LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Come In You Wonder How These Things Began Rape La Ronde De L'Amour Jenny Kissed Me The Way I Cry Over You Unknown Citizen It's When I Touch You Hippie and The Skinhead Try To Remember To Forget (Riviera Cowboy) Jenny Kissed Me And It Was/// Widdecombe Fair Neville Thumbcatch Once Again (Flight Number ) Pay No Attention April RPM has again taken on one of pop's more bizarre offerings - Peter Wyngarde's one and only recording venture - an album steeped in myth and controversy, and one which encompasses ALL the categories above. Withdrawn within weeks after it first appeared back in 1970, and mired in contractural complications until RPM (as a genuine indie label!) were able to offer it a more than suitable home. The record's outrageousness often overwhelms what would still be one of the more bizarre episodes in popular music. The listener is unlikely to forget "Hippie And The Skinhead", where Wyngarde reads out a letter written to "The Times" by two Home Counties skinhead girls, or the tale of "Billy the Queer, Pilly Sexy Hippie", sung over an incongruous, Nashville backing. And there's even something for discerning lovers of late Sixties English rock as he takes on the Attack's "Neville Thumbcatch", written by Vic Smith.