The Lords - And At Night (7") - # 269

The Lords - And At Night (7") - # 269

The Lords, a band from Germany I've been obsessed with since the days I couldn't even spell their name properly. They started off in 1959 as the Skiffle Lords and it was an eventful journey. They disbanded in the early 70s and the singer (Lord Ulli) set our for greener fields with a new outfit, named "New Lords". Just to reform The Lords sometime later. But this is not the story about the band (who's still a working outfit after many line-up changes and sometimes they even play live but are really in their final stages. For people of a certain age having had the fortune to listen to Beat music from Germany (a very good scene) when it was en vogue, the name means a lot.

I'm still after some of their rather hard to get 7"s and a special Cover for the "IV" LP, otherwise known as "Good Side Of June". This 7" I'm talking about is actually one of their best known tracks (of which there is no shortage) and is usually to be found in the retail version, with this sleeve.

I just came across a seller, who's dealing in 7"s for which he produces custom made sleeves of high quality and this one had me up in a second. I've never seen this picture (although I'm not 100 % sure, might have been in a Bravo magazine back in the 60s). I just had to buy it, despite the fact that I have the single several times over. There's even a Typo, the A-side track is called "And At Night" and not "And The Night". How I love these quirks.

Cheers

Roland