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The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album) (Apple PCS 7067 & 8)

Review by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 4 January 1969

LAST YEAR'S obvious standout LP was Sergeant Pepper and now we have its unbelievable, impossible, out-of-sight successor. It's no feat of critical perception to pick ...

The Beatles: Let It Be (Apple)

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 1970

TO THOSE WHO found their work since the White Album as emotionally vapid as it was technically breathtaking, the news that the Beatles were about ...

Badfinger: No Dice

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Creem, March 1971

IF YOU PRIDE yourself on being a member of the generation that battles hypocrisy, shuns prejudices and easy labels, and fights to the death to ...

Fanny: Fanny Hill (Reprise 2058)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, The Rag, 13 March 1972

FANNY HAVE put out a totally consistent album that captures the spirit of 1964-5 rock coupled with the White Album Beatles/middle-period Badfinger instrumental sound. Considering ...

Fanny: Fanny Hill (Reprise 2058)

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 13 April 1972

FANNY HAVE finally made it: their new album is full of the best mainstream rock and roll I've heard so far this year. As well ...

Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe

Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, April 1973

YEAH, WELL, believe it or not: this is a totally rock 'n' roll album. It's also so far and away the best Beatles-related effort to ...

Flying Burrito Brothers: The Flying Burrito Brothers: Live In Amsterdam

Review by Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, June 1973

THE FIRST double album in rock that I remember was Blonde On Blonde, and to this day it is one of the few which really ...

Slade: Sladest (Polydor)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 29 September 1973

THE FIRST TIME I saw Slade I thought they were dreadful. It was that memorable night at the Lanchester Arts Festival when Chuck Berry cut ...

Ringo Starr, Wings: Paul McCartney: Band On The Run/Ringo Starr: Ringo

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 19 January 1974

RINGO STARR is a wonderful person. His new album proves it. ...

Electric Light Orchestra: On the Third Day

Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 31 January 1974

IF YOU LIKED ELO II for its weavings of familiar classical motifs through lengthy songs, On the Third Day will both please and disappoint you. ...

The Raspberries: Raspberries: Starting Over

Review by Ron Ross, Phonograph Record, September 1974

IT'S A TEEN-CLUB midsummer Saturday night at Papa Joe'sParlour-pizza, pinball, pretzels, and pop-available without I.D. Raspberries, with no fewer than three Top Forty hits in ...

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti

Review by John Tobler, ZigZag, August 1975

NOW I SHOULD make clear in this context that I'm not by nature a fan of this band in the same way that I like ...

Wings: Venus And Mars (Capitol SMAS 11419)

Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, September 1975

McCartney: Looking Glass Hero ...

Average White Band: The Average White Band: Person To Person

Review by Tony Stewart, NME, 8 January 1977

WELCOME BACK the musically credible and eminently excellent Average White Band with this defiant poke in the ear for all those people who seven months ...

Elton John: Blue Moves (Rocket)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, February 1977

Elton Cops Some ZZZ's ...

Cheap Trick: In Color (Epic PE-34884)

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 22 September 1977

Cheap Trick's comical treat ...

XTC: Drums And Wires (Virgin)

Review by Paul Morley, NME, 18 August 1979

Something Like The Best ...

Cheap Trick: Dream Police (Epic)

Review by Paul Rambali, NME, 22 September 1979

BRIEFLY, THIS is the fifth time in four years that Cheap Trick have vented their prodigious energies. Dream Police was made before Live At The Budokan made Cheap Trick ...

Monty Python's Flying Circus: Monty Python: Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Arista); National Lampoon: White Album (Label 21)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, April 1981

I HATE COMEDY albums and I hate the kind of people who like them. I hate it when they play their latest comedy acquisition for ...

Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine (Korova)

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 22 January 1983

PERHAPS IT WAS inevitable, even decreed in some heaven up "there". Maybe it’s just the third time unlucky. But if Porcupine isn’t good it isn’t ...