Before going solo, Edmunds was a member of Love Sculpture, and the band enjoyed a UK top 5 hit with its version of Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance."
Like many people in my age group, I was first introduced to "Sabre Dance" by watching plate spinners on television. If you grew up in the Chicago area when I did, you saw plenty of plate spinners on "Bozo's Circus."
As for Khachaturian, like many Stalin-era artists in the Soviet Union, he was celebrated, dencounced, and then rehabilitated after the dictator's death. Still he was lucky. Millions of Khachaturian's lives were extinguished by Stalin--a loss of life to him was probably as tragic as a broken plate.
Enjoy as rock and roll meets classical.
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