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1	Excalibur
2	Dragon Island Cathedral
3	At the End of the Day
4	The Reason Why
5	Shapeshifter
6	King for a Day
7	Avalon
8	Sinner
9	In Flames
10	Lies

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A rock opera inspired by the legend of King Arthur, written by & featuring Gary Hughes (Ten) along with appearances from Damian Wilson, Lana Lane, Danny Vaughn, Irene Jansen, Bob Catley, & Sean Harris. Digipak. Frontiers. 2003.

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 0.39 x 4.92 inches; 2.83 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Frontiers Italy
SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 3, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Frontiers Italy
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000AB71D
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ France
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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k wolf

perfect ten

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006

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Ten songs. Ten songs with lyrics that actually make sense and that, most incredibly for this age of popular music, contain perfect scansion, as well as elegant rhyme schemes.

Ten wonderful vocal melodies, each of them complex yet catchy. Ten perfect vocal performances.

Ten perfect instrumental performances to support them. Ten perfectly mixed and produced tracks, tracks which, by the way, are of such great variety -- from pure modern power metal to old fashioned eighties pop power ballads and everything in between -- that you will listen to this one all the way through every time. Ten tracks you cannot skip, because each of them would be the highlight on virtually any other album in this genre.

This album, on a scale of one to ten: ten.

Okay, that punch line was a little weak. (And for those who might not realize, "Ten" is the name of this band, even though here they are calling themselves Gary Hughes and using guest vocalists -- great ones at that.) But seriously, this has got to be the best arena rock album since Steve Perry left Journey two decades ago. Not a single weak moment anywhere.

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Mr D.

I Love This Album!!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2004

Yes, I love this album. I've had it about three weeks now and I listen to it at least once a day. Even my teenage daughter sorta likes it. Shes says it's not as weird as the other music I have and sometimes force her to listen to in the car. The music actually varies from song to song with most of the songs falling in the melodic progressive rock category.
Once and Future King is a Rock Opera, loosely based upon T.H.White's classic King Arthur novel of the same name. This rock opera is the creation of Gary Hughes, the lead vocalist of the British AOR group TEN. O.F.K.,however, is strictly Hughes' baby, consisting of two separate and separately sold CDs, Part 1 and Part 2. I have Part 2 as well and it is also good but I prefer Part 1.
After composing this masterpiece, Hughes, who has been a guest vocalist on at least one Arjen Anthony Lucassen's* own rock opera's, borrowed a page from the master and enlisted Arjen and several other very talented guest musicians for his own rock opera.
*For those not familiar with Lucassen, he is the creator and genius behind numerous concept albums including Ambeon, Ayreon and Star One. Additionally, he has been a valued guest musician on numerous projects in addition to this album, having worked with Lana Lane, Erik Norlander, Rocket Scientists, Within Temptation and Glass Hammer.
Characters
Gary Hughes.............King Arthur
Lana Lane...............Queen Guinevere
Danny Vaughn............Lancelot
Bob Catley..............Merlin
Irene Jansen............Morgana
Sean Harris.............Sir Galahad
Damien Wilson, sings "Excalibur" (The Prologue)
Highlights:
"Excalibur",
Upon a pagan land in darkness came,
A black and heartless spawn of seed,
A cruel and wretched plague,
For the mists of time a king lay slain,
Basically an intro, starting out with a piano and bell solo with background thunder and choir reminiscent of a sound track, leading into a very accessible medium fast paced, melodic prog rock number with very catchy chorus. Excellent singing by Damien Wilson.
"Shapeshifter",
The perfect spell you could not resist,
I cast it well, beguiled and bewitched,
The evening fell and knocked like before,
But this time Hell had come to your door,
This is a great, great song in a mainstream rock vein, reminiscent of Garbage a bluesy number with just excellent vampy, singing by Irene Jansen and great backing vocals by the cast. Who is this chick? Well, I checked and she is the sister of Floor Jansen (After Forever). No wonder she's so good, Floor's arguably the best singer in the Galaxy.
Irene is apparently with a band called Karma. I will be checking them out!
"King for a Day"
True Gods, they sleep,
Locked in their mountain of dreams,
They wait for the call, for the hunger,
Thry must be freed,
This is slow rock song, almost a ballad, almost a waltz, a truly wonderful composition, beautifully sung by Bob Catley of Magnum. My respect for Gary Hughes is growing and growing.
"In Flames"
The time has come,
There's no other way now,
This Crime is done,
It tore what remained of our reason,
Another marvelous song, a medium paced, somewhat anthemic, ordered, marching style, rock number, with Bob Catley again lending his superlative style on the vocals. Great percussion and guitar.
Conclusion, there's only one conclusion. The music is wonderful and easy to listen to, the musicians are top notch and the singers are emotional and captivating so, buy, buy, buy, buy. And this one's not that hard to find for a change, so buy, buy, buy, buy!!!

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skyfoxx

best symphonic rock opera of decade

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2005

I am not going to duplicate this review by writing same thing for Part 2, so listen up! If you like symphonic rock - and of course, I mean here only the best of the genre - then run and buy this CD. Could be kinda hard to do that outside of Europe but I think Amazon still has it in stock.

First of all, compared to a lot of prog/sympho/hard rock albums this one has very very decent lyrics... this is not up to Mary Stewart standards but what did you expect?

Secondly, quality of melodies is extremely high - it is obvious that Gary Hughes put a lot of effort into it. Kinda makes you wonder why his Ten albums suffer from monotony and noticeable lack of musical diversity... who knows? Perhaps he simply was inspired in this case, eh?

Best numbers: At The End Of The Day, Shapeshifter (with stunning voice of Irene Jansen), King For A Day, Lies (Part 1); Kill The King, I Still Love You, Demon Down, Once And Future King (Part 2).

Also there is a bonus track which I have but its name is missing so I have no idea... it is also really good! Perhaps it just didn't gel with the other numbers so it is missing on both standard issues (Europe and Japan).

Hughes managed to gather an amazing ensemble of performers for this undertaking and it paid off. He himself sings King Arthur's part, then we have here DC Cooper of Royal Hunt fame, Lana Lane, Bob Catley from Magnum, Sean Harris from Diamond Head, Arjen Lukassen on keyboards (of course), Dougie White, and bunch of other well-known professionals.

Overall athmosphere is just right and, once again, truly one of the best albums of the decade!

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Renate Thomas

Gutes Album

Reviewed in Germany on September 4, 2016

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Auch Once and all Future King part I ist super mit all den tollen Musikern. Kann ich immer wieder hören.

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Alain Bourguignon

MAGNIFIQUE

Reviewed in France on June 27, 2012

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J'ai découvert cet opera rock un peu tard (mais il n'est jamais trop tard). C'est rudement bien fichu et répond aux attentes des amateurs du genre. Hugues est très bien entouré et tous les intervenants ont leur place dans cet album. Certains noms sont bien connus et présentent un gage de qualité. L'ensemble est fort bien ficelé, très homogène et varié. Un très bon CD, à un prix plus que démocratique en plus...

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Karl

King Arthur Legend to Music

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2013

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Story that most people know, but set to music and in song form excellent cast of singers and well written songs.

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