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Not Forgotten: The Band – Music From Big Pink

The Band are an acts whose heavyweight reputation promises far more than it actually delivers. For all the revisionist history since, in truth they only released two truly world class…

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Classic Album: Elton John – Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player

By the time of Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player, Elton John was one of the biggest musical stars on the planet, his writing partnership with Bernie Taupin…

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Not Forgotten: Supertramp – Breakfast in America

Breakfast in America is an album that simply shouldn’t have happened. Slightly smug, self satisfied prog-flecked radio-friendly rock by earnest men with beards should have been felled with the double…

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Not Forgotten: Roger Chapman – Chappo

Former Family man Roger Chapman didn’t exactly pick a prime time to start his solo career. Following his Family days, he formed a new band, Streetwalkers, who enjoyed modest success,…

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A buyers’ guide to Queen

It’s often said that it’s always the quiet ones that you have to watch. Apparently no one ever told Freddie Mercury this, as for the best part of two decades…

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Not Forgotten – Deep Purple – Machine Head

The sixth studio album of their career, and the third by their much celebrated Mk2 line up, Deep Purple were very much in the ascendant when they set out to…

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A buyers’ guide to AC/DC 1975 – 1981

There is a school of thought that you don’t actually need to know what an individual AC/DC album sounds like, you just need to know if it’s any good… If…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are one of the great rock and roll bands of the American Heartland. Every bit as accessible as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,…

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Not Forgotten – Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue

I will always argue that Mick Ronson is always massively short changed in any assessment of the career of David Bowie. Without Ronson’s arrangement acumen, iconic guitar heroics and unerring…

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Not Forgotten: Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom

Rock Bottom is an album that many have attempted to emulate over the years, but few have succeeded. The genesis of the album’s creation, delayed by Wyatt’s accident that led…

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