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APHRODITE’S ALLURE

Many thanks for the most illuminating article on 666 by Aphrodite’s Child [Prog 114], quite possibly my favourite prog album of all time. When friends ask, “What’s it like?” I usually reply that it’s equal measures prog, world music and Monty Python. Radcliffe and Maconie recently played Aegean Sea as the Early Riser on their BBC Radio 6 show and I was reminded of the day that I bought the album.

Back in July ’77 I had a summer job working in a clothes shop in the centre of Glasgow. One day the manager tasked me with taking an expensive pair of denims from one branch in the Gallowgate to the other branch under Central Station. Perfect, I thought. I can nip into Graffiti Records on Queen Street and pick up that copy of 666 that I’d ordered.

As I was crossing the busy intersection at Union Street I noticed that the lights had changed but decided