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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Album reviews with Tony Burke
Reviews of Beatles cover versions, Super Chiken and Terry ‘Harmonica’ Bean and King King
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Looking Through a Glass Onion
The Beatles Psychedelic Songbook 1966-1972
(Grapefruit)
★★★★
THE BEATLES’ Revolver, Sgt Pepper, White Album, Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road sets provided the source for countless cover versions and reworkings of Lennon and McCartney‘s album tracks and this 3CD set features some of the more adventurous and radical reworkings of their songbook.
Among them are covers from well-known artists such as Deep Purple, The Hollies, Yes, The Tremoloes, along with a spaced-out Duffy Power, avant-garde sax man Lol Coxhill, rockers Stone The Crows, Spooky Tooth and prog rockers Affinity — all doing I Am The Walrus — The Shadows, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers and guitar virtuoso Davy Graham. And Dame Vera Lynn.
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