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Elephant's Memory, John Lennon: John Lennon: Sometime In New York City (Apple); Elephant's Memory: Elephant's Memory (Apple)

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, August 1972

I'M LISTENING TO a tape of The New John and Yoko lp. If you thought, as I did, that Sometime in New York City was ...

Prince: Sign O' The Times

Review by Paolo Hewitt, NME, 4 June 1987

Prince isn't a star, he's an event. And so is the release of his new double LP. Paolo Hewitt is let to the subterranean bunker ...

Captain Beefheart: Grow Fins

Review by Richard Gehr, Village Voice, 1 July 1999

SINCE THE 1969 release of Trout Mask Replica, the artist dubbed Captain Beefheart has incarnated the gold standard by which "weirdness" in rock music has ...

Richard Thompson: Watching The Dark: The History of Richard Thompson

Review by Geoffrey Himes, Request, June 1993

LIKE MUCH OF his later writing, Greil Marcus' introductory notes to the new Richard Thompson box set, Watching the Dark, are a hodge-podge of strained ...

Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything? (Bearsville)

Review by Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1972

THE NAME TODD Rundgren has passed across so many lips in the past few months that you can almost detect traces of chapstick around its ...

Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Soundtrack by Bob Dylan (Columbia KC 32460)

Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 13 September 1973

Dylan Meets Billy: America's Albatrosses ...

Khruangbin, Bananagun: Bananagun: The True Story of Bananagun/Khruangbin: Mordechai

Review by Wayne Robins, Copper, 27 July 2020

BANANAGUN HAD ME won over with their name, a readymade punch line for a mild risqué joke often attributed to the actress Mae West. "Is ...

The Clash: From Here to Eternity

Review by Ira Robbins, salon.com, 19 October 1999

ON PAPER, the October 1982 pairing of the Clash and the Who at Shea Stadium in New York should have been historic. And maybe it ...

Frank Turner: Live rock returns, from a distance: inside Frank Turner's "government-endorsed" pilot concert

Review by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2020

AT FOUR PM on Tuesday 28th July, the English singer Frank Turner leans over a table in a small room in South West London and ...

John Lennon: The John Lennon Anthology

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998

WE GET USED TO THE VOICE. THE SOUND of a largely self-educated, rawly-talented, troubled and often wildly erratic Englishman who, by means of the various ...

Tom Moulton: Zing Went The Strings: Tom Moulton's Disco Remixes Reviewed

Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 November 2013

"You wait forty years for a boxset of Tom Moulton Philly disco remixes on heavyweight vinyl, and then two turn up at once." John Doran ...

The Clash’s Greatest Hits: Clash City Rockers

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1983

"In 1977 I hope I go to heaven'Cos I been too long on the doleAnd I can't work at allDanger stranger — you better paint ...

Various Artists: Blue Beat 1962

Review by Mike Atherton, Secret Records, December 2012

NUMBER ONE in a field of one, and an increasingly fertile field at that, isn't a bad place to be. That's where the Blue Beat ...