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Winds Of Change
Progressive Sounds Of 1973
Esoteric
★★★★
ANOTHER four-CD set when album-oriented rock dominated record sales, with legions of gig-goers, dedicated radio shows like Sounds Of The Seventies, pre-punk Top Gear, TV’s Whistle Test and record companies ran progressive labels such as Vertigo, Harvest, Charisma and Deram.
But it wasn’t all Spinal Tap-styled pomp-rock with semi-orchestral music such as ELP’s Jerusalem or ELO’s In Old England Town or even winsome, trippy numbers.
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