... Rage Before Beauty

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... Rage Before Beauty
Studio album by Pretty Things
Released	9 March 1999
Recorded	1998-99
Studio	145 Wardour Street, Soho, London
Genre	Rock and roll, art rock
Length	64:27
Label	Snapper Music
Producer	Mark St. John, Dave Garland
Pretty Things chronology
Resurrection (1999) ... Rage Before Beauty (1999) Balboa Island (2007)

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... Rage Before Beauty, released in 1999, is the tenth studio album by the English rock band Pretty Things, and the first since 1980's Cross Talk.

Track listing[]

1. "Passion of Love" (Phil May, Mark St. John) – 3:22
2. "Vivian Prince" (May, Frank Holland, Jon Povey) – 5:15
3. "Everlasting Flame" (May, Holland, St. John) – 3:46
4. "Love Keeps Hanging On" (May) – 8:55
5. "Eve of Destruction" (P. F. Sloan) – 3:03
6. "Not Givin' In" (May) – 4:02
7. "Pure Cold Stone" (May, Dick Taylor) – 5:47
8. "Blue Turns to Red" (May, Holland) – 4:01
9. "Goodbye, Goodbye" (May, Povey) – 2:45
10. "Goin' Downhill" (May, Pete Tolson) – 4:12
11. "Play with Fire" (Nanker Phelge) - 4:07
12. "Fly Away" (May) - 4:30
13. "Mony, Mony" (Tommy James, Bo Gentry, Ritchie Cordell, Bobby Bloom) - 4:45
14. "God, Give Me the Strength (To Carry On)" (May, St. John) - 6:03

Personnel[]

Pretty Things

• Phil May – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
• Dick Taylor – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
• Frank Holland – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
• Wally Waller – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
• Jon Povey – keyboards, vocals
• Skip Alan – drums, percussion

Studio musicians

• Mark St. John - drums
• Nick Broadway - Hammond organ
• Steve Browning
• Robert Webb - keyboards
• Nigel Ross-Scott - bass
• David Gilmour – lead guitar on "Love Keeps Hangin' On"
• Ronnie Spector – vocals on "Mony Mony"

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