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Life at 33⅓: Not quite all right now
Free: Fire And Water (Island)
The album that made Free rock’n’roll stars, and it is solely thanks to the single “All Right Now” which held...
Life at 33⅓: The white boy with the black voice
Spencer Davis Group: Their First LP (Fontana)
It took a while before Spencer Davis Group (file under S) turned into pop stars. They were discovered...
Life at 33⅓: A horn of plenty
The Bee Gees: Bee Gees’ 1st (Polydor)
A lonely, fragile, haunting little ballad “New York Mining Disaster 1941” came floating across the airwaves in April...
Life at 33⅓: What made the Stones start rolling
Bo Diddley: Go Bo Diddley (Checker)
The production is the most obvious difference between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones’ earliest recordings. The Beatles and...
Life at 33⅓: Walking the dark paths of life
Roy Orbison: In Dreams (Monument)
A black-clad enigma, “The Big O”, almost sinister behind his dark sunglasses. But when Roy Orbison started singing, the angels...
Life at 33⅓: Postcards of doom
Al Stewart: Year Of The Cat (RCA)
1975, the year of the cat, the year when the Vietnam War ended.
One’s first encounter with the album...
Life at 33⅓: From nowhere and back
The Troggs: From Nowhere – The Troggs (Fontana)
Why did it have to be troggs? (Quote from one of the World of Warcraft-dungeons.)
Troggs’ ‘“Wild Thing”...
Life at 33⅓: Hey! Hey! They were good!
The Monkees: Headquarters (Colgems/RCA)
This album meant a lot to The Monkees because for once they had gained artistic control and could enter the studio...
Life at 33⅓: The abdication of the Lizard King
The Doors: Waiting For The Sun (Elektra)
After two brilliant albums in 1967 world domination was next. But Jim Morrison blew it. Got himself into...
Life at 33⅓: Living in the glorious past
Jethro Tull: Living In The Past (Chrysalis)
A better package than this was hard to imagine in 1972. The double album covers all bases. It’s...
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