REVOLUTION-CONVOLUTION-EVOLUTION: Twenty Great Albums of 1968
Twenty Great Albums of 1968: Small Faces – OGDEN’S NUT GONE FLAKE: A fast moving feast of rock, layered pop, surrealism and Cockney revelry.
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BLOODY MINDED – Twenty great albums of 1969…….
Twenty Great Albums of 1969: Chaos, copulation, conflict – the Rolling Stones cover it all on ‘LET IT BLEED’.
BRIDGING THE GAP – Simon & Garfunkel ‘BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER’
‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ was in the collection of most people who bought LP’s during the 70s – giving a less abrasive sound to what was now known as ‘rock’.
MAKE THE BEST OF THE SITUATION – Twenty Great Albums of 1970
The Domino effect: Eric Clapton produces a spotless collection with Derek & the Dominoes.
LENNON – The New York Years (documentary review):
Yoko Ono asks the question nobody can answer: ‘John was an artist. Why would anybody want to kill an artist?’
FANTASTIC PLASTIC – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band…
‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ is without equal as a statement of personal expression, raw with intensity, unflinching in heartfelt emotion.
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.
SOARING & DIPPING – The Flight of THE BYRDS…..
‘The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ as important to 1968 as ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ had been to 1965.
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.
COMPILATION ELATION – 20 ‘Best Of’s’ fit for purpose……
DECADE (1977): Neil tells his story in inimitable style, with all Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y and Crazy Horse bases covered.