Martin Newell in general

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... remains largely undiscovered as he released some of the finest music of the 90's in the opinion of the lucky people who heard it. I'm not making this up. Tens of thousands of Americans have Newell albums in their collections and a similar number of French, Japanese and German folk do too. Rolling Stone regarded him as a rival for Ray Davies as England's finest singer songwriter on release of The Greatest Living Englishman. It's this Englishness that seems to be both his appeal and his curse, depe...more

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Martin Newell in general: The Greatest Living Englishman? (421 words)
by - written on 13/03/01 (Useful, 24 readings)
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Martin Newell is not an underrated artist. He is a very highly rated artist. Unfortunately he's not a very well known artist. This is largely his own fault. He makes brilliant music and then refuses to promote it. So no wonder then that only XTC fans (Andy Partridge is a close friend and collaborator) and a very small number of people who bought his Cleaners From Venus albums in the early 80s even know he does music at all. Most people know him better as the UKs most published poet. He writes 2 or three poems a week for The Independent and often pops up on Radio Four or simiilar. Or in your school or library. It's a very sad thing that ... Read the complete review

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