Razor Smiles

Razor Smiles - Cover (front)

Razor Smiles - Cover (back)

A live bootleg 7" single featuring various covers

by The Sisters of Mercy, mostly famous, though,

for the recording of Andrew Eldritch and Wayne

Hussey joining the Skeletal Family on stage

at Markthalle in Hamburg in September 1985

and doing Knockin' On Heaven's Door together

- at a moment in time when The Sisters of Mercy

had already played their famous Royal Albert Hall gig

and shortly before the eventual break-up of the band.

Release Notes

• Label: Crack Down (as noted on back cover)

• Catalogue#: KROL 3212

• Format: 7" vinyl single

• Released: 1986

Razor Smiles - with green vinyl

Razor Smiles - with red vinyl

Remarks

• The record runs at 33 ⅓ RPM

• The vinyl comes in either green or red colour.

Various sources also mention black issues to exist,

but no evidence for these have been found so far.

In addition, the original artwork was sold in 2009

together with a green and a red issue, respectively.

• Remarkably, the catalogue# is similar to the one

of the first and second reissue of the Floorshow EP.

• According to the labels produced by K. Mann

• Matrix / Runouts:

Side A: KROL 3212 A

Side B: KROL 3212 B

• The vinyl comes in a b/w wrap-around cover

and a white inner sleeve.

• The recording date of track B1 is wrongly noted as 17.4.84.

• The venue of track B2 is also wrongly named St. George's Hall.

Sources

• Track A recorded live on 21st of September 1985 with Skeletal Family @Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany

• Track B1 recorded live on 16th of April 1984 at St Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI, USA

• Track B2 recorded live on 21st of March 1985 at King George's Hall, Blackburn, England

Track List

Track	Note
A1   Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Skeletal Family with Andrew Eldritch on vocals and Wayne Hussey on guitar
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B1   Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)   ;	Original by ABBA
B2   Stairway To Heaven	Original by Led Zeppelin

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