LP – Be-Bop Deluxe – Axe Victim

1LP – UK Import

Newly remastered vinyl edition of the debut album by Be Bop Deluxe. Recorded in the early spring of 1974 at several studios in London, Axe Victim was issued by EMI’s Harvest label in June of that year to much critical praise.

The album featured the band’s first line-up of Bill Nelson (vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, piano), Ian Parkin (rhythm & acoustic guitars, organ), Rob Bryan (bass guitar, vocals) and Nicholas Chatterton-Dew (drums). It was championed by DJ John Peel (who had been an advocate of Nelson’s work since the release of Bill’s rudimentary self-released album Northern Dream in 1971), with Peel declaring Axe Victim as one of his favourite releases of 1974.