353:, 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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in March 1977 under its distribution deal with ABC Records, and was assigned the catalog number SA-7526. It was subsequently re-released with revised cover artwork with the catalog number SR-6024 after Sire moved its distribution to Warner. In the UK it was given a scheduled release in the same month
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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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Renaissance selected the design for the cover art from several sketches Brown showed them, they were dismayed when they saw the completed version, according to vocalist Annie Haslam, because "the woman on the cover looks like a
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39:Studio album
15:
1567:1977 albums
1457:Live albums
1350:Renaissance
1333:Tom Brislin
1304:John Wetton
1289:Jim McCarty
1269:John Hawken
1224:Renaissance
941:Renaissance
880:"Midas Man"
641:"Midas Man"
538:"Midas Man"
391:CBS Records
387:Mother Mary
375:ABC Records
287:Renaissance
141:Renaissance
135:Renaissance
120:(US/Canada)
44:Renaissance
1556:Categories
1414:Azure d'Or
1279:Keith Relf
1242:Rave Tesar
1040:References
985:Production
739:"Prologue"
143:chronology
1430:Time-Line
1319:John Tout
1274:Jane Relf
936:Personnel
855:Writer(s)
728:Writer(s)
599:Writer(s)
527:Writer(s)
471:Writer(s)
424:Billboard
1531:Illusion
1501:" (1978)
1494:" (1974)
1366:Prologue
1358:Illusion
1308:Jon Camp
1150:AllMusic
1129:23 April
1103:(2019).
1060:AllMusic
514:Side two
458:Side one
292:Illusion
236:AllMusic
131:Producer
61:Recorded
51:Released
41: by
1438:Tuscany
1398:Novella
1181:19 July
1105:Novella
742:Dunford
399:Novella
371:Novella
363:Novella
351:flanger
336:Novella
305:Novella
274:Novella
176:(1978)
167:(1977)
163:Novella
158:(1976)
77:Wembley
24:Novella
1541:Nevada
1476:(2002)
1468:(1976)
1449:(2013)
1441:(2001)
1433:(1983)
1425:(1981)
1417:(1979)
1409:(1978)
1401:(1977)
1393:(1975)
1385:(1974)
1377:(1973)
1369:(1972)
1361:(1971)
1353:(1969)
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474:Length
341:Surrey
230:Rating
227:Source
96:Length
69:Studio
1484:Songs
998:Notes
852:Title
725:Title
619:13:39
596:Title
524:Title
491:13:39
468:Title
334:With
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85:Genre
1183:2019
1162:2015
1131:2022
1072:2015
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692:8:08
675:9:25
661:4:16
647:5:45
633:7:14
572:9:25
558:4:12
544:5:45
505:7:14
327:and
317:and
303:For
125:(UK)
118:Sire
79:, UK
848:No.
721:No.
592:No.
520:No.
464:No.
426:200
397:of
383:nun
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