Roundabout constructed in 1972 in Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, designed by Frank Blackmore, inventor of the mini-roundabout. The roundabout joins five roads and consists of a two-way road around the central island, with five mini-roundabouts meeting the incoming roads. The name derives from the popular children's television series, "The Magic Roundabout", and is considered "magic" because traffic flows in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions. This is achieved by surrounding the main island with one smaller roundabout per entry/exit street. This pattern directs traffic in the usual clockwise (in LHT installations) or counter-clockwise (in RHD installations) manner around each mini-roundabout. Exiting the
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