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Van Morrison: Saint Dominic's Preview (Warner Bros.)

Dave Laing, Let It Rock, October 1972

LIKE ANYONE else, a record reviewer has certain expectations and anticipations of an album before he hears it, and tends to judge it on whether they are fulfilled rather than on the terms the sounds set for themselves, which may be very different.

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