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The Broadsword and the Beast is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Cat Stevens, Fairport Convention, Alice Cooper, Kiss and Pink Floyd. Those roots explain a lot about how The Broadsword and the Beast arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Steve Hackett, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 6 connections around The Broadsword and the Beast, reaching back through Cat Stevens and forward to Steve Hackett. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Broadsword and the Beast is the fourteenth studio album by rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1982 by Chrysalis Records. The album's musical style features a cross between the dominant synthesizer sound of the 1980s and the folk-influenced style that Jethro Tull used in the previous decade. As such, the band's characteristic acoustic instrumentation is augmented by electronic soundscapes. The electronic aspects of this album would be explored further by the band on their next album, Under Wraps (1984), as well as on Ian Anderson's solo album Walk into Light (1983).
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The Broadsword and the Beast grew out of Cat Stevens, Fairport Convention, Alice Cooper and Kiss, went on to shape Steve Hackett. 6 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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