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Roxy Music: Viva! Roxy Music; Bryan Ferry: Extended Play (both Island)

Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, October 1976

WAIT A MINUTE! Snuff out them candles and get them drapes open! This band may be closin' in on being certified MTH (Mott The Hoople–one of rock music's most crippling diseases: all bands that contract MTH are almost 100% guaranteed to die a long, lingering, rumour-filled death), but let's not give ‘em the big ten count just yet, OK?

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