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QUEEN THE SHOW MUST GO ON

QUEEN THE SHOW MUST GO ON

BRIAN MAY and PAUL RODGERS talk to Jonathan Wingate about getting the Queen machine back on the road: “It’s not a marriage, but it’s a damn good affair.” When news leaked out that Brian May and Roger Taylor had got together with Paul Rodgers to make a new album, you could hear the sound of the critics sharpening their knives, accusing the band of trampling over their legacy. Yet the …

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BLUESY BRITISH AND RARE PART 2 THE AMERICANS

BLUESY BRITISH AND RARE PART 2 THE AMERICANS

BARRY WINTON CELEBRATES THE AMERICAN BLUESMEN WHOSE WORK FOUND FAVOUR IN THE UK WITH A LOOK AT 40 GREAT (AND A FEW NOT SO GREAT) RECORDS WITH VALUES RANGING FROM £18 TO £600 As we saw in Part One (RC354), the blues inspired a whole generation of UK musicians. But the British blues boom also brought welcome recognition for the original American bluesmen, many of whom released records in …

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BRITPOP COLLECTABLES

BRITPOP COLLECTABLES

Billy Albert celebrates the golden age of Cool Britannia, 1992-98 It’s now approximately 10 years since the demise of the mid-nineties era known as ‘Britpop’, the end-point of which is agreed by many to the release of Pulp’s This is Hardcore LP and the subsequent singles. The term ‘Britpop’ had been bandied around several times in the music press in the early …

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Reviews from the current issue

Here is a selection from over 200 reviews from this month's Record Collector, the magazine that has the world's largest coverage of reissues

PERE UBU - Dub Housing

Do you do Ubu? You should Do! The history of rock’n’roll is littered with bands that could have been, should have been, but never quite were. Pere Ubu are one such example: a name that transcends far beyond their status as unit-shifters. A heavily influential art-post-punk-rock act (more free-thinking underground pop, if you will) Pere Ubu released this, …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 358

VARIOUS ARTISTS - From The Basement

Mixing desk king breaks into TV The original From The Basement concept was that legendary producer Nigel Godrich would film friends and other talents in his studio, coming up with a download-only TV shindig that circumvented the suits as each episode went online on a weekly basis at the end of 2006. Then the suits got involved, and it’s likely that the first …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 358

1 Top Class Manager: The Notebooks of Joy Division’s Manager 1978-1980 by Rob Gretton

Scribbled notes from the underground The passing of Tony Wilson shifted the “death limelight” away from Joy Division’s manager Rob Gretton. This is unfair, because most people associated with the band (and New Order) remember him as perhaps the most integral part in their ascent, with his role in films such as Control and 24 Hour Party People handled with a …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 358

BLOOD RED SHOES - Glasgow King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (19th October, 2008)

View: at the mixing desk Blood Red Shoes have a little bit more about them than The Ting Tings, and are far more innovative. Drums and guitars from Steve Ansell and Laura Mary Carter sit amid sitting-room lamps and shatter the ambience with a sonic assault of searing guitar and Laura’s vox. Box Of Secrets provides most of the set, with ADHD, You Bring Me …

LIVE REVIEW From Issue 358

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