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niet echt, hoor!
After 10 albums with
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, lead singer, composer, and keyboard player
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launched his solo career with this album (1979). Of course, there were
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's familiar characteristics — the steady piano work, the butterscotch soul voice. But he switched lyric partners for this set (except for the title track), trading longtime wordsmith Keith Reid for Pete Sinfield, who had performed the same function for
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contemporaries King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
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also tried a couple of tunes by Stiff Records pub-rocker Mickey Jupp (Jupp's versions are better) and Murray Head's "Say It Ain't So, Joe" (Roger Daltrey's version is better). The result was a varied set that succeeded in sounding like something other than
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's 11th album, although it did not demonstrate that
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solo was going to be an improvement over the group.