Library Rock's Backpages

The Move: Looking On/Message From the Country

John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971

WHEN LAST we glimpsed The Move in these pages they had recently completed what was without the slightest glimmer of doubt the finest English rock album of 1970, Shazam, wherein, sounding like the unutterably spaced grandchildren of 1966 Byrds and 1968 Cream with touches of 1920 English music-hall and eternal showbiz stirred in, they made even such molehills as Tom Paxton’s polite little 'The Last Thing On My Mind' and a 1964 Shadows hit, 'Don’t Make My Baby Blue', into musical mountains.

Total word count of piece: 1657

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.