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HARSH REALITY

TPT 264

HEAVEN & HELL

Tracklist

A1 - When I Move
A2 - Tobacco Ash Sunday
A3 - Mary Roberta (Part I)
A4 - Praying For Reprieve
A5 - How Do You Feel
A6 - Heaven And Hell
B1a - Quickenut
B1b - Devil's Daughter
B2 - Mary Roberta (Part II)
B3 - Melancholy Lady
B4 - Don't Shoot Me Down
B5 - Girl Of My Dreams
B6 - Mary Roberta (Part III)


Gatefold heavyweight vinyl LP - SEALED

Harsh Reality - a little-known, proto-prog band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1968 out of the remnants of the Freightliner Blues Band (formerly the Revolution). The band consisted of Mark Griffiths and Dave Jenkins on guitars, Alan Greed on lead vocals and organ, Roger Swallow on drums, and Steve Miller on bass and backing vocals. They released a single for Philips Records in 1968 ("Tobacco Ash Sunday" / "How Do You Feel") before releasing their only album, Heaven and Hell, also on Philips in 1969. A final single followed soon after, before the band split in 1969.

Their Heaven and Hell LP is now a highly-sought rarity, the original selling for hundreds of pounds between eager collectors. For this reason, Harsh Reality is somewhat famous/infamous in collecting circles

Though seen as part of the proto-progressive rock era, their work represented a marriage between the sounds of Procol Harum, Traffic and early Deep Purple.

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