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Imagery for this video is sourced from photos/scans (jacket/cover, labels etc) of my original Canadian vinyl 1st pressing of Vos Voisins - "Holocauste à Montréal" (1971) Polydor 2424 048. This original version of the LP is quite rare. The album was reissued a few weeks after its initial release with entirely different cover art-work because of the backlash brought about by its mockery of a then popular trashy underground local magazine "Allo Police", not to mention poking fun at the "The October Crisis" related photos that made the headlines only months earlier. This was an historical Canadian event that took place in October 1970 in which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau declared Martial Law by invoking the War Measures Act to combat the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec), who were a Quebec terrorist organization. They had been involved with kidnapping British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdering Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. They were also responsible for detonating 95 bombs at various public places in and around Montreal between 1963-70.
The record company thought it best to change the album cover artwork, and the LP was reissued as Polydor 2424 147. It looked like this:
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Please read band bio below for more info.

Vos voisins biography:
Keyboardist J Perron and drummer P Ringuet had worked together with local celebrities and then with Les Enzymes (L Forestier and Y Deschamps) before hooking up with Guitarist Vallieres and bassist Parenteau and making Vos Voisins (your neighbours). The group made a huge scandal with the releases of their debut (and sole album) with its artwork depicting the scandal news paper "Allo Police" (one of the trashiest ever "newspapers" to ever exist on Earth) and their album had to be taken away from the record shelves after a week or so due to lawsuits... Well the group survived it by changing their artwork and album name, as soon as they could, but failing to capitalize on their "coup", even though one track Monstre De La Main got quite a bit of radio airplay. Needless this original artwork album is worth a small fortune. Musically the standard prog quartet developed an organ-driven hard prog laced in with plenty other influences, with drummer Ringuet and keyboardist Perron writing all the music, but getting extra help for the lyrics. Historically important for Quebec's scene, their hard rock (at times King Crimsonic/Procol Harum-ish). Vallières would be later in Ville Emard Blues Band.

Bio written by Hugues Chantraine.

Line-up / Musicians:
J Perron / Keyboards, vocals
P Ringuet / drums, vocals
P Vallières / guitars
A Parenteau / bass