Heaven Can Wait

Cover of the 1988 release

Cover of the 1992 release

Heaven Can Wait features an incomplete bootleg recording from

The Sisters of Mercy's concert at King George's Hall, Blackburn in 1985.

This was the only gig where The Sisters of Mercy performed Stairway To Heaven with lyrics.

On a few other occasions, Stairway To Heaven was played as an instrumental introduction to Sister Ray / Ghostrider medleys.

After this gig, since Andrew Eldritch had forgotten (or just didn't know) the words, The Sisters never performed this as a separate song again.

The concert ended, however, in one of The Sisters' famous medleys.

Release Notes

• Label: Trade Mark Of Quality

• Catalogue Number: TMQ 71106

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 1988 / 1992

Remarks

• Released in two limited editions.

• The first edition (1988) comes in a dark brown cover with a b/w xerox glued
  to the cover front and is limited to 100 copies.

• The second edition has a mint green/blue (turquois) cover and was issued in 1992.
  This one is limited to 500 copies.
  
• The colour of the cover of the second edition is hard to tell.
  In some pictures it looks greenish, in others more blueish.
  Perhaps different colour-tone versions exist ...

Source

• Recorded live on 21 March 1985, King George's Hall, Blackburn

Track List

Side One

• Train
• Emma
• A Rock And A Hard Place
• Floorshow
• Alice

Side Two

• Body Electric
• Gimme Shelter
• Some Kind Of Stranger
• Stairway To Heaven
• Sister Ray

Sister Ray Medley

• (00:00) Drums start
  
• (00:12) Guitars start
  
• (00:34) "Sister Ray!"
  
• (01:07) Vocals start
  
• (06:52) Vocals stop
  
• (07:08) Drums stop
  
• (07:24) Guitar feedback fades out