Magic Roundabout (Swindon) be reconfigured while the layout was fine tuned. A police officer was stationed at each mini roundabout during this pilot phase to oversee how drivers coped with the unique arrangement. The roundabout is built over a section of the old Wilts and Berks Canal – Swindon wharf. A narrow, stone bridge built c. 1810, which is a grade II listed building, carried the old Saxon way known as Drove Road over the canal half a mile east of the town centre. Its site became covered by Drove Roundabout, which was later redeveloped as the Magic Roundabout. A wharf occupied one
Circle in the Round and "Lonely Fire" (released on "Big Fun"). Like the title track, it was released here in abbreviated form, as on "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions", the track is three minutes longer. In "Rock Albums of the Seventies" (1981), Robert Christgau deemed the recordings on "Circle in the Round" "damaged goods", even though "Miles tastes better out of the can than fresh watermelon or even V.S.O.P." Lester Bangs voted it as one of 1979's ten best records in his ballot for "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop poll. "Although seemingly hodgepodge in arrangement, "Circle in the Round" is a brilliant