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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.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is a memory for most of us, the moment when the schoolteacher would ask the pupils under their guidance to write a letter to their future selves, to imagine, if possible, how their lives panned out, what hopes, untold, and as yet unthought desires have happened in their lives and which shaped the future.
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Rules, like cliches, are meant not only be broken, but they are also there to be smashed, destroyed, never put in place in the first instance; for if we abide by the rules, then the defiance of transgression in art is a criminal act, and the only point that will Deliver Us from the beige and the obsession with dull routine is one that delights in placing all human emotions into the same category and the same state of mind.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
When asked to illuminate the path so that others may follow in your footsteps, it is not so that they can steal your limelight, nor is it because they are wary of treading off the path and ending in the quagmire of disillusion and disappointment, it is because they have witnessed the stride and measure of the beauty you have spread along the way, and they want to stroll past the same flowering buds, and help make them grow.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
How do you top an epic; to be frank it is virtually impossible, not unfeasible, but practically gruelling, an act that test the fortitude of even the greatest artists of all time.
If you look at some of the great Rock and Prog bands of all time, the action of producing what is in effect a masterpiece can have serious effects on the dynamic, can lead to serios questions being asked of the long-term direction of the group. Disaffection muddies still waters, and leads to break-ups, to the closing down of communication, and to the sore eyes of jealousy being opened and the terrible urge to destroy something beautiful becomes overwhelming.
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The enormity of a return can never be taken for granted, nor should it be expected that the moment of greatest possible success can be replicated to the exact and defining point. However, the excitement of such a homecoming, the restoration of a valued enterprise and line up should be heralded with a certain amount of glee and trumpets that are strong enough to bring down the fabled walls of Jericho.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There should be no doubt that the period between the recording of the album Innuendo, and the passing of Freddie Mercury in the autumn of 1991, was for the three other members of Queen, tumultuous to say the least, unrestrained, a peaceful sense of chaos and satisfaction rolled up into one heavy ball that could not be allowed to settle until the exact moment when all three felt comfortable to do so.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is perhaps nothing more noble than the artist who understands that life in their chosen field is not all wine and roses, no storming of crowds ready to chant their name on mass at the back stage door, no sense of emotional discordance when a song flies to no.1 in the charts and then replaced three weeks later by a novelty act with a suspect accent and repetitive strains of chorus that are more catching than chicken pox, and just as likely to leave a lasting itch.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Everybody imagines at one time or another that they would have had this great love affair in the youth that was on the same dramatic scale as Romeo and Juliet, later perhaps they realise that the emotions that come with such teenage fancy are not only insecure but add nothing to the future but maybe embarrassment and the pain of regret.
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It is said that the more you learn, the more you understand how little you actually know. However, it is also true to state that the more you are inspired to learn, the more your creativity can burst from its containment and cage and can soar higher, can perceive movement in the dark, and with sharpened talons seize the moment of opportunity when it is presented.