Stackridge: Pinafore Days (Sire)
Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, December 1974
AS A DURABLE metaphor for teen enthusiasm and articulate emotion, the Beatles' musical vocabulary has proven itself time and time again, even as the Beatles themselves more or less abandoned it for ostensible "maturity."
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