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You are bidding on BILL FAY.
This is the original 1970 first pressing on Deram SDN12 British issue his first LP Cover is VG ring wear but no seam split or peeling lamination.
Includes original blue stereo inner sleeve.
Visually vinyl is a very glossy VG and better with a few minor scuff marks and a couple of superficial hairline scratches.
Play graded on a high end turntable sound is excellent.
Extremely rare original pressing.
BIO: Fay was born in north London, where he still lives.
1 His first single, Some Good Advice / Screams in the Ears , was issued on the Deram label in 1967, and was followed by two albums, Bill Fay in 1970 and Time of the Last Persecution in 1971.
2 The recordings did not sell well, and Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album.
citation needed They were re-issued in 1998, 3 and then again in 2005.
4 Despite returning to the recording studio in the late 1970s, the follow-up to Time of the Last Persecution was not released until January 2005, 5 following the reissues of his earlier works.
Cult-status and come-back edit Bill Fay s work enjoyed a growing cultstatus in the 1990s.
6 His first two albums were re-issued in 1998, 3 an event which Bill Fay described in 2012 as follows: Up until 1998, when some people reissued my albums, as far as I was concerned, I was gone, deleted.
No one was listening.
But then I got the shock that people remembered my music.
I was doing some gardening, and listening to some of my songs on cassette, and a part of me thought they were quite good.
I thought, Maybe somebody will hear them someday.
That same evening, 14 years ago, I got a call from a music writer telling me that my two albums were being reissued.
A shock is not gonna get much bigger than that, David ...
It was astonishing to me.
I won t ever really be able to believe that it happened.
That s how I feel about it.
I had come to terms with the fact that I was deleted, but that I had always kept writing songs anyway and that was good enough.
3 In 2004, the British label Wooden Hill released a collection of demos recorded between 1966 and 1970 entitled From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock.
In 2005 his late 1970s recordings were released January 2005.
Entitled Tomorrow, Tomorrow Tomorrow, it was credited to the Bill Fay Group and was released on the Durtro Jnana label.
5 The compilation album Still Some Light appeared on the Coptic Cat label in 2010, 7 a double CD containing a mix of older material and newer, home-recorded songs.
8 Life is People, released 21 August 2012 on Dead Oceans, is his first new studio LP in over 40 years.
9 A new album by Bill Fay is announced to be released in April 2015, titled Who Is The Sender.
The second album track, War Machine, is released in February 2015.
10 Buyer pays 12 shipping to the US or 20 overseas.
