Bill Fay is a singer, pianist and songwriter from England. He made one single ("Some Good Advice"/"Screams in my Ears") and two albums (Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution) for the Deram label between 1967 and 1971. These recordings did not sell well: poor promotion and distribution were blamed. Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album.

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  • Bill Fay is a singer, pianist and songwriter from England. He made one single ("Some Good Advice"/"Screams in my Ears") and two albums (Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution) for the Deram label between 1967 and 1971. These recordings did not sell well: poor promotion and distribution were blamed. Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album. Despite returning to the recording studio in the late 1970s, the follow up to Time of the Last Persecution did not emerge until January 2005. Entitled Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow, it was credited to the Bill Fay Group and was released on the Durtro Jnana label. In 2004, the British label Wooden Hill released a collection of demos recorded between 1966 and 1970 entitled From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock. Fay's original Deram albums are now extremely rare and are much sought after by collectors, though they are easily obtainable on CD since being reissued by Eclectic Discs in 2005. Jeff Tweedy from the band Wilco has played Fay's song "Be Not So Fearful" in live performances and can be heard singing it in the documentary I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco. It is believed to be the influence of Jim O'Rourke who made a cover (along with Glen Kotche) of "Pictures of Adolf Again", which can be heard in the movie from Koji Wakamatsu "United Red Army". The title track of "Time of the Last Persecution" became a live standard of British Apocalyptic Folk group Current 93.
  • Bill Fay est un chanteur, pianiste et auteur-compositeur anglais. Il a publié un single (Some Good Advice/Screams in my Ears) et deux albums (Bill Fay et Time of the Last Persecution), publiés par le label Deram entre 1967 et 1971. Ces enregistrements se sont mal vendus, en raison d'une promotion et d'une distribution insuffisantes. Deram se sépara de Fay peu après la sortie de son second album. Malgré son retour en studio à la fin des années 1970, la suite de Time of the Last Persecution n'aboutit pas avant janvier 2005. Baptisée Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow et attribuée au « Bill Fay Group », elle fut publiée par le label Durtro Jnana. En 2004, la label anglais Wooden Hill sortit une série de maquettes enregistrées entre 1966 et 1970, sous le nom From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock Selon Uncut Magazine, Bill Fay constitue « le chaînon manquant entre Nick Drake, Ray Davies et Bob Dylan ». Bill Fay s'inscrit en effet dans la veine des grands songwriters du tournant des années 70, parmi lesquels on peut également évoquer Leonard Cohen, ou encore John Lennon. Les albums originaux de Bill Fay sont aujourd'hui extrêmement rares et particulièrement recherchés par les collectionneurs, bien qu'ils soient facilement disponibles en CD depuis qu'Eclectic Discs les a ressortis en 2005.
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  • Bill Fay is a singer, pianist and songwriter from England. He made one single ("Some Good Advice"/"Screams in my Ears") and two albums (Bill Fay and Time of the Last Persecution) for the Deram label between 1967 and 1971. These recordings did not sell well: poor promotion and distribution were blamed. Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album.
  • Bill Fay est un chanteur, pianiste et auteur-compositeur anglais. Il a publié un single (Some Good Advice/Screams in my Ears) et deux albums (Bill Fay et Time of the Last Persecution), publiés par le label Deram entre 1967 et 1971. Ces enregistrements se sont mal vendus, en raison d'une promotion et d'une distribution insuffisantes. Deram se sépara de Fay peu après la sortie de son second album.
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