Old music: Spirit – Fresh Garbage

A cut-price sampler album opened the doors of perception to those with a yearning for 'progressive' musicIt cost 14s 11d (just under 75p) and changed my life. The Rock Machine Turns You On, a cut-price sampler of new tracks from the CBS label, was the must-have album in the spring of 1968 for those of us who regarded ourselves, unselfconsciously and without irony, as fans of "underground" or "progressive" music.Alongside a few people we'd heard of – the Byrds, Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel – were...

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