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History

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guitarist Trevor Burton occasionally joined the band for gigs and contributes to a couple of tracks, otherwise the band is the same line up stranded in San Francisco as The Deviants in 1969 after they sacked vocalist

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comic strip '' Wonder Warthog versus the Pigs from Uranus''. " Walk Don't Run" is a cover of

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' " I Saw Her Standing There". "Marilyn" features a drum solo. A single from the album "I Saw Her Standing There/Pigs of Uranus" was released in Germany with a picture sleeve of an earlier version of the group. Before its release, singer/guitarist Paul Rudolph left the band, briefly causing its deactivation. Bassist Duncan Sanderson and drummer Russell Hunter formed a new band with singer (and ex

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percussionist) Steve Peregrin Took and guitarist Mick Wayne (ex Junior's Eyes). After one abortive recording session at

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, Wayne, Sanderson and Hunter split from Took and formed a new version of the Pink Fairies for an unsuccessful tour and a single "Well Well Well/Hold On" and also a Radio 1 session, before replacing Wayne with

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(formerly of Took's 1970 band Shagrat). Rudolph's departure was generally viewed as a disaster brought about by disparate drug habits and visa problems but the trio reunited in 2009 to re-record "Do It!" from their first single for the Boss Goodman tribute CD ''Portobello Shuffle''.

Track listing

#"Prologue" (Pink Fairies) - 1:21 #"Right On, Fight On" (Pink Fairies) - 7:59 #"Portobello Shuffle" (Pink Fairies) - 4:24 #"Marilyn" (Pink Fairies) - 5:34 #"The Pigs of Uranus" (Pink Fairies,

) - 3:27 #" Walk Don't Run" (

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; arranged by Pink Fairies) - 9:13 #"I Went Up, I Went Down" (Pink Fairies) - 8:22 #"X-Ray" (Pink Fairies) - 3:08 #" I Saw Her Standing There" (

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) - 3:09

2002 CD bonus tracks

"Going Down" (Previously unreleased) - 5:39 #"Walk Don't Run" (First version) (Previously unreleased) - 10:32

Personnel

;Pink Fairies * Paul Rudolph – guitar, vocals *Duncan Sanderson – bass *Russell Hunter – drums ;with * Trevor Burton – guitar (2, 3) ;Technical *Frank Owen – engineer * Pennie Smith – design

References

External links

Collectable Records
- Original cover {{Authority control 1972 albums Pink Fairies albums Polydor Records albums