Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
2020 will always be with us, it will be impossible to look back upon our lives in the future and not think of it, to focus on an area of loss, on a moment of pain, but in this respect, we must also think on those who helped, who aided us during a collective era of uncertainty, and when we remember that we made it when we can say with love and honour, With A Little Help From My Friends we survived and found reasons to live, laugh and remain positive.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
You can wait a lifetime for the right moment in which you believe that the fates align, or you can seize the opportunity offered, brave the inclement, and seemingly never ending Hell driven, weather and relish the thought of seeing one of those bands that always conjures images of the definition of American A.O.R., of a time when M.T.V. was actually dedicated to music, when bands with the power of a ripping chord and introspective lyrics ruled the airwaves, Kansas, Chicago, Boston and for the fortunate ones on this journey round the Sun, the revolution of the night, Toto.
The late 70s and early 80s saw American music defy the punk explosion that had become so entrenched in British pop culture and forge ahead with the style that encompassed A.O.R. There were a great number of bands that the American public could latch onto in either camp but the conservative America could be seen as winning through and amongst their musical heroes were bands like Toto.
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Following up from the 2010 album All’s Well That Ends Well, Steve Lukather once more comes up with guitar gold in his latest release Transition.
Transition is perhaps an apt title for the album for the former Toto man. It is by far his most biographical release and as each track flows over the listener thoughts and nestles into the conscious, the songs hit home hard that this is a man, a musician, who is looking back at his life and taking issue with the past fall outs and people and who acknowledges that he is bigger and better than any argument.