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Posted by Paul C (@paulc) on June 17, 2025, 3:35 a.m.
I’ve never heard it, and it’s not on streaming for some reason.
I’ve never heard Imagination either, all the stories about how his people made him scrap the Paley stuff so they could try to break the adult contemporary market has always made it a low priority.
The story of his whole career almost (after 1966 at least) is him wanting to be a weirdo in peace while everyone around him tries to force him to make music for normies. The irony being that his later weirdo music is way more enduringly popular and influential (albeit on a cult scale) than his later normie music.
I do get though that if he was left fully to his own devices he’d probably have eaten and drugged himself to death in about two weeks, so I get the tension there. Not an easy man to manage.
I read somewhere recently that one time in the late 70’s he broke containment, stole a load of heroin from Dennis’s hotel room and overdosed on it, which I didn’t know.
- Re: I always forget that album exists - Ken June 17 3:19 PM