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and former Rupert's People keyboard player John Tout to build a new band around. The new members added at this point were bassist Jon Camp, drummer
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minute to replace him for the recording sessions of June and July 1972, and left the band soon after the album was completed.
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824:Renaissance
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290:Jim McCarty
257:Renaissance
141:Renaissance
132:Renaissance
50:Renaissance
1156:Categories
1014:Azure d'Or
879:Keith Relf
842:Rave Tesar
760:. Harvest.
627:References
601:Production
395:"Prologue"
143:chronology
1030:Time-Line
919:John Tout
874:Jane Relf
620:Hipgnosis
550:Personnel
459:Writer(s)
384:Writer(s)
353:in 1995.
306:in 1973.
114:Sovereign
37:Hipgnosis
1131:Illusion
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966:Prologue
958:Illusion
908:Jon Camp
758:Prologue
742:13 March
647:AllMusic
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331:Prologue
319:Prologue
317:In 1978
277:Prologue
275:Because
263:Overview
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154:Illusion
120:Producer
65:Recorded
57:Released
47: by
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1038:Tuscany
998:Novella
721:17 July
501:Dunford
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