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RICHARD ASHCROFT - Keys To The World
| Manchesteronline |
| "MUSIC was my first love, and it will be my last" - John Miles, 1982. "Music is power" - Richard Ashcroft, 2006. <BR><BR>If you're going to co-opt the "M" word, you'd better make it count, and, thankfully, Ashcroft does, preaching his equation to exultant stabs of orchestral strings and lilting melody....full text |
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| The Independent |
| There's a moment halfway through Keys to the World when all of Richard Ashcroft's best intentions come tumbling down around his ears. Until then, things had been proceeding nicely, with the impassioned anti-religion tirade "Why Not Nothing?" heralding the Curtis Mayfield-derived anthem "Music Is Power", the single "Break the Night With Colour" - written three years ago, but still the best thing here -- and "Words Just Get in the Way", a consolatory piano ballad to excite Chris Martin into an even stickier blob of devotion....full text |
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| PrefixMag |
| Lennon/McCartney, Morrissey/Marr and, yes, even Ashcroft/McCabe belong in a discussion of great English songwriting pairs. These pairs gave us some of the most memorable songs of our lives. But each songwriters' solo work, by and large, never quite made the same impact as, for example, "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "How Soon is Now?" and "Bittersweet Symphony." Sometimes, it seems, you need someone to tell you something is crap....full text |
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