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Cover of The Beautiful Losers by The Beautiful Losers

GEN038

The Beautiful Losers

The Beautiful Losers

Released
13 December 2013
Format
12" EP
Tracks
4
Label
Genetic Music

All tracks written and performed by The Beautiful Losers.
Bass, vocals by Pete Wong. Guitar, backing vocals by Philip King. Drums by Ray Jordan.
Piano on "Late Night Show" by Adrian Borland.
Additional backing vocals by Ray Jordan and Adrian Borland.
Produced by Adrian Borland. Engineered by Nick Robbins.
Recorded at Elephant Studios in London 1980.
Photography by Roxanne New.
Restored from original tapes and mastered by
Nick Robbins at Soundmastering Ltd. in London 2013.

Tracklist

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  1. 1Late Night Show
  2. 2The City And The Night
  3. 3Heartache Factory
  4. 4Cold As Ice
Band photo: The Beautiful Losers

Artist · UK · London

The Beautiful Losers

The Beautiful Losers was a 3 piece band from London around Philip King (LUSH, The Servants, Jesus & Mary Chain). Their 1980 recordings are real gems of early post punk and now released on vinyl & digital for the first time. Reminiscences of Joy Division or The Sound come up, not surprisingly as the songs were produced by Adrian Borland (Second Layer, The Sound) whose influence is very obvious. He also played piano and sang backing vocals. Even though The Beautiful Losers‘ story is very short, their fantastic songs belong into every early 80s wave/punk collection and are a must-have for Phil King and Adrian Borland fans. This EP is a great document of an inspiring time in music. All songs have been restored from original tapes and mastered again by the original engineer Nick Robbins who has amongst many others also worked on The Sound and Second Layer recordings in the 80s.

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