Lucifer's Friend (album) explained

Lucifer's Friend
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lucifer's Friend
Cover:	Lucifer's Friend (album) coverart.jpg
Released:	1970^[1]
Recorded:	November 1970
Length:	40:32 (Original LP), 53:02 (with bonus tracks)
Label:	Germany: Philips (original release) Repertoire (1990 reissue) Vertigo (2010 reissue) US: Billingsgate
Producer:	Herbert Hildebrandt
Next Title:	Where the Groupies Killed the Blues
Next Year:	1972

Lucifer's Friend is the first studio album by the hard rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1970. ^[2]

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

External links

• Web site: Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer´s Friend (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend | AllMusic . Donald A. . Guarisco . allmusic.com . 9 July 2011.
2. Web site: Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend | AllMusic . Donald A. . Guarisco . allmusic.com . 9 July 2011.
3. Web site: Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend at Discogs . discogs.com . 31 July 2015.