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In 1990 John Martyn undertook a series of concerts at the Shaw Theatre, London, playing his comeback album, "The Apprentice". These concerts were filmed and released on video in 1990, but later deleted in 1995. Now for the first time, this concert is available as a DVD release. Singer/songwriter/guitarist John Martyn was born Iain David McGeachy on September 11, 1948, in New Malden, Surrey, and raised in Glasgow by his grandmother. He began his innovative and expansive career at the age of 17 with a style influenced by American blues artists such as Robert Johnson and Skip James, the traditional music of his homeland, and the eclectic folk of Davey Graham (Graham remained an influence and idol of Martyn's throughout his career).

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As a composer of art-song, Ian Venables is considered to be one of the most important writing today. This new recording introduces us to his music for solo piano and brings together works written between 1975 and 2001. It is Venables’ singular melodic gift and highly inventive use of harmony that combine to give us works that range from the deeply reflective and wistful to those in a lighter vein, full of charm and joie de vivre.

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Pin Ups fits into David Bowie's output roughly where Moondog Matinee did into the Band's output, which is to say that it didn't seem to fit in at all. Just as a lot of fans of Levon Helm et al. couldn't figure where a bunch of rock & roll and R&B covers fit alongside their output of original songs, so Bowie's fans -- after enjoying a string of fiercely original LPs going back to 1970's The Man Who Sold the World -- weren't able to make too much out of Pin Ups' new recordings of a brace of '60s British hits. Pin Ups was more than an anomaly -- it marked the swan song for the Spiders from Mars and something of an interlude between the first and second phases of his international career.

David Bowie fired the Spiders From Mars shortly after the release of Pin Ups, but he didn't completely leave the Ziggy Stardust persona behind. Diamond Dogs suffers precisely because of this -- he doesn't know how to move forward. Originally conceived as a concept album based on George Orwell's 1984, Diamond Dogs evolved into another one of Bowie's paranoid future nightmares. Throughout the album, there are hints that he's tired with the Ziggy formula, particularly in the disco underpinning of "Candidate" and his cut-and-paste lyrics. However, it's not enough to make Diamond Dogs a step forward, and without Mick Ronson to lead the band, the rockers are too stiff to make an impact.

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This second of Naxos’s two-disc survey of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s complete piano music includes his largest-scale work for solo piano, the 1922 Sonata, an intimate and harmonically complex piece which emphasizes pianistic colour. The Fantasia, Divertimento contrappuntistico and Capriccio are dazzling virtuoso showpieces while the Ricercare, a work of sorrowful and contemplative mystery that the composer began during Word War II, is notable for its spare, lean textures. The composer’s daughter, Maria Grazia Ghedini, writes of these recordings: “As I listened to these pieces being played by .......

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Van Morrison filmed at the Eco Rock Festival, St Andrews, Scotland, 1988. Support acts include John Martyn, Rick Wakeman and Jack BruceEcho Rock Festival - For A Green FutureAs concern for the environment grows, David Bellamy, world-famous ecologist, introduces a live superstar charity concert as part of a campaign to heighten awareness for the future of the world.

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The British blues guitarist into the modern traditionMichael Messer is for years among the best blues slide guitarists of the world. The Englishman used him elements of American blues - from the Mississippi Delta style of the pre-war period to the Chicago sound - mixed with contemporary influences and created a highly individual music.....

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Leo Wright's Atlantic debut, Blues Shout, effectively summarizes his career as a sideman, embracing the expressionist sensibilities of longtime boss Dizzy Gillespie as well as the Latin inspirations of longtime bandmate Lalo Schifrin to create a fiercely modern and uncommonly impassioned sound all its own.

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"Classic Girl" is a song by alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released on their 1990 album, Ritual de lo Habitual.

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The Lost Broadcasts are a series of DVDs featuring performances that have rarely been seen since the original transmission on German television, in some cases more than forty years ago. Some of the artists featured within the series are legendary and these “Lost” performances will be a fine addition to any music fans collection. John Mayall is a British blues legend who is universally known as “The Godfather of British Blues”.

The James Bond movie franchise is celebrating 50 years of exciting entertainment and some of the most memorable aspects of the Bond movies are the unforgettable theme songs. Shirley Bassey, Carly Simon, Tina Turner, Madonna, Adele - the biggest names in music have graced these timeless compositions with their voices over the last half century.

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Psychedelic Shack is a 1970 album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label, which represents the Temptations' full-blown submergence into psychedelia. Completely written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield, Psychedelic Shack almost completely abandoned the "Motown Sound" formula for this LP; hard rock guitars, synthesizer sound effects, multitracked drums, sampling, and stereo-shifting vocals giving most of the album's songs a harder, less traditional feel than the Temptations' previous work.

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Yes, a strange compilation excluding many of the most well-known songs from the great British prog-melodic rock group. The tracks featured are taken from the late 1970's and 1980's when the band was trying to come to terms with the loss of founder member Wooly Wolstenholme and venture into a more popular sound...

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Remember Cat Stevens: The Ultimate Collection features 24 tracks culled from the popular singer/songwriter’s '60s and '70s heydays, including radio staples like “Moonshadow,” “Wild World,” “Morning Has Broken,” and “The First Cut Is the Deepest,” as well as fan favorites “Another Saturday Night,” “Here Comes My Baby,” “Oh Very Young,” and the Harold & Maude classics "Where Do the Children Play” and “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out.” The only glaring omission is “The Wind,” but there are enough hooks in this anthology to convince listeners to dig further.

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The debut from XsavioR is an attractive and intelligent CD from some of Sweden’s best musicians. Putting their music into a specific genre isn’t easy. Definitely progressive! However at times you hear and feel hard rock, aor, metal, fusion and maybe even a little jazz. It is definitely varied enough to satisfy the taste’s of fans of bands like Mind’s Eye, Flower King’s, A.C.T., Saga, Yes, Queensrsyche and maybe even Queen.

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