Magic Is a Child

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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

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.

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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