NOTHING POOR, NOTHING PITIFUL – WARREN ZEVON (1976):
In a year when Asylum released ‘Hotel California,’ and ‘The Pretender’ their most critically acclaimed release was ‘WARREN ZEVON’.
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ – ‘ECHO IN THE CANYON’ has good reverberations……..
‘ECHO in the CANYON’ is a love letter to the audacious new music that seeped out of LA during the mid-60s.
EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF BRIAN – ‘Love and Mercy’ Brian Wilson biopic (review)
The most revelatory aspect of ‘Love and ‘Mercy’ is not the extraordinary music Brian Wilson produced at these junctures, but given his frailties how it ever emerged at all.
THE BEATLES: 50 years gone, 100 per cent still with us……
Along with Bob Dylan they opened up an awareness of attitudes that without them might have lay stifled for years.
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.
HELLO 1967 – GOODBYE 2017: Twenty Great Albums from a monumental year for rock.
TWENTY GREAT ALBUMS from 1967: By now the album had superseded the single as the vehicle through which an artist would most express their visions and true ambition. Few would have predicted the long-player to have travelled so far in such a…
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TAKE IT EASY – Kick back with Ten scintillating summer albums……..
‘But Seriously Folks.’ Funny, raucous, welcoming – the way every party should be.’