His life descends into meaninglessness after he witnesses a hot-air balloon carrying his fiance crash and burn. Sorrow, an ordinary fellow who works at the “Misery Factory” and is drafted into World War I. The opera’s libretto came in the form of liner notes that told the story of one Sebastian F. Sorrow came out the same week as the White Album and Beggars Banquet. Sorrow, the album’s producer, Norman Smith was also working with Pink Floyd on their A Saucerful Of Secrets album and The Beatles were recording their White Album there as well. At the same time as the sessions for S.F. The sound incorporates the sitar, Mellotron, flute, dulcimer and several tripped out sound effects. Sorrow was recorded between December 1967 and September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios. Sorrow was an influence on Tommy, this seems unlikely to me at best: They were of the same small London scene, The Who and the Pretty Things, so the notion that Townshend was unaware of S.F. Although Pete Townshend has pointedly denied that S.F. Sorrow was the actually the very first rock opera, not Tommy. It’s held in the same high regard as another “lost” 60s classic, Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies. ![]() ![]() Sorrow, the Pretty Things decided to shake it up a bit and create a psychedelic rock opera that some regard as a “lost”-or at least unfairly underappreciated-mini masterpiece (I am one of them). Their gritty, primitive R&B sound was heavily influenced by Bo Diddley’s beat. (Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor originally played bass in the fledgling Stones). The Pretty Things started as blues-rock band in the early 1960s, and they’re often described as being “meaner, louder, uglier and with longer hair” than the Rolling Stones.
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