  To www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com, the only fan site on the web dedicated to Noel Harrison, the man behind The Windmills of Your Mind.The site covers all of Noel's career, from his first single in 1958 and his first album in 1960, right up to his latest album in 2010.
News: Magazine features  A six page feature about Noel Harrison is included in the latest edition of Shindig magazine.
The article was written for the magazine, which specialises in music from the 1960s, in collaboration with www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com.  It features a number of new revelations about Harrison's life and music, including his view on how drugs impacted on his music and his move into script-writing for pornographic films in the 1990s.
The magazine was published on November 24, 2011. To order a copy, go here. An article about the recording of The Windmills of Your Mind was also featured in the second edition of Mojo 60s magazine, which is again a magazine which focuses on music from the 1960s.
News: The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. released on DVD
 The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. television show, which Noel Harrison starred in during the 1960s, was finally released on DVD on August 23, 2011.
The programme, which was a spin-off from the popular Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series, was launched in 1966 and ran for just one season.
Despite continuing his television acting career until the 1990s, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. remains Noel's most well known TV role.
The series is available to buy directly from Warner Brothers here.
Unfortunately, the programmes have not been remastered for the DVD release and the series is only available to buy in America, at a cost of $60.
For more information on the series, go to the Girl From U.N.C.L.E. page.
News: Noel Harrison live at Glastonbury 2011
 Noel Harrison was recorded by the BBC at the Glastonbury festival on Saturday, June 25, 2011 performing his biggest hit, The Windmills of Your Mind. The performance was labelled 'delightful' by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Noel made two appearances during the festival, on the Spirit of 71 stage.
Discussing his Glastonbury appearance before the show, he said he hoped to pass on to the younger
generation the spirit of the 1960s, which led to his decision to leave Hollywood and seek the simpler life in Nova Scotia.
 EXCLUSIVE: Reprise albums re-released
 On April 12, 2011, Reprise Records re-released Noel Harrison's 1960's albums, Collage, Santa Monica Pier and The Great Electric Experiment is Over, as digital downloads.
Unfortunately, there are no current plans to release the three albums on CD, but their digital release means 17 tracks from the three albums which were not included on Rhino's 2003 compilation, Life is a Dream, are now widely available again for the first time since their initial release.
To listen to the albums and download the tracks, go to the Collage, Santa Monica Pier and The Great Electric Experiment is Over pages.
Because of the move by Reprise, preview tracks from the three albums which were previously available on this website have now been deleted.
The petition set up by www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com calling for the albums to be re-released has also been closed.
News: Windmills back in the charts!
 After being featured in the latest series of adverts for BT Vision in the UK, Noel Harrison's most famous song, 1968's The Windmills of Your Mind, has re-entered the charts.
On January 4, 2011, the track was at number six in the iTunes Rock chart, just ahead of Hey Jude by The Beatles.
After hearing about the song's re-entry into the charts, Noel told www.thewindmillsofyourmind.com he was delighted it was proving to be popular again.
He said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to learn Windmills is back on the charts after more than 40 years.
"It's an extraordinary song, that seems to reach across the generations. I've been singing it all that time in my act, and I've never got tired of it."
Paying tribute to the song's writers, he added: "Michel LeGrand is briliant and Marilyn and Alan Bergman are true poets."
The song was last in the British singles chart in 1969 when it peaked at number eight. To read more about the song, go to the Windmills of Your Mind page of this site.
To check out the track's current chart position go to www.singleschart.co.uk or to download it, go to Noel's page on iTunes. To watch the BT advert, or see Noel singing a live version of Windmills, scroll further down this page.
News: Australian radio special
 Noel Harrison's music was the subject of a two hour special on the Australian radio station 88.3 Southern FM on Wednesday, 17, November 2010.
During the Purple Haze show, a range of Noel's music was played, taking in the majority of his albums from the 1960s up to the present day.
Noel also gave a lengthy interview by phone from England and revealed he has been back in the studio in the past few days recording new material, including some country songs under the name 'Tex Harrison'.
The show, hosted by Nick Black, is due to be put on the radio station's website as a podcast soon. Because of its popularity, it was also re-broadcast on Southern FM on Saturday November 27.
To listen to an edited version of the show, featuring just the interview with Noel, click on the gadget. The track lasts about 35 minutes.
New Album: Out now!
 In a somewhat surprise move, Noel Harrison has released a new album, which was made available to download free from March 1, 2010. Noel recorded the album, From the Sublime to the Ridiclious, as part of the RPM Challenge, an internet event which challenges musicians from across the world to record an entire album from scratch during the month of February. He said: "My son Will talked me into it. He has done it for the last two years. “You can do it, Dad!”, he ordered. I’m glad I did now, though there were moments when I considered using senility as an excuse to quit." Following the rules of the RPM Challenge, the album has 10 tracks, although Noel has said he will produce a longer version with added musicians later in the year. To listen to the album go to Noel's page on the RPM Challenge website. To download the tracks, you will need the Real Player installed on your computer. Noel's son's, band, Highway Robbery, also recorded an album as part of the challenge, their tracks can be found here.
News: BBC radio show
During a live interview with BBC Radio Devon on Monday May 11, 2009, Noel talked about everything from beekeeping and Steve McQueen to the new album he's working on and his life as a celebrity in the 1960s. He also performed his new song, The Wind Blows Up My Trousers, and was interviewed for a separate article on the BBC's website, which can be found here. To listen to the radio interview, click on the gadget. News: Radio special
 Noel Harrison performed a live session on the Devon radio station, Soundart Radio on March 18, 2009. During the show, which was hosted by Noel fan Merlin, Noel revealed he is working on a new album. He also played a new song which he only wrote a few months ago and sung the classic track, The Windmills of Your Mind. | Albums: Singles:
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