
BACK DOOR
Something of a mystery
at the moment. There was a Back Door label in the early 1980s which was
part of the Phonogram group, but as yet I haven't managed to establish any
connection between that and this 1979 version. Assuming for the time
being that they were separate concerns, this particular Back Door seems to
have been responsible for just one single: it was by Dave Oberlé and
it featured 'Beatle Days' and 'Raw Planet', both of which were taken from a
musical called 'Henge'. Its catalogue / matrix number was SBR-2, which
invites the questions 'Was there an SBR-1?' and 'If there was, what was
it?'. Sadly Googling doesn't currently supply the answers. Producer
and co-writer Tim Sebastion was a prominent Druid, while Dave Oberlé was a
member of Gryphon; a couple of other members of that band played on the single,
so there was quite a strong connection. Any more information about Back
Door would be welcome. Thanks to Sporidium of the 45cat site for the use
of his scans here.

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