Be Bop Deluxe: Drastic Plastic (Harvest)
Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978
For a while there, Be Bop was one of the great post-glitter hopes from Britain. The first trio of albums displayed Bill Nelson as a peerless guitar whiz spinning a web of conceptualized rock music that both beguiled and bewildered.
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