Reviews

Robert Palmer – At His Very Best

Ex-Vinegar Joe fella turned, er, '80s sex symbol celebrates 25 years of lounge lizardry

Bob Dylan – The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3

Back to Bob's roots, and then some

Deep Purple – Listen, Learn, Read On

Breathtaking box set exhaustively chronicling Purple's live and rare heritage

Swizz Beatz – Swizz Beatz Presents G.H.E.T.T.O. Stories

Dull vanity release from Ruff Ryders leader Kasseem Dean

KTB – All Calm In Dreamland

Gentle debut from youthful singer-songwriter produced by her brother from Goldrush

The Broken Family Band – The King Will Build A Disco

Seven-track mini album from UK alt.country act

Impressive to excessive live foray from quartet

Street Hassle

Stylishly brutal thriller sees the bullets fly in the Brazilian ghetto

Back To The Future Trilogy Box Set

Time-travellers Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd shunt between the 1950s, the future and the old Wild West in a customised DeLorean sports car, trailing paradoxes in their wake as they attempt not to interfere with history. Zemeckis and Gale's lovingly crafted trilogy remains enormously enjoyable, and curiously now makes one feel nostalgic for the '80s.

Trading Places

Much-imitated life-swapping comedy from '83, back when John Landis was a hot name. Street chancer Eddie Murphy and stockbroker Dan Aykroyd switch places after a nature-versus-nurture debate, with Jamie Lee Curtis as Aykroyd's love interest. Doesn't aim to be anything other than broadly funny, and so largely succeeds, though it hasn't aged too cleverly.
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