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Not Forgotten: 10cc – The Original Soundtrack

By early 1975, 10cc had extricated themselves from an unfavourable recording contract under which their first two albums had been released. This resulted in The Original Soundtrack being a confluence…

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Not Forgotten: Neil Young – After the Gold Rush

Always knowingly wilful, Neil Young has never been an easy musician to pin down. Having cut his teeth with Buffalo Springfield, his solo career started off with a solid enough…

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Not Forgotten: Grandaddy – Sumday

In the process of comprehensively out-OK Computered Radiohead with the stunning The Sophtware Slump in 2000, Grandaddy had gained an enviable reputation for musical brilliance, but that hadn’t really translated…

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Album Review: Larry Levan – Genius of Time

Seen by some as the greatest DJ of all time, Larry Levan’s influence on music still continues to this day. Born Lawrence Philpot in in 1954, Levan would grow up to Resident…

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Not Forgotten: Paul Westerberg – 14 Songs

The former The Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg had been the main creative force behind his former band for the last few years of their career, so in the early 90s,…

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Not Forgotten: Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak

After years of trying to match the commercial success of their breakthrough hit “Whiskey in the Jar”, it arguably happened at exactly the wrong time for Thin Lizzy. They had…

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Not Forgotten: Black & White by The Stranglers

Its early 1978 and I’m standing in the horrible brutalist Ryemarket Shopping Centre in Stourbridge, a copy of ‘Sounds’ in my hands (well all over my hands such was the…

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Not Forgotten: The Czars – Before… But Longer

Like many people, I only know The Czars as the band John Grant was in before he temporarily turned his back on the music industry. As such it is tempting…

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Not Forgotten: Comus – First Utterance

I first became aware of Comus back in early 1996, when First Utterance enjoyed its first foray onto CD. Described by a reliable publication as “Freaky Folk Prog”, the largely…

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Not Forgotten – Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks

Blood On The Tracks is that rare thing, an album that deserves every word of praise heaped upon it. At this stage in his career Bob Dylan had done his…

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