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Yes The Majesty Of Music Great Western Forum, Inglewood, CA March 18th 1974 (PRRP 046)

... apply. That is certainly at the basis of much of Jon Anderson's lyrics, together with a plea for ever growing awareness of self and others.” Chris Welch, Melody Maker Welch's words are taken from page 19 of the 1974 Yes tour book, available to all who attended the North American 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' tour. Jon ...

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Focus The Sky Will Fall Over London Tonight BBC Studios, London December 12th 1972 (PRRP 027)

... band was named the best new talent by the influential New Musical Express (NME) and 'brightest hope' by Melody Maker. With these endorsements, Focus began an initial summer tour of England. The trip would prove significant for ... gradually increased, as did the call for more performances. Focus returned to England to perform as the Melody Maker's Poll winner at Oval Cricket Ground in London on September 30th. They then performed almost ...

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Marillion German Script Rundsportshalle, Baunatal, Germany, October 1st, 1983 (PRRP 003)

... also well reviewed. Though some saw the band as a poor clone of Genesis, fans saw Marillion as an important cornerstone of progressive rock at the time. The influential paper Melody Maker wrote: "Every song [from Marillion] is a mini-drama scripted in the florid language expected by its audience”. Another sign of their popularity was that their concerts at ...

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Camel Another Night San Francisco, CA, June 26th 1976 (PRRP 002)

... band at the beginning of this tour had given Camel more of a jazz feel. This was also the first time that Camel had used film as a visual component of their shows. As Andy Latimer told Melody Maker, "This is the first time we've used films, and I don't want us to get into it too much. ...We're not a very bopping band, so it's nice for the ...

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I Level Shake! (1985)

... was a short-term U.K. band consisting of Duncan Bridgeman, Jo Dworniak, and Sam Jones. Bridgeman and Dworniak -- both from Essex, England -- met through a classified ad in Melody Maker and first played together in Scrambled Egos and Shake Shake before evolving into I Level, with the addition of Sam Jones from Sierra Leone, Africa. With Jones, a former member ...

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Sophie Ellis Bextor Read My Lips

... an indie band called theaudience. She sang the lead vocal in the band. While she was a band member, readers of Melody Maker elected her to the Number 1 position among the 'most sexy people in rock'. She recorded a duet with Manic ... ILR; No. 1, Radio 1; No. 8, top dance track of 2000 and single of the year in Melody Maker. In the Metro Newspaper, it received ninth place in the contest for the Greatest No. 1 of all time, beating ...

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Barry Ryan Sings Paul Ryan (1969)

... 3 million copies worldwide and reached number 2 in the UK's Record Retailer chart, but hit number 1 in the NME and Melody Maker charts. Tracklist: 01 - Theme to Eutopia 02 - Why do you cry my love 03 - The colour of my love 04 - ...

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The Beatles Turn Me On Dead Man: The John Barrett Tapes

... their album and singles. Most of the information that was available to fans came from contemporary reports in UK music magazines such as "New Musical Express" or "Melody Maker", or fan mags like "Beatles Monthly". This info, some correct, some not, was then regurgitated in many of the earlier Beatles books, such as Roy ...

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Any Trouble Where Are all the Nice Girls (1980)

... All The Nice Girls" was perhaps their most successful. The album was produced by John Wood (Fairport Convention etc.) and the band gained instant notoriety for gaining a Melody Maker front cover with a gushing article by Allan Jones. In some ways the band's career never recovered from this early rush of success and Gregson's singing was unfairly ...

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Old Gray Whistle Test 1971 74 75

... a track called "Stone Fox Chase" by a Nashville band, Area Code 615. The first host was Richard Williams, features editor of Melody Maker, the music weekly. During this period, there was a remarkable correlation between the featured artists on the show and those appearing on the magazine's ...

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