Banquet

Banquet is the fourth album by progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974. By this time there was no heavy metal sound, it was now strictly progressive rock and a lot of jazz fusion. The song "Our World Is A Rock N' Roll Band" was the opening track on some versions (i.e. the U.S. version) of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Reperto... more

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Lucifer's Friend

Lucifer's Friend was a 1970s German hard rock band who sometimes incorporated elements of jazz and progressive rock. The British-born John Lawton was vocalist for a group called Stonewall. Peter Hecht, Dieter Horns, Peter Hesslein, and Joachim Reitenbach were members of a band called the German...

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Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records today is a UK-based record label operated by Mercury Music Group (UK). Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the sixties for its record sub-label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI with Harvest Records and Decca Records with Deram Records. Some of...

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