Glorious Fool – Warner WEA 99 178
3 Oct 1981
Record Mirror
JOHN MARTYN'S twelfth album, his first with Warners and his first with a band.
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Glorious Fool
UK
Glorious Fool - Warner WEA K99178
19 Sep 1981
Melody Maker
The accolade 'genius' doesn't often apply in popular music.
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Glorious Fool
Please Fall In Love With Me – Warner WEA 79243
19 Sep 1981
Record Mirror
JOHN MARTYN: 'Please Fall In Love With Me' (WEA). Slow, unexciting exercise, rendered even less successful by a Phil Collins production that shoves Martyn's remarkable voice to the back and has a bleeding great drum thumping away in the thick of it and drowning all else out. Sounds suspiciously like Collins' horrible gurgley voice on backing vocals, too; why can't he be content with boring half the world to death with his own wretched records?
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Please Fall In Love With Me | Don't You Go
Glorious Fool - Warner WEA 99 178
18 Sep 1981
The Guardian
Aiming for a glorious twelfth
After a career that's lasted for well over a decade. and after recording a dozen albums, John Martyn seems set at last to change his musical status from cult guitarist to established performer.
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Glorious Fool
John Martyn | end of the one man band?
01 Sep 1981
International Musician & Recording World
John Martyn gets filed under M for Miscellaneous when it comes to the mainstream categories of popular music. His eclectic style has taken in traditional Scottish folk, picked up on blues, jazz and dub on the way, all the while retaining a distinctive personal feel. He must rank among the most unique guitar stylists this country has produced.
A Little Night Music
BBC Bristol
12 Aug 1981
Studio band recording.
London, Dominion Theatre (1981)
Radio London
25 May 1981
90 minutes
Broadcast from Dominion Theatre concert during Glorious Fool Tour, that took place 24 May.
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Making Tracks to the Top
23 May 1981
The Guardian
John Martyn, in concert in London tonight, has been a cult figure for far too long. Now he plans to change all that, as Mick Brown reports
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BBC In Concert (1981)
BBC Radio
11 Apr 1981
33 minutes.
FM radio broadcast from Paris Theatre performance.
Rock Goes To College (2)
BBC
2 Feb 1981
Live performance at Stirling University; electric band with audience.
"Rock Goes To College featuring the best of contemporary British and American rock bands. Each week's recording takes place on a college campus. This week: John Martyn from Chelsea College, introduced by Pete Drummond."
"The concert took place in the Pathfoot Auditorium at Stirling University, a lovely, intimate setting for what was a brilliant concert" (Andrea Moseley).
Alan Thomson's suit deserves acclaim.
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Producer: Michael Appleton
Director: Tom Corcoran
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