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Classic Compilation: Neil Innes – Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues

When is a compilation not a compilation? When it is an album padded out by a few contemporaneous bonus tracks. Except it isn’t, because those additional b-sides, singles and rarities…

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Classic Compilation: The Beatles – Love

How many words have been written about The Beatles in the last five and a half decades? Too damn many that’s for certain, but it’s also probably one of the…

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Classic Compilation: ABBA – ABBA Gold : Greatest Hits

There’s seemingly always been a certain amount of sniffiness around compilations, as if they are somehow unrepresentative of the musical act they allegedly represent. This is particularly the case across…

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Not Forgotten: Neil Innes – Taking Off

When the rare conversations regarding the merits of the Bonzo Dog Band are had, a fair portion of that time is spent discussing the work of Viv Stanshall, he of…

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Classic Album: Considering the status of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50 years later.

50 years ago popular music reached its absolute apex when Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the most perfect musical statement in the history of the eardrum was released. It…

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Not Forgotten: Alison Moyet – Alf

When Alison Moyet launched her solo career, there was no small amount of anticipation. One of the few genuinely standout vocalists on the British Music scene in the early 80s,…

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Classic Album: Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna

You almost don’t need to hear Bella Donna to know what it sounds like. Name recognition alone will inform you that this is a solo album by the Fleetwood Mac…

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A buyers’ guide to Kirsty MacColl

Has any songwriter ever been more perfectly human than Kirsty MacColl? Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still coming across as approachable and…

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Classic Album: Fleetwood Mac – Rumours

One of the weirdest gigs I ever attended was seeing Fleetwood Mac play Sheffield Arena back in 2009. While it was an entertaining enough show, there was a general undercurrent…

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Classic Album: Elton John – Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Managing to traverse the chasm between critics favourite and global commercial acceptance at the same time as David Bowie, the former Reg Dwight seemingly had the best of both worlds…

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