Magnum
Great Adventures: The Jet Years 1978-1983 HEAR NO EVIL
British pomp rock stalwarts’ early years in one box.
What Magnum lacked in glamour they made up for in class. They may have looked like a bunch of rogue garden gnomes playing at being a rock band, but in the dream team of Bob Catley and Tony Clarkin they had a singer with the goldenest of larynxes and one of the greatest, if most under-appreciated, guitaristsongwriters this country has ever produced respectively. This six-CD box set is a comprehensive overview of the first stage of their long career, bringing together the four studio and one live albums they put out on Don Arden’s Jet label plus assorted B-sides and session and demo tracks.
They’d already been kicking around for six years by the time they released 1978 debut album whose grand pomp rock wasand is proof that few could knock out a stirring ballad like Tony Clarkin.
