Album: The Snow Goose by Camel (1975)
Genre: Progressive Rock | Style: Rock/Pop
Format: Album

Description: The Snow Goose is the third album by the band Camel, released in 1975. The success of "The White Rider" suite (based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and appearing on the band's previous album, Mirage), inspired the group to write more novel-inspired conceptual suites. The band considered several novels on which to base their next album. For a time they settled on Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, and some songs were written before the idea was abandoned in favor of Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose. The album's name, originally The Snow Goose was altered to Music Inspired by The Snow Goose to accommodate legal protests by Gallico.The album was originally due to feature lyrics based around Gallico's text, but due to his objections, an instrumental was made instead.

Artist Background: The roots of CAMEL go as far as 1964, when the Latimer brothers Andrew and Bryan form part of a band called THE PHANTOM FOUR, after gaining some fame, the band changes their name to STRANGE BREW, a when the bass player Graham Cooper reaches the band. But things were about to change, Ian Latimer and Cooper leave the band and Doug Ferguson joins. At this point drummer Andrew Ward joins the crew and the seeds were growing in this new Blues oriented band called simply THE BREW, and at last in 197... Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the 1970s era. Associated with Progressive Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Related Artists: Caravan, Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Music Scene: Part of the London, England music scene. Emerged in the 1970s era. Associated with Progressive Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Progressive Rock, Rock/Pop, 1970s, Album

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The Snow Goose is the third album by the band Camel, released in 1975. The success of "The White Rider" suite (based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and appearing on the band's previous album, Mirage), inspired the group to write more novel-inspired conceptual suites. The band considered several novels on which to base their next album. For a time they settled on Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, and some songs were written before the idea was abandoned in favor of Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose. The album's name, originally The Snow Goose was altered to Music Inspired by The Snow Goose to accommodate legal protests by Gallico.The album was originally due to feature lyrics based around Gallico's text, but due to his objections, an instrumental was made instead.

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