Prologue

about this album

Prologue was a 1972 album by progressive rock band Renaissance. Information about the album 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 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. In The Beginning reissue In 1978 Prologue was reissued, together with the following album Ashes Are Burning, as a double album called In the Beginning. The original double LP included the complete Prologue; one song from Ashes was edited. The 1988 CD v

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