Beggars Opera Act One 1971 Original Gatefold Verve V65080 plays mstly VG++
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Beggars Opera ~ Act One
1971 Original, 1st pressing. Verve Records - V65080 Made in the U.S.A. Vinyl is VG+ to VG++. Vinyl plays VG+ to VG++, mostly VG++: some VG+ with minor ticks and clicks and "background" wear and most of the vinyl has only very minor background wear. Labels are VG++: a few, small and minor, faint spindle-marks and manufacturer imperfections. Gatefold Cover is VG: cover-wear, corner-bends and wear, some other similar imperfections. Out of Print
..."brimming with their own ideas and imagination, Beggars Opera emerged in 1970 with a debut album that still stands as one of the crown jewels of prog. Five tracks long in its original (Vertigo label) form, but bolstered with both sides of their debut single for the Repertoire CD, Act One is an audacious blending of hard riffs, Heep-esque vocals, and crazed organ and Mellotron, and it's those latter elements that most distinctly flavor the album. The opening "Poet and Peasant," based on Franz Von Suppe's overture of the same name, sets the scene with its multiple shifts in tone and tempo; the same composer's "Light Cavalry" then closes the disc in similarly dramatic style. "Raymond's Road" is the climax, however. An 11-minute orgy of sound that rides a "Rondo" rhythm, then sets a slew of classical snatches dancing above it. It's a breathtaking effort, a cross between a mad medley and a free festival freakout that so firmly establishes Beggars Opera's credentials that it seems impossible to believe that things never got any better for them."
-allmusic.com
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