BEGGARS OPERA 1970 LP ACT ONE ORIG GERMAN VERTIGO SWIRL 6360 018 EX
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BEGGARS OPERA - 1970 DEBUT LP BEGGARS OPERA ACT ONE - ORIGINAL GERMAN FIRST PRESSING ON VERTIGO SWIRL 6360 018 RARITY SCALE R1 - RECORD AND GATEFOLD COVER IN EXCELLENT MINUS TO EXCELLENT CONDITION SOME USEFUL INFO FROM THE INTERNET ABOUT THIS ALBUM: Line-up: Marshall Erskine, bsgtr/ Ricky Gardener, gtr/ Martin Griffiths, voc/ Alan Park, keyb/ Raymond Wilson, dr. Production: Bill Martin & Phil Coulter. Cover-design by Marcus Keef. Photography by Marcus Keef. Liner notes: none Cover manufactured by Howards Printers Recorded at De Lane Lee Studios. Track listing A-side: Poet And Peasant (Franz von Suppé + Beggar's Opera)/ Passacaglia (Marshall Erskine + Virginia Scott)/ Memory (Marshall Erskine + Virginia Scott) Track listing B-side: Raymond's Road (Beggars's Opera)/ Light Cavalry (Franz von Suppé + Beggar's Opera). There are no running time indications The Vertigo logo on front is dark pink. Matrix number A-side: 6360018 1Y//1 ?420 1 1 1 Matrix number B-side: 6360018 2Y//1 ?420 1 1 1 Rarity scale: R1 We're at the heart of early seventies prog here and this fulfills all your expectations, the best and the worst. Mock-classical music on the ominously titled Passacaglia (no, it's not a track by Benjamin Britten in case you wondered) illustrates convincingly everything that can go awry. Pretentious doodling executed with great technical skill plus especially irritating organ pyrotechnics. Baroque influences are everywhere and they are mostly displayed with the intention to impress. But when the organ restrains itself to accompaniment, the music at times rises to the occasion and gets genuinely moving. Almost all of Memory serves like an oasis with arching melodies in the classical desert and the profuse quoting of Light cavalry contains just enough irony to make it worthwhile. A checquered effort. The band took their name from the opera by John Gay from 1728. And another fine surrealistic cover shot by Keef. Dressed as figurines from Little Nemo, the band looks at us as from a another planet, just like the barren landscape would suggest. The lettering is Italian restaurant pizza box jugendstil and why not? Hardly readable, though, due to a colour not contrasting enough with the background. Inside they stand on a bridge twice: once like they are and once quasi reflected in the water. The text is mirrored too and even undulating along with the water.. TO ALL OVERSEAS AND USA BUYERS - ASK FOR SHIPPING RATE TO YOUR REGION BEFORE BIDDING SINCE EBAY SHIPPING RATE CALCULATOR MOST OFTEN GIVES INCORRECT FIGURES
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