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BEGGARS OPERA

Act One

Original UK LP released on Vertigo Records in 1977. Gatefold sleeve. Vertigo 'swirl' labels.

6360018 1Y//1▼420   /   6360018 2Y//1▼420

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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. 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 flavour 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 that so firmly establishes Beggars Opera's credentials that it seems impossible to believe that things never got any better for them.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Poet And Peasant
Passacaglia
Memory

Side Two

Raymond's Road
Light Cavalry

 

Released on 'Vertigo Records' in 1970

Catalogue No. 6360 018

Disc is in VG+ condition (light surface marks)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (small sticker tear / light shelfwear)

There is a split to the one edge of the Swirl innersleeve. I will supply the record in a spare inner to prevent further splitting to the original.

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