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The Lion For Real.
NY: Great Jones/Island Records, 1989. LP record (GJ6004). Promotional copy, with gold stamp to back cover and two typed sheets inserted identifying the songs’ composers and the musicians performing them (these include Arto Lindsay, Steve Swallow, Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell). Allen Ginsberg provides brief descriptions to each poem on the sleeve’s back cover.
Mint in sleeve.
TOGETHER WITH:
a double-sided flyer announcing Allen Ginsberg and Benjamin Zephaniah at the Royal Festival Hall, London, June 15 (1990). 21x15cm. Illustrated with a photograph of Ginsberg by Michelle Vignes. “This concert, his only British appearance, will include some of the poems on the record [“The Lion For Real”]; Ginsberg will be accompanied by musician Steven Taylor, and the evening is introduced by Michael Horovitz. The first half features Benjamin Zephaniah” who “like Ginsberg… has thrown the literary establishment into disarray…”. Lightly creased.
Price:
£25.00
