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Title: Not the end, but close
Review: After this I pretty much knew it was over for Shooting Star. After the band's first two albums I had this band pegged for superstardom, but weak efforts on III Wishes and Burning doomed them to also-ran status. Too bad. In this case, Straight Ahead started things off as strongly as anything they'd ever done, but after that the well was dry. A fairly pedestrian run through of the old Motown chestnut Reach Out I'll Be There was of interest to anyone who might have been a fan of Gary West's voice, but that was it. 1981 seemed a lot farther away than only two years in 1983. 1985 would bring another token effort, but the title of this album pretty well says it all about the career of Kansas City's favorite sons, and that's sad.
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