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Yes I agree..plus all the history and background make it all the more fascinating.

Sister Ray is now selling My Lost City through Amazon.co.uk for £69.94, as well as on eBay for £14.99. Townsend still has it available for £12.99. Amazon themselves don't have it, though they're selling A Secret Life and Mirrorball. So, it seems it's certainly limited. Anyone waiting to decide whether to buy this may find the decision's been made for them before too long.

This is crazy!

Anyway, nice to see A Secret Life available on Amazon for pre-order.

Darn it. Better make my mind up soon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing...1&condition=new

Yep!

£69.94
Surely no-one would be silly enough to pay that price when copies are still available from Townsend. Is it really a limited edition?

Initially, I felt the same as others have mentioned here about the My Lost City artwork and how it somehow doesn't seem to quite fit with the 'London' theme and setting of the music.

I wondered if John Foxx doesn't have photos of the scenes he describes in his writing - the trees in the upper storeys of the studio, for example, or the Holy well flooding the basement - which perhaps might be more fitting.

But this is being minutely critical, and after reading the sleevenotes it all makes much more sense. The idea to write "hymns for buildings and streets" (which is a great title in itself) seems to have taken some form during walks around Central Manhattan in the 1970s.

...and ARP Odyssey on Imperfect Hymn, which is an amazing track.

The album is a joy to have and is a lost treasure from the early eighties.

Chris

I visited my own Lost City today.
There are bits of me in stairwells, cloisters and down many cobbled streets. Some of the walls feel as they always did, and there are Invisible Women in many of the bars and college rooms that once inhabited my life

Walking in the footsteps of an earlier man
Drifting through the place where I began...

My Lost City is Oxford. Where is yours?

My Lost City is unknown by human name.