Blue Oyster Cult: We Copped A Lot From Sabbath

EVEN THE hardest of hearts must soften sometime, and so it is with Blue Oyster Cult, whose fifth album Agents of Fortune offers a degree of subtlety lacking in their previous records. Of all the self-confessed and uncompromising hard-rockers – with the possible exception of those indecent imposters, the Ramones – the BOC seemed the least likely ever to vary from the unwavering heavy metal formula.