Beggar's Opera – Act One - RARE 1970 GF 'West' German VERTIGO SWIRL ORIG. NM

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Beggar's Opera  – "Act One"

Label: Vertigo – 6360 018
Format: Vinyl, LP, Gatefold
Country: 'West' Germany
Released:1970

Inner Cover:"Printed in Germany by H. O. Persiehl". // Label: Vertigo Swirl
Ricky Gardiner mis-spelled Ricky Gardener on the jacket.
Main differences to later releases are the gatefold cover and no credits on back.

---Defiantly cast in the shadow of the then-recently defunct Nice, but brimming with their own ideas and imagination, Beggars Opera emerged in 1970 with a debut album that still stands as one of the crown jewels of prog. Five tracks long in its original (Vertigo label) form,  Act One is an audacious blending of hard riffs, Heep-esque vocals, and crazed organ and Mellotron, and it's those latter elements that most distinctly flavor the album. The opening "Poet and Peasant," based on Franz Von Suppe's overture of the same name, sets the scene with its multiple shifts in tone and tempo; the same composer's "Light Cavalry" then closes the disc in similarly dramatic style. "Raymond's Road" is the climax, however. An 11-minute orgy of sound that rides a "Rondo" rhythm, then sets a slew of classical snatches dancing above it. It's a breathtaking effort, a cross between a mad medley and a free festival freakout.

A1 Poet And Peasant
A2 Passacaglia
A3 Memory
B1 Raymond's Road
B2 Light Cavalry

Credits
Bass – Marshall Erskine
Coordinator [Production Co-ordinator] – John Drummond
Design [Album], Photography – Keef
Drums – Raymond Wilson
Engineer – Martin Birch
Lead Guitar – Ricky Gardener
Organ – Alan Park
Producer – Bill Martin, Phil Coulter
Vocals – Martin Griffiths

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Other (Matrix#, Side 1): 10 AA6360018 1Y 320
Other (Matrix#, Side 2): 10 AA6360018 2Y 320

VG++ / NM-   
....VERY mild cover wear (small price sticker) // Essentially UN-played vinyl, C.L.E.A.N.!

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