Artist: RENAISSANCE
Album: PROLOGUE REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1972/ 1995
Media type: CD

In 1972, Renaissance's then-new management disbanded the lineup at the time (one of several short-lived transitional lineups), retaining only Haslam and Tout to build a new band around. The new members added at this point were Camp, Sullivan, and guitarist Mick Parsons. Shortly thereafter, sadly, Parsons died in a car accident. Electric guitarist Rob Hendry was brought in at the last minute to replace him, and left the band soon after the album was completed.

Because Prologue was a new start for the band, with a lineup that now included none of the original members, it would frequently be referred to as their "first" album (for example, on the Live At Carnegie Hall album, both in a song intro and on the inside cover).

Though all the songs are Renaissance originals, they were not written by any current members of the band but by former members Jim McCarty (from the first lineup) and Michael Dunford (from the transitional lineups), along with lyricist Betty Thatcher. Dunford, of course, would become part of the band again after Hendry's departure.

The piano intro to the song "Prologue" was borrowed from the beginning of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude.

TRACKLIST:

1 Prologue
05:39

2 Kiev
07:38

3 Sounds Of The Sea
07:07

4 Spare Some Love
05:11

5 Bound For Infinity
04:23

6 Rajah Khan
11:31


LINE-UP:

Annie Haslam - lead & backing vocals
Jon Camp (listed as "John Camp") - bass, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Kiev"
John Tout - keyboards, backing vocals
Rob Hendry - electric guitar, backing vocals
Terence Sullivan - drums, percussion, backing vocals

VCS3 solo on "Rajah Khan": Francis Monkman