THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

l liked this concept double album quite much as a teenager, and though I haven't listened it for ages, I still have warm memories about it. The possible symbolic meanings of this epic tale never got very clear to me, but as the music works so well, such inferior details do not matter. When thinking afterwards, maybe Peter is singing about himself been lost to the pretentious illusions of commercially successful progressive rock spectacles, and preparing to venture to his own musical and socially responsible solo career. My own highlights of the record are "Fly on a Windshield", "Broadway Melody of 1974", "In the Cage", "The Waiting Room" and "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats", though the two LP's spin pleasantly without unnecessary moments. There are also some nice live recordings from the tour of this album, which I have liked even yet more than this fine epitaph for an era ending here.