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Released
  
June 1974

Length
  
48:00

Producer
  
Rick Shadwell

Genre
  
Progressive rock

Label
  
Vertigo, TRC, Aztec

Recorded
  
February 1974 Stebbings Studio, Auckland

Universal Radio is the debut album by New Zealand group Dragon released in June 1974 on Vertigo Records and produced by Rick Shadwell. Universal Radio, along with their second album Scented Gardens for the Blind are in the progressive rock genre—all subsequent albums are hard rock/pop rock.

Contents

On 2 July 2009, Aztec Music reissued Universal Radio with extensive liner notes, rare photos, and three bonus tracks. The first bonus track is a live recording from 1974 of their cover version of Fleetwood Mac's "Black Magic Woman", while the last two, "X-Ray Creature" and "Dinghy Days" are the A-side and B-side of Marc Hunter's first solo single released in 1973.

1974 Vertigo

Side 1

  1. "Universal Radio" (Goodwin, M. Hunter, Thompson, Storey, T. Hunter) - 8:33
  2. "Going Slow" (T Hunter) - 6:16
  3. "Patina" (Goodwin, (Break Dragon)) - 11:47

Side 2

  1. "Weetbix" (Goodwin, T Hunter, Bedgegood, Abbot) - 2:55
  2. "Graves" (Goodwin, T Hunter, Reynolds, Thompson) - 6:56
  3. "Avalanche" (Goodwin, T Hunter, Reynolds, Thompson) - 11:08

2009 Aztec Music Reissue

  1. "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green) - 6:38
  2. "X-Ray Creature" (Graeme Collins, A Baysting) - 3:06
  3. "Dinghy Days" (T Hunter) - 3:33
  • Note: On all releases tracks 4–6 segue to become one long track but are separated into three.

    • References

    Universal Radio Wikipedia
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