The Golden Hour of Man (1973)

About this title: The Golden Hour of Man was among the more obscure releases within what was surely one of the most ubiquitous, yet at the same time indispensable, budget-priced compilation series of 1970s Britain, cut-priced collections drawn from the Pye label vaults that built into a veritable shrine to the company's history. Welsh prog rock band Man, certainly the most adventurous signing in the label's turn-of-the-decade catalog, was a most unlikely addition to this canon, but the group made it in regardless, with an hourlong collection of cuts from the two LPs recorded for Pye during 1969. Neither ... read more

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