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Pawn Hearts is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Olivier Messiaen and Pink Floyd. Those roots explain a lot about how Pawn Hearts arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Fish, Julian Cope and George Martin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around Pawn Hearts, reaching back through Olivier Messiaen and forward to Fish. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Pawn Hearts is the fourth album by English progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released on 12 November 1971 on Charisma Records. The original album features just three tracks, including the side-long suite "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". The album was not commercially successful in the UK, but reached number one in Italy. It has since seen retrospective critical praise and was reissued on CD in 2005 with extra material.
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Pawn Hearts grew out of Olivier Messiaen and Pink Floyd, went on to shape Fish, Julian Cope and George Martin. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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