SCARCE #177 NUMBERED U.K. Orig 1968 Brit Popsike Hard PSYCH Melody Swirl Groovy

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25 years Ago NUMBERED (British) Limited Edition !

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• "made In England" - 10th Planet - TP014
  

• HAND NUMBERED ( # 177 ) British Limited Edition From 25 years ago, very hard to find in STONE MINT condition as this original press! 
  

1.  The Mike Stuart Span was a band with a confusing name and a confusing history, the Mike Stuart Span did manage to record a classic British psychedelic single in 1967, "Children of Tomorrow." With its driving power chords, squealing guitar leads, and haunting harmonies, the song struck a classic midpoint between hard mod-pop and the early psychedelia of UK groups like the Pink Floyd and Tomorrow. The problem was that hardly anyone actually heard the record, as it was pressed in a run of 500 copies on a small independent label.
   
   The Brighton group had been around since the mid-'60s, and recorded a few other singles for Columbia and Fontana with a much more conventional pop approach. There was actually no one named Mike Stuart in the act, which began to rely much more upon self-penned psychedelic material in 1967. Most of this never got beyond the demo/Peel session stage, though. The band were pressured by management to make an out-and-out pop single in 1968 that flopped, helping to squelch any prospects of the musicians asserting themselves as a significant presence in the British psych/prog scene.
   
   In the late '60s, the Mike Stuart Span were actually featured in a BBC TV documentary entitled A Year in the Life (Big Deal Group), which charted the band's successes and (more commonly) failures over the course of a year. By the time it aired in September 1969, however, the group had changed their name to Leviathan, signed with Elektra, released a few singles, completed an unreleased album, and broken up. Nothing else they recorded matched the brilliance of "Children of Tomorrow," though most of their original material was infused with the same yearning for some sort of just-around-the-horizon utopia. But they left behind a number of demos that demonstrated a promising ability to wed hard psychedelic guitars with a fair knack for melody and harmony. Interest in the band increased in the 1980s when "Children of Tomorrow" was featured on a few psychedelic compilations. An entire album's worth of tracks, culled from singles, demos, and a BBC session, finally saw the light of day some 25 years ago and :::
   
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3. here a MINT copy.

1.     Children Of Tomorrow
   Second Production
   Remember The Times
   Time
   Concerto Of Thoughts
   Flames
2. SIDE TWO:
   Through The Looking Glass
   Rescue Me
   World In My Head
   Evil Woman
   Blue Day
   Through The Looking Glass (BBC Session)
   My White Bicycle (BBC Session)
   Time (BBC Session)
   Children Of Tomorrow (BBC Session)
   
   Brian Bennett (guitar)
   Stuart Hobday (vocals)
   Gary Murphy (drums)
   Roger McCabe (bass)   CONDITION:
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4. The cover: rated: Delicious Stone MINT perfect fragile/delicate GATEFOLD would be impossible to find a better copy! There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

1. The vinyl: Rated: Stone MINT clean & clear looks un-played and probably has never been played! both UK 10th Planet labels are clean

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