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RENDEZVOUS 6:02

UK

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3.24 | 10 ratings | 1 reviews | 30% 5 stars

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Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, released in 1979

Songs / Tracks Listing

A. Rendezvous 6:02 (5:00)
B. In the Dead of Night (alternative studio version) (3:21)

Total Time 8:21

Line-up / Musicians

- Eddie Jobson / keyboards, electric violin
- John Wetton / vocals, bass
- Terry Bozzio / drums & percussion

Releases information

Vinyl 7" Polydor 2001 889, EG 2001 889 Netherlands

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UK Rendezvous 6:02 ratings distribution


3.24
(10 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(30%)
30%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(30%)
30%
Good, but non-essential (20%)
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Collectors/fans only (20%)
20%
Poor. Only for completionists (0%)
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Review by Guillermo
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3 stars U.K.'s "Danger Money" (1979) was the first album of the band that I bought and listened to in June 1980. It was released in my country in 1980. At that time I knew very little about this band apart from reading earlier in the same year a review in a Rock magazine from 1978 about their self-titled album from 1978 which was recorded with Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth in the line-up. But also later in 1980 in a Rock magazine I read about the split of U.K. which was mentioned in a review about YES's "Drama" album. That review also commented on how some Prog Rock bands were changing then their line-ups and musical styles (Genesis, YES, PFM, etc,) or were in fact ending their existence then, like U.K. In fact, the end of U.K. was originally announced to the international press in mid 1980 (a thing that I didn't know until some months later). Some years later (1983-84) a cousin said to me that he was very lucky because he had the chance to see and to listen to the band playing in concert in San Diego (USA) in 1979 , supporting JETHRO TULL, the band which Jobson later joined in 1980-81 as a "special guest" for their "A" album and tour.

"Rendezvous 6.02", released on the Side 1 of this single, was taken from the "Danger Money" album. It is a very good Prog Rock song, played with Electric Piano and Synthesisers (by Eddie Jobson), Bass guitar and vocals (by John Wetton), and drums and triangle (by Terry Bozzio, who replaced Bill Bruford in late 1978; guitarist Allan Holdsworth was not replaced). It has a very interesting electric piano part with a very characteristic riff and very good synthesiser solos in the instrumental section of the song. The "mysterious" lyrics (I think) maybe are about "the spirit or ghost of an old soldier which was seen in Waterloo Station" one evening by the writer and singer of the lyrics (Wetton; lyrics with a very British theme, I think). The song has very good musical atmospheres which reflect very well the content of the lyrics. A "dark" song in content. Some years ago in youtube I watched to a video of the band doing a playback of this song. Also very "dark" in content, but with the band very clearly doing a playback to the original album version. Maybe it is still available to be watched to in youtube.

In the Side 2 of this single there is a then new studio recording (for 1979) of "In the Dead of Night", a song which was previously recorded for their self-titled album from 1978 (with Bruford and Holdsworth). This 1979 version, recorded with Terry Bozzio, is shorter than the 1978 version, and it sounds very similar to the live version which was later released in their "Night After Night" album from 1979. The main difference is that this 1979 studio recording sounds more like an edit of the song, lacking some parts of the song.

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