Retrieved 27 January We just weren't legally allowed to work. Apple Venus was originally planned as a double album , but because the group did not have enough money to record all the material they had stockpiled, they elected to split the more rock-oriented songs as "volume two" released one year later as Wasp Star. Most of the orchestral portions were rush-recorded in one day with a piece symphony at Abbey Road Studios , and had to be edited over a months-spanning period. He settled on Apple Venus after finding an illustration of a peacock feather that resembled an uvula , which evoked to him something "very vulvic and female". Partridge recalled playing some demos for Virgin agents, and compared their reaction to the " Springtime for Hitler " scene from the film The Producers. Problems playing this file? Uploader: Grogami Date Added: 10 August 2005 File Size: 52.34 Mb Operating Syst...