Keith West: Groups & Sessions 65-74

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Free Music Notes for Keith West: Groups & Sessions 65-74

Free Music Review: Under-rated singer from sixties psychedelic era
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Six tracks recorded as Tomorrow are included here (though sadly not My white bicycle), but even while Tomorrow was attracting interest as a group, Keith launched his career as a solo singer with Excerpt from a teenage opera, a catchy story song about Grocer Jack, a popular man who delivered bread and milk door-to-door until the day he died. A children's choir on the chorus adds to the impact of the song, which is quite upbeat for a death song. The song reached number two on the UK chart but its style of this song (pure pop) is totally different to the progressive rock of Tomorrow and it finished the group. Keith's solo follow-up, Sam, only scraped into the UK top 40. The remaining Keith West solo songs find him experimenting with a variety of sounds but he never again entered the charts.

This collection provides a fascinating insight into the ever-evolving pop and rock scene in late sixties Britain although it is not an essential purchase. If you only want Excerpt from a teenage opera, you can find it on several UK various artists sixties compilations. If you are a serious collector of sixties music and your interest is not limited by what made the charts, this is well worth listening to.

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