Yes Steve, "Piggies" should not be forgotten at all. A great song that does a great job matching elegant music with ugly imagery. Ray Davies is also great at this kind of incongruity, like the song "Ring the Bells" which matches happy lyrics with depressing music and delivery. I love songs that manage that effectively.
Also love those pics. That one of George reminds me of the Paul picture of him picking his nose inside the McCartney album (I think...) Not the usual glamour shot.
Stu, I didn't know there were already converts to the Gary Wright fan society! I'm definitely with you that they are all great (the early ones, that is...) I was really surprised when I bought the first two albums on a whim, and found out how good they were. I somehow just assumed he was always doing the "Dream Weaver" all-keyboard stuff. Not that I blame him, or even mind the song that much. I'm sure it bought him some nice houses and cars. But I'm with you Stuart, "Ring of Changes" is just fine. At the time there was a single release of the song "Ring of Changes" and the b-side which is also on the CD. However, those are the only two songs that made it to vinyl, evidently.
Even though I'm not a vinyl snob, I do wish that when an artist like Gary Wright reissues a cool lost album like "Ring of Changes" that they would make a vinyl release as well. Maybe it's cost prohibitive for an album that isn't by a super huge name, but 70's music just sounds right on vinyl.
Still, I'm glad it finally got a release in any format. Like those mid-period Fleetwood Mac albums "Bare Trees" or "Future Games", I find it is the perfect combination of the good things about seventies music.

Yes indeed Steve,Piggies was a a real omission on my part,it is indeed a great biting song way before its time taking a well deserved dig at the greed of capitalism,remember it had just been over 20 years since the end of world war 2 when the seeds of this song were formed!!Changing times indeed!!Piggies sentiments are still(if not more) as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.Harrison was also the one to highlight the income tax burden he felt that the government was personally putting on him and his at this time very successful and high earning colleagues with the brilliant Taxman,what other so called pop groups at this time were recording and releasing such obvious attacks on the establishment?The press used to call the rolling stones the bad boys of pop,i actually cant remember a song from this time that they recorded that attacked the establishment as such!!! Maybe im wrong.....I don't know!!Whether you are of the opinion that George and the others quite rightly or not should be paying the highest tax that was in the uk at the time over 50 years later is probably neither here nor there,but to actually write,record and release it on what would be a massive selling album basically having a massive dig at the then government and actually namedropping the chancellor,mustve been quite a thing,this was 1966,well before the drug busts of the stones etc.Whether it was a self interest thing behind the song,but I know no one who genuinely likes paying governments income tax from their hard work,no matter what it is you do for a living,so I can imagine Taxman being a pretty well liked sentiment from the more mature Beatles fans of the time!!!This from a group who only under 2 years earlier accepted MBEs from the establishment.Which even now I hate the thought of!!!!That's just my thoughts guys,it was tragic what happened to George in later life getting attacked and stabbed from some deranged bampot and then to succumb to cancer,though to be honest he had been a heavy smoker for much off his life!!Any man who can forgive and stay friends all his life with someone he was close to who did the dirty on him with his partner Miss Boyd,im on about Eric Clapton of course,which to me says a lot about Clapton(not a lot),tells me a lot about George Harrison as a human being!!I'm beginning to waffle on a bit,so i'll stop there!!Enjoyed this thread folks,thanks for taking part!!