Why Angel did not take teenage America and then the world by storm is all a bit fraught.

As for this album, BBC4, at best it is Black Country Communion doing a paint-by-numbers job. At times the band sound like they are playing the same song, but at different times.

Heavy on period mellotron and fired by some delicious violin and electric guitar courtesy of the ubiquitous Urban Blitz, the Doctors’ album opens with a trio of introspective Strange ramblings…

The power of the two central players really fires things up. The whole album has such a groove going through it, you cannot stop yourself from playing the album from one end to another.

After Mott the Hoople’s first album was recorded, before the band had even played a live concert, this diamond of a rock collection was recorded in 1970 after some nearly 200 concerts including their first tour of America.

The Scorpions were started in 1965 by Rudolph Schenker and have always been at the forefront of German rock music. Klaus Meine has been the lead singer on every Scorpions album and has one of the most distinctive voices in rock music, handling the ballads equally well as the all-out rockers.

Released just over two years after Jimi Hendrix’s tragic death, in my opinion, there has never been a finer collection of his live work. The album just gleams with quality. Not only is the music out of this world, but the atmosphere given off by Jimi Hendrix’s chat to the audience is also spellbinding.

The basis of this review is: should a rock band that disbanded 40 years ago, along the way losing their chief multi-instrumentalist, song writer and leader, reform and record a new album? In Gryphon’s case the answer is definitely, No.

Calling Card was Rory Gallagher’s sixth studio album, his fourth with Lou Martin on keyboards, Rod de’Ath on drums, plus the ever-faithful Gerry McAvoy on bass guitar. This unit had been touring together constantly for six years and they were as tight as the Irish Rugby Union’s front row.