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Jon Bryan

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Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18

  • June 26, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Apollo 18 is the album that cemented They Might Be Giants as an act that would endure rather than burn briefly. Sure, the hit single “Birdhouse in Your Soul” had…
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Not Forgotten: Aretha Franklin – I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

  • June 20, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
From a modern perspective, it’s staggering to look back at the career of Aretha Franklin and realised that at the point in her career in 1967, when I Never Loved…
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Not Forgotten: Big Star – #1 Record

  • June 14, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Influential albums are something that I approach with trepidation, especially when they are by acts that are considered to be ‘cult’. As massively influential as albums like The Velvet Underground…
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Not Forgotten: The Soundtrack of Our Lives – Behind the Music

  • June 14, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Retro rock is a risky business. If you pay homage to your influences too closely you risk ending up in a creative cul-de-sac, where your fans don’t need to know…
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Album Review: FFS – FFS

  • June 11, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
FFS are a supergroup in the purest sense. Two musical acts, seperated by a generation, combining to release an album which will hopefully combine the best bits of their respective…
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Not Forgotten: Harry Nilsson – Son of Schmilsson

  • June 6, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Having a hit with “Without You”, the power-ballad that still out power-ballads all other power-ballads, had left Harry Nilsson in a uniquely enviable position of being a vastly talented singer…
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Not Forgotten: Aphrodite’s Child – 666

  • May 31, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Every now and again I encounter an album which seems to exist in its own bubble. Aphrodite’s Child are a band I had certainly heard of, but I couldn’t name…
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Not Forgotten: The Allman Brothers Band – Brothers and Sisters

  • May 29, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Brothers and Sisters was the album where The Allman Brothers Band made a concerted effort to rebuild themselves following the blow of the death of slide guitar maestro Duane Allman…
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Not Forgotten: Paul Simon – Paul Simon

  • May 26, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
Simon and Garfunkel had enjoyed astoundingly success and were at the peak of the commercial powers when Paul Simon decided that had had tired of sharing the limelight and followed…
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Feature: Shelved albums – a celebration.

  • May 23, 2015
  • Jon Bryan
The history of popular song is littered with unreleased albums. The explanations for these albums being unreleased can vary from record label apathy, recording facilities just not being up to…
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