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Lucifer's Friend - Banquet (1974)
Rock | 38:39 | scans | mp3@320cbr | 92mb

Review by b_olariu:
“' 5 stars - What a stunning album is "Banquet". A truly amazing symphonic album with a jazzy elements and a great brass section. Every track is quite enjoyble to me, but the forte ones are the opening piece "Spanish galleon and Sorrow", the longest tracks from here. The incorporation of brass section combined with great keys and guitars and a solid voice of John Lawton made this album to be a masterpiece of the '70's, at least for me. Transitions between music segments where the instruments take the lead are very well done, specially the keys and guitars. After all this album has nothing to do with early works of Lucifer's Friend, witch are more rough, more hevy prog, than this one. Here the sound and the entire album, musicaly speaking is much mature and deserve to be included in top of the most amazing albums of the '70's. So a 5 stars for this great and never old album. ' ”

Tracks Listing:
01 - Spanish Galleon {Hesslein, Lawton} 11:52
02 - Thus Spoke Oberon {Bacardi, Docker, Hesslein, Lawton} 6:47
03 - High Flying Lady-Goodbye {Bacardit, Hesslein, Lawton…} 3:43
04 - Sorrow {Hesslein, Lawton} 11:39
05 - Dirty Old Town {Hesslein, Horns, Lawton} 4:46

Line-up:
John Lawton: lead vocals
Dieter Horns: bass, vocals
Peter Hesslein: guitars, vocals
Joachim Reitenbach: drums
Herbert Bornhold: percussion, drums, vocals
Peter Hecht: organ, synthesizer, piano, moog, fender rhodes, string arrangements, bass arrangement
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Herb Geller: soprane sax solo (track 3)
Heinz Alves: English horn
Rolf Lind: French horn
Franz Behle: oboe
Kurt Donocik, Walter Hillinghaus, Luigi Schaufuß: cello
Günter Grünig, Werner Knupke, Bruno Korzuschek: viola
Heinz Habermann, Bob Lanese, Manny Moch: trumpet
Wolfgang Ahlers, Waldemar Erbe, Günter Fulisch, Heinz Reese: trombone
Klaus Holle: flute
Karl Hermann Luer: sax (baritone)
Wilfried Schoberanzky: bassoon
Stephan Von Dobrzynski: sax (tenor)
David Brian, Elvira Herbert, Sheila McKinley: choir, chorus
Senia Daschewski, Heinz Donocik, Reinhold Gabriel, Helmut Jochens, Ingeborg Kaufmann, Otto Kaufmann, Günter Klein, Fritz Köhnsen, Helmut Rahn, Günther Zander: violin