''Seven Stories into Eight'' is a

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by the neo-prog band IQ. It was released in 1982 on cassette. In 1998, a new version of this work ( Seven Stories into '98) was released as a studio album.

Track listing

# "Capital Letters (In Surgical Spirit Land)" – 3:46 # "About Lake Five" – 5:02 # "Intelligence Quotient" – 6:55 # "For Christ’s Sake" (Live) – 5:05 # "Barbell Is In" – 5:32 # "Fascination" – 5:56 # "For The Taking" – 4:17 # "It All Stops Here" – 6:58

Personnel

* Peter Nicholls – lead vocals (tracks 6–8) *

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– acoustic, electric &

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s *

Martin Orford Martin Orford (born 10 June 1959, Bitterne, Southampton) is an English keyboard player best known as the founder of progressive rock bands IQ and Jadis. He also worked with former King Crimson, U.K. and Asia bassist John Wetton, and has releas ...

– keyboards, lead vocals (tracks 3 & 5) * Tim Esau – bass guitar * Mark Rideout – drums, percussion (tracks 1, 3 & 4) *

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– drums, percussion (all other tracks)

References

IQ (band) albums 1982 albums {{1980s-rock-album-stub