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Classic Album: The Beatles – The Beatles (a.k.a The White Album)

Oh dear, the double album. A place for acts to stretch their legs and indulge their every creative whim, part diverse buffet of styles, part bloody mess. Dylan and Frank…

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Classic Album: Queen – Jazz

Given the amount of effort that Queen had put in to create the more direct music and production of 1977’s News of the World, it’s follow up, Jazz, is quite…

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Not Forgotten: The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord

The Moody Blues were in an interesting place when their third album, In Search of the Lost Chord, was released in August 1968. With their roots in the mid-60s Brum-Beat…

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Not Forgotten: Electric Light Orchestra – On The Third Day

Prior to On the Third Day, The Electric Light Orchestra looked to be in jeopardy. With co-leader Roy Wood having departed part-way through sessions for the band’s second album, and…

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Classic Album: The Who – Quadrophenia

After his failure to realise his full ambition ambition with Lifehouse, Pete Townshend must have been doubly determined to get his next concept album made and for it to be…

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Box Set Review: Mott the Hoople – Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71)

Before “All The Young Dudes”, before Top of the Pops appearances, before David Bowie, Mott The Hoople were a brilliant live act that arguably struggled to transfer the tremendous energy…

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Classic Album: The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

For better or worse, my opinion of the work of Jimi Hendrix has always been smothered somewhat by the blanket opinion that he was the greatest guitar player in the…

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Not Forgotten: Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle

Even after four and a half decades, there’s still something oddly lovable about The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. I guess it’s the fact that it really…

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News: Mott the Hoople to release Mental Train (The Island Years 1969-71) six CD box set

The Mental Train’s a rollin’… It’s probably fair to say that Mott the Hoople had a career of two halves. While it took the Bowie-penned to catapult them to commercial…

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Not Forgotten: Neil Young – Tonight’s the Night

The opening title track starts with the saddest piano notes you’ve ever heard, droplets of sorrow falling onto a lake of melancholy, and you quickly start to realise that this…

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