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Artist:	FOOL, THE
Title:	The Fool
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 116CD

"Anarchic eccentrics in 1960's Amsterdam and London; designers of many a psychedelic wonder; mainly known for being slagged off in every Beatles book ever written by those who weren't there! But was there more? Oh yes indeed... The Fool began as a faction of the Amsterdam Provos, the Provocateurs whose Proto-Situationist pranks had Holland in an uproar throughout the 1960's. From White Bicycles to trepanation to nonstop major windups of the Police and government, the Provos achieved a species of portable Anarchist Republic which stunned Europe. The Fool came to London as designers though, commissioned by NEMS management to style their clients in the new Psychedelic fashions, everything from the painted guitars and flamboyant clothes sported by Cream on their first US tour to Psychedelic cars for the stars and the mural on The Apple Boutique, which also showcased their fashions. Their album sleeves for Jimi Hendrix, The Move, and The Incredible String Band among others, remain classics. And, yes, they made an album! Produced by Graham Nash on the cusp of leaving The Hollies (who The Fool also did sleeves for!) and founding CSN, engineered by Hendrix soundmaster Eddie Kramer, the album is a shock! Pictured and airily dismissed in every Beatles book, this is a tour de force of Wyrd Folk ala Incredible String Band and strange twisted visions of pop ala God knows who! A delight long buried under Beatles baggage. The Fool can take its place alongside the likes of David Hemmings David Hemmings Happens and Vashti's Another Diamond Day as rediscovered artifacts of a time when an injection of Wicker Man-ism somehow found it's way into the already twisted body of British pop. This legendary album is a must for all Apple Records collectors; fans of The Incredible String Band and of the growing, nay exploding field of wyrd folk in general!"

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