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On to Victory

Heavy-metal monsters rarely die but eventually collapse under the accumulated weight of their own leaden riffing, Tarzan-like singing and boorish macho arrogance. Three new albums by Kiss, Humble Pie and Judas Priest merely represent different ways of trying to avoid the inevitable.

Once the clown...

1980 RS: Not Rated

Smokin'

1972

Rock On

1971

Town and Country

1969

As Safe as Yesterday Is

1969

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Biography

At the peak of the Pie's inscrutably monstrous success -- Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore -- amiable maniac Steve Marriott brandished one of the most annoying voices in rock: a hectoring, sandpaper parody of black authenticity. With the group's platform boots and troglodyte riffing crushing the subtlety out of blues standards, Fillmore featured a 16-minute slaughter of Muddy Waters' "Rollin'...

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