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From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats
When pop stars are deemed ‘past their peak’, it’s easy to dismiss their work. But do that and you might miss out on hidden treasure. Here our critics celebrate unexpected gems from the likes of Aretha Franklin and The Fall
The seven Nelson originals here are largely celebrations of a life well lived: on Still Not Dead he laughs at reports of his death, It Gets Easier is a hymn to the simple pleasures ageing allows, while Delete and Fast Forward is a rocking rejection of Donald Trump’s then recent victory. Its terrain was that of urgent dissent: songs about the Iraq war, the Bush administration and ecological doom stood alongside tracks inspired by a Tennessee Williams play and a Rudyard Kipling poem, and a re-take of Big Yellow Taxi. The title track begins with a mid-tempo groove that undulates beneath Kuti’s impassioned lyrics against colonial governments, while the 22-minute Just Like That builds along a similar tempo to reach a scorching sax solo and punctuating horn melody that references the fierce sound of his 1977 hit Zombie.
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