T Rex - My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair..
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Description
Original pressing of Tyrannosaurus Rex's 1968 album 'My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows' on 12" Vinyl.
The record features Marc Bolan on vocals and guitars, and Steve Peregrine Took on backing vocals, drums, pixiephone, and percussion. It also features disc jockey John Peel, who reads a Bolan-penned fairytale for the album's closing track, "Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love)," which includes what must be one of the earliest "Hare Krishna" chants on a British pop record (two years before George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord").
The album's music is much influenced by Tyrannosaurus Rex' psychedelic contemporaries, and marks, for Bolan, a rejection of the electric guitar–led freakbeat music he'd been playing with his previous band, John's Children.
The album was recorded at Advision Studios in London in early 1968. Advision was the first studio in the U.K. with eight-channel recording equipment. This Advision eight-channel machine was a model 280 made by Scully Recording Instruments. It allowed for far greater recording flexibility than the standard 4-track recorders of the era.
Recordings of the songs "Mustang Ford" (single release, titled "Go Go Girl") and "Hot Rod Mama" (live) by John's Children exist.
All tracks written by Marc Bolan
Side 1
- "Hot Rod Mama" – 3:09
- "Scenescof" – 1:41
- "Child Star" – 2:52
- "Strange Orchestras" – 1:47
- "Chateau in Virginia Waters" – 2:38
- "Dwarfish Trumpet Blues" – 2:47
Side 2
- "Mustang Ford" – 2:56
- "Afghan Woman" – 1:59
- "Knight" – 2:38
- "Graceful Fat Sheba" – 1:28
- "Wielder of Words" – 3:19
- "Frowning Atahuallpa (My Inca Love)" – 5:55
- Unlisted Track
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