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Alice Cooper
(Phonographic Record, 1973-04-00)

Didn't it strike you as strange, even back then before Peter and Gordon or the color series of Beatle cards, that they could call a monstrously ubiquitous single, Can't Buy Me Love? I mean, did you really think that there was anything the Beatles couldn't buy?...

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Muscle Of Love Album Review
(Phonographic Record, 1974-01-00)

Alice Cooper is an international movie 10 years later set to music. But where is the director, Bob Ezrin? He directed such wow scenes as "I'm Eighteen", "School's Out" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and is nowhere to be found on this LP. When the Coasters lost Lieber and Stoller, they failed; when the Beatles lost Epstein, they failed; and when the Rolling Stones lost Keith Richards (think about it) they failed! "Big Apple Dreamin' " (Hippo) is a "Lost in New York City" song. So is "Up On the Roof" as performed by the Drifters. ...

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Hippies in the Lounge
(Phonographic Record, 1976-01-00)

Ah, home at last --- after six non-stop weeks on the road, the Flo & Eddie group returns home, to our families and Los Angeles. And not a moment too soon! (Did you see us when we played in your town?) Still at the airport -- in baggage claim -- and a mysterious page for Mr. Kaylan over the public address cuts through the clamor. ...

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