Robert Palmer: Maybe It's Live (Island)
Richard Cook, NME, 17 April 1982
ROBERT PALMER'S roguish dilettantism will get the better of him one of these days. It might have been anticipated that the pre-set routines of a live album would be the noose to string up those British blues band skeletons for all to see; Maybe It's Live instead keeps the closet door pushed to, if not exactly locked.
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