GRAND PRIX

"SAMURIAL" WAS RELEASED 1983, AN ALBUM FROM BRITISH AOR/MELODIC ROCK BAND GRAND PRIX. WITH TWO PREVIOUS ALBUMS TUCKED UNDER THEIR BELT GRAND PRIX HAD SECURED A REPUTATION AS ONE OF THE UK'S BEST MELODIC ROCK OUTFITS WIELDING A SOUND HALF BORROWED FROM THE GRANDEST AMERICAN ACTS SUCH AS KANSAS AND JOURNEY YET UNDERPINNED BY A CERTAIN BRITISH EARTHINESS. IT WAS THIS GRAVITAS THAT GRAND PRIX RECORDED THEIR THIRD ALBUM PRODUCED BY STATUS QUO ALUMNI JOHN EDEN IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. "SAMURAI" IS WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE GREATEST POMP ROCK ALBUMS EVER RECORDED BY A BRITISH BAND. BOASTING GILT EDGED MELODIES AND BOASTING A BATCH OF SONGS THAT WOULD NOT BE OUT OF PLACE ON A MULTI PLATINUM STYX ALBUM, THE EFFECT IS UTTERLY SPELLBINDING. OH, AND LOOK OUT FOR VOCALIST ROBIN MCAULEY, A VOICE OF PURE DELIGHT.