Delighted you loved it. This album formed a massive part of my growing up, and yes I agree that "Thunder child" is the weak point, if there is one, of the album. I also can't quite put my finger on it: I think the lyric is quite poor: "There were ships of shapes and sizes"??? Should the word different not be inserted there? Mind you, it kind of makes up for its suckiness at the end, with the big buildup to the final "UUU-LAAAHHH!"
That's the late Richard Burton narrating by the way (yes, he who was married to Liz Taylor and whose final incredible performance prior to his death was in
Nineteen Eighty Four), while the Artilleryman you like so much is pop icon David Essex, and the late great Phil Lynott plays and sings Parson Nathaniel in "The Spirit of Man". Unbelievable album. Love it to death. Stoked that it made it into the hall of fame.
