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The Album Years

#31 (1977 Part 3B) Fleetwood Mac, John Martyn, The Eagles, Billy Joel & more!

The Album Years

W!ZARD Studios

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4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this week's episode of The Album Years, we dive into American 🇺🇸 soft-rock albums from 1977, including Fleetwood Mac's ‘Rumours'. Plus, we also discuss one of our desert island discs, John Martyn's 'One World’. Our question of the week to you: what is your favourite American album from 1977? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.6

or had a very similar career trajectory because he's passed away now.

1:03.2

John Martin, who you could probably say there was a certain point in the history, in history where Roy Harper and John Martin were

1:13.4

pretty much in the same place. The late 60s when they were playing Le Cousin, the club in Soho.

1:20.9

They were both kind of these foky troubadours who had some extra kind of elements they were bringing into their music, whether it was jazz

1:29.2

in the case of John Martin or Roy Harper had more of the sort of psychedelia thing going on.

1:35.4

But they certainly, careers certainly diversified, didn't they?

1:38.5

But John Martin's album from this year, one world is a masterpiece, isn't it?

1:43.7

It's an absolute masterpiece. Well, listen, I think we're getting to the point of the albums that, you know, One World is a masterpiece, isn't it? It's an absolute masterpiece.

1:45.1

Well, I think we're getting to the point of the albums that, you know, I would consider

1:48.1

amongst my favourite of all time at this stage.

1:50.6

And One World is definitely that.

1:53.4

Yeah, there's a similar trajectory in the sense that they both emerge from the

1:58.2

British, the small British folk clubs.

2:00.2

Well, I think Harper was slightly before Martin.

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