“We should have toured Europe and taken advantage of the impact our single had. We were lazy and stuck to playing in Britain. It was a huge mistake”: The all-too-short story of promising early proggers Rare Bird

Rare Bird.

In 1969 Rare Bird were on a flight path to great things. Signed to Charisma alongside The Nice and Van der Graaf Generator, their first single Sympathy reached the top of the charts in Italy and France, and made the Top 30 in the UK. But after six years of struggling to build on that success, they called it a day. In 2021, when their recordings were released in a six-CD box set, Prog explored their legacy.

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