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ow hurtling towards his 80th birthday, singer Shakin’ Stevens—who, lest we forget, regularly played a tribute to his mother, glides like the Twin Peaks theme)- George is done with just voice and piano- grapples with climate change', channels Tom Petty. Perhaps best of all, the angry, hoarse-voiced links the forced emigration of 18th-century Cornish miners with contemporary refugee displacement. It wouldn't be out of place on a Levellers album. It's a mystery why he's waited so long to blossom- the Top 10 hits began to dry up after 1985's If only he'd taken this direction then.
