Be-Bop Deluxe,LP Signed,Axe Victim,Harvest SHVL813 74 UK 1stP,EX,Night Creatures
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BE-Bop Deluxe

Title and label: Axe Victim, Harvest SHVL 813, UK 1st Press 1974, Signed to the Inner sleeve by Bill Nelson And dated 2005.

Condition of vinyl: EX With a couple of very fine hair-lines Please Note All plays EX

Matrix Side 1: SHVL 813 A-2

Stampers GR 1

Matrix Side 2: SHVL 813 B-2

Stampers T 1

Condition of sleeve: EX UN-Laminated Gatefold sleeve.

Axe Victim Review by William Ruhlmann

When Be Bop Deluxe's first album was released during the glam rock wave in 1974 and the band (then comprised of Bill Nelson and Ian Parkin on guitars, Robert Bryan on bass,

and Nicholas Chatterton-Dew on drums) turned up on the back of the record cover in heavy makeup, it was viewed as being in the David Bowie mold,

which certainly took in Nelson's thin but confident tenor vocals and the uptempo rock approach, and even ballads like "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" that sounded a lot like Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide."

But it was already obvious that Nelson was an unusually lyrical guitar slinger, and in fact the tunes often took a back seat to his sometimes jazzy, sometimes metal-ish excursions.

He was, as he sang, "an axe victim," but at the same time, Be Bop Deluxe's musical identity was uncertain.

Side 1:

Axe Victim

Love Is Swift Arrows

Jet Silver And The Dolls Of Venus

Third Floor Heaven

Night Creatures

Side 2:

Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape

Jets At Dawn

No Trains To Heaven

Darkness (L'Immoraliste)


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