PERFORMANCE (MICK JAGGER/RY COODER) 1970 UK WARNER 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
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PERFORMANCE (MICK JAGGER/RY COODER) 1970 UK WARNER 1st PRESS - NEAR MINT
Mick Jagger, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Last Poets, Jack Nitzsche, The Merry Clayton Singers & Bernard KrausePERFORMANCE
ORIGINAL UK WARNER BROTHERS (WS 2554) FIRST PRESSING (1970) OF THE SOUNDTRACK TO DONALD CAMMELL/NICOLAS ROEG'S LANDMARK FILM
A dark, experimental film with the cut-up technique dealing with issue of identity crisis which included graphic depictions of sex, drug use and violence.
Warner Bros. studio executives, who believed they were getting a Rolling Stones equivalent of the Beatles A Hard Day's Night, denied the film a cinematic release.
Performance was finally released in 1970 after several recuts and changes but is now cited as a classic of British cinema.
The lyrics of Memo From Turner were re-written for this film and different to the Rollings Stones version on their Metamorphosis LP from 1975.
According to Colin McCabe (in his book Performance) the Moog synthesizer was so new that none were commercially available and a prototype was used for these recordings in 1968 by Bernie Krause
PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE ORANGE WB LABELS
MATRIX: WS 2554A-1 * T / WS 2554B-1 * T
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FULLY LAMINATED SLEEVE "Printed and Made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd."
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING" PRINTED IN BLUE
Even in an era of cinematic experimentation, Performance stands out as a visually daring major-studio film that deals with questions of sanity and identity rarely touched on in mainstream filmmaking.
The elements of Performance certainly looked attractive to studio executives at Warner Bros. -- a gangster on the lam hides out in the home of a reclusive rock star -- especially since that musician was being played by Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.
But co-directors Nicolas Roeg (who also photographed) and Donald Cammell (who wrote the screenplay) had much more in mind than a walk on the wild side of swinging London.
Chas (James Fox) is a sadistic thug who gains our sympathies only because men even crueler than he are out to kill him. After Chas arrives at the mansion occupied by Turner (Jagger) and his female companions Pherber (Anita Pallenberg) and Lucy (Michele Breton), what looks like a decadent idyll fuelled by drugs and group sex turns into a series of mind games in which Turner challenges Chas' sexual preference and core identity.
Even the film's one musical number, "Memo From Turner," is a William Burroughs-like monologue in which Turner fantasises taking over Chas' role as a mobster, spewing insults to his colleagues.
The film's cult status has been fuelled by subsequent films of its co-directors (for Roeg, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Don't Look Now; for Cammell, White of the Eye), which explored similar themes employing the same kind of jagged editing and striking visuals.
Side 1:
Randy Newman: Gone Dead Train (2:55)
Merry Clayton & Bernard Krause: Performance (1:47)
Ry Cooder: Get Away (2:05)
Ry Cooder: Powis Square (2:23)
Bernard Krause: Rolls Royce And Acid (1:47)
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Dyed, Dead, Red (2:32)
Jack Nitzsche: Harry Flowers (4:00)
Side 2:
Mick Jagger: Memo From Turner (4:02)
Ry Cooder & Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Hashishin (3:35)
The Last Poets: Wake Up, Niggers (2:43)
Bernard Krause & Merry Clayton: Poor White Hound Dog (2:45)
Bernard Krause: Natural Magic (1:37)
Bernard Krause & The Merry Clayton Singers: Turner's Murder (4:15)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with only light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+
Both surfaces shine like new.
Some light marks are visible but none of these have any audible significance
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+/NEAR MINT
Great copy and my play-check at volume found little to fault.
Some surface on the run-in to Side One which is over before the loud first Randy Newman track begins but nothing else of note.
Not only a wonderful record in its own right but a fascinating document of the time (recorded in 1968 but not released until 1970) - with a very early appearance of a prototype Moog synthesiser
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The fully laminated cover is crisp and clean with little wear to speak of.
The edges are unworn and all spine text is clear and bold
The laminate has a deep glass-like gloss with only a little rubbing and two thumbnail creases toward the opening edge
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