{"product_id":"bill-fay-time-of-the-last-persecution","title":"Bill Fay - Time Of The Last Persecution","description":"\u003cp\u003e Bill Fay's second album, Time of the Last Persecution (1971), is a haunting \u003cbr\u003eand contemplative work blending folk, rock, and spiritual introspection -  With \u003cbr\u003eits poetic lyrics and evocative melodies, the album explores themes of faith, \u003cbr\u003edoubt, and human vulnerability - This 180g vinyl re-issue replicates the \u003cbr\u003eoriginal UK pressing\u003cbr\u003e As Fay's journalistic champion Rob Young wrote in 2005, \"If Bill Fay was his songs of \u003cbr\u003einnocence, Time Of The Last Persecution collected songs of experience.\" Shorn of the \u003cbr\u003elush orchestration of his debut, Time Of The Last Persecution, originally released in \u003cbr\u003e1971 and produced by Fay's guitarist Ray Russell, is deep, pensive and philosophical. \u003cbr\u003eWorking with a small band, songs like 'Til The Christ Comes Back and Release Is In \u003cbr\u003eThe Eye are powerful statements, with Russell's guitar lyrically complementing Fay's \u003cbr\u003esometime oblique words. One of the most prescient songs is Pictures Of Adolf Again, \u003cbr\u003ewhich looks aghast at the resurgence of the right-wing 25 years after the Second \u003cbr\u003eWorld War. Fay questions what the choice people will have to make \"Christ or \u003cbr\u003eHitler? . . . Christ or all the Caesars to come?\" The title track was influenced by the \u003cbr\u003eKent State University massacre; Come A Day suggests that at the day of reckoning, no \u003cbr\u003enation will prevail.\u003cbr\u003e Of Time Of The Last Persecution, Ray Russell said in 2005, \"I think it was apocalyptic. \u003cbr\u003eI think we were all waiting for the sky to open a bit. But, funnily enough, you know how \u003cbr\u003ethese feelings kind of bring you through things, and it's interesting that people now \u003cbr\u003efind it very relevant to the situation again.\" Sadly, issues like this never seem to go out \u003cbr\u003eof fashion. With its subject matter, the album's occasional discordance, and Fay's \u003cbr\u003edishevelled look on the cover led to speculation that Fay was about to become \u003cbr\u003eanother hippie casualty. Far from it. He got a day job and lived quietly, yet never \u003cbr\u003estopped writing. \"I've just simply accepted the fact that I wasn't an established artist \u003cbr\u003eand couldn't keep making albums. But the songs didn't stop . . . To be able to write \u003cbr\u003esongs is really a big enough plus.\" Thank heavens he could  Time Of The Last \u003cbr\u003ePersecution is one of the best albums you've never heard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PROPER RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl","offer_id":53207229333831,"sku":"TRI-65920","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/745d9ff634947e67dc2bb4d43525ee34.png?v=1769379987","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/bill-fay-time-of-the-last-persecution","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}