He joined Bill Haley as a young member of the Comets and was thrust straight into the limelight, in the lead guitar role. Paul Rigby talks to Johnny Kay about his…
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Titles: Nazareth/Exercises/The Fool Circle Label: Salvo A new batch of individual vinyl LPs from the band has been released from Salvo and I managed to grab three often ignored titles to…
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Title: Ogdens Nut Gone Flake Label: Charly There are classic albums, then there’s classic albums, then there’s this stone cold classic from the little mod lads. A stormer, you might say.…
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Title: 50 Years Don’t Stop Label: Warner Bros I have to admit, when I initially heard that Fleetwood Mac were releasing a new compilation of their works, I slumped just a…
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A range of CD box sets are reviewed by Paul Rigby including those from Darts, America, Renaissance, Marty Wilde and Samson plus a compilation of movie themes… The related packaging design…
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Title: Rejuvenation Label: Demon Thought they’d all died? Or had retired to become postmen, street cleaners and shelf packers in Tescos? Oh no. Simple Minds might have moved out of the…
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Title: Just For A Moment: Music 1973-1997 Label: UMC Ronnie Lane may best be known for being the bass player, songwriter and occasional vocalist for the Small Faces and the Faces.…
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Title: Deadlines Label: Esoteric The Strawbs were a strange group – which was an immediate attraction to many future fans. They emerged from a folkie tradition, more bluegrass to be honest,…
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Title: Quivers Down the Backbone Label: Jasmine When your name is Fred Heath and you run a band called the Five Nutters, then you could be forgiven for thinking that that…
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Title: Masque Label: Music on Vinyl Moving onwards from any successful and accepted genre can be difficult. Hard core prog bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer did well in…
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Title: Live at the Witch Trials/Dragnet Label: Cherry Red/Fall Sound Archive The Fall Sound Archive has been launched and, to celebrate the fact, the first two albums from the group form…
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Title: Welcome to Hell Label: BMG The uniquely British heavy rock phenomenon, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) allowed heavy rock to evolve and move forwards by adopting elements…
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Title: The Vinyl Collection 1995-2001 Label: Demon Cast popped up along with a host of other bands during the Brit-pop era in the mid-90s, although they had to fight their corner…
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Title: The Essential Album Collection Vol.1 Label: BMG Classic krautrock all the way from Munich and all the way from 1970 when Popol Vuh were initially formed. They were the first…
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Title: The Crossing Label: Music On Vinyl The band’s debut release from 1983, this rock outing had an expansive and anthemic feel to it. Big, bold rhythms and arrangements with hooks…
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Title: Cinco No.2 Label: Rhino A box set of five LPs from the beardy rockers, the whole is packaged within a slip case box and is mastered nicely via Rhino. The…
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Title: 60 Juvenile Delinquent Wrecks Label: RPM What a little treasure trove of Droogs we have here. As the subtitle says this is a selection of Rock’n’Glam (and a Flavour of Bubblegum)…
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Title: At The BBC Label: Craft Presented as a slip-case CD box set, this set squeezes in eight CDs and a single DVD (you can pick the title up as an…
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Title: AndOarAgain Label: Sundazed Like his cultural compatriot, Syd Barrett, Alexander Spence – at least in those quarters that are unfamiliar with his brief creative output – is best known for…
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Title: The Island Years Label: Caroline If you ever see one of those TV documentaries on the history of punk you’re bound to have experienced a brief introduction on the range…
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Title: Sukram Gurk/Siloah Label: Wah Wah A German band touching on classic krautrock, prog, a bit of psych and folk too. Siloah really were a group, living on a farm as a commune,…
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Featuring remixes, rarities, hi-res digital audio and more, Paul Rigby reviews the Super Deluxe box set version of Sgt Pepper and compares it with previous stereo and mono editions The original…
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Title: Drive On Label: Floating World Mott was a derivation from the successful rock band, Mott the Hoople. That band was beset by a revolving door of band line-up changes that…
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Title: Fall Of The Peacemakers 1980-1985 Label: HNE When you have a band name that apparently was drawn from a Southern prostitute who apparently beheaded her clients but not before dabbling in…
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Title: Schaum Label: Tapete This is the first album by Unhappybirthday in three years. That album, Schauer, was influenced by the Georges Perec novel, Un Homme Qui Dort. Lots of melancholy…
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Title: Squier Label: Stolen Body A second album from Dr Chan. Uh-oh. But no, let’s pretend we don’t know and see what happens. Based upon classic nasty rock’n’roll rhythms this French…
