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The Human Abstract --- 1982

Recorded and mixed at Wave Studios, London, on Oct. 11&15, 1982. Royalties on sales of this record will go to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Text by W. Blake on the back. Excerpt from E.P. Thompson's "Protest and Survive",pp. 54/55, Penguin, 1980, on the back. This musical setting of the poem was written in January 1981, at the suggestion of Phil Shepherd, for inclusion in an anti-nuclear film, "Half Life", directed by Phil Shepherd and Janet Shearer for Bristol Film Co-op