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Release Date
November 1980
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Length
5 tracks
"The Turn of a Friendly Card" is a progressive rock album by "The Alan Parsons Project", released in 1980.
The album focuses on gambling, and loosely tells the tale of a middle-aged man who grows restless and takes a chance by going to a casino and betting all he has, only to lose it all. The original LP had a side-long title piece, which on the CD version is broken up into five tracks.
"The Turn of a Friendly Card" is also notable for spawning the moderate hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance.
All CD remasters of "The Turn of a Friendly Card" appear to have been pitch corrected down to concert pitch.
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