Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait - Cover of the 1988 release

Heaven Can Wait - Cover of the 1992 release

Heaven Can Wait - 1992 edition cover (front) with vinyl

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 their Sister Ray / Ghostrider medleys.

After this gig, since Andrew Eldritch had forgotten (or just didn't know) the words,

The Sisters of Mercy never performed this song live 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 (Luxembourg) / 1992

Heaven Can Wait - Second edition cover (front)with vinyl

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 (turquoise) cover and was issued in 1992.
  This one is limited to 500 copies. Some copies come with a track list on a separate inlay sheet.
  

• 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

• Incomplete recording.
  The full gig can be found on the bootlegs CDs Stairway To Heaven and Burn Black,

or on the double LP King Georges Hall

For recent price developments of both editions see sistersbootlegs/Heaven Can Wait or popsike/heavencanwait

Track List

Heaven Can Wait - 1992 edition, cover back with vinyl in sleeve

Side 1	Side 2
1.  Train	1.  Body Electric
2.  Emma	2.  Gimme Shelter
3.  A Rock And A Hard Place	3.  Some Kind Of Stranger
4.  Floorshow	4.  Stairway To Heaven
5.  Alice	5.  Sister Ray

Sister Ray Medley (course)	Credits
00:00  -  Drums start	Vocals     –     Andrew Eldritch
00:12  -  Guitars start	Bass       –     Craig Adams
00:34  -  "Sister Ray!"	Guitar      –     Wayne Hussey
01:07  -  Vocals start
06:52  -  Vocals stop
07:08  -  Drums stop
07:24  -  Guitar feedback fades out

Additional Pictures

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Heaven Can Wait - Cover with Record Side 2

Heaven Can Wait - Label Side 2

Heaven Can Wait - Info Sheet (snippet)