Romany (Expanded Edition)

Romany is the twelfth studio album by the English rock and pop band the Hollies. Released in November 1972, it is the band's first studio album to not feature lead singer Allan Clarke, who had left the band to embark on a solo career. He was replaced by Swedish singer Mikael Rickfors. In the opinion of contemporary and retrospective critics, this album moved the band further away from the original vocal harmony style of Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash. The album only features two songwriting contributions from band members: one song was co-written by Hicks, who had been a co-writer of a significant proportion of the band's material since their second album; and another was written by Rickfors. Previous albums, with the exception of Hollies Sing Dylan and the band's debut album, had much more original material. The US Epic Records version of the album, which reached number 84 on the Billboard 200, omitted the track "Lizzy and the Rainman", and has a slightly altered side-one track order. The album failed to chart in the UK. The cover of Romany renders, as a winter scene, the summer location depicted on the sleeve of the group's previous album Distant Light.

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