Twelve British Songs… I

…that defined the 60s and are not The Beatles.

Simon Dupree and the Big Sound

Kites

1967

Before they became Gentle Giant they were SDatBS. They made several records, but Kites was their big hit. It’s a stop/start kind of tune, lots of plonky piano and percussion, there’s spoken word in the middle (in Chinese) and lots of Mellotron.

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