Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock

Originally published in Melody Maker, 10 July 1976

The concept album, contemptuously rejected by many critics as the great bore of rock, has returned, and this work of producer Alan Parsons, supported by a cast of hundreds, will doubtlessly meet the same condemnation. But Parsons pleads: “Don’t judge this book by its cover.”

Who, though, could be blamed for taking two steps backwards when confronted with the title Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe? That is the problem Parsons and company will have to surmount if their masterwork is to make the impact in Britain it deserves.

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