This record for Christmas Day 2020 was a present from my Mom and Dad on Christmas 1974. Funny how that worked out. It’s a really good record but I missed the long instrumental solos that were on Selling England By The Pound. It’s a concept album about a youth from New York City who has experiences or dreams including a factory making people into packages, a sexual encounter with the mythical Lamia which results in a transformation into a “Slipperman”,and later a castration. I guess its about self-discovery but the ending is rather ambiguous. The songs are all good but its hard to separate individual songs from the whole story.The first song”The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” got some airplay as did “The Carpet Crawlers” a concert favorite. The last song “It” was also heard on the radio with Gabriel stealing the Rolling Stones’s line “It’s Only Rock and Roll But I Like It” at the end of the song. The record sounds pretty good,no skips but the cover is in bad shape, almost falling apart. It was taped at some point but it has yellowed and split.