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John Martyn: And

Mark Cooper, MOJO, August 1996

ONE OF THE GREAT maverick stylists of British music, John Martyn has been out on a limb in recent years, marooned first by some increasingly safe albums for Island in the mid-'80s and then by a deal with Permanent, who appeared to hide everything he recorded.

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