David Bedford
Max Bell, NME, 27 September 1975
"THE THING ABOUT concept albums is that they're never done successfully except mine of course," So speaks modest avant garde composer David Bedford, Virgin luminary and recent creator of music inspired by key passages in Samuel T. Coleridge's 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'.
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