100 Great Songs to Publish a Book to, #7: Renaissance, Can You Understand

Using a quote from Maurice Jarre’s theme for Doctor Zhivago, Michal Dunford constructed a gentle, heart-felt ballad bracketed by four minutes of blistering orchestral progressive rock.  The ballad in the middle is a little on the syrupy side, but, frankly speaking, Annie Haslam could sing her grocery shopping list and it would still sound divine.  Altogether the whole song, which opens 1973’s superlative Ashes Are Burning, represents Renaissance at their very best.

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