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{{Music ratings| noprose = yes| rev1 = AllMusic4class=album|id=apocalypse-mw0000204267}}(Christgau’s Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies>Christgau’s Record Guide)AUTHOR-LINK=ROBERT CHRISTGAUTITLE=(CHRISTGAU’S RECORD GUIDE: ROCK ALBUMS OF THE SEVENTIES)TICKNOR & FIELDS>ISBN=089919026XCHAPTER-URL=HTTPS://WWW.ROBERTCHRISTGAU.COM/GET_CHAP.PHP?K=M&BK=70VIA=ROBERTCHRISTGAU.COM, | rev3 = SputnikmusicFIRST=HERNAN M. DATE= 4 AUGUST 2012 ACCESS-DATE=9 APRIL 2013, | rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide2|5}}BOOK , |rev5 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings2AUTHORLINK1=RICHARD COOK (JOURNALIST) FIRST2=BRIAN TITLE=THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ >YEAR=2008 PUBLISHER=PENGUIN BOOKS >ISBN=978-0-141-03401-0, 922, }}Apocalypse is the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s fourth album and third studio album, released in 1974.It is performed by the second line-up of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. It was produced by George Martin, who regarded it as “one of the best records [he had] ever made”.{{sfn|Martin|1979|p=109}}The back cover features a poem by Sri Chinmoy as well as a group photo of those who created the album.

Track listing

All music composed by John McLaughlin; lyrics to “Smile of the Beyond” composed by “Mahalakshmi” Eve McLaughlin.{{Track listing| headline = Side one| title1 = Power of Love| length1 = 4:36| title2 = Vision Is a Naked Sword| length2 = 14:16| title3 = Smile of the Beyond| length3 = 7:56}}{{Track listing| headline = Side two| title1 = Wings of Karma| length1 = 6:12| title2 = Hymn to Him| length2 = 19:23}}

Personnel

• John McLaughlin – guitars, vocal composer
• Gayle Moran – keyboards, vocals
• Jean-Luc Ponty – electric violin, electric baritone violin
• Ralphe Armstrong – bass guitar, vocals
• Narada Michael Walden – drums, percussion, vocals

with

• Michael Tilson Thomas – conductor, piano
• Michael Gibbs – orchestration
• Marsha Westbrook – viola
• George Martin – producer
• Carol Shive – violin, vocals
• Philip Hirschi – cello, vocals
• Geoff Emerick – engineer

Charts{| class“wikitable sortable plainrowheaders”

!Chart (1974)!Position!scope=“row“|Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)BOOK, Kent, David, David Kent (historian), Australian Chart Book 1970–1992, illustrated, Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W., 1993, 0-646-11917-6, 188, 82!scope=“row“|US Billboard 200WEB,www.allmusic.com/album/between-nothingness-eternity-mw0000188331/awards, Between Nothingness & Eternity - Mahavishnu Orchestra | Awards, AllMusic, 1 January 2014, 43!scope=“row“|US Jazz Albums (Billboard)10

References

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Bibliography

• BOOK, George, Martin, All You Need Is Ears, 1979, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 0-312-02043-0, registration,archive.org/details/allyouneedisears00mart,

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