AIRBORNE – The Flying Burrito Brothers take flight with a magnificent debut album……….
‘The Gilded Palace of Sin’ is not only a great debut album, but arguably the most potent mix of country, soul and rock ever recorded.
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BOB DYLAN finds merciful redemption on ‘OH MERCY’
‘OH MERCY’ is outstanding – his most compelling collection since ‘Desire’ so by virtue a landmark 80s album.
ELVIS BEREFT IN THE BUILDING – The Triumph and Tragedy of the Vegas Years
‘Sadly, Elvis gave up on everything beyond Vegas and the tired old standards he was churning out night after night.’
AN OLD ROD ALBUM WON’T LET YOU DOWN – Five reasons to say Cheers Rod…………
The monumental second side of ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’ stands tall against any side of any album ever recorded.
EXCITABLE JOY – The genius that was WARREN ZEVON
This is not the Los Angeles of ‘life in the fast lane’ decadence, the songwriting of Zevon closer to novelist James Ellroy than Joe Walsh…
IN BOB WE TRUST – BBC Documentary features Dylan’s late 70s religious phase
‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ from ‘Slow Train Coming’ won Bob Dylan a Grammy but was lampooned by John Lennon.
LEAST OF EDEN: Van delivers – eventually.
Van delivers ‘Here Comes The Night,’ Real Real Gone’ and ‘Moondance’ in quick succession to an audience aware they are listening to a true original.
THE SINGER, THE SONG and STATE OF CALIFORNIA – Two BBC 4 Music programmes send out confused messages.
NY – BBC 1971. In ‘Heart of Gold’ Neil sings ‘I’m getting old’ – somewhat ironic at the age of 27…..
GOD HAS ALWAYS KNOWN – There is no other album like ‘PET SOUNDS’
Lack of record company support condemned ‘Pet Sounds’ to commercial failure, Brian Wilson seeing his masterpiece soon disappear from view.
STAR MAN – The Golden Years of David Bowie
Beyond dispute is that nobody was working at the same level of artistic creativity as Bowie……