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Released
  
September 1977

Length
  
41:24

Artist
  
Nektar

Label
  
Bacillus Records

Recorded
  
March - August 1977

Producer
  
Jeffrey Kawalek

Release date
  
1977

Genre
  
Progressive rock

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Studio
  
The House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey

Live in New York(1977)
  
Magic Is A Child(1977)

Similar
  
The Prodigal Son, Sounds Like This, Book of Days, A Tab in the Ocean, Journey to the Centre of the Eye

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Magic Is A Child is the seventh album from English progressive rock band Nektar. It is the only studio album released by Nektar without Roye Albrighton on guitar and lead vocals; this album instead features Dave Nelson.

Contents

Brooke Shields, 13 years old at the time, is the model on the cover.

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Reception

Allmusic gave the album a positive retrospective review, praising Nektar's switching to "shorter, punchier songs", "swelling" keyboards, "symphonic" guitars, and "breezy pop".

Personnel

  • Dave Nelson - guitar, vocals
  • Alan "Taff" Freeman - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals
  • Derek "Mo" Moore - bass, vocals
  • Ron Howden - percussion, drums, vocals, Smurds
    • Additional personnel
  • Julien Barber, Kermit Moore, Michael Commins, Anthony Posk - string quartet
  • Larry Fast - synthesizer, programming, processing
  • Walt Nektroid - guitar on "Train from Nowhere"
  • Jeffrey Kawalek - production, engineering

    • Songs

    1Away From Asgard5:31
    2Magic Is a Child4:08
    3Eerie Lackawanna3:30

    References

    Magic Is a Child Wikipedia
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