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Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz (Hardcover)
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Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz (Hardcover)
Series: 33 1/3 Oceania
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Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New
Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974
with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve
anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder
status in the eyes of many, to this day Riddell and Space Waltz
epitomize the mid-1970s heyday of glam rock in New Zealand. But in
truth their impact went far beyond this. Their generationally
divisive nation-wide debut on the hugely popular MOR television
talent quest Studio One/New Faces demonstrated the power of mass
media exposure - they were instantly signed to a record deal with
industry giant EMI - while Riddell's controversial gender-bending
image provided a cultural crossroads that greatly impacted the
wider youth culture of Aotearoa New Zealand. In addition, while the
album's most famous track, 'Out On The Street,' is rightly regarded
as New Zealand's glam rock anthem, the wider album demonstrates a
compositional and musical depth that goes far beyond glam rock and
into the realm of sophisticated progressive rock, ultimately
providing an unlikely and highly unique musical amalgam.
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