British band formed 1966 by former associates of The Fortunes, The Mighty Avengers and Pinkerton's Assorted Colours. Initially playing blues rock and reputed for their tumultous stage show, including fire, explosions and property damage. After some member changes they 1970 got a contract with Philips records and released this debute album, then consisting of Tony Cambell on guitar, Berrie Bernard on bass, Des Dyer doing drums, Clive Scott handeling keyboards and Tony Britnal playing Saxophone. It's a concept album, telling a tale about a run down pop-singer and also meant as derition of the music industry. What I hear is a ongoing musical web, woven together by various styles like pop, blues, prog, psych and art music and now and then interupted by various fake interviews. At first I get a patchy impression, but after listening through a couple of times I hear the full picture and it's both interesting and quite funny. As everything sticks together it's hard to pick out single parts, but to me the cover of Family's "The Weavers Answer", the organ drenched "Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring" and the pop psych "Seven Fishes" stands out. I guess timorous listeners won't get much out of this album, but if you're in for an adventure it might be something. To my knowledge this UK was the only issue. It had label as shown here in a fully laminated cover.
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