A curveball concept from the mind of Peter Gabriel, it’s unquestionably the oddest prog-related releases of the 70s. Something that even guitarist Robert Fripp describes as “perhaps the strangest recording session of the era.”
It’s hard to understand how some of the scene’s finest talents came to act as a backing band for diminutive TV comedian Charlie Drake – but it did happen, in mid-June 1975. As Prog reported in 2010, pianist Keith Tippett said: “I think it was one of the those occasions when you were contacted and told such-and-such was involved. You thought, ‘Well, if they’re doing it...’”
