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Article: Caravan get their show on the road; Simon Evans talks to the 70s rock heroes getting together again on stage Caravan became known for the 'Canterbury sound' back in their 70s heyday and still try to do an album every year Bringing in new players was inevitably going to change the band and its influences Pye Hastings.(Arts)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- October 12, 2000
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Caravan are often regarded with fondness by those who grew up during the great progressive rock boom of the early 70s.
Unlike ELP, Yes and other proponents of that most reviled of genres, Caravan, Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North and other exponents of what was known as the 'Canterbury sound' produced whimsical, often humourous vignettes about girls working on golf courses with titles like Headloss and Tilbury Keck.
And although Caravan were not immune to the fashion for symphony orchestras prevalent at the time ...