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66 items by Parke Puterbaugh

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  Sheffield Steel | ALBUM REVIEW

  Under the resourceful tutelage of label kingpin Chris Blackwell, Joe Cocker has found a new Island home. Without question, Sheffield Steel (recorded in Jamaica) is the gravel-throated singer's most consistently pleasing program of tunes in many years....

  September 2, 1982 12:00 AM ET
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  Imperial Bedroom | ALBUM REVIEW

  After years of furious parrying with his obsessions in a long ride that's taken him from arsenic tinged punk psychodramas to gin-mill country & western weepers, Elvis Costello has made his masterpiece. Imperial Bedroom doesn't make its...

  August 5, 1982 12:00 AM ET
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  Broadsword & The Beast | ALBUM REVIEW

  Leave it to Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull to anoint the Eighties with a concept album about the erosion of old values in today's rapidly devolving world. Anderson observes the entropy of spirit that's got individuals and...

  June 10, 1982 12:00 AM ET
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  Diver Down | ALBUM REVIEW

  Strip away the four cover versions, the three brief instrumentals and the minute-long goof on "Happy Trails" and Van Halen's fifth album, Diver Down, suddenly seems like a cogent case for consumer fraud. Van Halen, it appears,...

  June 10, 1982 12:00 AM ET
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  Jump Up! | ALBUM REVIEW

  Jump Up is the album that redeems Elton John from his famine years as a fallen superstar exiled to less verdant pastures. Showing more spunk than anyone might have expected at this late date, he's put himself...

  May 27, 1982 12:00 AM ET
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  Dead Ringer | ALBUM REVIEW

  If you were offered a choice between a helping of warmed-over meat loaf and a few wilted stalks of celery, which would you take? Neither? Well, that seems to be the consensus of the record-buying public, as...

  November 26, 1981 12:00 AM ET