Russ Abbot - All Night Holiday (Spirit)

Who can resist the posturings of strutting rock idol Russ Abbot? The cover of this package holiday classic shows Russ drinking stout while such giants of pop as George Michael, Strawberry Switchblade, Elton John and even Mike Read cavort on the beach around him. They should be so lucky! Why, they're not fit to kiss the turf upon which this cerebral God of music and merriment daintily treads! (Tom Hibbert, Smash Hits, July 3, 1985)

Imagine "Atmosphere" with slightly different words and you'll see why a break in a Siberian salt mine isn't such a bad proposition after all. Anyone who buys this deserves to lose their ears in a painful way. (Mike Gardner, Record Mirror, June 22, 1985)

Russ Abbot knows as much about making good pop music as I do about llama breeding. No doubt this will go down a storm on those dreadful 18 to 30 mud wrestling jaunts which I keep reading about in the papers.
Abysmal piffle. (Max bell, No 1, June 22, 1985)