Four young men, looking moody and wearing knickerbockers and short ties. The cover picture on this EP is strange. What is this? Little Lord Fauntleroy Does Motown? I had not heard of the Young Rascals, the gents in the strange gear. But they were genuine stars in the late 1960s, with five US number 1 […]
Tag: Atlantic Records (label)
Ah, the Eighties. The decade when marketing and pop music really hopped into bed, good and proper. “We are living in a material world,” declaimed Madonna. “Greed is good”, said Gordon Gecko, who didn’t actually exist though there were many like him. Margaret Thatcher did exist, and ran a country, and she said “There is […]
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