Pink Fairies / The Polydor Years (3 x CD)

Description

3 x CD – Boxset / Remastered — Compilation

Includes 16 page booklet with notes, credits and pictures.

1971/73-UK

Format: 3 x CD

#Ref: FLOATD6390

Release date: 2019

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Release notes

Triple CD set. Pink Fairies grew out of The Deviants, a loose-knit band formed in 1967 by members of the West London hippie commune in Ladbroke Grove. Consisting primarily of vocalist Mick Farren, guitarist Paul Rudolph, bassist Duncan Sanderson, and drummer Russell Hunter, the group also featured satellite members Marc Bolan, Steve Peregrine Took, and players from the band Group X, later rechristened Hawkwind. After a disastrous US tour, Farren was fired and the remaining Deviants returned to London, where they recruited vocalist and former Pretty Things drummer Twink (born John Alder), who suggested the name Pink Fairies. Despite gaining a reputation for mythic debauchery, the group remained largely an underground sensation before signing to Polydor and releasing the three albums featured on this 3 CD set. The first two albums were recorded by the original line-up but Rudolph was replaced by Larry Wallis for the third (Kings Of Oblivion). This set is packed with bonus tracks.

Tracklisting

CD1 – Never Never Land

1. Do It

2. Heavenly Man

3. Say You Love Me

4. War Girl

5. Never Never Land

6. Track One, Side Two

7. Thor

8. Teenage Rebel

9. Uncle Harry’s Last Freak-Out

10. The Dream Is Just Beginning

Bonus tracks

11. The Snake

12. Do It (single edit)

13. War Girl (alt mix)

14. Uncle Harry’s Last Freak-Out (alt mix)

 

CD2 – What A Bunch Of Sweeties

1. Prologue

2. Right On, Fight On

3. Portobello Shuffle

4. Marilyn

5. The Pigs of Uranus

6. Walk Don’t Run

7. I Went Up, I Went Down

8. X-Ray

9. I Saw Her Standing There

10. Prologue

Bonus tracks

11. Going Down

12. Walk Don’t Run (first version)

 

CD3 – Kings of Oblivion

1. City Kids 

2. I Wish I Was a Girl 

3. When’s The Fun Begin? 

4. Chromium Plating 

5. Raceway 

6. Chambermaid

7. Street Urchin

Bonus tracks

8. Well Well Well (single version)

9. Hold On (single version)

10. City Kids (alt mix)

11. Well Well Well (alt mix)

 

Tracks 1-1 to 1-10 originally released as LP ” Neverneverland ” in 1971 (Polydor 2383 045).

Tracks 1-11 & 1-12 originally released as single A and B-side in 1971 (Polydor ‎2058 089).

Track 1-13 alternate extended mix.

Track 1-14 previously unreleased first version.

Tracks 2-1 to 2-9 originally released as LP ” What A Bunch Of Sweeties ” in 1972 (Polydor ‎2383 132).

Track 2-10 previously unreleased.

Track 2-11 previously unreleased first version. 

Tracks 3-1 to 3-7 originally released as LP ” Kings Of Oblivion ” in 1973 (Polydor ‎2383 212).

Tracks 3-8 & 3-9 originally released as single A and B-side in 1972 (Polydor ‎– 2058-302).

Tracks 3-10 & 3-11 previously unreleased.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-12 recorded at Command Studios, London

Track 1-13 mixed at Command Studios, London, March 14, 1971

Track 1-14 recorded at Command Studios, London, March 2, 1971

Tracks 2-1 to 2-9 no information about recording studio

Track 2-10 recorded at Polydor Studios, London, November 23, 1971

Track 2-11 recorded at Island Studios, London, February 2, 1972

Tracks 3-1 to 3-7 recorded at Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Chipping Norton, Oxon, UK

Tracks 3-8 & 3-9 no information about recording studio

Track 3-10 mixed at Lansdowne Studios, London, March 1973

Track 3-11 mixed at Command Studios, London, September 2, 1972

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