Really looking forward to seeing this; when I was at school, classmates used to bring albums in, basically showing off, wandering around holding a copy of The Beatles (White Album) to show how cool they were. I was used to hearing The Stones, The Beatles, Jethro Tull and suchlike on the radio, but we didn’t have much money and my folks just weren’t into popular music. One day a classmate brought in an album with a cover that just knocked me sideways, it was unlike anything I’d ever seen before, so I asked if I could borrow it. When I played it at home, predictably my mum hated it, but the very first time I heard ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ it changed my perspective about what music could be forever. That was in 1969, the year it was released, it took me fifty years to finally get to see KC on their 50th Anniversary tour at The Royal Albert Hall in London, and it was a breathtaking performance. Tripp has said that the current incarnation of the band is the one he’s wanted all the way through, and on that performance, I’ll say it’s the best version of all.
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