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The line-up produced a heady mixture of ideas and experimentation with two distinctive styles emerging; carefree ballads like "Clarence in
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A snapshot of the era, the album is saturated with original ideas, experimentation, and lunacy, all powered by the bottled grape.
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1970 studio album by Kevin Ayers and The Whole World
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513:Kevin Ayers – guitar, bass, vocals
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446:"Red Green and You Blue" – (3:52)
443:"Clarence in Wonderland" – (2:06)
409:All songs written by Kevin Ayers
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886:Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy
523:David Bedford – organ, piano,
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140:and The Whole World chronology
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613:Encyclopedia of Popular Music
483:"Shooting at the Moon" – 5:53
454:Track listing 2003 CD reissue
240:Encyclopedia of Popular Music
919:Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
341:seller in Ayers' catalogue.
282:is the second solo album of
390:It was voted number 943 in
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465:"Lunatics Lament" – 4:53
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486:"Gemini Child" – 3:16
440:"Underwater" – (3:54)
362:Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
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398:3rd Edition (2000).
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160:Shooting at the Moon
63:April–September 1970
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843:Falling Up
771:Bananamour
580:References
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508:Musicians
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377:In 1998,
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610:(2007).
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531:, guitar
432:Side two
413:Side one
380:The Wire
356:Puis Je?
292:AllMusic
203:Allmusic
122:Producer
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60:Recorded
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