“Well-structured harmonies were important and we liked to be quite artsy… but there was pressure to become more and more commercial”: The tale of prog-tinged City Boy, who landed a hit pop-rock single and never recovered

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In 1974 prog-influenced sextet City Boy began producing promising music with strong melodic, harmonic and instrumental components. But after an unpredicted hit single four years later, their career began to spiral into an undeserved demise. In 2015 guitarist Mike Slamer told Prog about the trap they’d fallen into.

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