It demonstrated a much more melodic sound than previous albums and shot into the Top 20 album charts in the U.S. A concept album revisiting Journey to the Centre of the Eye 's theme of extraterrestrials granting a human enlightenment, but with a blind boy as the protagonist. release, Remember the Future (1973), propelled the band briefly into mass popularity. A cult following grew for the band, based largely on word of mouth.ġ973–1982: Height of success and disbanding Sounds Like This (1973), though the band would continue to use his art in their shows and album designs for a time. Walters had left by the time of their third album, the heavily improvised double album. The follow-up, A Tab in the Ocean (1972), drew on more conventional rock and blues influences. It was a concept album, following an astronaut who is given overwhelming knowledge by extraterrestrials, with sonic textures reminiscent of psychedelic rock. The band's debut album, Journey to the Centre of the Eye (1971), consisted of a single song running over 40 minutes, with the last 100 seconds of the first side repeated at the beginning of the second side to maintain continuity. Brockett did however co-write the lyrics with Moore, and invented or contributed to the original album titles. Throughout their early existence the band's songwriting was credited to all six members on the album sleeves, but BMI records show that the music was written by the four performing members.
lyricist Keith Reid in Procol Harum), it was unusual that a third of Nektar's lineup had no role in performing or writing their music. Though the concept of non-performing bandmembers was not unprecedented (e.g. The founding members were Englishmen Roye Albrighton on guitars and lead vocals, Allan "Taff" Freeman on keyboards, Derek "Mo" Moore on bass, Ron Howden on drums and artists Mick Brockett and Keith Walters on lights and "special effects". The band formed in Hamburg, West Germany in 1969. 2.1.2 Germany-based band (also known as New Nektar since 2018).2.1.1 United States-based band (since 2018).1.3.3 2018–present: New Nektar (Germany-based band).
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