XTC – SGT ROCK (IS GOING TO HELP ME) 7″ – Nr MINT UK 1980 PIC SLEEVE NEW WAVE

XTC – Sgt Rock (Is Going To Help Me)
(Virgin Records  1980  VS365)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are a few light crackles at the very start)

Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– a little wear along opening edge

XTC were a new wave rock band from Swindon, England, led by songwriters Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding and active between 1976 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits “Making Plans for Nigel” (1979) and “Senses Working Overtime” (1982).

XTC were a performing and touring band up until 1982. For the remaining twenty-three years of XTC’s existence they were a studio-based project involving session players around a nucleus of Partridge, Moulding and Dave Gregory.

“Generals and Majors” is a song written by Colin Moulding of the English rock band XTC, released as the first single from their 1980 album Black Sea. Moulding accordingly wrote the song as a satirical take on the phrase “oh, what a lovely war”. The song charted in the UK single chart at No. 32 and No. 104 on the US singles chart, while reaching No. 28 on Billboard’s Album Rock Tracks chart. It was the first XTC single to chart in the U.S., and it also had chart success in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The track was initially released as a double 7″ single with a gatefold sleeve, limited to 15,000 copies. The additional record featured Moulding’s “Smokeless Zone” and Partridge’s “The Somnambulist”.

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