Английская Википедия:Futurama (Be-Bop Deluxe album)

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Futurama is the second album by the band Шаблон:Nowrap released in 1975 and generally classified musically as a progressive rock album.

Background and recording

After the line-up of Шаблон:Nowrap changed, the band recorded the album with founder member Шаблон:Nowrap Шаблон:Nowrap Шаблон:Nowrap Шаблон:Nowrap and Шаблон:Nowrap (drums). The album was recorded at Шаблон:Nowrap in Wales and produced by Шаблон:Nowrap, who also produced Queen.

Release

Futurama was released in July 1975 by record label Harvest.

Subsequently, in October 1976, Шаблон:Nowrap reached number 36 in the UK singles charts as the lead track on the Шаблон:Nowrap The American market was harder to break for British acts during the 1970s due to the hangover from the 1960s and problems with availability of records in the US for breaking acts such as Шаблон:Nowrap, whose first album Шаблон:Nowrap was only available as an import.

The album was re-released in early 1991 with three bonus tracks.

Reception

Although critics were not always open to the mix of styles, Шаблон:Nowrap and Nelson's music received a fairly warm welcome from the music critic of The New York Times. Шаблон:Nowrap started his article with a fairly scathing dismissal of English musical acts:

"Every month or is it week? seems to bring a new rock band from Britain, eager to catch a few leftover crumbs from the Anglophilia of the 1960s. Most fail completely; others latch onto an FM cult success; a very few, unpredictably, make it big..."

Although his opening seems to dismiss British music as hanging on to fame gained during the 1960s, Rockwell goes on to say:

"Be-Bop Deluxe is redeemed by the brilliance of [the band's] playing, and particularly Nelson's guitar playing. His records put Nelson right up there with the other great masters of the electric guitar."

In Шаблон:Nowrap Шаблон:Nowrap described the album as:

"Top-heavy with massed guitars and melodic ideas pursued on a whim and just as quickly abandoned, it nevertheless contained two of the most perfect pop singles never to make the charts – Шаблон:Nowrap and Шаблон:Nowrap

Q Magazine described the album as ' an accomplished melding of pomp, prog and pop'.

Personnel

Be-Bop Deluxe

• Bill Nelson – guitar, lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• Charlie Tumahai – Fender bass, backing vocals
• Simon Fox – drums, percussion

with:

• Andy Evans - bass on "Jean Cocteau"
• The Grimethorpe Colliery Band - brass band on "Music in Dreamland"; conducted by John Berryman; arranged by Sir Peter Oxendale

Technical

• Gary Lyons, Pat Moran - engineer
• George Hardie - cover art, design