Lucifer's Friend (album)

Lucifer's Friend
Studio album by Lucifer's Friend
Released	January 1971 [1]
Recorded	November 1970 [1]
Studio	Tonstudio Maschen & Windrose-Dumont Time Studio [1]
Genre	Hard rock [2] heavy metal
Length	41:12 (Original LP), 53:02 (with bonus tracks)
Label	Germany: Philips (original release) Repertoire (1990 reissue) Vertigo (2010 reissue) US: Billingsgate
Producer	Herbert Hildebrandt
Lucifer's Friend chronology
Lucifer's Friend (1971) Where the Groupies Killed the Blues (1972)

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Allmusic	[1]

Lucifer's Friend is the first studio album by the hard rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1971. ^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Ride the Sky" (Hesslein, Lawton) 2:55
2. "Everybody's Clown" (Hesslein, Docker, Hecht, Horns, Rietenbach) 6:12
3. "Keep Goin'" (Hesslein, Hecht, Horns, Docker) 5:26
4. "Toxic Shadows" (Hesslein, Docker) 7:00

Side two

1. "Free Baby" (Hesslein, Hecht, Lawton, Rietenbach) 5:28
2. "Baby You're a Liar" (Hesslein, Docker, Hecht, Horns, Rietenbach) 3:55
3. "In the Time of Job When Mammon Was a Yippie" (Hesslein, Hecht, Horns, Docker) 4:04
4. "Lucifer's Friend" (Hesslein, Hecht, Horns, Rietenbach, Hildebrandt-Winhauer) 6:12

Bonus tracks from the 1990 re-release

1. "Rock 'n' Roll Singer" (Hesslein, Lawton) 4:21
2. "Satyr's Dance" 3:17
3. "Horla" (Rietenbach, Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) 2:52
4. "Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band" (Becker, Docker) 3:20
5. "Alpenrosen" (Horns, Bornhold, Hecht, Hesslein) 3:53

Bonus tracks from the 2010 re-release

1. "Horla" (Rietenbach, Horns, Docker, Hecht, Hesslein) 2:53
2. "Lucifer's Friend" (Radio Edit) (Rietenbach, Horns, Hildebrandt-Winhauer, Hecht, Hesslein) 3:43

Personnel

Musicians

• John Lawton – lead vocals
• Peter Hesslein – lead guitars, vocals, percussion
• Peter Hecht – organ, piano, French horn (on "Ride the Sky")
• Dieter Horns – bass, vocals
• Joachim Rietenbach – drums, percussion ^[3]

Production

• Günther Zipelius – engineer
• Henning Ruete, Horst Andritschke – mixing
• Juligan Studio – photography and cover design
• Herbert Hildebrandt-Winhauer – producer
• Lucifer's Friend – co-producer

References

1. Guarisco, Donald A. "Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
2. Freeman, Steven; Freeman, Alan (1996). The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Encyclopedia of Krautrock, Kosmische Musik, & Other Progressive, Experimental & Electronic Musics from Germany. Audion Publications. p. 125. ISBN   0-9529506-0-X.
3. "Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend at Discogs". discogs.com. Retrieved 31 July 2015.

External links

• "Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer´s Friend (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs".