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If its opening number, Re-Make/Re-Model, was, as Melody Maker journalist Richard Williams observed, Roxy Music’s musical manifesto, it was proclaiming that rock’n’roll as we knew it was undergoing a strange and irrevocable transformation. It's a song that would be a closer on any other album, but its encores, interludes and resounding close signalled that on Roxy’s groundbreaking debut it was anything goes.&...

With Canadian band Coney Hatch naming themselves after a Victorian asylum in north London (Colney Hatch) you know you’re probably onto a good thing. When you learn that singer-bassist Andy Curran (now a member of Alex Lifeson's new project, Envy Of None) decided to drop the ‘l’ from the name, because “it would confuse the average American”, it's only natural to think you're dealing with professionals.This Toronto b...

Canadian trio Triumph's second album was first released in Canada in 1977. But when the band signed a deal with RCA Records and the album was released in America the following year, it also included tracks from their self-titled debut, which alas served to confuse fans somewhat over the years. On the original, Triumph’s bombastic cover of Joe Walsh’s Rocky Mountain Way gave the band their first big hit, while the emphatic title track rema...