Between 1971 and 1973, JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO fought to realise their dreams of a better society and, as their friends and peers relate, courted danger from every side. Now collected, augmented and remixed in the new Power To The People box set, the music they made to further their aims speaks to a similarly polarised, and febrile age.“It was really ahead of its time,”

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut

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A manifeste of musical and spiritual freedom, Axis: Bold As Love was JIMI HENDRIX ar his most exploratory, utopian. But as a new box set explores, notes of unease and psycho-autobiography cut through the Aquarian haze and freaky, proto-stereo FX, as the Summer of Love entered its more conflicted autumn. "It was all vivid colour," peers and Fhu tell MARK PAYTRESS, "with Jimi at the height of his powers."

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