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It is a known fact however for generations past the female occupants of the house were affected with mental problems!
One night the band were doing a late session as usual (the band tended to prefer working at night,) and everyone had come out for a break except for the bass player Greg who wanted to run through his part again? When the band eventually returned to the studio he was just sitting in the corner too scared to move his face as white as a sheet and repeating "I've seen it, I’ve seen it". Apparently he had seen the shadowy form of a woman in black cross the room then drop through the floor.
The band had stage lights in the studio to give a bit of atmosphere so perhaps it was a trick of the light, but one things for sure he would only put his bass tracks down in the daytime and nothing and I mean nothing would induce him to go back in there on his own again.
One of the roadies named Arron was left on his own in the studio for a short while to pack up some gear ready to be loaded for a gig. When a couple of the band went in to see how he was doing he asked, “who’s the bird, I haven’t seen her before”. Obviously when everyone looked round to see who he was talking about there was no one else in the room! Mind you he was pretty stoned as usual.
On another occasion the band where recording a track called ‘The Sorcerer’ and had just laid down the main vocal line. They were in the process of doing a rough mix to see how it sounded when they noticed a female voice singing along in harmony. No matter how many times they run it through and listened no one could explain it!
The bathroom and toilet was located off a landing midway between two flights of stairs just outside the studio. It had at one time had a different use probably as another bedroom of which there were many in the house.
Terry having felt the need for a piss headed up the first flight towards the landing as he neared the top the figure of a woman dressed in black came out of the bathroom and silently passed up the second flight of stairs to the top landing where she promptly disappeared, apparently into a room. Terry, thinking it was one of the female occupants with a strop on from one of the numerous bedrooms off the top landing shouted after her “Don’t fucking talk then!” It was only after coming out of the loo and banging on her door that he found out she hadn’t left the room for hours, her door had been locked and she had been laying on her bed listening to music with her headphones on! ! !
The purpose of this bio is solely to give a background to the band so I wont dwell on the subject any longer but I did think it was worth a mention.
Pagan Altar was due to have a single pressed and issued by the Beatles Abbey Road studio in late 1980. Everything went fine and the aluminium master was laid down ready for pressing when some idiot shot John Lennon. The whole of the Abbey Road facilities were switched to producing John Lennon recordings and previously unrecorded material, everything else was farmed out to other pressing plants to relieve the pressure.

The idea was fine except that the plant responsible for the Pagan Altar single went into bankruptcy, called in the receiver who then impounded everything including the master. By the time all the legal wrangling subsided and the master was returned it was too late, Abbey road had other fish to fry!
Incidentally the aluminium master shown opposite went missing for years and has only recently resurfaced.
It was probably just an oversite with someone forgetting where they originally left it or maybe it was Mary was still up to her old tricks!