Monday, July 16, 2012

Apollo 100 - Amazing Grace

Apollo 100 - Amazing Grace Tube. Duration : 3.15 Mins.


Track 1 from Side 1 of Apollo 100's second album "Master Pieces", released in 1972. Apollo 100 was a short-lived British instrumental studio based group that stayed intact for only two years: 1972 and 1973. There was no vocalist in the band; instead, they had an arranger, Tom Parker, who first got the band together. They had one top ten hit song in the United States with the Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired single "Joy", in 1972. Later that same year, they released Master Pieces, which wasn't as successful, and the band broke up in 1973. The band members consisted of: - Zed Jenkins (on guitar) - Clem Cattini (on drums). Cattini was the drum player for the band Tornados prior to joining Apollo 100. - Brian Odgers (on bass guitar) - Vic Flick (on guitar). Among his most noted accomplishments, Flick played the guitar riff for the James Bond Theme song. One of his guitars can been seen at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. - Jim Lawless (on percussion) The following is the complete text found on the reverse side of the album cover, as shown in the video: --------------------------- Mega M51-5005 Stereo Apollo 100 Featuring Tom Parker Master Pieces Webster's dictionary defines masterpieces as "anything done or made with extraordinary skill." World famous painters Chagall, Cezanne, Matisse, Monet, Raischenberg, Rembrandt and the like turned them out on canvas, while immortal music masters such as Bach, Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Wagner "did their thing(s)" in ...

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