1974 UK Orig "LADY JUNE'S LEPROSY" Kevin Ayers Gong Eno Soft Machine Prog Psych

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• ORIGINAL UK 1974 FIRST PRESS ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
• Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy
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  "Once Upon A Timing, Time Upon A Second"
  
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• UK - Caroline ~ C 1509
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• Original 1974 (rare) first press on the Virgin Records subsidiary "Caroline" label ... Lady June was Marc Bolan's (T-REX) first wife and one of the extreme cosmic characters from London's early '70s underground rock scene......
  Brian Eno & Kevin Ayers teamed-up for a cosmic oddball progrock poetry album in 1974 titled ‘Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy’
  When many years later, Lady June died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 64, her obituary in The (UK) Independent called “Lady” June “a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster.” That’s already a pretty good claim to fame, but the obit went on to say that her “most achieved performance was herself: she succeeded in turning her existence into living art, bristling with humor.”
  “Lady” June—the honorary title given to her due to her upper-crust, aristocratic voice (she sounded like a really stoned Judi Dench) and the fact that she was the de facto London landlady of many a progressive musician from the Canterbury set—was a sort of free-spirited hippie bohemian poetess and multimedia performance artist who ran with the crowd that included Gong and Soft Machine, who she first met in Spain in the early 1960s.
  According to GonG leader Daevid Allen, who was in both Soft Machine & Gong, June’s enormous twelve room Maida Vale flat was “London’s premier smoking salon”:
  (Daevid remembers) “She was ferocious in the mornings until the first joint arrived: she’d hover over you with a wet cloth demanding that you clean the stove.”
  Amongst the other tenants in June’s apartment were Arzachel/Gong guitarist Steve Hillage, as well as members of Henry Cow, Hawkwind, Hatfield and the North, Tim Blake and David Bedford. Some of her tenants were more conventional types who were often dismayed by the likes of nine freaky members of Gong suddenly turning up to sleep on the living room floor.
  Gilli Smyth of Gong was her best friend, and it was at a dual birthday party June threw for herself and Smyth that a drunken Robert Wyatt fell out of a window, falling four stories and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
  In 1973, June recorded "Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy," her surrealist poetry set to cosmic music by her longtime friend (and longtime tenant) Kevin Ayers and Brian Eno, a neighbor who lived nearby. The recording was primarily made in the front room of her apartment with Ayers on guitar, bass and vocals, and Eno playing guitar, bass, Imminent, Linearment (sounds mathematical, right?), and something called “Lunar Lollipops,” with Gong’s drummer Pip Pyle and David Vorhaus of White Noise mixing. It is said to have cost just £400. A wary Caroline Records—the arty Virgin subsidiary set up to release things with little to just about zero commercial potential in the first place—pressed up only a minimal number of copies, but surprise, the album sold out quickly when news of her famous collaborators got around. June performed on bills along with Gong, Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies and Hatfield and the North...
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  46 years later the album remains a highly interesting mix of
  
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  progressive/cosmic art, essential to anyone into the early 70s acid-rock underground scene.
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  Some Day Silly Twenty Three Reflections Am I Everythingsnothing Tunion Tourist Bars
  Letter Mangel/Wurzel To Whom It May Not Concern Optimism Touch Downer
  

1.   CONDITION:
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3. The cover: rated: rated: VG++ front, "EX" (excellent) back, lightly used but clearly collection worthy with little need to upgrade (see photos!) ... light handling per normal ages ago UK albums is visible but no real problems...there is however a U.K.manufacturers low cost sticker on front cover... there are no delete marks, no split seams, and no writing

1. The vinyl: Rated: near M- maybe at worse a few very fine light and soft inner sleeve scuffs, playing very sharp with excellent audio throughout both sides. Both UK Caroline labels are clean