Gillan: Glory Road; Tygers Of Pan Tang: Wild Cat
Paul Morley, NME, 13 September 1980
IN OTHER music papers, Heavy Metal has been irresponsibly ghettoised. Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror all have their HM specialists who drily serve a facile, dogmatic purpose, churning out the expected and therefore useless reactions to a musical form that has long stagnated. This review may be equally as "expected", but is no way useless.
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