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Legends are not just presented to the crowd fully formed, all smiles and P.R. presentable, they are cultivated, they have a history, they have lived in the dirt, soaked up the atmosphere of a thousand disappointments, and they perhaps bow out before their time.
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A taste is often all you need to appreciate just how beautiful, piercing, penetrating and soul enlarging a piece of art can be, gratifying certainly, passionate and easily rousing the mind to ask for more, to seek the obscure, to revel in the artist’s and creator’s minds.
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A Calling Card from the past, the unexpected reminder of how your first introduction went and the abiding memories that stir, that reason, that plot with generous heart to return the smile of chance encounter or inspired reunion to your face; such is the power of music, of art overall, that we forget just how important such experiences are.
Selected from a series of gigs that accompanied the 1976 studio album release, Calling Card, Check Shirt Wizard – Live In ’77 is an album of understated pomp, unknowingly regal and simmering, silent panache that arguably has captured the great man at his most elegant and commercial best.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
To acknowledge that influence is all around us, that there may be nothing new under the sun to which we express, is to show how beautifully unique our sense of appreciation can be. It takes the impact of others to guide us in our pursuit to create the unexpected, not just in our actions, but in the power afforded to us by absolute dedication; those that attain this live on long after the hours have been forgotten, after the battles have been examined, what remains is arguably the purest of endeavours, the ability to change what life may dictate you should be.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10
Cast: Kevin Bishop, Mark Bonnar, Pippa Haywood, Dominic Coleman, Dave Hill, Harman Singh, Jason Barnett, Ricky Grover, Harry Peacock, Moyo Akande, Amina Zia, Rory Gallagher, John Marquez.
You can be spoiled in life, the little things, the small moments of brilliance can seem so monumental that they, in most people’s eyes, cannot be seen to be bettered, not even equalled and it is a shame because the monumental should be inspiring; it should be a light that shines, not to intimidate, but to at least emulate, to carry on the noble tradition of something worthwhile.