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Wagram Music PresentsFrench Connection Rare Funk, Soul, Jazz from 60s & 70s Made in France album original hits and the original artists genre Jazz, Funk, Disco.

2008 four CD set from the British popsters fronted by Peter Noone. Into Something Good covers all the UK and American hits, all the album and E.P. tracks, the film soundtracks, the B-sides, and 10 previously unreleased performances. That's 121 tracks and over five hours of music! Also included are ten Peter Noone solo tracks including 'Oh You Pretty Things' featuring David Bowie and two previously unreleased Noone tracks. The release will be accompanied with sleeve notes written by Spencer Leigh and featuring an interview with Peter Noone himself. EMI 2008.

Almost 49 years to the day after his first recording session for John Peel’s Dandelion label that brought 1917 Revolution to the west, Russia and a hit in Lebanon, comes a download album from Cherry Red entitled Rattle The Asylum Bars. This could also be a title for the recently prolific 12-string maestro’s entire work this century. Beau has developed and woven threads from his first two albums for Dandelion around 1970 into a rich tapestry that places him among the foremost musical commentators of English life and the world today.

S'il existait un Oscar de la ténacité, il irait sans conteste à Hillary Rodham Clinton. L'épouse de Bill le licencieux - ils se sont rencontrés à Yale, en pleine éclosion contestataire du Flower Power - a supporté en silence les frasques de son président de mari tout au long de ses deux mandats. Mais elle attendait patiemment son heure… Aujourd'hui, après une défaite contre Obama aux primaires de 2007, Hillary a enfin ses chances pour la Maison-Blanche, et se présente comme elle est vraiment : avec ses avantages (femme d'expérience, coriace, bonne communicante), mais aussi ses nombreux défauts…

AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
While Herman's Hermits will undoubtedly never get the critical respect afforded other British Invasion groups like the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, or the Kinks, as a group they weren't as silly as most people remember them. OK, maybe they were – certainly when on camera – but they and their producer Mickie Most had the good sense to pick solid songs to cover (the Goffin & King nugget "I'm into Something Good," "Silhouettes," originally done by the Rays, and Sam Cooke's great "Wonderful World"), which allowed them to sustain a hit-making career long past the end of chart action for such rival pop-oriented British Invasion acts as Gerry & the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer. This four-disc set covers the Hermits' years with Most (1964 to 1972) about as well as one could in terms of content, representing everything the group did with him, including a brace of rarities, unreleased tracks, and sides that singer Peter Noone recorded with Most as a solo artist on the producer's RAK label. For most Hermits fans, it will seem like too much of a good thing, as all of the group's hits have reappeared numerous times in compilations too ubiquitous to list – but they would be making a terrible mistake to pass up this set. Indeed, if anything, this quadruple-disc set is too much of a great thing, if such a thing is possible (though with one important flaw). And that makes it well worth saving up for.

AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett
While Herman's Hermits will undoubtedly never get the critical respect afforded other British Invasion groups like the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, or the Kinks, as a group they weren't as silly as most people remember them. OK, maybe they were – certainly when on camera – but they and their producer Mickie Most had the good sense to pick solid songs to cover (the Goffin & King nugget "I'm into Something Good," "Silhouettes," originally done by the Rays, and Sam Cooke's great "Wonderful World"), which allowed them to sustain a hit-making career long past the end of chart action for such rival pop-oriented British Invasion acts as Gerry & the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer. This four-disc set covers the Hermits' years with Most (1964 to 1972) about as well as one could in terms of content, representing everything the group did with him, including a brace of rarities, unreleased tracks, and sides that singer Peter Noone recorded with Most as a solo artist on the producer's RAK label. For most Hermits fans, it will seem like too much of a good thing, as all of the group's hits have reappeared numerous times in compilations too ubiquitous to list – but they would be making a terrible mistake to pass up this set. Indeed, if anything, this quadruple-disc set is too much of a great thing, if such a thing is possible (though with one important flaw). And that makes it well worth saving up for.