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In the mid-’70s, engineer, songwriter, and musician Tom Trefethen began an extended association with soft rock-band Ambrosia, engineering their first three albums. The roots of this relationship can be tracked to the first ’60s when Trefethen and upcoming Ambrosia bassist Joe Puerta struck up a camaraderie, learning electric guitar and …

This innovative UK design group was founded in 1968 by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell. Their initial credited little bit of artwork graced Green Floyd’s third record, More. Camaraderie with this reputed action led to additional collaborations, including Ummagumma and Atom Center Mom, however the duo also supplied graphics for …

Engineer/manufacturer Alan Parsons and his colleague, songwriter and lyricist Eric Woolfson, formed the Alan Parsons Task in 1975. Throughout their profession, the Alan Parsons Task recorded idea albums (including adaptations of Poe and Asimov books), having a revolving solid of session music artists. 1982’s Attention in the Sky was their …

Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart continues to be a wonderfully prolific and effective musician across 50 years, employed in a dizzying selection of stylistic settings and musical genres — quite simply, he’s had a genuine career, and did it without concerning himself an excessive amount of about trends and the general …

As the business lead singer from the Zombies, Blunstone was one of the biggest ’60s rock and roll vocalists, pacing the group’s minor-key masterpieces along with his inimitable choked and breathy vocals. After retiring from the business enterprise briefly in the past due ’60s (to function in the insurance sector, …

Throughout his career using the Nice, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, so that as a solo artist, Keith Emerson demonstrated himself possibly the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock and roll history. For everyone his popularity as an innovator and get good at of classically inspired rock and roll, Emerson …

George Martin was most widely known as the manufacturer of most from the Beatles’ recordings from 1962 through 1969. His real credits had been diverse, encompassing performers which range from 1950s jazz bandleader Humphrey Lyttleton towards the comic abilities of Peter Retailers and Michael Bentine, renowned vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, …

Alongside Tangerine Desire, Ash Ra Tempel (later on Ashra) was among the 1st rings to convert the trippier side of past due-’60s psychedelia in to the kosmische rock from the ’70s. Many Ash Ra game titles had been solely the task of Manuel Göttsching, plus some other extra players who …

Deriving their name from the metric total of semen ejaculated by the common male, the tongue-in-cheek British art pop group 10cc comprised an all-star roster of Manchester-based musicians: vocalist/guitarist Graham Gouldman was a former person in the Mockingbirds and the writer of strikes for the Yardbirds, the Hollies, Herman’s Hermits …

Before he sang lead for the Alan Parsons Project, Chris Rainbow had embarked on a solo career in 1974. For six years, he documented within the U.K. for EMI Information and Polydor Information, and he also acted as maker and had written his own materials. His first encounter in a …