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Not Forgotten: Elton John – Elton John

Elton John’s eponymous second effort is pretty much where things started taking off for him. Originally intended as effectively a shop window to display the diverse writing talents of the Elton…

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Classic Compilation: Clifford T Ward – Gaye and Other Stories

The aging process is a strange thing and effects us all in different ways. Some of us barely notice it, there are those that do all they can to hold…

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Not Forgotten: The Beautiful South – Welcome to the Beautiful South

There are some songs from your childhood that you clearly remember hearing on the radio for the first time. It was summer 1989, and it was a period of change…

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Classic Album: The Beatles – Abbey Road

Chronologically the final album that The Beatles recorded together, the general public’s appreciation for Abbey Road seems to increase each year, despite it being very much an album of two halves. Side one…

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Not Forgotten: Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs – Under the Covers Vol. 2

When the Under the Covers collaboration between power pop veteran Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles fame was announced, there must have been a fair bit of head…

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Not Forgotten: Elton John – Caribou

Bless him, for all his tantrums (and tiara’s), Elton John has enjoyed a career reassessment over the last two decades to the point where he’s now arguably as popular as…

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Not Forgotten: Sparks – No.1 in Heaven

Career reinventions don’t come much more well executed than Sparks’ recently reissued 1979 album, No.1 in Heaven. While brothers Ronald and Russell Mael had found an enthusiastic audience for their…

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Not Forgotten: Kirsty MacColl – Titanic Days

Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still able to project a balance of both vulnerability and approachability utterly vulnerable, Kirsty MacColl, for all…

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Not Forgotten: Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run

A superior musician and with a deeper understanding of melody than his former writing partner, it seems that no one will ever forgive Paul McCartney for having the nerve to…

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Not Forgotten: The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

As unfeasible as it seems, there was once a time when the singles chart was of equal importance to the album chart. Actually, no, it was more important. In the…

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