Spell was a collaboration between Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall

Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician, most notably as a vocalist in the pop band Strawberry Switchblade.-History:...

 and Boyd Rice

Boyd Rice

Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...

. The two cover a number of songs from the 1960s and 1970s, often modifying the lyrics to make them darker. For instance the line in the original song Seasons in the Sun: "Goodbye Papa, please pray for me" becomes "Goodbye Papa, don't pray for me". Several references to Hell and death are added as well.

Discography

• Big Red Balloon
  Big Red Balloon
  -Track listing:#"Big Red Balloon" - 4:17#"The Ever Constant Sea" - 2:34#"Stone Is Very Very Cold" - 2:52 -Track listing:Side A...
  
  (CD, 12" vinyl) (1993)
• Seasons In The Sun
  Seasons in the Sun (Spell)
  Seasons in the Sun is an album recorded by Rose McDowall and Boyd Rice under the name Spell, released in 1993 on Mute Records. The two cover a number of songs from the 1960s and '70s, often modifying the lyrics to make them darker. For instance the line "Goodbye Papa, please pray for me" from the...
  
  (CD) (1993)

Compilation appearances

• "Johnny Remember Me" on Tonal Evidence 7 (1993)
• "I Got You Babe" on The Final Solstice II (2000)