COVEN "WITCHCRAFT"DESTROYS MINDS & REAPS SOULS" RARE ORIG 1969 PSYCH LP
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THIS IS COVEN WITH "WITCHCRAFT" / "DESTROYS MINDS & REAPS SOULS" / ORIGINAL RARE PRESSING / 3 GATEFOLD / RELEASED IN 1969 ON MERCURY RECORDS / CAT # SR 61239
Nice original 1969 first pressing in triple fold cover of the sought after HEAVY PSYCH 1st album by the mighty COVEN featuring female singer Jinx Dawson .... The band's horror-movie psych-rock image did not go unrecognized. When Black Sabbath's first album came out in 1970, head writer Lester Bangs wrote in Rolling Stone that they were "something like England's answer to Coven." Then an Esquire magazine story about satanism -- the cover featured Charlie Manson holding a copy of this Coven album -- and made executives at Mercury Records worried about their companies image, and the label quickly withdrew the album making it a limited and very valuable pressing some 40+ years later.
This content was considered highly unusual for the time. Then called Heavy Underground Rock. Unwanted publicity came to the band in the form of a sensationalistic Esquire magazine issue entitled "Evil Lurks in California" (Esquire, March 1970), which linked counterculture interest in the occult to Charles Manson and the Tate-La Bianca murders, while also mentioning the Witchcraft album and its Black Mass material. As a result of this unwanted publicity, Mercury withdrew the album from circulation, making it limited and oh-so-rare some 40+ years later.....
VINYL IS IN G+ TO VG CONDITION, HAS SOME PAPER SCUFFS AND LIGHT MARKS THAT DO NOT EFFECT PLAY. SLEEVE IS G TO G+, HAS RING WEAR AND EDGE WEAR. BINDING HAS WEAR AND SEAM SPLIT. COMES WITH LYRIC SHEET. LABEL IS CLEAN.
TRACKLISTING
A1 Black Sabbath 3:27 A2 The White Witch Of Rose Hall 3:04 A3 Coven In Charing Cross 4:01 A4 For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 4:37 A5 Pact With Lucifer 3:28 A6 Choke, Thirst, Die 3:23 B1 Wicked Woman 2:58 B2 Dignitaries From Hell 4:05 B3 Portrait 2:32 B4 Satanic Mass 13:17SHIPPING COSTS (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS PRICES HAVE CHANGED AS OF 2013)
LP/12":
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