Consumer Guide Album

The Family: It's Only a Movie [United Artists, 1973]
So they didn't break up after all, but the close call seems to have mellowed them--this is their funniest, funkiest, most relaxed album. I know an autumnal Roger Chapman is a little hard to imagine, but this is a man of many guises--back in the beginning he sometimes came on like an opera singer. Pick: "Leroy," inspired by "No Money Down." B+