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John recording career until now can roughly be divided into five phases.

  1. 1968-1970 Boy with guitar and talent (guitar era, London Conversation - The Road To Ruin)
  2. 1971-1975 Creative explosion (echoplex era, Bless The Weather - Live At Leeds)
  3. 1977-1986 Musical and commercial expansion (band era, One World - Cooltide)
  4. 1987-1995 Reworking and sampling (midlife crisis, Couldn't Love You More - Live)
  5. 1996-2007 Mature integration of new and old styles (eclecticism, And - On The Cobbles)

The overall picture is a tendency from romance to blues, from sweetness to rawer singing and from guitar picking to exploration of styles and sounds.

'There's a place between words and music,
and my voice lives right there.'

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