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RIDING THE WAVES

Interview by Ken Sharp A founding member of the Beach Boys, Alan Jardine has been part of the fabric of American popular music for almost four decades. Never hungering for the spotlight, he has always been a team player, more than happy with his supporting role in the band. A wonderfully expressive and dynamic singer—he is the voice of Help Me Rhonda, Susie Cincinnati, Come Go With Me, Lady …

STRANGE FOLK REVISITED

Further adventures in the psych-folk wonderland, where vinyl gems can demand prices of over £1,000. By Richard Morton Jack Since RC first covered ‘strange folk’, in April 2005, the genre has grown in popularity to an extent unknown since its early 70s heyday. Artists such as Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens enthusiastically cite the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Donovan …

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Unseen Queen

PETER HINCE, Queen’s roadie and photographer during their glory days, talks RC through some of the classic photos in his archive. Interview by Tim Jones. Peter Hince’s Queen: The Unseen Archive photo exhibition is at the Proud Central Gallery on London’s John Adam Street from 30 July to 13 September. “It’ll be about 50-55 photos, 20 colour and 35 black and white. 90% …

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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

JACKIE MCAULEY - Jackie McAuley

Bigger than the sum of folk/ rock/blues/psych/country… Every pop critic who’s ever reviewed this album seems to have complained that it’s difficult to pigeonhole – even to describe. Poor darlings: being made to think and react by the second-greatest singersongwriter to crop up in Them Mk I. Poor music fans: forced to take in the sweep of complementary …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 365

JUST DUSTY - Just Dusty: The Real Dusty Springfield

The gospel behind the greasepaint The real Dusty Springfield was a “glorious fake”, famous for her beehive wigs, heavy makeup and mischief – and a million miles from her humble beginnings as plain, straightlaced Catholic Mary O’Neill. Strictly anti-apartheid, she was an early supporter of the Motown sound and campaigned to give black soul singers a platform in the UK, …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 365

Lowdown: The Story Of Wire by Paul Lester

Angular, taut headache? The story of post-punk’s greatest art-loving sons, Wire, is not especially interesting. In fact, most of what’s revealed in this first major-scale biography is the pretty run-of-the-mill “four guys get together and rehearse” type stuff. They don’t really drink or take drugs, the music starts off average and gets better …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 365

CHILDLINE ROCKZ - London Greenwich IndigO2 (1st June, 2009)

View: stage-left, mid-tier ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris introduced the instant-CDed gig, kicked off in acoustic duo fashion by The Pretty Things, before Sons Of Albion delivered three Chilis-meet- Reef numbers. Uriah Heep hit the stage with apt new cut, Overload, complemented by three classics, including the stomping Gypsy Queen and uptempo Easy Living. Thunder had the less than sell-out …

LIVE REVIEW From Issue 365