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February 3, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Halcyon Days

Last year, Cherry Red's RPM imprint closed up shop after almost 30 years and some 600+ releases.  But a new imprint was announced to pick up where RPM left off: Strawberry.  Its inaugural collection, Halcyon Days: '60s Mod, R&B, Brit Soul, and Freakbeat Nuggets has proved an auspicious debut for the imprint with big shoes to fill. The 3-CD collection traces the development of '60s British soul and R&B from the mod period to the first flowering of psychedelia featuring a blend of names

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: David Bowie, Katch 22, Laurel Aitken, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Plastic Penny, Rod Stewart, The Artwoods, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Spencer Davis Group, The Yardbirds, Them, Various Artists, Wynder K. Frog

September 29, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Looking Through a Glass Onion

Let me take you down... The Beatles' songs were so sturdy and well-crafted that artists such as Matt Monro and Ella Fitzgerald became early adopters.  But from the start, John, Paul, George, and Ringo's contemporaries had been just as likely as the older generation to mine their songbook.  As the sixties continued and the Beatles ushered in the shift from pop to rock (minus the "and roll"), similarly youthful artists brought their own increasingly adventurous spins to the lads' material. 

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Big Jim Sullivan, Camel, Deep Purple, Duffy Power, Kippington Lodge, Orange Bicycle, Plastic Penny, Spooky Tooth, The Beatles, The Hollies, The Spectrum, Various Artists, Vera Lynn, Yes

April 3, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Plastic Penny Everything I Am

Nowadays, drummer extraordinaire Nigel Olsson can be found behind the kit for Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, supporting the same superstar artist with whom he's been associated for nearly fifty years.  Before his association with Elton, however, Nigel was plying his trade as one-fifth of Plastic Penny, a group which briefly straddled the worlds of pop, R&B, and underground psychedelia.  The band also boasted future members of UFO, Cochise, and The Troggs.  Cherry Red's

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John, Nigel Olsson, Plastic Penny

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