POCKET SIZE: James Taylor – IN THE POCKET
Released to negative reviews and only modest chart success ‘IN THE POCKET’ (1976) has nevertheless become an album warmly embraced by Taylor fans.
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BRISTOL CREAM/NEWCASTLE RENOWN/WREXHAM LARGER – The FA Cup Fifth Round of 1973-74……..
FA Cup Round Five 1973-74: Good goal Don-boy. The Waltons is first aired on BBC 2 and Gilles scores the winner as Bristol City shock Leeds United………
I Remember when Reg was young – Elton John & ‘DON’T SHOOT ME I’M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER’
‘DON’T SHOOT ME I’M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER (1973) is an agreeable mix of pop balladry and lightweight rock – lacking nothing in buoyancy as it strives to be accessible.
EARLY SCORES – The FA Cup Fourth Round of 1973-74
FA Cup Round Four 1973-74: Rather McKenzie – wiping the floor with Manchester City as he walks away with the praise….
DAYS & CONFUSED – The Kinks & STATE OF CONFUSION (1983)
STATE OF CONFUSION (1983) is an engaging, conscientious album and when compared to what many of their contemporaries released the same year, positively accomplished.
CUP & BOWLES – The FA Cup Third Round of 1973-74:
Talk about there being good news and bad news. Those hungover from too much revelry the night before awoke at their leisure on New Year’s Day 1974 as the UK enjoyed January 1st being a public holiday for the first…
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DISTANT JOURNEY – Bob Seger & THE DISTANCE (1982)
1980 was a bittersweet year for Bob Seger. With ‘Against the Wind‘, the 35 year-old Michigan-born rocker finally reached the level of gigantic commercial success due to him following momentum generated by his three prior albums. After ten years of…
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THE WORLD OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL BUT THE FOOTBALL WAS SO DELIGHTFUL – the Division One Boxing Day fixture programme of 1973:
BOXING DAY 1973: Festive flops/Christmas crackers: Sheffield United – joyful and triumphant at Old Trafford……….
ALL MOD NO CONS – The Who & QUADROPHENIA (1973)
QUADROPHENIA (1973): No other songwriter has been able to express teenage angst as well as Pete Townshend – and there is no other album like ‘Quadrophenia.’
UP THE CREEK Stephen Stills & Manassas – DOWN THE ROAD (1973)
As 1972 drew to a close, it was hard to think of a mainstream rock musician in better creative fettle than Stephen Stills. Of his male contemporaries around the same age, Pete Townshend could still not decide what concept opus…
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