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Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin’s debut album was proof of concept for Jimmy Page, taking what Cream did with super-charged blues-rock, and just making it more slick and dynamic and marketing it directly…

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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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Classic Album: Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy

As the 80s drew to a close it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Bob Dylan‘s muse had been largely AWOL since 1976’s Desire. Since that album’s release there had…

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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Stormwatch

If Jethro Tull’s ‘folk trilogy’ was not a reaction to Punk, then it was a stupendously well timed circumstance that saw the old rockers pull in the musical opposed direction…

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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Under Wraps

The mid 80s were a fascinating and fractious time for what would become known as classic rock. The two giant super bands of the 70s were no longer with us,…

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Classic Album: Iron Maiden – Powerslave

Few acts in the long and often fractured history of Heavy Metal have been able to achieve the sustained hot-streak that Iron Maiden managed to pull off during the 80s.…

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Not Forgotten: The Cult – Dreamtime

By early 1983 Bradford’s goth rockers Southern Death Cult had called it a day, having released a solitary single. An album consisting of said single, as well as a bunch…

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Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Rock Island

1987’s Crest of a Knave went some way to re-establishing Jethro Tull as elder-statesmen of rock if not actual contenders. That album had even won a Grammy (and in doing so,…

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Not Forgotten: Led Zeppelin – In Through the Out Door

In Through the Out Door was no disaster, but you can’t help escape the feeling that it was just the start of something new for the band.

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Not Forgotten: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River

Creedence Clearwater Revival were a band out of time in 1969. Releasing albums of late 60s durability to a late 50s schedule, you might expect their albums of this period to…

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