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Elton John: Caribou

Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1974

For an artist with distinct limitations – vocal, compositional, and stylistic – Elton John makes awfully good records. One of the reasons is his avowed love of rock & roll records and parallel need to make recordings that fall naturally into the historical stream of classic rock & roll.

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