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Not Forgotten: Eagles – One of These Nights

Eagles are one of those bands that split opinion. For some they are the absolute epitome of bland, coke-blasted, West Coast Album Orientated Country-flecked Rock. To others they are an…

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Not Forgotten: Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man

It shouldn’t work. It should have been a complete and utter dud. Of the old guard of the 60s and 70s, almost no one had made the hard synthetic production…

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Not Forgotten: Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy

Sometimes a single song becomes so synonymous with an artist, that they are unable to outrun its shadow and anyone who is not a established fan only ever associates the…

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Album Review : Ty Segall’s ‘Freedom’s Goblin’

Ty Segall is not the type of guy to sit on his laurels. He doesn’t put out an album and then sit, lay back and just coast on good reviews…

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Not Forgotten: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Framed

As 1972 drew to a close, things had seemingly settled down a little bit in the landscape of British rock music. The singles charts were full of good time glitter…

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Not Forgotten: Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding

Music changed forever in 1967, primarily because in the wake of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it was firmly established that the long player had finally wrestled the mantle…

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Classic Compilation: Neil Young – Decade

Even by the standards of the late 60s and early 70s, an era where acts would generally be expected to deliver a new studio album at least as regularly as…

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A beginners’ guide to Elton John

The 50 year career trajectory of Elton John has remained fascinating if not consistent. Rising to prominence during the singer-songwriter boom of the early 70s, he and songwriting partner Bernie…

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Album Review: The Vietnam War – The Soundtrack

How do you tackle a subject as divisive as Vietnam? Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s epic ten part series was ten years in the making and made a particular effort…

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Classic Compilation: Queen – Greatest Hits I & II

When it comes to compilations, there is one mega-selling release that overshadows even ABBA Gold and The Beatles Red and Blue Albums for the sheer amount of units shifted. Queen’s…

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