CR> First off, I think the opening is a nod to Zeppelin's "Stairway..."
No, not really.  Both are just trying to capture a fairly mediaeval 
sound, and both do...well, okay at it.
 CR> The overall form of the song is a nod to "Supper's Ready" and side 2
 CR> of _Abbey Road_ (in a way).  
Again, I disagree.  There's no equivalent of "Willow Farm", for example,
nor of "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?" or "As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs". 
About the only similarity is the closing section, which isn't even the 
equivalent of the closing section of SR.
 CR> There's Fish's voice which sounds like
 CR> Gabriel in Genesis in 1971 to 1972.  
No more so here than anywhere else, though.
 CR> Then there's Rothery's guitar
 CR> which, to me, has a thinner Hackett sound.  It gets *very* Hackett
 CR> like from 7:00 through 9:00 minutes into it.  
This I can see.
 
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