Audio Autopsy, 1972: Byzantium Debut LP, Warner Bros, US: Career Start for Chaz Jankel, Queen Producer Roy Thomas Baker, a Genesis Producer & a Springsteen Player
2 major labels (Warner Bros. in the States, A&M in EU) couldn't help propel this long-forgotten, influential album into the pop culture zeitgeist, but it jump-started several productive careers.




Boy Band With Guitars
Mr. Peabody sets the Wayback Machine to 1972: This writer is a 17-year-old junior, and the lead singer/flutist in his Houston-area high school rock band, Brimstone.
Among the pile of new promo Warner Bros. releases Dad brings home from the radio station where he’s an ad exec, is this green LP jacket, with a “B” word I may have heard …
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