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Roxy Music: Stranded (Atco 7045)

Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 23 May 1974

TWO BRITISH bands are genuinely stretching the dimensions of pop music. One, 10 c.c., has already found a degree of popularity in the States. Roxy Music has been unable to cross the Atlantic so far, but that should change with this album. Stranded is one of the most exciting and entertaining British LPs of the Seventies.

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