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23 items by Anthony Decurtis
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Concert For Bangladesh (Reissue) | ALBUM REVIEW
The Concert for Bangladesh is rightly enshrined in rock history as the model for Band Aid, Live Aid, Live 8 and every other superstar benefit concert of the last three decades. George Harrison organized it when his...
October 20, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
A Musical History | ALBUM REVIEW
It's a monumental history indeed — five CDs, 102 tracks, a 108-page book, a nine-performance DVD — and clearly not intended for the casual fan. But then the Band, who revolutionized popular music while backing Bob Dylan...
October 6, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Back Home | ALBUM REVIEW
As this title to Eric Clapton's new album has it, the guitar giant has now returned back home from his recent meetings at the crossroads with Robert Johnson (Me and Mr. Johnson, Sessions for Robert J) —...
September 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs | ALBUM REVIEW
This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. By 1970, Eric Clapton had fallen desperately — and, at that point, unrequitedly — in love with the wife of...
January 27, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition... | ALBUM REVIEW
This review originally ran in Rolling Stone as part of a series that looked back at classic albums. By 1970, Eric Clapton had fallen desperately — and, at that point, unrequitedly — in love with the wife of...
January 27, 2005 12:00 AM ET -
The Delivery Man | ALBUM REVIEW
It seems that as Elvis Costello explores more elaborate musical styles — an orchestral album, Il Sogno, has just been released — his rock & roll grows rawer and more impassioned. "Button My Lip," the angular opening...
October 28, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits | ALBUM REVIEW
Early one morning I ran out and hollered, Wilson Pickett once recalled. "My voice echoed down through the swamps, and I thought, 'Uh-oh. This is it.' " That was it, all right. Although he lacks the majestic pipes...
June 10, 2004 12:00 AM ET -
The Best Of 1990-2000 | ALBUM REVIEW
Two new songs, classic cuts, plus a remixed look at the band's third decadeonce you absorb the idea that the sixteen tracks on The Best of 1990-2000 aren't the best songs U2 recorded during that decade, you...
November 5, 2002 12:00 AM ET -
Reptile | ALBUM REVIEW
In the mid-Sixties, worried that the Yardbirds were pandering to the burgeoning Liverpool sound, Eric Clapton bolted the band to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Since then, that dichotomy has marked his career — through most of the...
March 5, 2001 12:00 AM ET -
Twenty Four Seven | ALBUM REVIEW
Have you ever heard Tina Turner sing a bad version of a good song? Her complete emotional commitment to every note — have you ever heard her half-step? — requires that her material match her intensity. That,...
February 17, 2000 12:00 AM ET -
Yellow Submarine [Soundtrack] | ALBUM REVIEW
It'll do for the film, was John Lennon's wry summation of every subgenius Beatles session around the time the band was working on the music for Yellow Submarine, a project designed to fulfill a contractual obligation. When...
October 28, 1999 12:00 AM ET -
Blues | ALBUM REVIEW
Eric Clapton's relationship to the blues is so long-standing that it resists summary. But the release of this smartly assembled two-disc set makes it possible to say that with three purchases — Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton...
August 19, 1999 12:00 AM ET -
Elton John & Tim Rice's "Aida" | ALBUM REVIEW
On Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida — Giuseppe Verdi's agent didn't have enough clout to get him into the credits, obviously — a host of superstars perform songs from a new stage musical composed by...
April 1, 1999 12:00 AM ET -
Across America | ALBUM REVIEW
Blessed with a beautifully ethereal voice, Art Garfunkel has suffered in his post-Paul Simon career because of a choice of songs and musical settings that mistake preciousness for subtlety. Happily, his new album remedies that problem. Nine...
June 12, 1997 12:00 AM ET -
American Dream | ALBUM REVIEW
American Dream fades out on the line "Why not keep on singing anyway?" — and that lackadaisical slogan seems to sum up the spirit in which the first Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young studio album since 1970's...
January 13, 1993 12:00 AM ET -
The Bootleg Series | ALBUM REVIEW
Three CDs, fifty-eight tracks, nearly four hours of music — the first three volumes of The Bootleg Series stand solidly on their own terms...
April 4, 1991 12:00 AM ET -
Oh Mercy | ALBUM REVIEW
Nothing reinvigorates Sixties icons like having something to prove. In the past few years the reverence typically shown both the Rolling Stones and...
September 21, 1989 12:00 AM ET -
Dust Bowl Ballads [Buddha] | ALBUM REVIEW
Perhaps the lone salvation of human tragedy is that occasionally it finds its poet, the one person who lends enduring meaning to suffering and rescues dignity from disaster. The Dust Bowl crisis of the Thirties found its...
May 4, 1989 12:00 AM ET -
Rattle And Hum | ALBUM REVIEW
Rattle and Hum is an expression of U2's urge to have it both ways. A sprawling double album that incorporates live tracks, cover versions, collaborations, snippets of other people's music and a passage from a taped interview,...
November 17, 1988 12:00 AM ET -
August | ALBUM REVIEW
It has evidently been decided that Eric Clapton should shoot for hits, and, as a result, we get records as stilted and disappointing as August. Like 1985's Behind the Sun, August pairs Clapton with Phil Collins, who...
February 12, 1987 12:00 AM ET
