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Rock Records! Alan Bown and Chambers Brothers

John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 27 November 1968

ENGLAND, NEEDLESS to say, has given us some incredible rock groups: The Beatles and Stones, The Who and The Kinks and The Yardbirds, Cream, Traffic, and Procol Harum, to name just the few that come to mind instantly, have turned the once American-dominated idiom inside out more times than one can count since 1963 and also helped turn it into the type of art form philosophy students at Oxford can appreciate.

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