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Would You Believe
Often called the Pet Sounds of Swinging London, this sun-soaked psych-rock gem gets a reissue!

Would You Believe

Billy Nicholls

€ 30,95
  • LP
Label
Charly | Immediate Records
Expected release
30 May 2025
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Description

• Billy Nicholls’s debut album, produced by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Oldham, who had just founded his own record label, Immediate.
• Once a lost relic, this album has since gained worldwide cult status as one of the great, undiscovered gems of the ‘60s.
• Featuring the Small Faces
• Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Immediate
• Includes collectable Immediate 60th sticker

YES, BELIEVE IT! The highly prized Immediate Records treasure finally gets an official worldwide release almost sixty years after the 100 advance promotional copies landed on radio station desks Charly Records kick-off their Immediate Records 60th Anniversary celebrations with this landmark album by the then teenager, and still little-known, Billy Nicholls.

This cult-status, 12 track album, is drenched in sunshine psychrock and is often cited as Swinging London’s answer to the Beachboys’ masterpiece Pet Sounds. The lavish arrangements were presided over by Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones with input from the Small Faces and Arthur Greenslade with Ronnie Lane producing.

In retrospect, Would You Believe, is an astonishing accomplishment that was conceived and crafted by a 16-years old kid from Shepherds Bush and on its journey rubbed shoulders with George Harrison, Beatles publisher Dick James, Immediate impresario Andrew Loog Oldham and a host of British rock royalty.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Would You Believe
  • 2.Come Again
  • 3.Life Is Short
  • 4.Feeling Easy
  • 5.Daytime Girl
  • 6.Daytime Girl (Coda)

B

  • 1.London Social Degree
  • 2.Portobello Road
  • 3.Question Mark
  • 4.Being Happy
  • 5.Girl From New Tork
  • 6.It Brings Me Down

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