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Pop albums with an opening overture?

Ray Thomas album "From Mighty Oaks" has a very nicely done opening orchestral overture of the album by the same name.  Never thought about it before before digging this album out for conversion to music library.   Not a very common thing for a non themed pop album to do that.   Any others come to mind?   

128x128mapman
bec1195
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Al (Kooper) also included an overture on his first solo album, "I Stand Alone."  Both this one and the B,S & T overture include some "psychedelic" sound effects.  
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toddverrone
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The Gorillaz - Plastic Beach has an opening track appropriately named 'Orchestral Intro'. 
trytone
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You could make an argument for Quadrophenia, amid the slamming surf are faint fragments of melodies you will hear later, much in the fashion of an opera overture.
reubent
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The Tubes - "What do you want from Live?"
reubent
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An of course........

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