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Album review: STATUS QUO – The Vinyl Singles Collection – 2000-2010

Posted on April 8, 2019 by david.wilson
STATUS QUO – The Vinyl Singles Collection – 2000-2010

UMC  [Release date 26.04.19] This box set is the last release in a series of 5 charting all the single releases from Quo throughout their long career. As with the previous box sets each single is lovingly recreated in its … Continue reading →

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News: WIN BLACK SABBATH SEVENTIES SINGLES SET (Starts 10 June)

Posted on June 10, 2018 by GRTR! HQ
LACK SABBATH - Supersonic Years The Seventies Singles Box Set

Here’s your chance to win the BLACK SABBATH “Supersonic Years – The Seventies Singles” box set This 10 disc set comes in a presentation box with unique or rare reproductions of the original sleeves as released in different territories.  Check … Continue reading →

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Album review: RUPERT HOLMES – Songs That Sound Like Movies – The Complete Epic Recordings

Posted on March 10, 2018 by GRTR! HQ
RUPERT HOLMES - Songs That Sound Like Movies - The Complete Epic Recordings

This is a non-broadcast preamble and exclusive edit from a two hour special on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio featuring the music of Rupert Holmes and a recent interview (6:17) Part 1 is broadcast on Sunday 1 April at 18:00 … Continue reading →

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Album review: MICHAEL SCHENKER – A Decade Of The Mad Axeman

Posted on January 15, 2018 by jason
MICHAEL SCHENKER - A Decade Of The Mad Axeman

[Release date 28.01.18] A completely mad axeman indeed, Michael Schenker is one of the world’s shining lights when it comes to rock and metal guitar. Whether with Scorpions, UFO, the Michael/McAuley Schenker Group, UFO again, solo or his own Temple … Continue reading →

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Album review: STANLEY CLARKE, NORMAN CONNORS, HARVEY MASON (Jazz Funk compilations)

Posted on June 16, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
STANLEY CLARKE - The Definitive Collection

Cherry Red Records/imprints The mid to late 1970s was a golden age for disco/jazz-funk.   Bands like Earth, Wind & Fire were ascendant in the charts whilst our more home-grown Level 42 picked up the baton for the burgeoning Brit Funk … Continue reading →

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Album review: LITTLE RIVER BAND – The Big Box (6 Disc incl DVD)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
LITTLE RIVER BAND - The Big Box

The Store For Music [Release date 28.04.17] The only problem with this welcome 5-CD/DVD boxed set is repetition.  In more recent years Little River Band have seemingly sought to reinvent their past with not a lot of new material.  (Some … Continue reading →

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Singles review: STATUS QUO – The Vinyl Singles Collection 1972-1979

Posted on February 6, 2017 by GRTR! HQ
STATUS QUO - The Vinyl Singles Collection 1972-1979

UMC [Release date 10.03.17] The Quo reissue campaign continues with a set of singles covering the years 1972-1979.  We’ve already had a corresponding box set featuring that decade’s albums.  This is the first of five limited editions covering a decade … Continue reading →

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Album review: MARILLION – The Singles Vol.2, 89-95

Posted on June 29, 2013 by GRTR! HQ
MARILLION - The Singles Vol.2, 89-95

EMI [Release date 22.04.13] This collection is a reissue of the now deleted 12-CD box set (2002) when all the singles had a nice repro card sleeve. The album charts the band’s more commercial Hogarth era from 1989 (and ‘Season’s … Continue reading →

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