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Uploaded by on Dec 19, 2010

From the Scottish band "Beggar's Opera" and their superb first album "Act One", released in 1971. Lots of fascinating interplays between melodic passages and frantic sections in this version of Franz von Suppé's classical composition, played with rock instruments.

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  • used to watch them in the Burns Howff pub in Glasgow many years a go..they always got standing ovations after every number..

  • beggars opera. fantastic in the 60s i went to see them during the break i got to speak to them very nice chaps. the best band next to runrig. they played along side urhia heep you cant dance to beggars opera.

  • @TheRancord yup,was on the VERTIGO label

  • Damn wasnt that the LP with the hypnotic thing when it was turning? I was searching this, my dad used to play me this when I was very young.

  • I saw them so many times...

    Alan Park (keyboards) now MD for Cliff Richard...

    Gordon Sellar (bass), later played with Peters & Lee...

    The rest...

    Better, ever, than Genesis...

  • i got the album:D love it

  • I HAVE SEEN THESE SIX TIMES AND ARE ONE OF THE BEST LIVE BANDS I`VE SEEN I WISH THEY WERE STILL TOURING

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