I was running a record store when Circle came out. We catered to high shcool and college aged folks. We sold a lot of Deep Purple's Machine Head. gpt rcs,[;r/ Our best seller the year Cirlce came out was Circle. Certainly, we weren't catering to country listeners. I bllieve Circle exposed many people to a part of American music to which they had never been exposed. Considering it was a multirecord set, I believe its success in our store speaks volumes for its inherent listening value.

Roger in Baltimore