Friday 24 January 2020


"Greetings Music Lovers. Thanks for all the track requests sent in: Love, Five Man Electrical Band, Disturbed definitely The Boss. Love the blog, ta! More Prog? What about some 'Moonmadness' from Camel ? - erm, not 'arf. Hold on..."
Apologies for all the Alan Freeman* DJ banter, but I'm guessing you now know what's coming, right? Alright !
Written by Andrew Latimer (guitars & flute) and Peter Bardens (keyboards) we get 'Air Born', with Doug Ferguson on bass & Andy Ward on drums from 1976, this then is Camel:  Up and Away >


* The Saturday Rock Show with Alan 'Fluff' Freeman ran on BBC Radio 1 from 1973-78. I have just discovered some uploaded recordings on Mixcloud.com >. This link has a show from December 1977, complete with all the Prog Rock outtakes and classical fanfares he used like 'jingles', there is coincidentally 10 minutes in, after David Bowie and Sham 69, a request for the same song as last week's Star Track by Bruce Springsteen. Have a listen.
Much like the Saturday Rock Show which returned in 1989, when 'Fluff' came back to the 'Beeb', I will return to this topic in the coming weeks.


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