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Reissue CDs Weekly: John & Beverley Martyn, Mott The Hoople

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Revisiting Island Records: The Martyns’ ‘Stormbringer!’ and ‘The Road to Ruin’, and Mott’s ‘Mental Train’ box set

Although John & Beverley Martyn and Mott The Hoople were both signed to Island, the connection went further than being with the same label. When Guy Stevens conceived the band he named Mott The Hoople, the producer saw them as uniting the essence of Bob Dylan with that of The Rolling Stones. On their eponymous first album, issued in 1969, Ian Hunter’s vocals are so like Dylan it edges into the preposterous. That same year John & Beverley Martyn made Stormbringer! in Woodstock.


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