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Not Forgotten: Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

Woah, did I misjudge this album when I first heard it. I’ve never known an album take so long to burn into my psyche, but The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold…

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Not Forgotten: Ben Folds – Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The LP

An odds and sods release which lifts the majority of its material from a trio of previously released EPs, rather than a full album in its own right, Supersunnyspeedgraphic, The…

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Not Forgotten: William Shatner – Has Been

Can you imagine trying to pitch a William Shatner album to a record label in 2003? For decades he had been sniggered at for his various attempts at ‘singing’, with…

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Playlist: R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – 10 songs

And so the champion made his exit, and the man born Cassius Clay, the ‘Louisville lip’, the three time Heavyweight champion of the world left us, surrounded by his family…

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Album Review – Ben Folds – So There

The history of rock and pop artists dabbling in orchestral music is long and uneven. From Deep Purple’s lumpy Concerto for Group and Orchestra, to the splendid soundtrack work of…

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A Buyers Guide to Ben Folds

Habitual piano botherer Ben Folds is one of those artists in rock and roll whose reputation far exceeds their sales. Both as a solo artist or leading his misnamed Five,…

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