S. F. Sorrow is the fourth album by the English rock band Pretty Things. Released in 1968, it is known as one of the first rock operas ever released. S...
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record was packaged as a double LP with their previous album S.F. Sorrow titled S.F. Sorrow and Parachute and issued on the UK label Harvest on the Harvest...
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the band's main lyricists. He was the primary lyricist for the album S.F. Sorrow. Born Philip Wadey in Dartford, Kent, he was raised by his aunt and uncle...
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albums, including the debut The Pretty Things (UK Albums Chart #6) and S. F. Sorrow (being the first rock opera), four EPs and 15 UK singles, including the...
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shorter concept albums Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (Small Faces, 1968) and S.F. Sorrow (The Pretty Things, 1968). Author Jim Cullen states: "The concept album...
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rock opera sub-genre". Neil Strauss of The New York Times wrote that S.F. Sorrow (1968) by the Pretty Things is "generally acknowledged as the first rock...
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producer. He was a member of Pretty Things on their most famous records, S.F. Sorrow and Parachute. Wally Waller was born Alan Edward Waller in Barnehurst...
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Nosul). Baron Saturday, who represents Baron Samedi, appears in the album S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things, where he takes the titular character on a trip...
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full-length rock opera, predating both The Pretty Things' December 1968 entry S.F. Sorrow and The Who's May 1969 release Tommy by over a year. "Pentecost Hotel"...
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first academic paper. In the Pretty Things's psychedelic 1968 album, S.F. Sorrow, the song "Baron Saturday" features the lyrics: "'neath a sky of milk/You're...
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