"Childhead's Doll A Pop Opera" 1971 Autographed 'RARE PSYCH. ROCK' EX/NM LP

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Ralph Tyrrell, Willy Young – Childhead's Doll A Pop Opera

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Label: RCA Custom – SCD-001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: Australia Released: 1971 Genre: Rock, Pop, Classical, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen Style: Psychedelic Rock, Baroque

Tracklist

Side A Part 1: The Market A1 Clown Song A2 Rock-A-Bye Angel A3 Angel's In The Cage A4 Childhead's Entry A5 Procession Of The Black Prince A6 Rocelli, 1 Side A Part 2: The Journey A7 The Journey Part A A8 The Journey Part B Side B Part 2: The Journey (Cont.) B1 The Journey Part C B2 The Journey Part D B3 Lenara's Song B4 Soul Song B5 Roceli, 2 B6 Hat Song B7 The Marriage

Condition Description & Other Information ------ Written and composed by musician Ralph Tyrrell and playwright William Yang (AKA William Young) from Queensland University. It follows the story of a man, Childhead, and his friends – an angel, a clown and his young apprentice, who all work in a market in the imaginary town of Sunshine Valley. The story covers Childhead and his friends’ long journey to retrieve Childhead’s life-like doll, Rocelli, who was stolen by the Black Prince of a place called Murguvor - a mystical and evil land that lies behind the horizon. On this extended adventure to recover this special doll - which holds 'men's fortunes in her eyes' - the group encounter many strange people including witches, talking snakes and wizards. The Childhead, who is the hero, and his companion Long John, go off to retrieve the doll. They find the doll and unfortunately it’s been burnt. Childhead sells his soul to get the doll back. This pop opera followed a series of experimental musicals performed in Brisbane by a group of Architecture students at the University of Queensland between 1967 and 1970. The songs often consist of male and female vocals, guitar, piano, drums and bass, accompaniment from flutes, clarinets, violas, oboes, cellos and violins.
Childhead’s Doll premiered at the Schonell Theatre in February 1971 and was billed as a pop opera.
One of the lead roles, Long John the clown, went to Tyrrell’s new friend from his other musical, 'Bacchoi', Geoffrey Rush! -------
CONDITION DESCRIPTION The Vinyl is between Excellent to Near Mint. Few signs of play with only a few extremely fine hairlines & sleeve marks on each side of the record, none of which are feelable. The Cover is described as VG+. There is some visible edge/spine & corner-wear. There are some fine cracks to spine & edges with associated wrinkles. There is some minor ring wear to front & verso. There are some minor colour losses to edges & spine & some minor paper loss to bottom edge verso. There are some minor foxing towards bottom edge verso. No seam splits. The Insert is clean with some creasing & is in VG+ condition. Please see attached photos...