FAIRPORT CONVENTION BABBACOMBE LEE 1972 WITH BOOKLET RARE ISLAND PINK LABEL MINT
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FAIRPORT CONVENTION
JOHN "BABBACOMBE" LEE
ISLAND SIL 934457 (AUSTRALIA) 1972
RECORDED AT SOUND TECHNIQUES LTD.
ENGINEERED BY JOHN WOOD
PRODUCED BY JOHN WOOD AND SIMON NICOL
ALBUM DESIGN ROBERTA NICOL
matrix
1 S M X 3 9 6 5 3
I L P S 9 1 7 6 B - 1 U 4 S M X 3 9 6 5 4
additional cutting engineer inscriptions
2 A
PECKO
rare Australian 1972 pink Island 1st pressing
(there was no pink label issue in the UK)
never seen in this condition
the record is mint
labels mint except for the very faint hint of one spindle trace each side
cover very near mint
no splits, tears writing, stickers, stamps, scuffs, stains or wear
spine, seams and opening edges have no wear - near perfect corners
soft-textured white matt sleeve is super clean and just about immaculate
8-page pale yellow (sepia-effect) full-size booklet is as new
this includes drawings and John's own story
TOP FAIRPORT CONVENTION 'PINK' ODDITY
SIDE ONE
John's reflections on his boyhood, his introduction to Miss Keyes and The Glen, his restlessness, and his struggles with his family, finally successful, to join the navy.
This was the happiest period of his life. All looked set fair for a career until he was stricken with sickness and invalided out of his chosen niche in life. Reluctantly and unhappily he turned to a number of menial occupations and finally returned to the service of Miss Keyes.
Tragedy now strikes hard. The world's imagination is caught by the brutal senselessness of the apparent criminal who slays his kind old mistress.
SIDE TWO
John was hardly more than a bewildered observer at his own trial, not being allowed to say more than a few words. The tides of fate wash him to the condemned cell where he waits three sad weeks for his last night on earth.
When it comes, he cannot sleep, but when he does, a strange, prophetic dream comes to him, and helps him to bear the strain of his next day's ordeal as scaffold and its crew try in vain three times to take his life.
SIMON NICOL: Guitar, Dulcimer
DAVE MATTACKS: Drums, Electric Piano
DAVE SWARBRICK: Fiddle, Mandolin
DAVE PEGG: Bass, Mandolin
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