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BLINKERED VIEW

I was enjoying the Gary Kemp interview [Outer Limits, Prog 121] very much until I read [the Your Shout] comments on whether Gary should be in Prog. There were a few negative comments saying he shouldn’t [but] these are probably the same people who won’t accept any kind of new music in their lives unless it is a 70s Genesis/Pink Floyd/ELP clone. I know these people exist because I have a mate who is just like that. His head is firmly stuck in a 1970s sandpit and as hard as I try to introduce him to new bands the more he resists. I am going to buy the Gary Kemp album because I’m open to something new, unlike a lot of your readers who have their 1970s blinkers on.

Alan Duggan, via email

PERFECTLY COVERED

Thanks for your excellent feature on Nursery Cryme [Prog 122]. This was the first Genesis album I bought back in 1978, from Littlewoods in Wolverhampton, if memory serves me right. I could only afford one album, and was faced with a choice between this and …And Then There Were Three, which had been recently released. I went for Nursery Cryme for two reasons: the artwork and I really liked The Return Of The Giant Hogweed. The track was included on the Charisma Disturbance album, which I had been listening to a lot as my friend’s mum owned a copy. I couldn’t wait to get it home and play it. It was love at first listen.