to listen to. Originally LPs could only comfortably manage 23 minutes a side maximum. The album is fairly typical in terms of length then.