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Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974

THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home of such stars as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Stevie Winwood, the Moody Blues and our heroes; "the loudest band in the world"; a dizzying array of group and solo albums released on various record labels with little regard to conventional concepts of orderly time; cellists playing rock 'n' roll; a desperate tour of America featuring huge rabbits running across the highway; and more.

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