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Workin’ Hard To Get My Fill
We are having a heatwave here, time to reach for some AOR in the hope that I will magically feel the Californian coastal breeze in my long, tousled locks as I cruise down 17-Mile Drive in a vintage...
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You Lying So Low In The Weeds
Long before I ever heard the album I can remember a retrospective magazine review of Heart Little Queen, which basically ran along the lines of, ooh barracuda, phwoarrr! the Wilson sisters and they...
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1537 vs. 2025
So here we are once more, another entry in a diary self-penned. Thank you for attending these truly prestigious awards and doing your very best to stick to the ‘dress to impress’ dress code. Who knew...
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I Wanna Ride On Your Reindeer
Time to get those ho, ho, ho’s out. Jingle bells, jingle bellsJingle all the dayI just can’t wait ’til ChristmastimeWhen I can grope you in the hay Yes, its the most wonderful time of the year* and if...
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The Original Viagra Boys
Been dazed and confused for so long, it's not true After a bit of a fallow period here I thought it was important to come roaring back with a bang, how about my fave Led Zeppelin? You know, the one...
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Summer Dreams Ripped At The Seams
Summer loving had me a blastSummer loving happened so fastWell-a, well-a, well-a, huhTell me more, tell me moreDid you get many LPs?Tell me more, tell me more I am sure it will shock you to learn that...
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Bun E. Boilers
Four oddballs make a brilliantly crafted, intricate and deceptively mean tour de fucking force in 30 days, from set up to delivery and then … have to sit on it for 8 months due to the runaway success...
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Jimmy Black Beach
A few days after RSD 2017* I accidentally found myself in another record shop in Liverpool and on a whim picked up a smart little 10″ of Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes Live At Jones Beach, the fact...
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Serpens Albus Est Semi-Erectus
All of you women better lift up your skirts and run'Cause I aim to shoot my pistol and fire like a Gatling gun Hard rock sacrilege warning: I’m not much of a David Coverdale fan. There, said it. Hard...
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Put A Red Rose On Their Grave
Just press play: Poor quality vid, high quality glam Here’s an unfairly forgotten LP that nobody apart from me seems to have treasured down the years, Roxx Gang Things You’ve Never Done Before from...
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Vote With A Bullet, But Vote
Prison for praise is not worth thinkingSin is still in and our ballots are shrinkingSo unleash the dogs - the only solutionForgive and forget, fuck noI'm talking about a revolution! Having totally...
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But I Can Love You Better Than Him
Ah the peaky peaks and troughy troughs of teenage love, eh readers? When I was 18, skinnier of trouser, paislier of shirt, more of an ingenue and infinitely less worldly and sophisticated than I am...
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Let Them Entertain You
Can a Queen LP ever be considered a hard rock ‘hidden gem’ or is that just crazy talk, fuelled by an excess of custard creams and several late nights? Welcome to the 9th LP I ever bought* and my first...
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At Length Did Cross An Albatross
At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name I do love me a slice of old Sam Tay C and his ‘Rime syndicate. The plot of...
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Sixteen Vestal Virgins, Please
This review may be slightly redundant as the greatest mind of our generation once wrote about it thusly: The influential NWOBHM compilation Metal For Muthas, which helped launch the careers of Nutz...
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FFS Blackmore!
It was my mate Andrew who first played me Rainbow Difficult To Cure one night when I stayed over at his. He told me that the guitarist had been in Deep Purple and that Rainbow were excellent, although...
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Psyched Öut And Furiöus
I cannot answer on your behalf dear reader but in these uncertain times I do occasionally feel in need of some moral guidance and rectitude from my favoured recording artists. Today’s lesson comes...
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96 And 98 St Marks Place
I’m not a big one for rock pilgrimages but on our first day in New York for our 10th wedding anniversary Mrs 1537 and I braved a bitterly cold and snowy East Village morning to find 96 and 98 St Marks...
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Love/Haste
So back in 1992 Love/Hate got Wasted In America and as much as I loved them I was too busy spending all my hard-earned dishwashing money on getting Wasted In Wales to buy LP secundo at the time. So I...
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I Need All The Peepers I Can Find
This New Year's Eve was the final barrier Dominance! Submission. Radios appear. We took you up and we put you in the back seat Dominance! Submission. Radios appear. You want a perfect song? You want a...
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