The Beatles – Let It Be
So here it is — the last Beatles album, except that it wasn’t. I mean, this feels like their last album. This feels like a band coming apart. If you get to see any...
Category: ’70s
Badfinger — Straight Up
Less than two months after I found “Magic Christian Music,” another nice Badfinger record turned up in the Forever Changes bins: 1971’s “Straight Up.” This is a classic, with “Day After Day” and “Baby...
Badfinger — Magic Christian Music
For the longest time, there has been a Badfinger-sized hole in my record collection. Back when we were initially collecting records, in the early ’80s, my roommate Danny had several Badfinger albums, including this...
Argent — Encore: Live In Concert
This one is being written after I’ve already finished with the A’s in my collection; I just picked it up in February. I cannot overstate my love of The Zombies, and of course Rod...
The Original Animals – Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted
The original Animals — Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel — hadn’t recorded together since 1965. They did a single reunion concert in 1968 (when the “new” Animals were...
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