The Shape of Things to Come was released in the UK in 1970, as a single and on the album Play it Loud. The song didn’t appear in Australia until its inclusion on the Sladest album in 1973.
Album:
The song is on Sladest which entered the Australian albums chart* on 5 November 1973 and peaked at #3.
Songwriters:
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil
Producer:
Chas Chandler
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
The Shape of Things to Come was written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for the film Wild in the Streets, in which it was performed by a fictional band ‘Max Frost and the Troopers’. It was on their 1968 album Shape of Things to Come, featuring a lead vocal by Harley Hatcher.
Many other versions followed, including one by Slade.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_Things_to_Come_(song)
(This is not the same song as Shapes of Things by The Yardbirds)
Lyrics:
There′s a new sun
Rising up angry in the sky
There’s a new voice
Crying ′we’re not afraid to die’
Let the old one
Make believe it′s blind and deaf and dumb
But nothing can change the shape of things to come
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