Body Electric (single)

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This is the second single ever by The Sisters of Mercy.

Body Electric 7" - common red cover
Body Electric 7" with light red (pink) cover


Release Notes

  • Label: Merciful Release/CNT Productions
  • Catalogue#: CNT 002
  • Format: 7" vinyl single
  • Release Date: April 1982


Tracks:

Side A -   Body Electric -   4:20
Side AA   -   Adrenochrome   -   2:57


Band/Recording Personnel

Andrew Eldritch -   Vocals
Gary Marx -   Guitars
Craig Adams -   Bass
Doktor Avalanche    -   Drums



Remarks

  • Released on CNT label, York, since the band didn't have the money to release it themselves on Merciful Release.
A view of the original can also be found at the WebMuseum.
Body Electric - 7" Cover (back)
  • The issue of the cover art for the Body Electric single was also featured and discussed in UTR,
The Sisters' official fanzine, see
- Heartland Gallery/UTR#9 - Page 6 and
- Heartland Gallery/UTR#9 - Page 7.
  • The title of the single and the song Body Electric are derived from the poem
I Sing The Body Electric by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
  • Some copies have a lighter almost pink or orange red on the cover than others.
  • The covers are either made of thin paper, or they are thick and glossy.
  • All of the original releases come with a thumb cut on the upper side of the cover back.


Broadcast

played Body Electric on BBC Radio One during his John Peel Show on 16th January 1984.
Body Electric - 7" Cover (back) in more pinkish tone
See also this thread @The Heartland Forums and John Peel Shows 1980-85.


NOTE
Meanwhile some bootlegs have surfaced
which should not be mistaken for the present original release, see:

- Body Electric - Adrenochrome - 7" bootleg released in 1987

- Body Electric (Australian 2009 Reissue) - red vinyl, mainly available as part of a set

- Body Electric (Greek demo bootleg) - alledgedly some "untitled demo version"

- Body Electric - Floorshow (Greek live bootleg) - Live in Bologna 1985

- Body Electric - Sister Ray (Greek live bootleg) - Live at Deinze 1984


Body Electric - 7" Cover (back) in more orange tone

Additional Pictures

Body Electric 7" vinyl (Side A)
Body Electric 7" vinyl (Side AA
Body Electric 7" - Label Side A

Body Electric 7" - Label Side AA