Lucifer's Friend (album)

Lucifer's Friend is the first studio album by the hard rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1970. Lucifer's Friend would change directions multiple times on upcoming albums. However, the progressive and krautrock influenced proto-doom metal on this album lives up to the sinister cover.[1]

Lucifer's Friend
Studio album by
Lucifer's Friend
Released1970[1]
RecordedNovember 1970[1]
GenreHard rock,[2] heavy metal
Length40:32 (Original LP) , 53:02 (with bonus tracks)
LabelGermany: Philips (original release)
Repertoire (1990 reissue)
Vertigo (2010 reissue)
US: Billingsgate
ProducerHerbert Hildebrandt
Lucifer's Friend chronology
Lucifer's Friend
(1970)		 Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing

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

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