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3 unusual facts about The Pious Bird of Good Omen


The Pious Bird of Good Omen

The title of the album is a phrase found in an 1817 gloss (marginal note) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Its use as an album title as well as the album art is a sly wink to the featuring of the band's number 1 UK hit "Albatross."

In 2002, the tracks from this album were repackaged by Sony BMG and released as a new collection very closely resembling the 1971 Greatest Hits album, but with the addition of "Shake Your Moneymaker" and "Love That Burns".



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