Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Chocolate kings (P.F.M.) (LP 3478)

P.F.M.  Chocolate Kings (Vinyl, Manticore/Asylum Records, 1975) ***  

Genre: Prog rock

Places I remember: Spellbound Wax Company

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Out Of The Roundabout

Gear costume: Harlequin

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5

Active compensatory factors: P.F.M. stands for 
Premiata Forneria Marconi. They were an Italian prog rock band who befriended Greg Lake and were signed to Emerson Lake & Palmer's Manticore label.

Chocolate Kings was their sixth album. The music is great - loads of hammond organ and tricksy time changes. The only problem is the lack of a stronger vocalist. Luckily for P.F.M. Prog Rock is probably the one genre where strong vocals are not a critical component to overall success.

Where do they all belong? Well worth investigating for prog fans.

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