364:, while for "Midas Man" he shook a bag filled with coins. While recording "Touching Once (Is so Hard to Keep)", Richard Hewson, who handled the string arrangements for the album, suggested that a member of the orchestra perform a saxophone solo during the song; though Sullivan described the solo as "brilliant", the saxophonist was not credited for this contribution, and none of the members of Renaissance knew his name.
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by CBS with the catalog number S CBS 82137 and although some test pressings were made, the release did not go ahead. The album was eventually released by Warner Bros. in the UK on 2 September 1977 with the catalog number K 56422. It was also released in Japan in 1978 on the Warner
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could help offset the loss of sales to fans importing the USA version. Accordingly, the UK version used new cover art, again painted by Pamela Brown and still using the same design sketch, but addressing
Renaissance's complaints with the original version. Shortly thereafter, Sire changed distribution in the USA to
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were the label to sign the band. With the UK release not arriving until
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bassist Jon Camp wrote lyrics for the group for the first time, usually with guitarist
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1361:Renaissance
1344:Tom Brislin
1315:John Wetton
1300:Jim McCarty
1280:John Hawken
1235:Renaissance
952:Renaissance
891:"Midas Man"
652:"Midas Man"
549:"Midas Man"
402:CBS Records
398:Mother Mary
386:ABC Records
298:Renaissance
152:Renaissance
146:Renaissance
131:(US/Canada)
55:Renaissance
1567:Categories
1425:Azure d'Or
1290:Keith Relf
1253:Rave Tesar
1051:References
996:Production
750:"Prologue"
154:chronology
1441:Time-Line
1330:John Tout
1285:Jane Relf
947:Personnel
866:Writer(s)
739:Writer(s)
610:Writer(s)
538:Writer(s)
482:Writer(s)
435:Billboard
1542:Illusion
1512:" (1978)
1505:" (1974)
1377:Prologue
1369:Illusion
1319:Jon Camp
1161:AllMusic
1140:23 April
1114:(2019).
1071:AllMusic
525:Side two
469:Side one
303:Illusion
247:AllMusic
142:Producer
72:Recorded
62:Released
52: by
1449:Tuscany
1409:Novella
1192:19 July
1116:Novella
753:Dunford
410:Novella
382:Novella
374:Novella
362:flanger
347:Novella
316:Novella
285:Novella
187:(1978)
178:(1977)
174:Novella
169:(1976)
88:Wembley
35:Novella
1552:Nevada
1487:(2002)
1479:(1976)
1460:(2013)
1452:(2001)
1444:(1983)
1436:(1981)
1428:(1979)
1420:(1978)
1412:(1977)
1404:(1975)
1396:(1974)
1388:(1973)
1380:(1972)
1372:(1971)
1364:(1969)
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352:Surrey
241:Rating
238:Source
107:Length
80:Studio
1495:Songs
1009:Notes
863:Title
736:Title
630:13:39
607:Title
535:Title
502:13:39
479:Title
345:With
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124:Label
96:Genre
1194:2019
1173:2015
1142:2022
1083:2015
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338:and
328:and
314:For
136:(UK)
129:Sire
90:, UK
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732:No.
603:No.
531:No.
475:No.
437:200
408:of
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