''Magic Is A Child'' is the seventh album from English

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band

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. It is the only studio album released by Nektar without Roye Albrighton on guitar and lead vocals; this album instead features Dave Nelson. Brooke Shields, 12 years old at the time, is the model on the cover. The track "Train from Nowhere" features

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on lead guitar (under the pseudonym “Walt Nektroid".)

Reception

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gave the album a positive retrospective review, praising Nektar's switching to "shorter, punchier songs", "swelling" keyboards, "symphonic" guitars, and "breezy pop".

Track listing

Personnel

*Dave Nelson - guitar, vocals *Alan "Taff" Freeman - synthesizer, keyboards, vocals *Derek "Mo" Moore - bass, vocals *Ron Howden - percussion, drums, vocals, Smurds ;Additional personnel *Julien Barber,

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, Michael Commins, Anthony Posk - string quartet *

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- synthesizer, programming, processing *Walt Nektroid - guitar on "Train from Nowhere" *Jeffrey Kawalek - production, engineering

References

External links

''Magic is a Child'' at Project Nektor Music
{{Authority control Nektar albums 1977 albums Polydor Records albums