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The Turn of a Friendly Card
The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 by Arista Records. The title piece, which appears on side 2 of the LP, is a 16-minute suite broken up into five tracks, with the five tracks listed as sub-sections. "The Turn of a Friendly Card" spawned the hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead
incompetent performer. After dealing several more cards, the performer announces that "The next card I turn over will be yours!" The spectator, having seen the magician pass the selected card, assumes that the performer refers to the next card on top of the deck and believes that the magician will fail the trick.
The performer will at this point offer to wager a sum of money that the next card they turn over will indeed be the spectator's. Knowing that their card has been passed over, the spectator