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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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Not Forgotten: Rush – A Farewell to Kings

By 1977, although Canadian progressive power trio Rush had taken the scenic route to commercial success, they were well on the way to becoming one of the biggest bands from…

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Not Forgotten: The Darkness – Permission to Land

I initially took them as a joke. Actually, it seems that most people took them for a joke the first time they saw them. After all, stadium rock played by…

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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: Frank Zappa – Strictly Commercial

For those of us with somewhat mainstream rock tastes, Frank Zappa can be a fascinating, yet utterly confusing artist. He was so prolific, and his albums were so varied, both…

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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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