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adding to the pressure and with the time to reflect and be creative with the raw material you hear in the demos. I regret not going in to bat for it at the time. We had a fabulous opportunity with the best technical assistance any band could have wanted. But I didn't sell the dream, even to myself."
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was glowing. One particularly important outcome for the group was that EMI International's
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impressed the industry enough to win the FACB "Single of the Year". According to the liner notes for the CD release of the album, there were calls to ban the LP because of its psychedelic cover artwork by
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was released in March 1975 is now regarded as one of the best
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Ariel announced its breakup in July 1977 and just before their CBS contract expired, the "Island
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