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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Disc One is the original album + other tracks recorded at Revolution studios in 1982. Disc Two has live versions of all the tracks featuring all 3 ‘TN’ singers + 1982 demos. Disc Three has covers/interpretations by many different artists, all remastered & presented in a sumptuous 3CD digipak format. Many of the 39 tracks are previously unreleased. Also includes a comprehensive 24-page booklet with new artwork, lyrics (including some scans of Geoff's original handwritten versions) , extensive sleevenotes (with contributions from all the band members, plus Jane Mann, Andrew Wild and Michael Anthony) and contemporary photos of Geoff and the band.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Andy Revell: “One of my favourites. The lyric exemplifies a more restrained side to Geoff’s lyric writing. To this day I think Geoff is one of the greatest wordsmiths who has ever graced rock music.”

Jane Mann: “We loved living in Salford and thought the people were amazing, but our view of the city was not in the least romantic. Babies sucking sweets, dribbling down quilts, derelict parks: evocative and accurate. But it’s ‘the abstracted shapes of the people’s thoughts’ that really catches the imagination. This is one of my favourite Twelfth Night songs, for its brevity, the one note guitar rhythm and the synthesised strings. I still love it.”

Geoff Mann: “Dear old Salford-upon-Babylon.”

lyrics

the abstracted shapes
of the people's thoughts
different shops and pubs
all the cheap facades

it is all this city
it is all this city

wind shaken trees
half crumbling parks
the enquiring eyes
fingers parting lace

it is all this city
it is all this city

long straggling queues
of the out of work
a baby sucking sweets
dribbling down his quilt

it is all this city
it is all this city
all this city

credits

from Fact And Fiction - The Definitive Edition, released October 1, 1982
Brian Devoil: Drums, percussion.
Geoff Mann: Vocals, tape effects.
Clive Mitten Bass, keyboards, classical guitar.
Andy Revell: Electric and acoustic guitar.

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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