Lucifer's Friend ‎– Where the Groupies Killed the Blues ( 1972, Hard Prog, Germany )

Описание: Album : ....Where The Groupies Killed The Blues

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"Lucifer's Friend was a 1970s German Rock band, fronted by British vocalist, John Lawton (of Uriah Heep).

Formed in 1970, evolved from Asterix and comprised of 3/4 of German Bonds, the group officially disbanded in 1982.
It briefly reunited (1993-1997) as Lucifer's Friend II, releasing one album before disbanding once again.
In 2015 Lucifer's Friend have reformed."

Arranged By [Strings & Brass] – Peter Hecht
Arranged By [The Group] – Lucifer's Friend
Design [Album Design] – Witt
Drums, Percussion – Joachim Rietenbach
Electric Bass [Fenderbass], Double Bass [Bass-fiddle] – Dieter Horns
Engineer – Conny Plank
Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Percussion, Vocals – Peter Hesslein
Photography By – Foth
Piano, Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesizer [Moog], Mellotron – Peter Hecht
Producer – J. Rietenbach, C. Plank, D. Horns, H. Hildebrandt, P. Hecht, P. Hesslein
Vocals – John Lawton

Onward marching to the "Rock of Ages"
Torn off pages from a magazine
Soldiers fading from the Earth degrading
Sun's lost out to margarine

Kingdoms, empires read in tea leaves
Everybody fold your hands upon your heads
And hear the news
Somebody somewhere somehow sometime
Looked behind the arass
Where the groupies killed the blues

Heavy sounds in the summertime - ooh -
Chicago learns that black is black
Heavy ground all along the Berlin line
Humpety Dumpety won't go back
Poni Mai?

Classrooms and Sunday school
Where Jesus saved the world
Kingsize and extra cool
And when the smoke unfurled
Straight lanes of lemon trees
Where Palestine prayed on its bended knees
To mankind

Subway moonlight for a flight of fancy
To a smiling face gone underground
Advertising 'stead of law revising
Pay your money, stick around

Pilgrim soldiers on a trip to nowhere
With a one way ticket in their hands
Soap suds sliding to the foam crest riding
Palestine: Whose Promised Land?