{"product_id":"be-bop-deluxe-axe-victim-uk-import","title":"Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim [UK Import]","description":"\u003cp\u003eBe-Bop Deluxe arrived fully formed and flamboyant on Axe Victim, the 1974 debut that introduced Bill Nelson's dazzling guitar to the world, reissued here as a UK import LP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally issued on EMI's Harvest label, the album captured the band's first line-up: Nelson on vocals and lead guitar, Ian Parkin on rhythm guitar and organ, Rob Bryan on bass and Nicholas Chatterton-Dew on drums. Glam rock was everywhere that year, and the band borrowed its glitter and theatre, but Nelson's restless songwriting and fluid, inventive playing already pointed somewhere more adventurous. John Peel was an early champion, counting it among his favourite records of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title track sets out the album's fascination with the guitarist as both hero and casualty, while \"Jet Silver and the Dolls of Venus\" is pure sci-fi glam, all swagger and shimmer. \"Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape\" became a fan classic, a soaring, homesick epic drawn from Nelson's northern upbringing, and the grand \"Darkness (L'Immoraliste)\" closes things on a dramatic, sweeping note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNelson would go on to sharpen this vision on later Be-Bop Deluxe records, but Axe Victim has a wide-eyed ambition all its own. For lovers of art rock and guitar-driven glam, it's a debut well worth rediscovering, and a reminder of how inventive mid-seventies British rock could be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57351093748017,"sku":"5013929471627","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Be-Bop_Deluxe-Axe_Victim_UK_Import.jpg?v=1793980883","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/be-bop-deluxe-axe-victim-uk-import","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}