Ask and YT often supplies. Earlier writing of musical crossover … when a rock person feels semi-classical is his summum bonum … when a classical person tries to broaden her horizons in a rock direction … YT suggested this (commentary continues below):
Crossover is meaningful to me … hastily adding that this does not mean cross dressing, cross gender nor any other perversion … it means cross cultures, such as when I was in Russia, Latin countries … yet within what we take as the west, which includes this American lady.
Procul Harum were, to me … ok at the time, musically I mean … I was a kid hearing them when the song was first released. Even then, the kids thought the lyrics meaningless, which is what she is finding. In fact they are, essentially gobbledegook. There were (cough) far better bands such as The Moody Blues.
Thus, no matter how good the orchestra or band, the composer vocalist just doesn’t cut it in my eyes … the lyrics are rubbish, the band was trying to be prog and serious … I’m sorry for the lady. She derived something from the music, PH were essentially musical, with obligatory lyrics dropped into it … so that bit was fine.
My sister had three Moody Blues albums after she went to university – birthday presents from Mum & Dad, so 18th, 19th and 20th. She did a BSc, got a first but didn’t finish her PhD. I think she’d had enough. She said her three science A-Levels (Physics, Biology and Chemistry) were harder than Uni. Me, I left school at 15.
A Question of Balance – 1970.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour – 1971.
Seventh Sojourn – 1972.