The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow (LP)

New, sealed reissue of the classic (and arguably 1st ever) rock opera!

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. F. Sorrow is a psychedelic rock opera that explores the life of a single character[5] "from rural birth to Prodigal's Oliver Twist freakout".[6] PopMatters says that the album "mixes the story of the protagonist Sebastian and his journey towards learning to trust people and ultimate disillusionment with a psychedelic pop score that fittingly captured the mood of 1960s Swinging London".[7] Phil May said regarding Pretty Things' decision to record a rock opera, "We were looking for another way of making a 40-minute disk. I could never understand why an album had to be five A-sides and five B-sides with no connection. Pieces of music had been written for at least a 40-minute listen, and I thought the best way to do that was to overlay a story line and create music for the various characters and instances. It was the oldest concept in the world, but at the time nobody had done it before. - Wikipedia