Stranglers The Raven LP Netherlands Import orig inner sleeve w/Petersen pic
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Stranglers The Raven LP Netherlands Import original inner sleeve with Joh Bjelke-Petersen image 1979 Archival Sleeve. Rare
The Raven is the fourth studio album by English new wave band the Stranglers, released on 15 September 1979, through record label United Artists
The first two songs, much of the artwork (the band is shown standing on the prow of a Viking longship on the back cover) and the album title refer to Norse mythology. The album deals with a variety of issues, including Japanese ritual suicide ("Ice"), heroin use ("Don't Bring Harry"), the Iranian Revolution ("Shah Shah a Go Go") and genetic engineering ("Genetix"). The album was originally released with Petersen Image the band was forced to remove an image of Joh Bjelke-Petersen from the inner sleeve artwork. Bjelke-Petersen was the subject of the album's sixth track, "Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)".
The Stranglers are an English rock band who emerged via the punk rockscene. Scoring 23 UK top 40 singles and 19 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are one of the longest-surviving bands to have originated in the UK punk scene.


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