The View From My Window
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The View From My Window is the fifth studio album released by Guy Manning
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All words and music written by Guy Manning.
Guy Manning
Guy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.-Biography:...
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Track listing
- Phase (The Open & The Widening Sky) (07:23)
- The View From My Window (09:07)
- The Rut (08:04)
- After The (Tears In the) Rain (05:18)
- Blue Girl (06:14)
- Suite:Dreams (20:03)
- Dreamian Rhapsody
- On The Carousel
- In Slumbers
- R.E.M.
- ...From Slumbers
All words and music written by Guy Manning.
Personnel
- Guy ManningGuy ManningGuy Manning is an English multi-instrumentalist and singer, best known for his own album work and for his membership of progressive rock bands Parallel or 90 Degrees, The Tangent and his own, Manning.-Biography:...
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