The Turn of a Friendly Card

by The Alan Parsons Project

The Turn of a Friendly Card cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1980
  • Label: Arista
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 6:24
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Woolfson/Parsons

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An immaculately engineered progressive rock concept album exploring themes of gambling, risk, and profound emotional loss. 'The Turn of a Friendly Card' effortlessly blends lush orchestral arrangements and soaring pop-rock melodies with incredibly complex, multi-part instrumental suites, resulting in a deeply introspective, beautifully bittersweet soft-rock classic.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, melodic, suite, progressive, polished

Tracklist

  1. The Turn Of A Friendly Card (3:02)
  2. May Be A Price To Pay (3:22)

Credits

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