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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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2. First Album Was Terrific

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun Jun 29, 2025, 05:01 PM

Jun 29

I covered this tune for about a year in the early 80s.
Would have covered it longer (with pleasure) but, I quit that band in a hurry. By the time is found something bigger & better, I never retreated to it.
I love how it changes gears so well. Huge & load, lighter & sparse in the verses, bouncy in the chorus.
I saw Billy live, opening fir Foreigner on their 4 tour.
They were really good, but the soundman committed some sabotage. Not horrible, but it didn't do justice to how they performed.

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