THE FINE REIGN OF CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
The finest Creedence records rock like Eddie Cochran, have the lyrical potency of Dylan and fill a dance floor as fast as The O’Jays.
RANTS & REFLECTIONS
CHILLY TIMES – Bob Seger and ‘Against The Wind’……
The frustration with ‘Against the Wind’ lies not in the fact it was a failed experiment, more its formulaic approach.
BRICKS & STONES (IRON & STEEL) – Twenty songs with walls or bridges in the title……….
Songs with Walls or Bridges in the Title – SIMON and GARFUNKEL: Bridges/Subway Walls….
MUSIC MUST CHANGE – Twenty great albums of 1978
Three years on from ‘Born to Run’ ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ eschews the lush production of its predecessor and adopts a more taut sound.
DENNIS VIOLLET – ‘A UNITED MAN’ (documentary review):
‘For me,’ says Fred Eyre, ‘Dennis Viollet is up there with Best, Law and Charlton – he really was that good.’
WHO LEADS THE WAY – The Who & ‘LIVE AT LEEDS’……
‘Live At Leeds’ has umpteen examples of The Who pushing their incredible talents to the limits of a genre they had created.
VAN DELIVERS TWO PRECIOUS GIFTS – ‘Astral Weeks’ & ‘Moondance’……
MOONDANCE (1970): If sunshine could be heard, it would sound like ‘Moondance’……….
TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE – 20 great albums amidst the changing times of 1977…..
Twenty great albums of 1977: RUMOURS – a smart, clever, high-calibre rock record.
IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST – Twenty songs with a Nationality in the title….
Twenty songs with a NATIONALITY in the title: VAN THE MAN – Soviet spin………
STAN-DARD BEARER – ‘MATTHEWS’ documentary review…..
The grainy black and white footage captures Matthews, all swerves and shuffles, in his pomp