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Music History Events: albums released November 26
Albums released November 26:
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• 1965 – THE KINKS – ‘The Kink Kontroversy’ (UK)
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• 1965 – THE WALKER BROTHERS – ‘Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers’
• 1971 – YES – ‘Fragile’ (UK)
• 1973 – BADFINGER – ‘Ass’ (USA)
• 1973 – RALPH TOWNER – ‘Diary’
• 1984 – MIKE OLDFIELD / BSO – ‘The Killing Fields’
• 1984 – RICK ASTLEY – ‘Hold Me in Your Arms’
• 1991 – MICHAEL JACKSON – ‘Dangerous’
• 1996 – POISON – ‘Poison’s Greatest Hits: 1986–1996’
• 1999 – MIKE OLDFIELD – ‘The Millennium Bell’
• 2001 – MOONSORROW – ‘Voimasta ja kunniasta’
• 2002 – THE ROOTS – ‘Phrenology’
• 2002 – SYSTEM OF A DOWN – ‘Steal This Album!’
• 2002 – HEART – ‘The Essential Heart’
• 2002 – SUM 41 – ‘Does This Look Infected?’
• 2002 – BARBRA STREISAND – ‘Duets’
• 2002 – SNOOP DOGG – ‘Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss’
• 2004 – LOUDNESS – ‘Racing’ (JAP)
• 2008 – SUM 41 – ‘All the Good Shit’ (JAP)
• 2008 – STEVEN WILSON – ‘Insurgentes’
• 2008 – RIVERSIDE – ‘Reality Dream’
• 2010 – METALLICA – ‘Live at Grimey’s’ (USA)
• 2010 – THE BLACK EYED PEAS – ‘The Beginning’
• 2010 – GAZPACHO – ‘Missa Atropos’
• 2010 – HARDCORE SUPERSTAR – ‘Split Your Lip’
• 2012 – THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA – ‘The Jazz Age’
• 2021 – DEEP PURPLE – ‘Turning to Crime’
• 2021 – RHAPSODY OF FIRE – ‘Glory for Salvation’
• 2021 – DAVID BOWIE – ‘Toy’
• 2021 – LORDI – ‘Lordiversity’
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LP ‘Fragile’ by YES
On November 26, 1971, ‘Fragile’ was released in the United Kingdom, the fourth studio album by the British progressive rock band Yes which, in the course of a few weeks, underwent the transformation from a cult group to an international phenomenon. It was the first album to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, replacing Tony Kaye, and was also the group’s first album to feature a Roger Dean cover art. It peaked at No. 7 on the UK charts and months later, when it was released in the US, it was Top 5 on the Billboard charts, staying there for 46 weeks.
Tony Kaye’s excessive attachment to his Hammond and his refusal to incorporate synthesizers into his music, in addition to his constant arguments with Steve Howe, caused him to leave the group when the recording sessions for ‘Fragile’ were already underway. By then, Rick Wakeman had already left The Strawbs and with his instrumental virtuosity and stage impact he showed himself to be an excellent replacement.
The texts of fantastic and science fiction content that appeared in previous works became more evident in ‘Fragile’. Even more so with Roger Dean’s cover, which showed a fractured world achieving a symbiosis of image and music unequaled since the era of psychedelia.
‘Fragile’ was recorded in September 1971 at Advision Studios in London. The best known song of the album, ‘Roundabout’, fueIt was released as a single with an edited version of 3:27 minutes, which reached number 13 on the American Hot 100. Although Wakeman also contributed to the compositions of ‘South of the Sky’ and ‘Heart of the Sunrise’, adding piano interludes to both pieces, contractual reasons did not allow him to appear as a composer. In return, at Atlantic they promised him more money, which the musician never received. Another theme that emerged collectively from rehearsal sessions held in a London brothel in Shepard’s Market was ‘Long distance runaround’.
The remaining five tracks showcase the instrumental skills of each of the band members and were hastily added to finish the album. The cost of the keyboards that Wakeman acquired had to be profitable as soon as possible to expand the band’s sound arsenal. ‘Cans and Brahms’ is Wakeman’s arrangement of the third movement of Johannes Brahms’ Fourth Symphony in E minor, in which the musician uses synthesizers. Inspired by the success obtained a couple of years earlier by Wendy Carlos, pioneer of the application of electronic keyboards for classical music arrangements, with ‘Switched on Bach’.’.
In ‘We Have Heaven’, Jon Anderson executes all the vocal parts, a technique that the singer would repeat on his solo album ‘Olias of Sunhillow’. ‘Five percent for nothing’ is a complicated rhythmic structure by Bruford and in ‘The fish’ the protagonist is Chris Squire’s bass. In ‘Mood for a day’, Howe incorporated flamenco classical guitar influences that he would repeat in his collaboration with Queen on ‘Innuendo’.
However, what seemed like filler songs, ended up being important pieces that would mark the path of the band’s future sonic adventures. Although it did not coincide with the group’s best moment, ‘Fragile’ was a round, complete and timeless album.
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‘Roundabout’ (Jon Anderson, Steve Howe)
‘Cans and Brahms’ (Johannes Brahms, arr. Rick Wakeman)
‘We have heaven’ (Anderson)
‘South side of the sky’ (Anderson, Chris Squire)
‘Five per cent for nothing’ (Bill Bruford)
‘Long distance runaround’ (Anderson)
‘The fish (Schindleria Praematurus)’ (Squire)
‘Mood for a day’ (Howe)
‘Heart of the sunrise’ (Anderson, Squire, Bruford)