Gallagher and Lyle: Willie And The Lapdog

Summary

Format: CD/vinyl

Genre: Folk (Contemporary)

Tracks: 12

Playing time: 33 minutes

Availability (out of 3): *

Related website(s):  http://www.bennygallagher.com

My rating: 10/10

I like…   The range of moods, the thought-provoking and evocative lyrics, the arrangements

I’m less keen on…  – 

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This was one of the first albums that I bought (on vinyl, back in the early 1970s!) I’d started to take an interest in music in my mid teens, and in a bid to be cool I had also begun to buy the music newspaper “New Musical Express” or “NME”. This was, of course, pre-internet, and that newspaper, and its rival “Melody Maker”, was peppered with fairly extensive adverts from mail-order suppliers of albums and trendy tee-shirts.

This album was reviewed in the NME to considerable acclaim; strangely,