News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 27

Record reviews Zeppelin flexes muscle with Physical Graffiti' Sweet Surrender The back-to-nature movement has never had a more popular spokesman than John Denver Some of his previous hits like On My Home Again" and have become as standard in the popular music scene as "Silent is at Christmas Not only has he cut numerous million-seller albums performed in sellout concert tours across the country and made major television appearances on talk shows and series (his own TV special was nominated for an Emmy) this young prodigy has even been named by his governor as Poet Laureate of Colorado Like many of today's artists John took up the guitar as a boy and then turned seriously to music in college influenced by Elvis Presley and the folk music explosion He was a part of the Chad Mitchell trio for four years before going solo From then on his career went straight to the top Today John lives in Aspen with his wife Ann devoting what spare time he has to motorcycles and sports But his primary concern lies in' the realm of ecology This tune reflects this personal closeness with nature Of his work John says "I want to entertain people I want to touch We think find that with this tune he has done both your favorite? Send requests to the Tune In Editor of this newspaper Copyright 1974 WALT DISNEY MUSIC COCHERRY LANE MUSIC CO Used by permission All Rights Reserved Copyright 1975 Spadea Syndicate Inc career toward the light at the end of the tunnel seen the light and have come out with a successor in My was powerful in vocal characterizations on part The new band brought forth a flair for well-balanced rock is pure dynamite It takes Sparks one step higher with an aim toward the funny-serious side of lyrical interpretations Although the rapid fire singing of Russell is often times unintelligible it detract in the slightest from stopping this album in becoming a masterpiece Variety is a bands greatest ally and in the case of Sparks it has won the battle for success come to expect quality from Sparks It now comes in abundance Solid (I mean solid) musicianship vocals arrangements song writing talent no overnight sensation The one great aspect that sets Sparks apart from other bands is that what they do is unique Instrumentation for one nobody else around that sounds like they do Read the lyrics see its 12 col 1 has become is the rock band's rock band -Joseph Bensoua Elf (MGM) -Rock roll in the exuberant tradition of Rod Stewart and the Faces in the force of the Rolling Stones and in the inspiring vocal manner of Stories contributes to success For many people Elf was an unknown band until warming up the stage for Deep Purple in a recent tour For those that knew of Elf in the past the group remained buried under obscurity Thanks to Purple and the production of ex-Purple bassist Roger Glover Elf is getting a much deserved chance to be heard and recognized Sure heard the stuff before but its groups like Elf that give rock roll an extra kick to wake it up from its doldrums JB Sparks Island) they are again The two brothers Ron and Russell Mael who left the solitude of Pacific Palisades for the highly competitive rock market in-England and succeeded They catch on until with a revitalized band they came out with My which swung the Led Zeppelin (Swan Song) With the two big powers in rock The Who and Rolling Stones growing more listless as the days slip by Led Zeppelin stands alone all but forming itself into an impregnable dynasty its first recording since of the was released in early 1973 is perhaps the best look into Led overwhelming popularity with the masses pure and simple rock roll with enough kick to knock you through the wall And as a double LP a lot of walls Side one sets the pace which the other three sides follow My Time of straight-ahead churning rock roll with Jimmy Page doing some nice bluesy slide guitar on the latter Robert high reaching vocals are so akin to rock that his singing alone makes each cut a novel affair The tight rhythm section comprising drummer John Bonham and bassist John Paul Jones is a major factor to the dominance in heavy-rockdom Lack of studio gimmicks plays more in the favor allowing no distortion to its solid brand of rock What Zeppelin by JOHN DENVER (RCA RECORDS) Words and Music by JOHN DENVER 1 Lost and a lone on some for got ten high way travel ed by man E7 re mem bered by few Look for some thing that Lean be lieve in look for some thing that A like to do with my life noth be hind me and noth that ties me to some -E7 thing that might have been true yes ter day To mor row is pen right now seems to be A more than nough just be here to day and know what the fut ure is hold in store I know where go not sure where been a spir it that A guides me a light that shines for me my life is worth the liv I need to see the end E7 A E7 A E7 A Sweet Sweet Sur ren der live live with out care like a fish in the wa ter like a E7 A E7 A E7 A E7 bird in the air Sweet Sur ren der live live with out care like a fish in the A E7 A and Fade wa ter like a bird in the air 000000000 5 Music Jazz MARK TAPER FORUM: Marian McPartland 9 pm Monday Los Angeles Music Center CONCERTS BY THE SEA: Eddie Harris through Sunday Dizzy Gillespie 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