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Natalie Cole: Natalie (Capitol) 35 mins ***

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 June 1976

IF YOU get right down to it I suppose pop/rock is composed of a set of quite different musical idioms within which almost everyone sounds exactly the same. And the 'new' voices are all imitations of somebody who's established already and so the whole amorphous mish-mash tends to be self-perpetuating. With gloriously individual exceptions.

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