1974 UK Orig "LADY JUNE'S LEPROSY" Kevin Ayers Gong Eno Soft Machine Prog Psych
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     Once Upon A Timing 

Time Upon A Second

    • ORIGINAL UK 1974 FIRST PRESS
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  •  LADY JUNE 

  • " LINGUISTIC  LEPROSY "
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    'Made in England' - Caroline Records (VIRGIN)  ~ C 1509
       MINTY Original 1974 (rare) first press on the Virgin Records subsidiary "Caroline" RECORDS label

Lady June Marc Bolan of T-REX first wife ~ she was one of the cosmic characters from London's early '70s underground hippie "head" scene.
    Brian Eno & Kevin Ayers teamed-up for this cosmic prog-rock  album in 1974 titled ‘Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy’

When many years later, Lady June died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 64, her obituary in The (UK) Independent called “Lady” June “a great British eccentric and cosmic artist.”  Already a pretty good claim to fame, and the obit went on to say that her “most achieved performance was herself: she succeeded in turning her existence into living art, creative with humor.”

    “Lady” June—the honorary title given to her due to her upper-crust, aristocratic voice (she sounded like a really stoned Judi Dench) and the fact that she was the de facto London landlady of many a progressive musician from the Canterbury set—was a sort of free-spirited hippie bohemian poetess and multimedia performance artist who ran with the crowd that included Gong and Soft Machine, meeting in Spain in the early 1960s.

    According to GonG leader Daevid Allen, who was in both Soft Machine & Gong, June’s enormous twelve room Maida Vale flat was “London’s premier stoned-smoking salon”

    (Daevid remembers) “She was ferocious in the mornings until the first joint arrived: she’d hover over you with a wet cloth demanding that you clean the stove.”

    Amongst the other tenants in June’s apartment were Arzachel/Gong guitarist Steve Hillage, as well as members of Henry Cow, Hawkwind, Hatfield and the North, Tim Blake and David Bedford. Some of her tenants were more conventional types who were often dismayed by the likes of nine freaky members of Gong suddenly turning up to sleep on the living room floor.

    Gilli Smyth of GonG was her best friend, and it was at a dual birthday party June threw for herself and Smyth that a drunken Robert Wyatt fell out of a window, falling four stories and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

    In 1973, June recorded "Lady June’s Linguistic Leprosy," her first LP featuring surrealist cosmic music by her longtime friends ( + longtime tenant) Kevin Ayers and Brian Eno -  a neighbor who happened to live nearby. 
This recording was primarily made in the front room of her apartment with Ayers on guitar, bass and vocals, and Eno playing guitar, bass, and Gong’s drummer Pip Pyle and David Vorhaus of White Noise mixing.  It is said,that this LP cost just £400 to produce on the Caroline- Virgin Records label : the arty Virgin subsidiary set up to release things with no commercial potential in the first place—pressed up only in minimal number of copies --yet surprise, this album sold out quickly when news of her famous collaborators got around. 
Lady June performed to be on bills along with GonG, Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies and Hatfield and the North, to name a few...

    51 years later the album remains a highly interesting mix of
progressive/cosmic art, essential to anyone into the early 70s acid-rock underground scene.

   Some Day Silly Twenty Three
    Reflections
    Am I
    Everythingsnothing
Tunion
II
  Tourist SIDE TWO
Bars
The Letter      Mangel/Wurzel
     To Whom It May Not Concern
    Optimism
    Touch Downer
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  1. CONDITION:
  2. The cover: rated: fragile delicate original rated
  3.  EX" (excellent)
    still clearly collection worthy with little need to upgrade (see photos!) ... light handling per fragile British production yet no real problems...very much still with original colors -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, and no writing  ...

  1. The vinyl: Rated: near M- all sharp clean visuals are with clear audio throughout both sides. Both British 1974 Caroline labels are clean 


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