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Gillan: Glory Road; Tygers Of Pan Tang: Wild Cat

Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 13 September 1980

IN OTHER music papers, Heavy Metal has been irresponsibly ghettoised. Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror all have their HM specialists who drily serve a facile, dogmatic purpose, churning out the expected and therefore useless reactions to a musical form that has long stagnated. This review may be equally as "expected", but is no way useless.

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