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Bobby Bland, John Lee Hooker: John Lee Hooker: John Lee Hooker Plays And Sings The Blues (Chess CRL4500); Bobby Bland: Here's The Man (Vocalion VA-PS041)

Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966

HOOKER RECORDS abound, but the latest from Chess, John Lee Hooker Plays And Sings The Blues (CRL4500) is a more than usually satisfying set. ...

Crispian St. Peters: Follow Me (Decca)

Review by Richard Green, Record Mirror, 25 June 1966

IF IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY, THEN JUDGING BY HIS FIRST LP CRISPIAN ST. PETERS MUST BE ELVIS' BIGGEST FAN... ...

Byrds, The, Marvin Gaye, Gerry & The Pacemakers, John Lee Hooker, Roy Orbison, Prince Buster, Jimmy Ruffin, Supremes, The, Jackie Trent, Olympics, The, Mantovani, Modern Jazz Quartet, The: Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston, John Lee Hooker, Byrds, Prince Buster et al Album Reviews

Review by Norman Jopling, Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967

Some sophisticated new Motown albums ...

Mothers Of Invention, The: The Mothers of Invention: Uncle Meat (Bizarre)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, June 1969

(Most of the music is from the Mothers' movie of the same name which they haven't got enough money to finish yet.) ...

Temptations, The: The Temptations: Psychedelic Shack (Gordy 947 U.S.) — (Tamla Motown 11147 U.K.)

Review by uncredited writer, Blues & Soul, 8 May 1970

EXCLUSIVE! THE NEW TEMPTATIONS ALBUM IN DEPTH ...

J. Geils Band: The Morning After (Atlantic)

Review by Nick Tosches, Phonograph Record, January 1972

GOOD HARD fast kool kat musick is the best kind. Anything without any metaphysical pretentions and with a lot of rebop raunch. ...

Nikki Giovanni, Last Poets, The, Wanda Robinson: Wanda Robinson: Black Ivory; Nikki Giovanni: Truth Is On Its Way; The Last Poets: This Is Madness

Review by Sheila Weller, Fusion, May 1972

THE BLACK cultural tradition has always depended for its survival on oral, rather than written, communication: from the chants of tribal Africa to the folk-tales ...

Crosby Stills and Nash, Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills,Graham Nash and David Crosby Albums

Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 25 May 1972

Stephen Stills: ManassasGraham Nash/David Crosby: Graham Nash/David Crosby ...

Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe (Apple)

Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 20 January 1973

IN AS MUCH AS the Lennons have spent four years trying to turn self-dramatisation into an art-form, the criticism of indulgence so often aimed at ...

Elephant's Memory: Elephant's Memory (Apple Sapcor 22)

Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, March 1973

IT WOULD BE very easy to put down Elephant's Memory. Of course, first you'd say nice things about their playing in general, pick out a ...

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 ...

Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ (CBS 65480, £2)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 14 April 1973

Springsteen is special ...

10cc: 10cc

Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, January 1974

I DON'T CARE if your heart rests with country twang, surf harmonies, acid riffs, folk strums, commercial muzak, or Anglophile accents. There's one thing that ...

Chick Corea, Return to Forever: Chick Corea: Return To Forever (ECM)

Review by Ed Jones, Cracker, February 1974

WITH THE demise of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, other record companies are looking for their own spacey, super-excellent, speedy-riffing jazz-rock group to grab some of the ...

Yes: Relayer and Yesterdays

Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 19 June 1975

WITH THEIR LAST five albums (including Relayer) reaching Top Five status, Yes are central to the new British Invasion. ...

Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids: Flash Cadillac: Sons of the Beaches

Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, January 1976

What lame-o group is finally going to win the distinction of recording The Last ‘Fifties’ Song of the Seventies? Just when I thought the sub-genre ...

Kraftwerk: Exceller-8, Radio-Activity

Review by Miles, NME, 31 January 1976

EXCELLER 8 IS a 'best of album taken from the three Vertigo albums that Kraftwerk have released in this country and it's a good selection ...

The Everly Brothers: Songs Our Daddy Taught Us

Review by Mick Farren, NME, 6 March 1976

IN A QUIET sort of way, 1975 saw an Everly Brothers revival of sorts. Warner Brothers released their magnificent Walk Right Back With The Everlys, ...

Gladys Knight & the Pips: Gladys Knight and the Pips (DJM)

Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 6 March 1976

SHE'S JUST GONNA have to get used to it. When you're the greatest pop singer in the world (and she is) and have been together ...

Todd Rundgren: Faithful (Bearsville)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Cheap Thrills, June 1976

EVERYBODY KNOWS that there are but two classic answers to that eternal question of the ages, "Why?" They are, of course "Why not?" and "Because." ...

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