• 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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    albums, including the debut The Pretty Things (UK Albums Chart #6) and S. F. Sorrow (the first rock opera), four EPs and 15 UK singles, including the Top...
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  • Smith produced one of the first rock concept albums, Pretty Things' S. F. Sorrow. He produced early recordings by Barclay James Harvest, including their...
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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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    was narrator for the Pretty Things' live performance of their album S. F. Sorrow (1998) at Abbey Road Studios. He also appeared on television, guesting...
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    "One for Sorrow" is a traditional children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen tells if one will...
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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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    promotional box set alongside four other albums which included Pretty Things' S. F. Sorrow, as well as albums by Love Sculpture, Rustix and the Messengers. The...
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  • Miller. As a rock opera, it follows the example of The Pretty Things' S. F. Sorrow rather than The Who's Tommy, with the liner notes telling the complete...
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  • Sing the Sorrow is the sixth studio album by American rock band AFI. Recorded at Cello Studios in Los Angeles, California between 2002 and 2003, the album...
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  • Harrington 1989. Mattingly 2007. Zupko, Sarah. "The Pretty Things, S.F. Sorrow". PopMatters. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved...
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  • Stars. McCann, Ian (August 27, 2020). "Motown And Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream Speech". uDiscoverMusic.com. Retrieved October 30, 2020. (includes...
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  • album. This resulted in the debut studio album of Aldous Snow's band Infant Sorrow being unveiled under the same title as the film. Composer Lyle Workman,...
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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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    ISBN 978-1561713240. Murphy, John M. (1990). "'A Time of Shame and Sorrow': Robert F. Kennedy and the American Jeremiad". Quarterly Journal of Speech....
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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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  • Pretty Things. It is a complete performance of their 1968 rock opera S.F. Sorrow, recorded thirty years later in Abbey Road Studios. Resurrection was...
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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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  • 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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  • and Jon Povey. He participated in the making of their classic album S.F. Sorrow. He was also a member of this group when it appeared in the Norman Wisdom...
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    the desirability of it, is not to be confused with the man who bears his sorrow quietly. The addict is to be pitied and even respected, not the pusher."...
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  • Planet (2007) Porcupine Tree – The Incident (2009) The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow (1968) Primus – Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble...
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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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    album, several months before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, S.F. Sorrow and Tommy were issued. However, The Mindbenders’ release With Woman in...
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    the Pretty Things in 1969, after the release of their concept album S.F. Sorrow. The band released a few more albums without Taylor and disbanded in...
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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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  • released, predating story-driven concept albums such as Pretty Things's S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), The Who's Tommy (April 1969) and The Kinks's Arthur...
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  • users began typing a singular "F" in chat windows on websites such as Twitch to convey condolences or a sense of sorrow when reacting to any unfortunate...
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    Rock Album Covers". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 8 December 2014. Thorgerson, S: Hipgnosis • Walk Away René, page 87. Paper Tiger, 1978. Sweeting, Adam (18...
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  • USA) The Playmates (leased from Roulette Records) The Pretty Things (S.F. Sorrow, 1968, then switched to Harvest) P.J. Proby Johnnie Ray (leased recordings)...
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