Sad Wings of Destiny two weeks in November and December 1975 at Rockfield Studios in Wales with producers Jeffrey Calvert and Gereint "Max West" Hughes, and Chris Tsangarides as co-engineer. Calvert and Hughes were the main members of the pop group Typically Tropical who topped the UK charts in 1975 with "Barbados", Gull's first hit. The band stayed sober during the recording sessions, which lasted from 3:00 pm until 3:00 am. Mixing took a week at Morgan Studios in London. David Howells of Gull records commissioned Patrick Woodroffe to provide the cover art, a piece called "Fallen Angel" depicting a struggling, grounded angel surrounded
One Minute Wonders (piano) in Country Life Magazine, wrote: Particularly remarkable were Matthew King's "Sonatas" which managed to quote from all of Beethoven's sonatas in chronological order, and Colin Matthews's "60 Second Waltz", which, after half-remembering Chopin, faded modernistically, then resurrected itself. "One Minute Wonders" is published, and a CD by the same name has been released (with Clive Williamson as soloist) by Cadenza Music. One Minute Wonders (piano) One Minute Wonders is the name given to a series of piano pieces by leading British composers, commissioned by the pianist Clive Williamson in association with the University of Surrey. The challenge, laid down to