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Classic Album: Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Managing to traverse the chasm between critics favourite and global commercial acceptance at the same time as David Bowie, the former Reg Dwight seemingly had the best of both worlds…

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Reissue: Attilio Mineo – Man In Space With Sounds

“Straight into the heart of the future!” boasts the narration for the latest LP re-issue of Man In Space With Sounds from Attilio “Art” Mineo, on the opening track “Welcome…

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Classic Album: Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

If Black Sabbath’s eponymous debut is their most influential album, Paranoid boasted the hit single that became the band’s signature tune, Master of Reality and Vol 4 are the fan…

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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV

Down the decades certain albums have had so much praise heaped upon them by fans and critics alike, that it becomes almost impossible to be objective about them. If so…

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Classic Album: Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Imagine the shock of hearing Highway 61 Revisited the first time in the mid 60s. You’re a Bob Dylan fan, you like his politicised songwriting as it fit in neatly…

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Classic Album: Electric Light Orchestra – A New World Record

By October 1976 Electric Light Orchestra had managed to morph themselves into a slick prog-pop group, scoring hit singles the world over and releasing a string of increasingly impressive albums.…

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Classic Albums: Considering the status of Nirvana’s Nevermind 25 years later

It should go without saying, but sometimes it’s okay not to like something as much as people tell you that you should do. This applies many multiple times over for…

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Classic Album: AC/DC – Back in Black

There are some rock albums that grow to be bigger than the band that recorded it, so much so that it eclipses their whole career, becomes somewhat of an albatross…

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Classic Album: Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms

That’s the trouble with first love – it only ever happens once. While some of us finally find what we are looking for later in life, you can never turn…

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Classic Album: Motorhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith

Black clad, rickenbecker-bass wielding, rock and roll enthusiast Lemmy spent much of his post-Hawkwind career fronting Motorhead, a band that could play a range of slow, medium and fast-paced numbers,…

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