New Alizee - The Butterfly Ball

New Alizee video. Singing in English for a television show.
Now some of you may be thinking, what did I just watch? Did it sound a little 70's. This is just too interesting.

Here with a little help from Wikipedia is some information:
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is a concept album and subsequent live rock opera appearing in 1974 and 1975 respectively, based on the children's book of the same title (The album cover design is from Alan Aldridge's design for the book).

It was originally conceived as a solo vehicle for Jon Lord and to be produced by Roger Glover, but Lord proved too busy with Deep Purple and Glover took up the reins on his own. Using his connections, Glover recruited a large cast of noted rock musicians to perform on it, with a different vocalist for each track. The single Love is All, with vocals from Ronnie James Dio, charted in the UK. The song has been used recently by the Dutch political party CDA in its election ads for the 2006 Dutch General Election.

On October 16th 1975, a one-off performance at the Royal Albert Hall took place. Again it had a star-studded cast of rock musicians, most notably Ian Gillan who was drafted in at the last minute and received a standing ovation on his entrance. He replaced an unavailable Ronnie James Dio who had commitments with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (although Dio did eventually get to perform the song at the Royal Albert Hall in 1999 as the guest of Deep Purple). Gillan had not performed since leaving Deep Purple in 1973. Also notable was the appearance of Vincent Price as narrator.

But what about the book? The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. Check it out at Amazon. A children's book by Alan Aldridge. Let source Wikipedia again:
Alan Aldridge is a UK artist, born in 1943. During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for a great many album covers, and helped create the graphic style of that era. He designed a series of science fiction book covers for Penguin Books. He made a big impression with his illustrations for the Beatles Illustrated Song lyrics. He also provided illustrations for "The Penguin Book of Comics", a history of British and American comic art. His work was characterized by a flowing, cartoony style and soft airbrushing - very much in step with the psychedelic styles of the times.

He is possibly best known, however, for the picture book The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper Feast (1973)

Now that was interesting. In step with the psychedelic styles of the times, hmmmm, and the newest release is called Psychedelices. Alizee is a new Mom and this is a children's book.
This was just too much fun.

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