http://www.mansun.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Discography%3AAttack_of_the_Grey_Lantern_%28Album%29 Discography:Attack of the Grey Lantern (Album) - Revision history 2026-08-25T18:19:27Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.26.2 http://www.mansun.wiki/index.php?title=Discography:Attack_of_the_Grey_Lantern_(Album)&diff=7090&oldid=prev DarkMavis at 21:47, 2 March 2016 2016-03-02T21:47:57Z <p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr style='vertical-align: top;' lang='en-GB'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 21:47, 2 March 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l72" >Line 72:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 72:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When &#039;&#039;Attack of the Grey Lantern&#039;&#039; was released in February 1997, it charted at #1 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].&lt;ref name=&quot;chartstats&quot;/&gt; The album was preceded by four singles, the first of which &quot;Egg Shaped Fred&quot; was released a year prior. &quot;Egg Shaped Fred&quot; was Mansun&#039;s début single for Parlophone Records and made #37&lt;ref name=&quot;chartstats&quot;/&gt; in the UK. 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[[Paul Draper]] admits that ''Attack of the Grey Lantern'' is not a fully fledged concept album, it was his intention for it to be one, until he "ran out of steam", labelling the LP "half a concept album – a con album".<ref name="Select Review"/>  The majority of the record is centred on the concept of a superhero, known as "The Grey Lantern", in the guise of Draper himself.  Throughout the album, the hero encounters a number of immoral inhabitants in a fictional [[England|English]] village.<ref name="Select Review"/><ref name="Guardian Review"/>
 
[[Paul Draper]] admits that ''Attack of the Grey Lantern'' is not a fully fledged concept album, it was his intention for it to be one, until he "ran out of steam", labelling the LP "half a concept album – a con album".<ref name="Select Review"/>  The majority of the record is centred on the concept of a superhero, known as "The Grey Lantern", in the guise of Draper himself.  Throughout the album, the hero encounters a number of immoral inhabitants in a fictional [[England|English]] village.<ref name="Select Review"/><ref name="Guardian Review"/>
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