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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Premiata Forneria Marconi-Chocolate Kings (1975)

The sixth album by Premiata Forneria Marconi, "Chocolate Kings", would mean the first sung in full in English and was thus made to enter the North American market.
It would also be the first where the band became a sextet with the incorporation of a new vocalist; Bernardo Lanzetti.
In "Chocolate Kings" the band maintains its references to British progressive rock, such as "From Under" which sounds like Genesis and much more if you look at Lanzetti's voice timbre, with a certain resemblance to Peter Gabriel.
The Powerful "Out Of the Roundabout", undoubtedly sounds like Yes, however what does change in this work are the Mussida guitars that have a harder tone approaching the sound of American rock, as can be seen in songs like "Harlequin" or "Chocolate Kings".
This album had an immense impact worldwide, with an impressive tour that would end in Japan and they even performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London before the Queen Mother.

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