''Seven Secrets'' is the second

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by Irish

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band Fruupp, released on 19 April 1974 in the United Kingdom on the Dawn Records label, a subsidiary of

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for underground and progressive rock music. Like the band's debut album, it was recorded at Escape Studios in

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, but was this time produced by David Lewis, the frontman of another Irish rock band

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. Before Fruupp entered the recording studio, they had written six songs, but felt that the album name "Seven Secrets" would be more appropriate than "Six Secrets", so Vincent McCusker composed an acoustic guitar and spoken song "The Seventh Secret" to ensure the album had seven tracks to match its new title.

Track listing

Personnel

Fruupp

*Peter Farrelly – lead vocals, bass guitar; cover artwork *Stephen Houston – keyboards,

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, vocals *Vincent McCusker – guitars, vocals *Martin Foye – drums, percussion

Technical personnel

* David Lewis – producer; piano on "Three Spires" *Tony Taverner – engineer *Michael Rennie – conductor (strings) *Ruby Mazur – photography, design *Ian Stokes – photography, design

References

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