''Silk Torpedo'' is the seventh

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by the English rock band

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. This is their second album without Wally Waller, the group's rhythm guitarist/bassist since 1967. The album has more of a

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feel, a contrast from their early R&B years and their psychedelic years. The album was the first to be released in the UK on the

Swan Song Records Swan Song Records was a record label launched by the English rock band Led Zeppelin on 10 May 1974. It was overseen by Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant and was a vehicle for the band to promote its own products as well as sign artists who ...

label.

Track listing

Personnel

;The Pretty Things * Phil May –

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*Pete Tolson –

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and acoustic guitars,

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*Jon Povey – keyboards,

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, percussion *Gordon John Edwards – bass, backing vocals, keyboards, guitar *Skip Alan – drums, backing vocals, percussion with: * Jack Green – backing vocals *Silver Band - brass on "Is It Only Love" ;Technical * Norman Smith – production * Keith Harwood – engineer *

Hipgnosis Hipgnosis were an English art design group based in London, that specialised in creating album cover artwork for rock musicians and bands. Their commissions included work for Pink Floyd, T. Rex, the Pretty Things, Black Sabbath, UFO, 10cc, Ba ...

– cover art

References

{{Authority control 1974 albums Pretty Things albums Swan Song Records albums Albums with cover art by Hipgnosis Albums produced by Norman Smith (record producer) Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios