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SIXTH BEATLES AND OTHER TALESHave we heard it all now? What is worth repeating about the Fab Four? Patrick Humphries knows, and he pinpoints the over looked people who were crucial to the band, and recalls meeting members of this little-known quartet from Merseyside. Then turn the pages for Please Please Me decoded, and a review of recent Beatle books. . . It is said that there is a new book on The Beatles … FEATURED ARTICLE From Issue 401 |
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Purple PhaseDeep Purple’s longest-serving axeman, Steve Morse, and former frontman, Joe Lynn Turner, both have fingers in supergroup pies, and not for the first time, as Tim Jones points out While he learned his chops with 70s fusioners Dixie Dregs and honed AOR sensibilities in 80s Kansas (notably on Power), all-American plank-spanker Steve Morse has surpassed Deep Purple talisman Ritchie … ARTICLE From Issue 401 |
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THE HOUSE OF FUN NEVER CLOSESSka made their name , and Madness remain associated with it. But how did it happen – and was Jamaican music any more of an influence on the band than anything else? Chrissy Boy Foreman and Lee Thompson talk about ska, 2-Tone and, er, Hawkwind, to Ian McCann It’s so ridiculous, it’s almost funny. Despite all the other stuff they’ve done, look on the internet and … ARTICLE From Issue 401 |
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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
FISH - Internal Exile
1991 outing from the erstwhile Marillion man While Fish left Marillion and continued where he’d left off with the classic concept set, Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors, subsequent outings mixed elements of genius with an eclecticism that held them back from that level of achievement. Internal Exile’s opening Shadowplay is a typically inspired, poetic rumination …
ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 401
ALTER BRIDGE - Live At Wembley
Rawk at its slickest Documentary makers have to stop randomly asking fans in stadium parking lots what they think of the band they’re queuing up to see. No one cares about their poxy, everyday opinions, and it just reminds us all what a bunch of sheep we are. That bugbear aside, Alter Bridge’s triumphant live souvenir of a Wembley Arena show last year is a pretty …
DVD REVIEW From Issue 401
GHOSTS BEHIND THE SUN: SPLENDOR, ENIGMA & DEATH (MONDO MEMPHIS, VOLUME ONE) by Tav Falco
All the way Memphis masterpiece After over 30 years of mating rock’n’roll’s primal catharsis with enigmatic art-tuned visions as the Panther Burns, a sizzling book debut might be expected from Falco. But, in recounting the history of his beloved Memphis through landmark events, musical peaks and savage criminal lows, while interweaving his own autobiography via his Eugene …
BOOK REVIEW From Issue 401
JUDIE TZUKE - London Islington Union Chapel (23rd February, 2012)
View: right pew, middle Taking to the stage with her four-piece and daughter Bailey on backing vocals, you’d never think Judie had a bout of flu, immediately getting into her vocal stride for an 18-song, 90-minute showcasing of her impressive new One Tree Less, as well as amiable ambles down past pathways. Enjoy The Ride got the ball rolling in beauteous balladic fashion, …
ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 401
