The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

1974 Art Rock Prog Rock

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Tracklist

A1 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
A2 Fly On A Windshield
A3 Broadway Melody Of 1974
A4 Cuckoo Cocoon
A5 In The Cage
A6 The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging
B1 Back In N.Y.C.
B2 Hairless Heart
B3 Counting Out Time
B4 The Carpet Crawlers
B5 The Chamber Of 32 Doors
C1 Lilywhite Lilith
C2 The Waiting Room
C3 Anyway
C4 Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist
C5 The Lamia
C6 Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
The Colony Of Slippermen
D1a The Arrival
D1b A Visit To The Doktor
D1c The Raven
D2 Ravine
D3 The Light Dies Down On Broadway
D4 Riding The Scree
D5 In The Rapids
D6 It

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Production

Also credited. Design (Sleeve): Hipgnosis. Photography By (All Photography): Hipgnosis. Engineer: Dave Hutchins. Graphics: George Hardie. Graphics (Retouching): Richard Manning. Lacquer Cut By: George Peckham, Porky.

Release notes

1st original UK release with earliest A-2U/B-2U runouts on ‘Mad Hatter’ labels in a matte gatefold cover with cardboard lyrics/credits/graphics inner sleeves numbered CG1 & CG2. Inner sleeves have a full width thumb strip.

B4 credited as “Carpet Crawl” on cover reverse and label, but as “The Carpet Crawlers” on lyrics inner sleeve (CG1).
D1c credited as “Raven” on cover reverse and label, but as “The Raven” on lyrics inner sleeve (CG2).

(Sleeve notes)
Copyright Peter Gabriel 1974
Recorded in Wales with the Island Mobile Studio.
Marketed by B and C Records Limited, 37 Soho Square, London W1.
Printed and Made by Bruin B. V. Zaandam/Holland.

(Label notes)
℗ 1974
Genesis Music/Carlin
Marketed By B & C Records

Runouts are stamped except for the signatures “PORKY X JOHNNIE”, “PECKO” and “PORKY” which are etched.

There is also a near identical UK release, with “Manufactured and Distributed by B & C Records Ltd”, on lower rim of A and C side labels, and not “Marketed by B & C Records”, as on this version.