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Tommy James And The Shondells

Celebration: The Complete Roulette Recordings 1966-1973 CHERRY RED

Cracking compendium of underrated band’s leap from pop to psychedelia.

From bubblegum hits and , his two 1969 insane, trippy whirls of experimental genius, aren’t routinely cited as being up there with and . They’re not just “Huh, didn’t realise he went far out”, they’re startling, beautiful and inspired. The fact that then US vice president Hubert Humphrey wrote the sleeve notes for is the least weird thing about it

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