“Many of these workouts sound amazingly contemporary; the mixing and matching of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22

Tangerine Dream – From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22.

Tangerine Dream’s invitation to play Coventry Cathedral in 1975 was a hot potato. In December the previous year, the classic line-up had performed at Reims Cathedral, where around 6,000 “hippies and deadbeats” turned up and desecrated the coronation site of French kings – according to the nation’s news outlets.

Concerns that the same thing could happen again in England were never far away. Others saw the invite to a Berlin-based group as a mark of disrespect, since the original Coventry Cathedral had been bombed by the Germans during the war; an incident within living memory for many in the West Midlands at the time.