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The Three Degrees: New Dimensions (Ariola); Giorgio Moroder: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Of Midnight Express (Casablanca)

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 11 November 1978

TEN YEARS from now, some Nick Lowe with perfect recall will mimic the sound of Giorgio Moroder; for it defines and will come to represent a particular era as clearly as do the in-their-prime works of Phil Spector and Holland-Dozier-Holland. All the more reason, then for catching it as it passes, newly-minted, through the fresh night air.

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