Gentleman Exclusive LP

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing. The prelude to Fela’s mid-1970s purple period, when one masterpiece followed another in rapid succession (Fela released an extraordinary nineteen albums of newly recorded material between 1975 and 1977 alone). The title track has one of Fela’s all-time greatest lyrics. “I no be gentleman at all,” he sings. “Africa hot, I like am so; I know what to wear but my friend don’t know; him put him socks him put him shoes; him put him pants him put him…