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Maiden frontman steps out of the cockpit of downs of the vinyl pressing industry Sun Ra are unboxed and assessed
modern hard rock to take tea and cake with RC 20 THE VINYLIST Increasingly pricey goings 100 NEW ALBUMS Michael Head & The
54 KAREN CARPENTER In 1979, the on in the world of large-format music discs Elastic Band head our line-up of new
voice of the Carpenters went into the studio releases, while Fat White Family and Beth
to record her first solo LP. Why didn’t it see COLLECTING Gibbons also feature prominently
the light of day during her lifetime? 22 RC INVESTIGATES Weeding out the 106 BOOKS Gered Mankowitz’s Stones book
58 EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN Forty truth about artists’ cannabis sidelines reviewed, plusss Amy Winehouse biopic
years ago, they were at the height of their 24 THE COLLECTOR Icelandic songwriter viewed
notoriety after one of rock’s most audacious Sunna Margret exposes her shelves 120 LIVES Shows by 10cc, Ash, Judas Priest
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founding frontman Blixa Bargeld explains about Bowie’s US 70s output
64 BANANARAMA Another act who were 32 DIGGIN’ FOR GOLD Heard of the READER SERVICES
spattered across 1984 like a spilt bottle of Four King Cousins? You have now... 108 STOCKISTS Includes Shop Of The Month
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much-cherished as a British pop institution, we Karl Wallinger are among those remembered 126 COMPETITIONS & CROSSWORD
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invite them to look back in languour
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80 FORMAT WARS It was the year the CD
began to take the format fight to its black 42 DAVID QUANTICK The chequered 128 ENGINE ROOM Sandy Posey
plastic foe. Which side were you on? history of the rock’n’roll comeback 129 BIRTH! SCHOOL! WORK! DEATH!
86 BEST OF 1984 We list our entirely 44 TALKING HEADS Isobel Campbell and Drummer extraordinaire Chester Thompson’s
subjective but indisputable shortlist of the 50 Sam Beam are among those interrogated life-defining records
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STEVEN WILSON
PAUL LESTER FGTH Two Tribes CHARLES DONOVAN Laura Nyro Mother’s
TIM JONES Queen Radio Ga Ga Spiritual

VAL CUTTS Prince When Doves Cry BILL EDWARDS Hüsker Dü Something I
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T H E R AV E N T H AT R E F U S E D T O S I N G PETER BARRY Deniece Williams
Let’s Hear It For The Boy STEVE BURNISTON Joe Jackson You Can’t Get
What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
and other stories JOHNNY SHARP Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy
DARYL EASLEA Julia & Company Breakin’
NIALL DOHERTY The Smiths How Soon is Now Down (Sugar Samba)

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member of the orchestra had a son at home called
Declan MacManus.
Mark C Smith, email

H
ow good a year for music was 1984? So good that, for this issue’s
1984 Revisited special feature, we left out ABC’s (How To Be A) BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR
Millionaire and Scritti Politti’s Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) Shame on you, Bob Stanley, for pointing out in
your column how underrated the Dutch group
singles and Soft Cell’s This Last Night In Sodom album – and The
Shocking Blue are. You failed to mention one of
Limit’s Say Yeah and 23 Skidoo’s Coup, and Hurt Me Deep Inside by
their best tracks, The Butterfly And I, from the At
Cook Da Books, and tons of others that only occurred after we’d gone to press – from our
Home album. I love reading your musical insights
annotated countdown of The Best Records Of 1984, and it was still an amazing list. every month, but this shocking omission was
In 1984, Pet Shop Boys – interviewed about their 40-year career by Pete Paphides this a mistake. But I forgive you! Readers, Google the
month – weren’t yet one of the artists that I collected, mainly because they only had one track, then you’ll see where I’m coming from. I look
single out. But it wasn’t long before they joined that select pantheon, along with New Order, forward to your next column, Bob, and keep up the
Madonna, The Smiths and Prefab Sprout. These were the people who I had to own everything good work.
by, on 7” and 12”, even if I never quite succumbed to the lure of formats and regional/global Nigel Bayliss, Powys
iterations. No, I just needed to hear all their songs. This was an affliction that continued even
after I became a full-time professional music writer and got sent everything I wanted, gratis, LEIGH-ON-SEA FOR MILES
with brilliant B-sides on offer on singles from the likes of Blur, Pulp, Mansun and Suede. I was interested in your article on the 1971 folk
The ZTT label really fanned the flames of my febrile collecting: in 1984-5, I accrued so compilation, Folk Upstairs, which featured Kitty
many Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Art Of Noise, Propaganda, Andrew Poppy, Grace Jones Theobald [Diggin’ For Gold, RC 556]. As you say,
and Anne Pigalle picture discs, cassettes, and 7”s and 12”s that, a couple of decades the album originated from the Leigh-on-Sea area,
later, ZTT themselves would ask to borrow my collection to photograph for a CD/DVD reissue and I had the pleasure of hearing Kitty perform at
project booklet. ZTT were also my way into music journalism: in September 1983, I saw the 2014 and 2015 Leigh Folk Festivals. She was
an advert for Art Of Noise’s Into Battle EP on the back cover of Blitz magazine. Deliriously still a very fine singer 40 years later.
intrigued, it prompted me to go on a pilgrimage (from central London) to the blue building Clive Jones, email
in Basing Street, Ladbroke Grove, where, awestruck (me, not him), I met ZTT hype man,
Paul Morley. A few weeks later, I had a copy of the astonishing Into Battle featuring
FEMALE INTUITION
Re: For The Record, RC 556.
Moments In Love and was moved to pen a hymn of praise to Morley, who used a line from
What I mean by ‘progressive’ is exactly as billed in
my letter in the “famous” (in my circles) music press ad of the rose across the Thames the latest edition of the mag. I’m not particularly
that accompanied the Into Battle 12”: “It’s made me want to buy records again!” Within keen on what came out of the old ‘swirl’ Vertigo
a couple of years I was writing for Melody Maker. And unlike Morley’s old NME pal, Danny label between 1970 and 1972. I’d rather have
Baker, I still haven’t quite lost the urge to splurge. features on the pure pop labels of the 70s and the
See you next month, records that featured more prominently in girls’
record collections than in those of other men
and boys. Record collecting in the UK is not just
Paul Lester a hobby for the boys, and neither is pop/rock music
in general.
Robert Haynes, email
Thanks, Julia, on behalf of the F Mac bookazine Not sure what you’re on about here, Robert, but
editor, Joel McIver. A reminder that we publish we had plenty of non-progressive articles in the
a bookazine most months and currently offer last issue, from Say She She to Elbow, though not
Fleetwood Mac and Eagles, with Bruce Springsteen sure if they’d qualify any more as “female-friendly”
and The Beach Boys specials to come. PL than, say, the features on Jesus & Mary Chain and
60s blues. PL
FREAK POWER
Thank you, RC. ‘Freak Scene’ [RC 556] sparked WARP OF PURE FAN
memories of the first real band that I ever saw. It’s Words fail me again – chuffed to bits. Your latest
1970, I’m 15, at boarding school in Hertfordshire. issue’s shaping up nicely. At a glance, RC 556
We are a little in awe of some sixth formers who confirmed praiseworthy discussion on a variety of
went to London the year before and saw The Rolling interesting topics, notably Tim Jones’ vinyl feature
Stones in Hyde Park. Somehow, they have managed (‘Deceptive Bends’) proving informative on all things
to book The Edgar Broughton Band for the end of warped. It reminded me of 1980’s Hammersmith Our
summer-term dance. Price Records, whereupon, returning a wavy pressing,
BOOKAZINE SPIRIT So, there they are in the assembly hall, not an they begrudgingly checked it on the counter-top
Credit where it’s due. I’m not a regular magazine LP on a small record-player, not a picture in Melody turntable to verify my outrageous faulty insinuation.
purchaser, but I am a Fleetwood Mac superfan, so Maker, but actual human beings with mounds of To my relief, as queuing customers looked on, the
I obviously couldn’t wait to get my hands on your humming equipment. The noise! The chanting! The arm jumped up and down like a fiddler’s elbow.
double issue mag. hair! And rumours that Edgar has shagged a sixth Reluctantly, they did substitute the offending
I loved it! form girl backstage! warped pressing.
I read it cover to cover from both sides and In the aftermath, the headmaster has his own Even better, deeper into your issue were
thoroughly enjoyed the journey through the last interpretation of Out Demons Out and makes sure deserving pages on trio, Say She She, whose Silver is
six decades reading about the origins of the we are back to a traditional dance band the next such a great album, readers. There were also positive
soundtrack of my life. year. We are not impressed, and (sorry, Joe) wittily reissue words on Nico. I had a friend, Syd, who in
Julia Bennet, email rename them Dead Loss & His All-castrations. We turn had a friend, Morris Gould (now ‘Master’ DJ),

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and fell into a downward spiral of booze, guns, and
I Was There cocaine. In January 1976, he pointed his loaded THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
A reader’s recollection of Winchester rifle at the LAPD, urging them to shoot him
a key music event –– a case of “suicide by cop”. He wrote out his Will the Pete Paphides has been
night before. writing about music for
three decades or more. This
This month: THERE COMES A TIME month, he contributes the
Steve Harley & Great to read the Engine Room piece on Paul cover story interview with Pet
Cockney Rebel, Samwell-Smith [RC 556], surely one of the UK’s finest Shop Boys (p68). His book,
Bradford Queen’s producers. However, I was disappointed that there Broken Greek: A Story Of Chip Shops And Pop
Hall, Friday 1 was no mention of his production work on Martin Songs, is published by Quercus.
May 1992 Stephenson & The Daintees’ Gladsome, Humour And
Blue, one of the most underrated albums of the 80s. Matthew Quinlan is a
After a polite reception In fact, an article on Martin and the band generally is British journalist and author
for the young support band from Germany from considerably overdue. based in Seattle. He writes
a small audience, the hall filled rapidly for Steve Rich Cundill, email on music, sound, and
Harley’s entrance. They cheered as his band first Good shout, Rich. Know of anyone who might write technology. This month, he
appeared, and then roared when Harley himself it? PL recalls the format wars of
stepped onto the stage. I remember the opener 1984 (p80). His book on the
as Sweet Dreams/Psychomodo, played faster LIVING FOR COLOUR story of sound will be published in 2025.
and with much more of a rock rhythm than the I haven’t written to you before, but as a longstanding
recorded version. record (and occasional CD) enthusiast/hobbyist/ For her book, Lead Sister,
From my gallery view, it was almost as collector, as well as an avid reader of RC, I thought I’d Lucy O’Brien tracked down
entertaining watching the crowd as the band. At write to you. friends, lovers and musicians
stage-left in the audience, I saw two characters I’ve been collecting records for – ahem! – decades, to reframe the story of
appearing to argue, which then developed into and something I have never done in the art of buying Karen Carpenter (p54) and
pushing each other around, one wagging his records happened last week, so I thought I’d share. her pioneering legacy. Lucy’s
finger at the other as he moved away. During I’ve been helping a colleague from work, Paul, books include in-depth
Sebastian, I spotted a fan in deep concentration, to get some records with interesting sleeves for biographies of Dusty Springfield and Madonna,
mouthing the lyrics and jabbing his finger stage- a section of his lounge wall. You know how it is: water and She Bop, The Definitive History Of Women
wards in time to the music. damage, rebuilt lounge, wants to add a bit of a feature In Popular Music.
Then, above us in the gallery, a light exploded. wall near where the records and stereo are, why not
I leapt out of my seat (!) and the performance some arty 7” single covers? We’ve all been there. So, It’s 25 years since Joel
was halted for a few minutes. A young lady seized having helped secure some with modern art covers McIver (Bruce Dickinson
the opportunity to climb onstage and announce in to his taste (Stiff Little Fingers’ At The Edge and New interview, p48, and Robin
the nearest microphone, “Marc Bolan is great!” Order’s Fine Time, among them), I had suggested we Guthrie chat, p46) began
Steve Harley, head down, just smiled and moved both go to a record fair to see if there were sleeves he a six-year stint on RC’s staff
back as she quickly returned to the crowd. could find himself (while I could peruse various stalls in 1999. He’s done other
The sound mix was very good, and Steve and myself – obviously). So, we decided on a Friday, when things since then, like writing 35 books, but
his young band played this best-of Cockney Rebel the London Spitalfields market was on, and decided he’s never forgotten the illicit thrill of compiling
performance with great energy, but with subtlety to use our lunch hour to go to find vinyl wall art (and a discography on a tight deadline.
when needed. They seemed to be enjoying it as records for me).
much as the crowd. For me, it was the first and Arriving at the market, we quickly found a bargain
best performance of all my many Cockney Rebel box of 90s indie singles. I hadn’t heard of the majority ones if it was just the colour involved.
gig attendances. of the artists, and I expect many had only ever Before long, we had collected two orange singles,
This review of the late, great Steve Harley was released one single. Some of the sleeves were good, one opaque, the other clear. A purple one was found
written before his recent untimely death, but the though, and within a few minutes, Paul had a small next. We had real problems locating a green one.
writer’s name was left off. Was it you, reader? PL pile. He then noted that some records were coloured I didn’t think green was rare, particularly, but we just
vinyl and found this interesting. couldn’t locate one. We all but decided to give up
Paul is not a newbie to vinyl, but I gather his on it, but on the way out, we checked the first stall,
who supposedly hung out with her in the late 70s. collection was primarily album- and 12”-based and just in case, and there was a green one that we had
I’d already bought Joel Selvin’s hardback look at pretty bereft of coloured editions. He had avoided the missed. Just the one! Paul was amazingly happy, and
the troubled life of Dominos drummer, Jim Gordon, so recent trend to release variant editions on coloured the dealer was a bit surprised and didn’t really know
Michael Heatley’s 4-star review has spurred me on to vinyl, metal, splatter, zoetrope, and whatever you call what was going on.
finish it pronto. with the liquid in the middle. But we paid and left, and now my colleague has
Simon Mullins, email After a couple more stalls, Paul had decided his records that match the colours of the rainbow. I don’t
wall was going to be an “Art Installation”. I’m sure you think that he has had time to start the installation yet,
VARY, VARY, QUITE CONTRARY can tell where this is going… but he had decided the but I’m interested to see what it comes out like.
A lapsed reader, I was initially attracted by the ‘Fabs installation was going to be of different coloured vinyl The next day, I went to a local recycle and reuse
Go Global’ article [RC 555], but was pleased to see 7”s. He had, by then, red, yellow, blue (and black) centre to make a donation, only to find that it had
your open-door policy is as wide as ever. In what coloured records. He asked whether I thought it would several boxes of records. The vast majority were the
other publication could we turn the page from an be possible to collect all the colours of a rainbow? ones you find in charity shops that don’t ever sell, but
article on X-Ray Spex and come face to face with I didn’t see why not. That meant finding orange, I did find one or two to buy. It happens. When it came
Anthony Newley? Brilliant stuff. green and purple. So, with my apologies to vinyl to pay, I was surprised to find that I had to pop them
Simon Bullivant, London N12 purists, we then started to search all the stalls for the on scales and pay by weight! Never done that with
remaining colours. I didn’t want Paul to buy expensive records before, either.
MAL-FEASANCE or collectable records, only low grade or unwanted Nick Davey, email
I’m a big fan and admirer of Record Collector. Issue
556 just came through the door. In the book review
of Kenneth Womack’s biography of Mal Evans there is NEXT MONTH
a total howler. The reviewer (Michael Heatley) writes
about Evans: “Before he took his life in 1976…”
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to strength.
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explanation. In a tragic 70s story, he moved to LA

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HEARD IT THROUGH THE

GRAPEVINE
News & views from the collecting world
Taylor Swift drives
the vinyl revival with
eight Top 40 LPs in
2023

Tayflation!
The vinyl resurgence, fuelled by Taylor Swift, is officially recognised
by the UK government. In all but name, it’s the ReTaylor Price Index!

O
n 11 March, the UK Office Of National Statistics announced Lisa Birkbeck told RC that, “recording media is one of the most under-
that, of 16 new items added to its list of 744 that it uses to represented areas of the basket, and vinyl has been added to reflect
calculate the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and Retail Prices a resurgence in the popularity of vinyl music”. The ONS Deputy Director, Matt
Index (RPI) monthly inflation rates, LPs are included for the first Corder, added that “our inflation basket of goods offers a fascinating snapshot
time since 1992. They join online-retailed CDs, and are a fresh of consumer spending, and it often reflects the adoption of new technology, but
addition alongside USB sticks and SD cards. Their inclusion the return of vinyl records shows how cultural revivals can affect our spending”.
reflects the year-on-year growth and nationwide popularity of physical formats, They could have added that certain zeitgeist artistes are vinyl champions, not
spearheaded by vinyl. The ONS outlines that “the ‘shopping baskets’ of items least chart-dominatrix Taylor Swift. ‘The Taylor Effect’ in the UK over the last 12
used in compiling the various measures of consumer price inflation are reviewed months took the shape of her No 1 1989 (Taylor’s Version), the vinyl edition of
annually. The items in the baskets change so that the measures are up to the album notching up 84,700 copy sales. She had another seven albums in

LPs are included in the inflation

date and representative of consumer spending patterns” in the year to each
February. They represent “a sample of specific goods and services that gives
a reliable measure of price movements for a range of similar items. Several
factors are considered when choosing representative items, including ease of
finding and pricing the product, availability throughout the year, amount spent rates for the first time since 1992
on a particular item or group of items, variability of prices within a class, and
an analysis of the balance across the basket. Analysis of the broad balance the UK Top 40 best-selling LPs of 2023, while, in February, she also surpassed
of representative items across the Consumer Prices Index, including owner The Beatles as the artiste with the greatest number of weeks on the US Top 10
occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH), highlighted a need to improve coverage across Albums chart (384, and counting). The ONS’ press release summarised that
a range of categories, including recording media. Vinyl records have been added there’s a “record revival that’s cooking up a storm – vinyl music and air fryers
back into the basket for the first time in over 30 years, reflecting a resurgence in spin their way into the basket of goods,” firmly placing new LPs in the bracket of
popularity” that saw 6.1 million new LPs sold in 2023. on-trend items that are a must-have for knowing consumers.

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Taylor’s Top 40 LPs of 2023 Most popular artistes

1 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on the US Top 10
4 Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Albums chart [since 1963]
8 Midnights 1 Taylor Swift (384 weeks)
20 Lover 2 The Beatles (382)
21 Folklore 3 The Rolling Stones (309)
27 Reputation 4 Barbra Streisand (277)
37 Evermore =6 Drake, Mariah Carey (233)
38 Folklore – The Long Pond See billboard.com.
Studio Sessions

Taylor Swift’s latest (above), The Tortured Poets

Department, white 2LP, on Republic, 19 April

Above: Taylor Swift’s coloured variants of

Taylor v The Fab Four: the girl’s a winner!
her UK No 1 LP, 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

Swiftie justice
On 4 March, the High Court in Dublin, Ireland, ruled that quick succession, while it had invested in a new Master Plating
the country’s only vinyl pressing plant, Dublin Vinyl, of Facility in 2021-22. By then, it was operating at a loss, and staff
Glasnevin, Dublin 4, was “clearly insolvent” and would have numbers were reduced to 26. Lay-offs look set to follow after
to go into provisional liquidation until a further hearing in April. the plant fulfils orders for E500,000 worth of albums, which
Founded by Pressing Matters Ltd in 2016 as a four-man the Court was told include LPs for “Taylor Swift, whose fans
operation with two machines, it expanded in 2019 to offer we would not want to disappoint”.
direct-to-fan releases and also launched the Loves Vinyl
subscription service with a limited-run LP/EP box set. It grew to See ons.gov.uk, officialcharts.com, courts.ie. Are you
40-plus staff and had 12 production lines shipping up to a Swiftie collector/completist? Let us know your experience
500,000 units per month. However, the impact of Brexit, COVID of collecting her releases on various formats, and of any
and energy costs following the Ukraine war hit the company in difficulty due to demand, via [email protected].

Dublin Vinyl, not

letting Taylor down

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The Italian press Acoustic+

Peter, Paul & Mary/Moving, three
New vinyl pressing plant
bonuses, Hoo Doo, 19 April. ■ We Still
manufacturer opens its doors in Italy Can’t Say Goodbye: A Musicians Tribute
On 6 March, Metal 2000 announced its Futura To Chet Atkins, 2LP, coloured 2LP/DVD,
vinyl pressing production plant in Lombardy. The 180g 2LP/DVD, with Vince Gill, Eric
RAV ITALY 22 Hydraulic plant can produce up to Clapton, Ricky Skaggs, James Taylor,
three vinyl discs per minute, thanks to its Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss, Tommy
simple disc extraction and electronic Emmanuel, Jerry Douglas, DVD with
processing. Its staff boast 30-plus years’ making-of, Morning Star, 19 April.
experience in manufacturing injection and ■ Dolly Parton/Rachel Parton George
extrusion presses for the plastics sector and, Good Lookin’ Cookin’ book, Ten Speed,
following in-depth study of vinyl manufacturing, 17 September. ■ Emily Barker Fragile As
started work on their plant in 2021. Metal Humans CD, LP, magenta LP, box set with
2000 developed, designed and manufactured it magenta LP, book, print, signed photo,
at its technical office, comprising 20-plus Every One Sang, 3 May. ■ Greg Brown
electronic/engineers, mechanics, designers and Ring Around The Moon book, Ramshackle
programmers. The Futura equipment is simple Press, 30 April. Due: April (19) Barbara
to install and can change vinyl colours extremely Mandrell Precious Moments, Gaither
quickly, utilising simplified, regularised June (21) Linda Thompson Proxy
moulding, and a compact monobloc engine Music, StorySound.
structure. With a three-year warranty and
production time of around five months, Metal
2000 had 30 pre-orders for plant before
Blues
launch, and manager, Elisabeth Nosel, said: Due: April (19) Roy Brown Rocks, Bear
“This has been in the works for a long time, with Family (26) Paul Butterfield Blues Band
years of research and experimentation to create Keep On Moving, Music On CD, Charley
a best-of-breed vinyl record press. Demand is Patton The Rough Guide To The Blues,
outstripping supply in pressing plants, but with World Music Network May (24) Chris
Futura, we’re aiming to alleviate some of that Farlowe Stormy Monday 3CD, Strawberry.
pressure, by delivering to the market a machine
that is not only fast, but also produces high-
quality records, so that the end users can enjoy
Biz
their music as it should sound on vinyl.” In February, Discogs.com announced that
it has 750 million items in its Collection
Enquiries to [email protected]. Tool database. ■ In March, the UK
Metal 2000’s Future vinyl pressing plant Entertainment Retailers’ Association
reported that the number of registered
independent record shops had grown from
HELLO IT’S ME 339 in 2014 to 461, making up 23% of
the total number of music outlets. This
I decided I was going to be a successful picture book compares to 3% a decade ago, with
Tim Harrington author, and live a whimsical, creative life, where I’d get
paid to stay childlike forever. I’ve spent most of
a drop in the number of all music outlets
from its peak of 15,364 in 2016, to
Les Savy Fav singer on their my life indulging a Peter Pan fantasy. I wrote two 1,975, due to the withdrawal of
first studio set in 14 years cute as fuck children’s books, then I didn’t get supermarkets and chains from bricks-and-
another contract. “Once upon a time, there was mortar music retailing. ■ In March, Foyles
How come you’re back now? a guy who was totally broke and lived in the attic book store, Charing Cross Road, London,
We generally play when the opportunity of his home, like a lunatic, while his wife and announced that, in addition to selling
seems fun and it makes sense with our kids looked up the stairs and wondered what classical and jazz CDs and vinyl via Ray’s
offstage lives. What got the writing started was going on?” My sense of self was tied up in Jazz, it now sells new and used pop and
was, a couple of years ago, we were an addiction to chaotic messes and disdain rock vinyl. ■ On 3 March, four people were
invited to play Primavera Festival for ‘normal’ life, and that smashed into the arrested for allegedly planning a terrorist
in Barcelona. Harrison [Haynes] wasn’t people that I loved. Figuring out how to square attack on Brussels Botanique venue
able to make it, so we asked Thursday’s those things was rough. Harrison and Andrew in Belgium.
Tucker Rule to sit in. It meant a lot more rehearsals [Resuland] got graduate degrees, and Syd and Seth
than normal, and that got the juices flowing. A few
months later, Syd [Butler] started going on about
[Jabour] played on TV for Late Night With Seth Meyers.
What’s been the standout moment?
Hip-Hop/Dance
writing new stuff. Getting help. My wife, looking at her basket-case The Roots’ Questlove Hip Hop Is History
Tell us about your new album. husband having a scary nervous breakdown, was like, book, AUWA, 11 June. ■ The Ice Cold: An
It’s our most cathartic and personal. I’d gone through “You should go to a shrink.” Wow, I’m glad I did. It Exhibition Of Hip-Hop Jewelry, with items
dark, difficult times, and when we were writing, turns out that I’m bi-polar, which explains 30 years of from Slick Rick, The Notorious BIG,
I struggled to find a way to process that in a way weird, amazing, horrifying behaviour. I got me the meds Eryka Badu, Nicki Minaj, ASAP Rocky,
that made sense. Part of what came of that was me that I needed to make “unpredictable artist” and “stable Tyler, The Creator, ASAP Ferg, Joey
personally bringing a stronger voice to the arranging adult” balance to make music. Badass, Roc-A-Fela, is at the American
and musical side. I took on a producer role and spent Who’s been the biggest inspiration? Museum Of Natural History, Central Park
a huge amount of time chopping up parts and sketching My wife. There’s a lot on the record about the dark West, New York, to 9 May.
things out. We recorded 90% in my apartment attic. It’s places we went through: conflicts, doubt, despair, faith,
like walking into my brain, and it gave me a stronger
vision for what it was going to be. Of course, I’m
hope, and joy. The first and last tracks are appropriately
bi-polar. Guzzle Blood is about hopelessness. World Got
Indie
a crackpot, so that vision is a bit raving lunatic. Still, Great is so optimistic it’s scary. Travis LA Times CD, LP, green, yellow LPs,
there’s a raving-lunatic cohesion that we’ve not had What do you put your longevity down to? Deluxe 2CD, 10 bonuses, BMG, 12 July.
in the past. We’re a band of fans. We don’t tour like a normal band ■ Noise For Now Vol 2, with exclusive cuts
Photo: (Tim Harrington) James@Prescription

Were there any amusing episodes and get invited to festivals. One of the first things that by Courtney Barnett, The War On
during its creation? we want to know is what other bands are playing, Drugs, David Byrne, DEVO, Keep Our
Frequently. We realised that these weren’t demos. They and if we’ll have time to see all the ones we like! Clinics, 21 June. Due: April (26)
were the tracks we wanted to put out, which was wildly What would a biopic tagline be? Catherine Graindorge Songs For The
liberating. We spent 10 months just playing, messing We Were There When The World Got Great! Dead, Glitterbeat May (3) Broadcast Spell
around, then I’d slice and dice. A super playful process, What’s next? Blanket, Warp (24) Gastr Del Sol We
where we tapped into a kind of curiosity that we had No idea, though I’ve gotta walk my dog. Have Dozens Of Titles, Crag City (31)
20 years ago. The Telescopes Radio Sessions (2016-
What happened during the interregnum? Les Savy Fav Oui, LSF CD, LP are on 2020), Tapete September (28)
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Epica, Cardi B, Hall Aflame, Zedd, The Dead Daisies, Dave Grohl’s DG-335 guitar is out via Epiphone; And The Abstract Truth, EJM May (3)
Selena Gomez, ex-Thin Lizzy’s John Sykes, ex-One Raphael Saadiq has a Telecaster guitar out via Fender; King Curtis Get Ready, Music On CD
Direction’s Zayn Malik, Ron Keel Band, Annie Lennox/ Jimmy Page’s 1969 EDS-1275 Doubleneck Collector’s (10) Brad Mehldau After Bach II, Apres
Wendy & Lisa, Glenn Hughes, Jet, Ex-Libris’ Dianne Edition guitar and Everly Brothers J-180 acoustic Faure CDs, Nonesuch.
Van Giersbergen, Pete Townshend, Snoop Dogg, guitar are out via Gibson.
Kelsea Ballerini, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Halsey, Metal
Kim Wilde, Lady Gaga, Jamiroquai, Mastodon, ACOUSTIC
Marty Wilde, Winger, ex-Fear Factory’s Burton C Bell, May (17) Winter Aid Pull The Sky Inside, co-producer Mob Rules Celebration Day – 30 Years
Maxïmo Park, Nina Nesbitt (on Apple Tree), Nightwish Larry Crane (The Decemberists), winteraid.com, Of 2CD, three unissued, SPV, 3 May.
(Nuclear Blast), Willow (Three Six Zero), Shelby Lynne Alessandro “Asso” Stefana, producer PJ Harvey, ■ Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson
(Monument), George Benson (Rhino); and reissues Ipecac (24) Kim Richey Every New Beginning, Skunkworks, Balls To Picasso remixes,
from Haddaway (on BMG), Engelbert Humperdinck, producer Doug Lancio (John Hiatt), Yep Roc. [TBC]. ■ Lamb Of God’s Mark Morton
plus best-of; and Uli Jon Roth’s In Search Of The Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir book,
Alpha Law book. Hachette, 25 June. ■ Darkthrone It
BLUES Beckons Us All LP, blue, grey, white,
CELLULOID HEROES May (31) Jesse Dayton The Hard Way Blues, clear, green LPs, CD, box set with CD,
Projects due include Alexis Spraic’s The World According producer Shooter Jennings, Hardcharger. cassette, prints, coloured LP, Peaceville,
To Allee Willis documentary film, with Cyndi Lauper, 26 April. ■ Voivod’s We Are Connected
Patti LaBelle and score composer, DEVO’s Mark INDIE documentary film has a kickstarter.com
Mothersbaugh, via Blackburn Pictures; Nadia Conners’ April (19) Local Natives But I’ll Wait For You, campaign to 27 April. ■ NO REMORSE:
The Uninvited film, scored by Jane’s Addiction’s co-producers John Congleton (St Vincent), Michael The Illustrated True Stories Of Lemmy
Eric Avery, via Foton Pictures; Rupert Sanders’ The Harris (Lana Del Rey), Loma Vista (26) Porij Teething, Kilmister And Motörhead book; Deluxe
Crow film, with FKA Twigs, soundtracked by Volker co-producer David Wrench (The xx), PIAS, Hovvdy, Edition outsize slipcased book, with
Bertelmann, in cinemas, 7 June; a biopic producer Andrew Sarlo (Bon Iver), Arts & three prints, white 2LP featuring
of Gloria Gaynor via Lifetime in 2025; The Warning Crafts (UK tour, 21-28 May). colleagues Phil Campbell, Mikkey
Abby Berendt Lavoi/Jeremey Lavoi’s muse a feed Dee, Slim Jim Phantom, plus Ozzy
Roots Of Fire documentary film METAL Osbourne, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich,
on cajun music, on Apple May (31) Priest Dark Pulse CD, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, Chrissie Hynde,
TV, Amazon Prime, LP, producer Simon Soderberg Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Jane’s
7 May; Static-X’s (ex-Ghost), Reigning Phoenix. Addiction’s Dave Navarro, Hawkwind’s
Evil Disco: The Rise, Fall, Michael Moorcock; Backstage Edition
And Regeneration Of ROCK adding 25-copy framed personal pass;
documentary film; The May (3) The Watchers All Access Edition with alternate five-
Beach Boys documentary Nyctophilia, producer copy framed personal pass, are due via
film, with Lindsey Max Norman (Ozzy Z2 Comics. ■ Black Sabbath Anno
Buckingham (Fleetwood Osbourne), Ripple, Domini 1989-95 4LP, with Headless
Mac), Janelle Monáe, Black Pyramid The Paths Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, Forbidden
Don Was, on Disney+, Of Time Are Vast, producer remix; 4CD with three bonuses, BMG,
24 May; a Ryan Coogler Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr), 31 May. ■ McCoy The Sound Of
Prince musical film, via Totem Cat (24) Abrams Blue City, Thunder 3CD, with McCoy, two
Universal; Celyn Jones’ The producer Kurt Ballou (Chelsea bonuses, Brainstorm, Live 1977, HNE,
Almond And The Seahorse Wolfe), bandcamp.com June 31 May. ■ Kreator Enemy Of God/
film, with Charlotte (28) The Warning Keep Me Hordes Of Chaos box, with two comics,
Gainsbourg, in cinemas, 10 Fed, co-producer Dan Lancaster mask, Enemy Of God coloured 2LP,
May; a Dua Lipa concert film. (Muse), LAVA. 2CD with 14 bonuses, Hordes Of Chaos
LP, 2CD with 12, Nuclear Blast, 24
May. ■ Lie Heavy Burn To The Moon,

Independent thought with Karl Agell (ex-Corrosion Of

Conformity), Heavy Psych Sounds, 19
April. ■ Insect Ark Raw Blood Singing
The UK Independent Label Market Indies in their tipis in
the Big Smoke CD, grey, splatter LPs, with Dana
returns to the capital Schechter (SWANS), Debemur Morti,
in May
Independent Label Market is at Coal 7 June. ■ Visions Of Atlantis Pirates II
Drops Yard, King’s Cross, London, on Armada CD, cassette; 2LP, coloured
11 May. Participants offering the likes 2LP, red 2LP/7”, each with bonus; 2CD
of signed merchandise, promos and with Orchestral; box set with CD, 7”,
rarities include !K7, 100%, 4AD, AD pendant, framed print, Napalm, 5 July.
93, Albert’s Favourites, Basin Rock, Due: May (10) Crownshift, Nuclear
BBE, Because, Be With, Big Dada, Blast TBC Tungsten The Grand Inferno,
Black Beacon Sound, Blitzcat, Reigning Phoenix.
Brainfeeder, Brownswood, Brighton
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Auction houses around the world
Gordan CD, LP, with Svetlana Spajic 180g LP; 5CD/BD with two books,
(Anthony & The Johnsons), Glitterbeat, 29 unissued alternate takes/mixes,
10 May. ■ Hannah Marcus The outtakes, home rehearsals, demos,
Hannah Marcus Years, 1993-2004 cuts from The Arnold Corns, BBC
DL, Bar-None, this month, followed by sessions, Boston Music Hall, October
new material record in May and an 1972, BD with unissued Waiting In
unissued collection by September. The Sky (Before The Starman Came
■ Laibach Opus Dei Expanded LP; To Earth), London, December 1971,
2CD with 19 bonuses (16 unissued), 5.1 mix, Parlophone, 14 June. ■
Mute, 10 May. ■ Marillion An Hour Neneh Cherry A Thousand Threads:
Before It’s Dark: Live In Port Zelande A Memoir book, Scribner, 8 October.
2023 2CD, 180g 2LP, DVD, BD, ■ Gina G Fresh purple LP; 2CD/DVD
earMUSIC, 21 June. ■ Radiohead’s with 20 bonuses (two unissued),
Colin Greenwood How To Disappear seven-track DVD (six promos), 90/9,
photobook, signed/slipcased 31 May. ■ Howard Jones Dream
photobook with booklet, John Murray, Into Action CD/BD, 5.1 mix, Human’s
15 October. ■ Methusaleh Matthew, Lib CD/BD, 5.1 mix, three bonuses,
Mark, Luke And John Expanded, Cherry Red, 31 May. ■ Barry Ryan
seven unissued, Grapefruit, 10 May. Rihanna’s gaff up for grabs, with a bit of change from $25 million The Albums 1969-79 5CD, nine
■ Squackett A Life Within A Day CD/ unissued, 7Ts, 24 May. ■ Paloma
BD, with 5.1 mix, Esoteric Antenna, A 5 March charity event via kerrytaylorauctions.com included Madonna Faith MILF (Motherhood, Identity,
31 May. ■ Carmen The Albums 1973- Evita dress, £40,000. ■ In March, The Chicks’ Natalie Maines’ 5,380 Love And F*ckery) book, Happy
75 3CD, with Fandangos In Space, feet2, five-bed, six-bath house, Brentwood, Los Angeles, with spa, pool, Place, 6 June. ■ Toyah Warrior Rock
Dancing On A Cold Wind, two bonuses, garage, was offered via Compass for $8.495 million. ■ In March, Extreme’s green 2LP; 3CD with 29 bonuses
The Gypsies, two, Edgar Broughton Nuno Bettencourt’s 5,500 feet2, five-bed, six-bath house, Beachwood (26 unissued), Cherry Red, 17 May.
Band Gone Blue 4CD, 32 unissued, Canyon, Los Angeles, with pool, sauna, spa, guesthouse studio, sold ■ Falco Junge Roemer cassette,
Esoteric, 31 May. ■ Yes Talk CD, via PLG Estates for $3.7 million. ■ In March, Johnny Cash’s former eight bonuses, 2LP, adding one,
white 2LP with bonus, Expanded 4CD, Dogwood Estate, including 4,300 feet2, two-bed, three-bath house, 20 2CD, adding another, Sony, 19 April.
with eight bonuses, unissued Live acres, was offered via Compass for $6.25 million. ■ On 12 March, My Due: April (26) George Harrison Let
Canandigua New York 19/09/1994 Morning Jacket offered guitars, pedal steel, pedals, amps, via reverb. It Roll, BMG May (11) Sananda
2CD, Spirit Of Unicorn, 24 May. com. ■ In March, Rihanna’s four-bed, five-bath apartment taking up a Maitreya The Pegasus Project:
■ Nektar Journey To The Other Side floor of The Century tower, Los Angeles, was offered via realtor.com for Pegasus And The Swan June (14)
2CD/BD, Dunellen Theatre, June $24.95 million, while Burt Bacharach’s 9,380 feet2, eight-bed, 10-bath Meghan Trainor Timeless, Epic
2023, Deko ,10 May. Due: April house, with library, spa, garden, pool/house, Pacific Palisades, California, TBC Camila Cabello CXOXO, [TBC].
(22) Greenslade At The BBC 2CD, was $16.995 million, and Meghan Trainor’s four-bed, three-bath North
Repertoire, Anton Barbeau An
Introduction To, Fruits De Mer May (3)
Hollywood farmhouse sold for $2.395 million. ■ A 14 April auction via
gottahaverockandroll.com included The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s launch
Post/Punk
ex-Yes’ Jon Anderson In The City Of party 1967 unissued 16mm film (estimate, $100,000), gold record SUM 41’s Deryck Whibley Walking
Angels, Floating World, Colosseum awards, George Harrison waistcoat, Paul McCartney waistcoat, guitars, Disaster book, Gallery Books, 8
Upon Tomorrow 2CD, Repertoire, unissued demo tape, Ringo Starr suit, drumhead, John Lennon Q&A October. Due: May (10) Angelic
TU-NER For Lovers, bandcamp.com tape ($100,000), Jim Morrison shirt, jacket ($200,000), Jimi Hendrix Upstarts Teenage Warning (17)
(17) Pink Floyd Animals 2018 Remix jackets, scarf, shirts, waistcoat, pedal, jewellery, microphone, water pipe, GBH The Complete Singles Collection
Dolby Atmos BD/postcard/sticker, Michael Jackson jackets, shirts, shoes, gloves, hats, trousers, Buddy 2CD (24) The Vibrators The Singles,
Warners (24) Bass Communion The Holly microphone, Elvis Presley guitar ($450,000), watch, jacket, 1976-2017 3CD, Captain Oi!.
Itself Of Itself, Fourth Dimension (31) jewellery, suit, boots, trousers, wine glasses, case, guitars from David
Anthony Phillips The Golden Hour,
Esoteric Antenna TBC Devin
Bowie, Van Halen, The Rolling Stones/gold record award/drumsticks,
Stevie Ray Vaughan/handwritten lyrics, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Robert
Rock
Townsend Powernerd, [TBC]. Plant, Aerosmith/jumpsuit, Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys, Pat Travers Live At The Bamboo
Tom Petty, Soundgarden, Billy Joel/unissued demo tapes, CSN, Yes, Room LP, CD/DVD with interview,
The Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, ZZ Top, Steve Miller, The Band, Cleopatra, 26 April. ■ Robin Trower
Lou Reed, Joe Walsh, Madonna, Metallica, Primus, Elvis Costello, Bridge Of Sighs 50th Anniversary 2LP
The Alarm, The Go-Go’s, The Doors’ Robby Krieger, Coldplay, Billy Ray with Live At The Record Plant
Cyrus, Journey’s Neal Schon, Foreigner’s Lou Gramm, Winger, Dan Sausalito 29 May 1974, 3CD/BD
Fogelberg, Steppenwolf, John Sebastian, Kenny Loggins, Crowded adding Dolby Atmos, unissued stereo
House, Little Feat, Natalie Merchant, Slash/gold record award, KISS/ mixes, eight bonuses including
drumheads, jumpsuit, jacket, Jeff Beck, Ed Sheeran/shirt, Eric Clapton, unissued outtakes, Chrysalis, 17
Robin Trower, Pete Townshend, Lynyrd Skynyrd, drumsticks from Led May. ■ Billy Idol Rebel Yell 40th
Zeppelin, Rush, Freddie Mercury tambourine, shorts, drumheads from Anniversary 2LP with eight bonuses,
Queen, Pete Best, Sly Stone jacket, handwritten lyrics from Tupac 2CD adding five, including unissued
Shakur, Drake, Greg Allman, Bob Dylan/harmonica, Counting Crows, out-/takes, remix, Universal, 26 April.
Bruce Springsteen, Prince/top, Bob Marley top, gold record awards from ■ Queen Rock Montreal 2CD, 3LP;
Frank Sinatra, ELO, War, Paula Anka, The Emotions, Jean Knight, 2BD with 5.1, Dolby Atmos, 4K
dresses from Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga/jacket/corset, Avril Lavigne, Katy mixes, plus Live Aid/rehearsal
Perry, Gwen Stefani, Whitney Houston, Joni Mitchell, Courtney Love, footage, EMI, 10 May. ■ The
Billie Eilish T-shirt, jackets from Celine Dion, tops from Nicki Minaj, Hollywood Stars Starstruck CD,
Miley Cyrus/hoodie, Pearl Jam, Lizzo tracksuit, Rihanna corset, Beyonce, Rum Bar, 14 June, LP, Sioux,
Cher bodysuits, Britney Spears outfit, Kurt Cobain hats, Amy Winehouse 1 September. ■ T.Rex Zinc Alloy
trousers, Elton John unissued demo acetate, jacket, T-shirts, hat, George 2CD, 24 bonuses, Edsel, 21 June.
Michael sweatshirt, Axl Rose boxing glove, James Brown jacket, shirt, ■ Lindisfarne Brand New Day 3CD,
Janis Joplin suit, hat, top, shoes, Grace Slick waistcoat, poncho, trousers, 15 unissued, Lemon, 24 May. ■
Meat Loaf shirts, Justin Timberlake jacket, Karen Carpenter suit, Kid SNAFU You Know It Ain’t Easy 4CD,
Rock top, Hilary Duff jacket. ■ A 30 March auction via GWS, Agoura, with SNAFU, four bonuses, Situation
California, included Elvis Presley suit, jewellery, gold record award, chairs, Normal, five, All Funked Up, three,
AC/DC drumhead, Michael Jackson glove, jacket, dresses from Whitney Live/BBC, Grapefruit, 31 May.
Houston, Amy Winehouse, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry/ ■ The Rascals It’s Wonderful 7CD,
top, guitars from The Cure, Waylon Jennings, Jeff Beck, Kurt Cobain, 14 unissued, Now Sounds, 31 May.
Willie Nelson, Backstreet Boys, John Lee Hooker, KISS, The Monkees, ■ The Alarm MUSIC TELEVISION
drumheads from Ringo Starr, Metallica, The Police, Green Day, Cher CD, LP are out via thealarm.com. ■
boots, Prince tambourine, Ed Sheeran jacket, Journey drum kit. ■ In The Tragically Hip This Is Our Life
Edgar Broughton: 4CD set due March, The Pattie Boyd Collection, including original artwork for Derek & hardback, Deluxe signed edition in
The Dominos’ Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (£1.976 million), and clamshell case, with five postcards,➤
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Altogether Now
Noteworthy guest-spots this month Rock cont’d
Adeem The Artist Anniversary, Thirty Tigers, 3 May: print, coloured 7” with one unissued,
Megan Coleman (Brandi Carlile). thetragicallyhipbook.com, 1 October.
Tenille Arts To Be Honest LP, Dreamcatcher, 3 May: Due: April (19) Willie Nile Live At
LeAnn Rimes, Maddie & Tae. Daryl’s House Club, River House,
Aiboforcen Between Noise And Silence 2CD with Stratovarius’ Lauri Porra Matter And
four bonuses, Alfa Matrix, 31 May: Patrick Codenys Time, Platoon (26) Ted Nugent’s
(Front 242). Amboy Dukes Tooth, Fang & Claw,
Ex-Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach The Child Within The Man Cleopatra; Earl Slick New Age Rage,
CD, 2LP, gold, clear 2LPs, Reigning Phoenix, 10 May: Slick May (31) Status Quo The Last
John 5 (Mötley Crüe), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Orianthi. Night Of The Electrics, earMUSIC.
Gabriel Birnbaum Patron Saint Of Tireless Losers, Western
Vinyl, 28 June: Will Graefe (Okkervil River).
Blunt Chunks The Butterfly Myth, Telephone Explosion, 19
Reggae/Soul+
April: Ed Squires (US Girls), Diego Gaeta (Andre 3000). Lettuce’s Nigel Hall/DJ Harrison
Zachary Cale Next Year’s Ghost, ORG, 24 May: Shahzad The Burning Bush: A Journey
Ismaily (Bob Dylan), Jeremy Gustin (Okkervil River). Through The Music Of Earth, Wind &
Imogen Clark The Art Of Getting Through CD, LP, Fire, Regime, 10 May. ■ Salsoul
imogenclark.mywaterfrontshow.com, 31 May: Orchestra It’s Good For The Soul
Gus Seyffert (Adele). 8CD, with The Salsoul Orchestra,
The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again CD, Seeyouspacecowboy: eight bonuses, Nice N Naasty,
2LP, yellow, green, brown, coloured 2LPs, YABB, 14 June: Spirited performance ’Lectric Lady, seven, Magic Journey,
Mike Mills (REM), James Mercer (The Shins). five, Cuchi-Cuchi, four, Up The
Dååth The Deceivers, Metal Blade, 3 May: Öyster Cult), Asdru Sierra (Ozomatli), Kim Yellow Brick Road, four, How Deep
Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy), Mark Holcomb (Periphery), Thayil (Soundgarden), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Is Your Love, Soul Music, 31 May.
Per Nilsson (Meshuggah). Guthrie Govan, Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats), ■ Harold Butler Gold Connection
The Doobie Brothers’ latest, [TBC]: Michael McDonald. Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa), Ben Weinman 2CD, with Arold Butler The Gold
Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards’ latest, [TBC]: (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Steve Bartek, John Avila Connection, 13 bonuses, Dobby
Ed Sheeran, RAYE. (Oingo Boingo), Warren Fitzgerald (The Vandals), Dobson Sweet Dreams, Richard
Rick Estrin & The Nightcats The Hits Keep Coming, Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad), Joe Satriani, Ace/Lloyd Charmers Supernatural
Alligator, 10 May: Charlie Musselwhite. Rufus Wainwright. Thing, Cherry Red, 17 May. ■
Flat Black’s latest, Fearless, [TBC]: Corey Taylor (Slipknot). Night Pleasure Hotel Portraits, Art Of Melody, 31 May: Taana Gardner When You Teach Me
Fire From The Gods Soul Revolution Deluxe – Michele Luppi (Whitesnake), Paolo Caridi (Whitesnake’s Expanded 2CD, three bonuses, Soul
The Collaborations, Better Noise, 31 May: Reb Beach), Gianluca Tagliavini, Luca Zabbini (PFM). Music, 17 May. Due: April (19)
Corey Glover (Living Colour). Jessica Pratt Here In The Pitch, Mexican Summer, 3 May: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
The Dave Foster Band Maybe They’ll Come For Us CD, LP, Mauro Refosco (David Byrne). A Pocketful Of Miracles/One Dozen
English Electric, 17 May: Steve Rothery (Marillion), Rainbow Kitten Surprise Love Hate Music Box, Elektra, Roses/Flying High Together/What
Leon Parr (Steve Rothery), Mark King (Level 42), 10 May: Kacey Musgraves. Love Has Joined Together 2CD,
Neil Fairclough (Queen), Carly Bryant (ex-Big Big Train). Reunion Island Night Words, Tall Corn Music, 4 June: Soulmusic, Sam Cooke Wonderful
Dana Gillespie First Love, CD, LP, red LP, Fretsore, 31 May: Josh McEntire (Tortoise). World, Hoo Doo, Nat ‘King’ Cole
Marc Almond. Sugaray Rayford Human Decency LP, Forty Below, 14 June: Cole Espanol, New Continent May
Goodnight, Texas Signals, 2 Cent Bank Check, 19 July: Rick Holmstrom, Saundra Williams (Mavis Staples), (17) Susie Vanner That Kind Of
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. Taras Prodaniuk (Lucinda Williams), Eamon Ryand Love, [TBC] (24) BT Express
Jo Harrap The Path Of A Tear, Lateralize, June: Anthony (Happy Mondays), Mark Pender (Bruce Springsteen), The Definitive Collection
Wilson (Diana Krall), Victor Indrizzo (Willie Nelson), Joe Sublett (BB King). 4CD, Robinsongs.
Jim Cox (Leonard Cohen). St Lundi The Island blue LP, sweatnoise.thrivecart.com,
Honesty Box, Partisan, 25 April: Florence Shaw
(Dry Cleaning).
20 September: Ollie Green (Ella Henderson),
Tom Fuller (Tom Walker), Jez Ashurt (Sam Ryder).
Soundtracks
Jeff Kollman 2023 AD, Deko, 17 May: Chad Smith Joana Serret Big Wave CD, LP, Great Canyon, 7 June: The Lord Worship: Bernard
(Red Hot Chili Peppers), Shane Gaalaas (MSG), Jimmy McKenzie Smith (St Vincent), Jesse Chandler Herrmann Tribute, with Sunn O)))’s
Johnson (Allan Holdsworth), Guy Allison (The Doobie (Mercury Rev). Greg Anderson, The Lord, 30 April.
Brothers), Ed Roth (The Doors’ Robby Krieger). Swamp Dogg Blackgrass, Oh Boy, 31 May: Vernon Reid ■ Back To Black: Songs From The
Scott Lavene Disneyland In Dagenham, Nothing Fancy, (Living Colour), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Jenny Lewis, Original Motion Picture 12-track CD,
10 May: Craig Finn Margo Price. LP, orange LP, including new cut by
(The Hold Steady). Slash Orgy Of The Damned CD, LP, Nick Cave, 26-track 2CD, 2LP,
Imogen meets
LionLimb Limbo, Bayonet, Gibson, 17 May: Demi Lovato, Island, 17 May. ■ Orchestra-backed
Adele, kinda
24 May: Angel Olson. Chris Stapleton, Beth Hart, Iggy film screenings at London Barbican
UFO’s Phil Mogg Moggs Pop, Paul Rodgers, Gary Clark include in April (16) Echo Rising
Motel, [TBC], 6 September: Jr, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, ZZ Stars: Nosferatu With Sebastian
ex-colleague Neil Carter. Top’s Billy F Gibbons, Aerosmith’s Heindl (25) Colin
Mandoki Soulmates Steven Tyler, The Black Crowes’ Stetson
A Memory Of The Future CD, Chris Robinson, Dorothy. Hereditary, May
2LP, InsideOut, 10 May: Ian Seeyouspacecowboy Coup De (26) Batman Live
Anderson (Jethro Tull), John Grace CD, red splatter, beige In Concert, June
Helliwell, Jesse Siebenberg, splatter LPs, Pure Noise, 19 April: (16) LSO On Film
Mark Hart (Supertramp), Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox). (22) Karl
Simon Phillips (ex-Toto), Alfie Templeman Radiosoul, Chess Bartos: The Amy tribute care
Nick Van Eede (Cutting Crew), Club, 7 June: Nile Rodgers. Cabinet Of Dr of Nick Cave
Tony Carey (Rainbow), Cory Valley Lodge Shadows In Paradise Caligari, July (4)
Henry (Snarky Puppy), Richard DL, Tee Pee, 19 April: Doug Eno documentary
Bona (ex-Pat Metheny), Randy Gillard (Guided By Voices). film. Due: May (31) Sherlock Holmes
Brecker, Al Di Meola, Mike Black Star Riders’ Ricky Warwick’s Original TV Soundtrack, Cherry Red.
Photo: (Imogen Clark) Michelle Grace Hunder

Stern, Till Bronner, Bill Evans. latest, [TBC]: Billy Duffy

Abbey Masonbrink Rising,
bandcamp.com, 17 May:
(The Cult).
Oliver Wakeman Anam Cara,
Vintage
Rob Pope (Spoon). Spirit Of Unicorn, 17 May: Hayley Due: April (19) Lillian Briggs Diddy
Bear McCreary The Singularity Griffiths (ex-Karnataka), Troy Boppers, Bear Family May (17) Max
CD, LP, Sparks & Shadows, 10 Donockley (Nightwish), Scott Bygraves Discolongamax, Stage Door.
May: Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Higham (Pendragon).
Corey Taylor (Slipknot), John Canning Yates The Quiet
Jens Kidman (Meshuggah), Portraits, Violette, 19 April: Andy
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Greener vinyl
German manufacturer produces first EcoRecord vinyl LP,
with UK plant-based records in the offing
We’ve featured eco-LPs made from recycled vinyl in RC in recent years but, in
March, Warners announced the first EcoRecord vinyl LP made from recyclable
polyethylene terephthalate (PET) rather than conventional polyvinyl chloride (PVC),
of which around 30,000 tons is used to make vinyl LPs each year. The chart-
topping eponymous debut of Liam Gallagher/John Squire is the first PET LP, care
of Germany’s Sonopress, which specialises in the manufacture of CDs and DVDs.
They claim that the environmental impact of producing PET LPs is 85% less than
that for PVC LPs, utilising technology normally associated with CDs, DVDs and BDs,
along with various digital media. The record-pressing injection moulding machines
were installed at the plant by the end of 2023, then specialist tools and other
equipment were trialled with it earlier this year, prior to PET LP production going
online. Gernot Wolf told RC that they turned round the order in four weeks,
which in these days of vinyl pressing delays shows that they were mad for it!
In addition, in March, PMC Speakers announced that it is investing in Evovinyl,
which makes a bioplastic alternative to PVC vinyl, made from sugar cane. The
manufacturer claims that EvoLPs can be produced using 15-30% less energy than
conventional records, and they can be pressed in any colour, with no loss of audio
quality, and boast the advantage that bioplastic naturally dissipates static, making
for dust-free discs. Other vinyl-makers may turn green with envy!
The EcoRecord plant, and Liam Gallagher & John
See sonopress.de, evolution-music.co.uk. Squire’s colourful first

Conference call Country to country

Vinyl-makers focus on the future US country music archive bolstered by British accession
In March, the US Vinyl Record Manufacturing The US Country Music Hall Of Fame & Museum, Rep John Lewis Way
Association announced a partnership with UK market South, Nashville, announced on 5 March that it had acquired the British
research company, Futuresource Consulting, for the Archive Of Country Music (BACM) in 2023. It comprises 50,000-plus audio
provision of data on quarterly, annual and regional vinyl recordings, videos, books, magazines, photos and other ephemera. It was
pressing volumes, and the number of active pressing relocated from Dover, Kent, where it was collated by the late Dave Barnes
plants and lines. The first joint report is presented at the over seven decades from 1951 and established as a charity archive in
Making Vinyl Conference at Hutton Hotel, West End 1987. It made the collection available
Avenue, Nashville, 3-5 June, before being circulated to to researchers, record labels, radio and
VRMA members at Christmas. The conference’s focus is TV, and students, and it also operated
on “the intricacies of understanding vinyl culture, its Nashville, centre of the as a label, reissuing rare country tracks
diverse scenes, and evolving consumer demands; vinyl universe this June on 300-plus CD compilations. The
fostering an environment of collaboration and shared archive features recordings by artistes
insights; and addressing the pressing environmental aspects affecting the industry. The call from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and
for sustainable manufacturing and distribution presents a unique challenge that requires Europe, and it bolsters the Museum’s
collective efforts and by coming together, we aim to explore sustainable solutions and own archive to 250,000-plus holdings.
foster a sense of responsibility within the industry”.
See countrymusichalloffame.org.
See makingvinyl.com.
One of the British Archive Of Country Music
records rehoused across the pond

Walking to the Big Easy

John Broven’s Walking To New Orleans history of New Orleans R&B celebrates its
50th anniversary this summer with a 65-track 2CD. Tony Burke asked him about them
What first attracted you to New Orleans R&B? so this features rarer, but great recordings, uncovered in the book, like Single
The first New Orleans R&B record that I heard was Fats Domino’s Blueberry Hill, Life by Billy Tate, Smiley’s Lewis’ Real Gone Lover, Little Liza Jane, by Huey
in 1956 (on London American). My father brought home some 78s to play on ‘Piano’ Smith & The Clowns, The Monkey by Dave Bartholomew, and Always
a new radiogram. Mike Leadbitter, a schoolfriend, and future editor of Blues A First Time, by Earl King. Rock’n’roll is represented by Jerry Byrne’s frantic
Unlimited, discovered Fats’ records had New Orleans origins. The UK releases Lights Out, Lenny Cappello’s Cotton Candy, and Frankie Ford’s What’s Goin’ On.
offer no clues, with their ‘Recorded by Imperial, Hollywood’ accreditation, There are Mardi Gras records by The Hawketts and Al Johnson, but I had to start
though other New Orleans R&B hit artists on London American include Clarence with Fats’ Walking To New Orleans.
‘Frogman’ Henry, Jessie Hill, Chris Kenner, Ernie K-Doe and Barbara George. New Orleans had some fantastic session musicians and bandleaders.
So, what made you decide to write the book? The two major studios in New Orleans in the peak R&B period were
I went to the US with Mike Leadbitter, and Robin run by the great engineer, Cosimo Matassa. Dave Bartholomew
Gosden of Flyright Records, in 1970. At the time, blues was the main producer in the 50s and he created the Fats Domino
and R&B research concentrated on Chicago and Delta sound. Dave’s band members provided the core of the session
blues, so New Orleans was wide open. A breakthrough musicians, including tenor sax, Lee Allen, and drummer, Earl
interview came in 1972, when Dr John championed Palmer, the “king of the backbeat”. At the turn of the 60s, younger
musicians like James Booker and Walter ‘Papoose’ producers, Harold Battiste, Allen Toussaint and Wardell Quezergue,
Nelson, rather than discuss his own career. My other took over, leading New Orleans into the soul era and beyond.
favourite interviewees were studio owner, Cosimo New Orleans R&B evolved into soul and funk.
Matassa, and session sax man, Red Tyler. In 1974, the During the 60s, Lee Dorsey and Irma Thomas became the New
book was published by Blues Unlimited, then licensed Orleans soul stars, then, in the 70s, The Meters gave the music
to Pelican of Louisiana. A third, updated edition was an even funkier edge. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Wynton and
published by Pelican in 2016, and now has sales of Branford Marsalis, Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews, and English
over 25,000! It was inducted into the US Blues Hall Of pianist, Jon Cleary, continue the city’s music tradition today. The
Fame in 2011. irresistible New Orleans street beat will never die, and there’s a lot
The 2CD features giants of New Orleans R&B like more to come!
Fats Domino and Smiley Lewis, and lesser-known
artists, such as Jerry Byrne and Al Johnson. John Broven takes it easy at a Walking To New Orleans 50th Anniversary Album... An Aural
I felt that there were enough New Orleans greatest hits, signing Accompaniment 2CD is on Jasmine by August.

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Shadow Puppeteer LPs, & His Arkestra Thunder Of
Eargong; Monster Squad The Gods yellow LP, Modern
Strength Through Pain LP, Harmonic; Lonnie Liston
Pirates Press; Richmond Smith Cosmic Funk clear LP,
Fontaine Post To Wire Astral Traveling yellow LP,
coloured 2LP, 10 bonuses, Real Gone; The Dwarves
Winnemucca coloured LP, Keep It Real LP, Greedy; The
one, Décor; Leon Russell Nazz Lost Masters & Demos
Hank Wilson Vol II coloured purple, blue, pink, violet 4LP,
LP, BMG; The Flesh Eaters Purple Pyramid; Genesis
A Minute To Pray A Second Turn It On Again 2LP,
To Die red LP, Jackpot; Bo Atlantic; Green Day Warning:
Carter Banana In Your Fruit coloured LP, Reprise; REO
Basket LP, Yazoo; The 4 Speedwagon Hi Infidelity
Skins Riot In The Ghetto LP, coloured LP, Legacy; Dave
red LP, Radiation; Siouxsie Matthews Some Devil 2LP,
& The Banshees Once Upon RCA; The Boys, Alternative
A Time/The Singles clear LP, Chartbusters LPs, Call Of
Geffen; NOFX The Greatest The Void (10) Universal
Songs Ever Written, Dropkick Order Of Armageddon LP,
Murphys The Warrior’s Code, clear, coloured LPs, Numero;
Rancid, The Interrupters Widespread Panic Dirty Side
LPs, Epitaph; Hans Zimmer Down 2LP, Widespread; The
Dune Part Two 2LP, 2CD, Dr Who coloured 6LP box set set due Tangent To Follow Polaris
Mutant (26) Dead Boys 180g 2LP, 2CD/book, each
Return Of The Living Dead Boys, with bonus, InsideOut; Marisa
Judy Collins Strangers Again, Third Of LP, Rhino; Battle Beast Circus Thee Headcoats I Am The Object Anderson/Jim White Bitterroot
World Under The Magic Sun LPs, UK Of Doom purple 2LP, Nuclear Blast; Of Your Desire LP, Damaged Goods; Valley Suite I: Water turquoise LP,
Subs Fear To Go! LP, CD, Cleopatra; of Montreal The Sunlandic Twins Madlib Liberation 2 Instrumentals CD, Thrill Jockey; The Treatment
Alice Cooper Breadcrumbs tribute orange, red 2LP, Polyvinyl; ex-Ghost’s 2LP, Nature Sounds. Wake Up The Neighbourhood
LP, two bonuses, Absolute; Judith Henrik Palm Nerd Icon LP, CD, orange 180g LP, CD, Frontiers;
Hill Letters From A Black Widow Svart; Mike Zito Live Is Hard LP, MAY (3) Willie Nelson The Border Mary Lattimore/Walt McClements
2LP, CD, Regime; Red Garland Sono; Abbey Lincoln & Hank Jones LP, orange LP, LP/book, CD, Legacy; Rain On The Road orange LP, CD,
Trio Groovy LP, Craft; Kittie Spit When There Is Love 2LP, Decca; 94 East Featuring Prince Dance To bandcamp.com; Joe Cuba Sextet
LP, SPV; Corrosion Of Conformity They Might Be Giants Here Come The Music Of The World LP, coloured Vagabundeando! (Hangin’ Out!)
America’s Volume Dealer coloured The ABCs coloured 180g LP, Walt LP, Charly; FM Old Habits Die Hard 180g LP, Craft; Thomas Newman
180g LP, two bonuses, In The Arm Disney; Chico Hamilton The Dealer, yellow 2LP, CD, Frontiers; Anthony American Beauty red LP, Real Gone;
Of God silver 180g LP, King Steps In Gloria Coleman Quartet Soul Sisters Willis Saltburn OST silver 180g LP, Guy Clark Truly Handmade Vol 1
Time, Earth, Wind & Fire Greatest 180g LPs, Verve; Johnny Marr The Great Kat Beethoven On Speed LP, CD, Truly Handmade; Billie
Hits blue 180g LPs, Thelonious Adrenalin Baby Live pink 2LP/poster, red 180g LP, Music On Vinyl; The Holiday At Storyville LP, ORG; Chick
Monk It’s Monk Time, Youssou BMG; Herbie Hancock Jammin’ With Gathering Always 2LP, Roadburn; Corea/Bela Fleck Remembrance
N’Dour The Guide (Wommat), Herbie purple 2LP, Renaissance; Ron Rob Zombie The Words And Music LP, CD, Thirty Tigers; Willie Nelson
Santana Marathon orange 180g Geesin Basic Maths LP, Trunk; Keith Of House Of 1,000 Corpses coloured The Words Don’t Fit The Picture
LPs, Europe’s Joey Tempest A Urban #1s Vol 1, Vol 2 coloured LPs, 2LP, Waxwork; Metallica St Anger blue 180g LP, Rod Stewart Fly Me
Place To Call Home 180g LP, Martin Capitol; Deicide Banished By Sin, orange 2LP, Mercury; Bobby To The Moon 180g LP, Music On
Phipps Napoleon OST red 180g LP, Reigning Phoenix; Roy Buchanan Hutcherson Total Eclipse, Donald Vinyl; Kenny Burrell A Night At The
George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet Live At Rockpalast Hamburg 1985 Byrd Byrd’s Eye View 180g LPs, Blue Vanguard, Sam Lazar Space Flight
City Gates white 180g LP, Pete LP, MiG; Gerry Mulligan Night Note; Kenny Dorham This Is The 180g LPs, Verve; Brian Auger’s
Rock/CL Smooth Mecca And The Lights 180g LP, Verve; Abbey Moment! Mono 180g LP, New Land; Oblivion Express Live Oblivion Vol
Soul Brother yellow 180g LP, The Lincoln/Hank Jones When There Nuclear Blast Imaginaerum, Endless 1 LP, CD, Vol 2 2LP, CD, Soul Bank
Main Ingredient yellow 180g 2LP, Is Love 2LP, Decca; Ian Shaw An Forms Most Beautiful, Once splatter Music (17) Halloweens Opera
Music On Vinyl; ZZ Top The Best Adventurous Dream 2LP, CD, PX; 2LPs, Nuclear Blast; Nucleus white Singing At The Piano Bar blue LP,

MY PRECIOUS
Youn Sun Nah on Every note,
Norma Winstone’s syllable,
Somewhere Called Home sound,
“Love at first silence is
sound. The experienced
moment as if in
Winstone’s the studio
voice reaches with the trio. It’s beyond music.
my ears, I’m Overflowing with emotion, pure
captivated. My musical joy!”
heart races,
my senses Youn Sun Nah Elles is
awaken. on Warners. Porcupine Tree: grey but not aged on 4LP

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Pony; The Primitives I Won’t Care Dinosaur Jr Ear Bleeding Country

LP, HHBTM; Swing Out Sister Where splatter LP, Dead Or Alive Running
Our Love Grows LP, Shanachie; Wild red LP, Cherry Red; ex-Suede’s
ex-Megadeth’s Marty Friedman Bernard Butler Good Grief LP, silver
Drama 2LP, CD, Frontiers; of LP, CD, 355; Chuck Berry Top
Montreal Lady On The Cusp coloured Hits LP, WNTS; Bob Marley Small
LP, Polyvinyl; Zayn Room Under The Axe green LP, LMLR; Johnny Cash
Stairs coloured LP, variant sleeve LP, Folsom Prison Blues 45rpm 2LP,
CD, Mercury; Ben Folds Whatever Mobile Fidelity.
And Ever Amen LP, Legacy; Green
Jelly Garbage Band Kids, Pailhead JUNE (7) Grand Slam Wheel Of
Trait, The 4-Skins Five More Fortune red LP, test-pressing LP, CD,
Years, Utopia, William Shatner cassette, Hit The Ground – Revised
Where Will The Animals Sleep LPs, remix gold LP, CD, test-pressing LP,
Cleopatra; LA Guns’ Phil Lewis Townsend Music; Rockpile Seconds
Access Denied, Thor Beyond The Of Pleasure coloured LP, Yep Roc;
Pain Barrier LPs, Deadline; Shadow Orquestra Del Desierto LP, Heavy
Gallery Tyranny 2LP, Magna Carta; Psych Sounds; Bon Jovi Forever
Starship Greatest Hits Relaunched LP, coloured LP, CD, cassette, EMI;
LP, Purple Pyramid; Warlord And Luther Vandross This Close To You
The Cannons Of Destruction Have LP, Legacy; The Monkees 180g
Begun LP, High Roller; UFOMAMMUT LP, Friday; Tarja What Lies Beneath
Hidden LP, Neurot; Jorge Lopez 2LP, earMUSIC; The Pretenders
Ruiz Coraje Buenos Aires LP, Alter Learning To Crawl LP, clear LP,
Cat; Porcupine Tree Closure/ Rhino; Action Bronson Crocodillo
Continuation: Amsterdam Live grey Turbo silver LP, Only For Dolphins
180g 4LP, Music For Nations; picture disc LP (14) Lindsey
Shellac To All Trains 180g LP, Touch Stirling Duality LP, Concord; Black
& Go; Aerosmith Get Your Wings gold Country Communion V 2LP, CD, Snazzy: coloured 4LP set of “lost masters and demos” from The Nazz
180g LP, Capitol; Godsmack Awake J&R Adventures; Axel Rudi Pell
2LP, green 2LP, Republic; Stanley Risen Symbol orange LP, CD, SPV;
Turrentine Blue Hour, Hank Mobley John Grant The Art Of The Lie LP,
Workout 180g LPs, Blue Note (24) CD, Bella Union; Widespread Panic Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory Moon 9 Sad Symphonies pink, blue LPs,
Dr Who – Pest Control/The Forever Snake Oil King LP, Widespread; Ensemble Heat Ray LP, CD, Mute; CD, Kill Rock Stars; Damn Yankees
Trap red 3LP/yellow 3LP, Demon; La Moby Always Centred At Night John Cale POPtical Illusion 2LP, coloured LP, Friday; HiFi Sean/
Luz News Of The Universe LP, CD, 2LP, yellow 2LP, CD, Mute; Alice CD, pink, green 2LP/7” with two David McAlmont Daylight LP, CD,
Sub Pop; Foghat Fool For The City Cooper, Faster Pussycat Greatest bonuses, Double Six; Diamanda Rough Trade (28) John Wright
coloured LP, Friday; Black Uhuru Live Hits 180g LPs, Sonny & Cher Galas In Concert LP, CD, Intravenal Trio South Side Soul LP, Craft;
At Soledad Prison 1982 LP, Diggers The Best Of coloured LP, Friday; Sound Operations (21) Kate Nash Animal Collective Merriweather
Factory; Debbie Gibson The Remixes Post Pavilion blue, green 2LP/10”,
LP, Stargirl; Linval Thompson one unissued, Domino; Madeleine
Readers’ stand-outs from
Cultivator LP, Easy Star; Municipal
Waste Tango & Thrash coloured LP,
MY TOP 5 their record collection
Peyroux Let’s Walk LP, CD, Thirty
Tigers; Gustavo Santaolalla The
Nuclear Blast; Magnum Here Comes Last Of Us 4LP, Sony; James
The Rain 2LP, SPV; NOFX Half Album Brown At Studio 54 New York City
LP, Fat Wreck Chords; Snarky Puppy red LP, LMLR; Lee Perry Heart Of
& Metropole Orkest Sylva (Remixed The Dragon yellow LP, LMLR; The
& Remastered) 2LP, Ground Up; Folk Implosion Walk Thru Me LP,
The Pretenders Learning To Crawl CD, Joyful Noise; Silverstein A
LP, Rhino; Billy Mahonie Fields Of Shipwreck In The Sand LP, green,
Heads yellow LP/prints/postcard, Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive! (A&M Records AMLM 63703, LP, dark green, orange LPs, Craft;
Whistling Sam Projects; Count Basie UK, 1976) Richard Ashcroft These People
Farmer’s Market Barbecue, 88, Basie The fifth album of his solo career, this double helping of rock was once the coloured 2LP, CD, Righteous
Street, Duke Ellington Duke’s Big 4/ biggest-selling album of all time. Nuff said! Highlights are: Show Me The Way, Phonographic Association.
Ray Brown This One’s For Blanton showcasing Frampton’ expertise on the Talkbox; the audience reaction to
180g LPs, Analogue; Modest Mouse Baby, I Love Your Way; and the classic Do You Feel Like We Do. JULY (12) Pavement Cautionary
Good News For People Who Love Tales: Jukebox Classiques 18 x 7”
Bad News coloured 2LP, Legacy; The Who Live At Leeds (Track Records 2406 001, LP, UK, 1970) box, Matador; Teddy Edwards/
Creed Greatest Hits 2LP, green, I’d seen The Who at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival and would again in 1970 Howard McGhee Together Again!!!!
blue, grey, green, orange 2LPs, Craft; so this album acted as a bridge between the two events. Bit disappointing 180g LP, Contemporary; Marc
Rival Sons Head Down white, pink that Tommy wasn’t included, but its absence is more than compensated by Almond I’m Not Anyone LP, CD,
LPs, CD, Sacred Tongue; Fania All the epic My Generation and a superb version of Shakin’ All Over. BMG; Montrose Paper Money
Stars Latin-Soul-Rock 180g LP, Craft coloured LP, Friday; Ani DiFranco
Latino; Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Heart Iron Butterfly Live (Atco Records 2400 014, LP, UK, 1970) Unprecedented Sh!t LP, green
Of The Dragon yellow LP, LMLR; I would see the band live a year later and this album was the perfect LP, CD, Righteous Babe (19)
Anthrax Sound Of White Noise violet appetiser. Only six tracks but they include the monstrous In-A-Gada-Da-Vida, Al Di Meola Twentyfour LP, CD,
splatter LP, Stomp 442 green splatter a psychedelic classic. Of the other tracks, the standouts are In The Time Of earMUSIC (26) Miles Davis Miles
LP, Nuclear Blast; Lonnie Smith Our Lives and Soul Experience. LP, Craft; Olivia Rodrigo Guts
Funk Reaction LP, CD, Mr Bongo splatter 2LP, Geffen (26) Pat
(31) China Crisis China Greatness Jethro Tull Bursting Out (Chrysalis CJT4, LP, UK, 1978) Metheny MoonDial 2LP, Modern.
2LP, Last Night From Glasgow; I hadn’t seen this line-up live, so this album satisfied a completist’s need and
Tom Walker I Am LP, CD, Sony; provided a highlights package of the Tull canon up to that point. It’s all there: AUGUST Stars Set Yourself On
Kenny Burrell And John Coltrane A New Day Yesterday; Aqualung; Thick as a Brick; Minstrel in the Gallery; Fire red LP, CD, thecbpshop.
LP, Craft; Bat For Lashes The Locomotive Breath; and many other Tull classics. com (2) Blues Pills Birthday LP,
Dream Of Delphi LP, Verve; Becky white, splatter LPs, CD, Pollinate
Hill Believe Me Now? yellow LP, Queen Live At Wembley 1986 (Parlaphone PCSP 725, LP, UK 1992) (16) Royal Blood gold 2LP, CD,
Astralwerks; Blackfield coloured LP, The year before they had stolen the Wembley stage at Live Aid and returned Parlophone (30) Nick Cave & The
Kscope; Daryl Hall & John Oates a year later to grab the whole stadium. On Radio Ga Ga, in particular, Freddie Bad Seeds Wild God LP, clear, grey
Abandoned Luncheonette coloured showed the real meaning of crowd control. The band go through the full LPs, CD, PIAS.
LP, Friday; Amon Tobin Permutation repertoire of styles, with superb versions of Tie Your Mother Down, Hammer
2LP, Ninja Tune; Sheena Easton A To Fall, and Love Of My Life, while on Brighton Rock, Brian May showcases OCTOBER (11) Art Pepper
Private Heaven red 2LP, Cherry Pop; what a dynamic and innovative guitarist he is. Intensity, Gettin’ Together 180g
Nifelheim Servants Of Darkness Daniel Farr LPs, Contemporary.
orange LP, CD, Dissonance;

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 RC investigates
Xzibit’s explosive
smoke (grenade)

SWEET LEAF
Artists’ cannabis lines are a recent, novel development in memorabilia.
Non-smoker Tim Jones charts the growth of some joint productions

S
ince 2014, when the recreational use Erykah Badu That Bad launched April 2023 in David Crosby Mighty Croz was a collaboration with
of cannabis was legalised for the first California. Combining terpene-rich Lemoncello/ a friend, Steven Sponder, and the culmination of
time in decades in certain US states, Jet Fuel Gelato, she uses it as a throat-soothing the archetypal stoner musician’s decades’ love for
numerous musicians have offered weed relaxant between recordings. It’s available as eighths pot, appearing just before he went up in smoke in
and associated paraphernalia, such as (of an ounce, or 3.5 grams) or pre-rolled joints. It 2023. As Crosby explained to mightycroz.com prior
papers, bongs, and more. Some artistes and sub-/ was followed by her Apple Trees line of bongs, rolling to its launch: “I’m doing this because it’s fun. Weed is
genres are more associated with hemp-assisted trays and female-focused products, such as creams, fun. People who like weed are fun. I like to have fun
listening than others. Bob Marley seemingly made oils, drops, sprays, tinctures, tea and edibles. Badu in my life. I have a PhD in fun”!
it a way of life, Tupac thought it was dope, Willie mushroom teas sprung up in May, with plans for
Nelson got to 90-plus on it, and Snoop Dogg has a documentary on “pussy and weed” including Deftones’ Cannabis Collection was inaugurated
made a career out of extolling its virtues. He even hemp farmers and sex workers. November 2021 with The Passenger Box cannabis
caused a minor online meltdown in November flower, via Golden Barn, California. Following their
2023, claiming to be quitting the ’erb for good. Blink-182’s Travis Barker’s Barker Wellness line alcohol offerings, the Collection expanded to
As if! Something he smoked. So, for all those of of cannabinoid treatments launched February 2021. strawberry/watermelon, mango and passion
a Bill & Ted/potty disposition, hashtag fans of Skin care products include body butter and oil, face Gummies, vapes, and a tincture of grape, hemp
The Tea Party, Reef, Supergrass, etc, what green cleaner, moisturiser, eye serum and face balm, seed and peppermint oils.
to spend your green on? alongside muscle therapy cream and balm, bath
flakes, and edible Gummies and sleep Gummies. Die Antwoord Zef Zol was a pioneering 2016 effort
The Allman Brothers Band Chocolate Chunk by the South African rap duo, to share their stoner
launched in May 2022 as a 3.5g Afghan Hindu Justin Bieber Peaches pre-rolled joints appeared in ethos, offering cannabis flowers from Natural
Kush strain of PharmaCann’s Matter.X, sold October 2021. Produced by Palms Premium Goods, Cannabis of California, along with rolled blunts,
exclusively via Verilife dispensaries. As its five types are available as half-gram packs. vapes, mouth spray, lip balm, chocolate cereal,
spokeswoman, Erika Salgado, put it, “The Allman strawberry lollies and Gummies.
Brothers Band pioneered the Southern rock sound Jimmy Buffett Coral Reefer was unveiled in
that is synonymous with cannabis. Our goal is Florida, 2019. Described as tropical terpene in Melissa Etheridge Botanicals and Organics kicked
to create cannabis products that capture the flavour, joints were joined by Lime Gummies in off in California in December 2020, comprising
essence of the band.” October 2021. cannabis flowers, and Morning sativa, Noon hybrid
and Night indica pre-rolls. A range of five Pure non-
Slipknot’s Shawn psychoactive cannabidiol (CBD) tinctures followed in
Crahan Clown 2021, numbering Harmony, Sleep, Serenity, Vitality
Cannabis appeared and Potency.
May 2021 in
partnership with The Flaming Lips Love Yer Brain, its website
Hollister, Hash Bone & declared, saw The Nirvana Group float brain-shaped
Heavy Grass. Available cannabis edibles in 2020, though “technically,
as packs of 6.5g pre- Wayne Coyne started selling weed to his friends in
rolls, they comprise 1977”! As part of “a lifelong commitment to pushing
75% Blue Zkittlez indica boundaries in music, art, and general strangeness,”
flower that is tart citrus, Love Yer Brain is “a unity of art, weirdness and
sweet earth and cannabis”. In June 2023, the range expanded with
wildflower, and 25% two Focus hemp gummies, adaptogenic lion’s mane
orange flavour Paradise mushroom, and two Rest blackberry-flavour hemp
The Brothers’ brand Citrus bubble hash. gummies and reishi mushroom.

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The Game Trees line of cannabis products from System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian
Vertical, Los Angeles, went live in autumn 2016, founded his 22Red company in 2018, vending
its 3.5g flowers including Raskal OG (Original Church22 pre-rolls in February 2019. That
Grower) and Platinum Punch, along with pre-rolls. November, partnering with Flower One, Nevada,
The Game curated numerous additions, such the range expanded to Mimosa22, Caramel
as Fire Alien Strawberry, Gorilla Zookies, Double Gelato and 22OG flowers and pre-rolls, OG
Dream and Super Soul Diesel indica, sativa and Kush, Strawberry Banana and Watermelon
hybrid blunts, Black Jack, Mac Dawg, Wedding vapes, and Watermelon and Orange Mint
Cake and Jack Hammer flowers. As The Game put CBD gummies.
it, “the product, the taste, the quality, and how it
makes the people that use it feel is everything”. Margo Price Mom Grass low-strength pre-
roll joints and tinned CBG flowers bloomed
Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah and Killah in January 2023 via Dad Grass, Price
Priest partnered in 2016 with Dynamite Stix commending it for anyone with writer’s block.
to produce three Wu Goo hash vaporiser oils,
flavoured strawberry, pineapple-coconut and Rick Ross Collins Ave launched in June 2023
vanilla-mango. By 2023, they’d added 70% via High Tolerance of California. Available as
THC (psychoactive cannabis) oil. a 3.5g indica flower, it was complemented by
Lemon Pepper sativa, Pink Rozay hybrid and
GWAR Bud Of Gods descended to Earth in 2021 All Time High.
as a Sour Tsunami CBD hemp flower in 3.5g jar or
7g bag, along with pre-rolls. New Dunk Ages vapes, Lil Wayne, at a premium Run The Jewels Ooh, Lala indica flower
gummies and more were added 2023. blossomed in July 2020 c/o Lemmonade of
Lake Elsinore, California, with pre-rolls, blunts,
2019. It expanded by 2024 to pre-rolls, Meyers vapes and extracts following.
lemon gummies, Money Cake, Tropical Storm, Mint
Pepper, Night Blooming Jasmine hybrid, Sky Lime Carlos Santana’s Mirayo venture with Left
and OG Crush indica cannabis distillate vape oils, Coast Ventures in October 2020 saw him
Perfecta and Boom Box 1g live resin sauce, VIP attempt to “enhance creative expression”
3.5 g sativa flower, and Uproar hybrid/sativa. with pre-rolls and 7g flower jars of Radiance
sativa, Centered indica, hybrid Symmetry, and
Bob Marley Natural was the result of a partnering Essence. In May 2023, The Parent Company
between his estate and Privateer Holdings dating added rosin gummies in Guava, Prickly Pear
to 2013. As well as pre-rolls and cannabis oil and Raspberry flavours.
cartridges, the line includes Kaya, Sun Is Shining,
One Draw, Natural Mystic indica, and Nice Time, Snoop Dogg Leafs By Snoop saw the pioneer
Royal Rita, Ragga, Smile Jamaica, Uprising and smoker team with LivWell in November 2015,
The Gong sativa flowers, grown in his home parish issuing oils, gels and 3.5g and other flower jars
of St Ann, Jamaica. In February 2023, the Bob of indica Bananas, Northern Light, Moonbeam,
Marley Museum, Hope Street, Kingston, opened Cali Kush Purple Bush, and sativa Lemon Pie,
a Natural Dispensary/smoking room, while Blueberry Dream, Tangerine and Grape Soda,
a Natural cannabis store opened its doors, too. plus 3D CBD. Chocolate bars, drops, gummies
Paraphernalia include water and spoon pipes, and other sweets included Peanut Butter,
GWAR’s quiet moment, kinda streamrollers, rigglers and bubblers. Strawberry, Cherry, Peach and Lemon Cherry,
while, in December 2022, his Death Row label
Method Man TICAL products were developed by added Death Row Cannabis.
Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart Mind Your Head the Wu-Tang Clan man with Clone Guy Industries,
and Magic Mini pre-rolls appeared May 2019, the Long Beach, and offered June 2020, initial 3.6g Wiz Khalifa Kush evolved from his private Los
band’s drummer announcing that he was “seeking flower batches including hybrid Cake, Gelato and Angeles development of a hybrid indica strain
to share an essential part of the inspiration behind” Punch, plus Crusher and OG Indica. By 2021, in the early 10s. By February 2016, he’d
his music, as “cannabis is about opening the mind Orange Cookie Kush, Sweet Grease and Free MAC partnered with River Rock of Colorado to
and, throughout my life, cannabis has played an were on the menu and, in 2023, CHEM91xG13 distribute flowers, pre-rolls, vapes, concentrates
important role in inspiring creativity”. Working with and Dual OG S1. and edibles.
Left Coast Ventures, Santa Rosa, California, he
chose the Chemdog strain “renowned for boosting Motörhead Ace Of Spades CBD hempette smokes Xzibit’s Grenade made waves in November
artistry”, while Space Ticket hash-infused pre-rolls, were produced in collaboration with Alt Smokes in 2020, when launched in conjunction with
with indica-leaning Trinity Star and DOG Chem, February 2021. Napalm Cannabis of Californial as a luxury
followed later that year. $150 8g pre-roll, containing 7g of flower
Willie Nelson Reserve was unveiled in 2015 by and 1g of resin, housed in a glass grenade!
Ice Cube Fryday Kush 46% THC was said to America’s most toked about smoker. Pre-rolls,
“taste like wedding cake” and offered in 3.5g jars vape cartridges, Day Tripper flower jars, and sativa, Do you know of any other muso weeds?
in February 2021, via Caviar Gold, Coachella, indica and hybrid flowers, such as OG, Master Kush Let us know via rc.editorial@metropolis.
California. Strong, bluntly. and Sour Diesel, were followed by hemp-infused co.uk, some time this decade, you know,
coffee and toke-n pieces of paraphernalia. or, whenever.
Jay-Z Monogram launched October 2020, when
The Parent Company took it, Caliva and Left Coast
Ventures under its umbrella, consolidating the
production of 11,000 lb of cannabis a year at
a 100,000 feet2 factory in San Jose. Offering the
likes of No 70 and No 88 ‘sweet and spicy’ strains,
OG Handroll cigars soon followed. By 2024, it had 2g
and 4g flower and pre-rolls of No 1 “tropical fruit with
Credit: (GWAR) gwar.net (Lil Wayne) gkua.com

a skunky finish”, the grape, diesel and mint No 3

“citrus headbanger”, No 8’s “cool mellow smoke,
with strong diesel and earthy tones”, and No 96,
“a sweet citrus and pure blend”.

John Legend Plus Products appeared September

2019, comprising Balance blueberry, Uplift grapefruit
and Sleep blackberry tea hemp CBD gummies.

Lil Wayne GKUA Ultimate Premium debuted with Snoop sweets

the Hollygrove 3.5g hybrid/indica flower, November

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 The
Collector
This month: musician
Sunna Margrét

“Even my son, who is 3, asks for certain

records”: Margrét at home with her
regularly-played collection

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Swiss-based Icelander Sunna Margrét is a Make A Happening that is still sealed
rising force in experimental pop. Having shut. Also, Die Tödliche Doris – Chöre
begun her career as a teenager touring & Soli, it’s a box set with a battery-driven
with electro-pop ensemble Bloodgroup, miniphone [miniature gramophone] inside
she is about to release her debut full- and eight mini-vinyl records in different
length solo LP, Finger on Tongue. colours, plus a book. Another record that is
Influenced by krautrock legends CAN very dear to me and of considerable value is
and Neu!, alongside outsider synth-pop The Space Lady – On The Street Of Dreams
artist The Space Lady and electronic that I bought from her when she had a show
music pioneers Suzanne Ciani and Eliane in my city in 2018. She made a drawing
Radigue, her work touches on cross- on the cover art and signed a photograph,
cutting synth-pop, reinvented trip-hop, “For Sunna”, with a beautiful signature
krautrock, and experimental inspirations. with planets and space drawings. It is one
She is also an accomplished visual artist, of my favourite live performances, hosted
co-founding No Salad Records as a by Arsenic [a contemporary arts centre] in
Allan Kaprow – How To Make A Happening
platform for avant-garde, electronic, and Lausanne [the capital of the Swiss French- (Mass Art Inc M-132, Ltd Ed LP, US, 1966)
post-punk expression worldwide. speaking canton of Vaud, collector-geographers Estimated market value: £250
– Ed]; a very intimate and beautiful
What do you collect, and why? concert. It was the first time I ever had
I collect what I know I will actually listen to, this experience from that side of the table.
what sparks my interest, records that inspire Because I used to tour a lot with my band,
me to make music. I often buy records and I played concerts and signed vinyl and
when I go to concerts – it’s nice to support photographs, and I didn’t understand what
the artists directly. I enjoy a whole range of it felt like to speak to an artist that you’ve
styles: experimental, psychedelic rock, punk just seen play music, who touches you. And
rock, post-punk, ambient, world music, then getting a signed record directly from
electronic, krautrock, pop, sometimes jazz, them afterwards – it’s fun!
blues, folk… all sorts of directions. But
preferably something I don’t already know.
Yesterday I bought a new release: Vanishing “I’M PROBABLY
Twin – Afternoon X. It had a quote from
[leftfield music mag] The Wire so I gave it a GOING TO LISTEN TO
listen. Now, since I began running a record
label, when I’ve been personally distributing
THEM UNTIL THEY Can – Soundtracks
(Liber ty LBS 83 437, LP, Germany, 1970)
Estimated market value: £45
records to local stores, it’s hard to resist
grabbing a record or two on the way out.
ARE RUINED”
How big is your collection? What elusive gem are you still looking
It’s tiny! Well, it depends who you ask, but out for?
for collectors, it’s tiny. Maybe 700 records Haven’t really looked, but I would love
ranging from 6” to 12”. to have Pauline Oliveros – Accordion &
Voice. It had such an impact on me when I
What do you think it is worth? heard it for the first time. And if I had the
Probably not much… I’ve never really 7” of Kourosh Yaghmaei – Saraabe Toe
thought about it. I’m constantly listening to / Dar Enteha … the B-side is one of my
my records, day in, day out, and I know I’m favourite songs ever ever ever! Dar Enteha
probably going to listen to them until they means ‘at the end’. It’s based on a poem
are ruined. Some of those records are already by Hakim Omar Khayyam (1048-1131
in bad shape, a lot of them I bought for just AD) and in this poem he writes: “This jar
two euros. But then, streaming music just that you see has been made with dust and Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island
(Del-Fi Records DFLP 1211, LP, mono, US, 1960)
isn’t my thing. was a human at one time; this human was Estimated market value: £200

How and where do you store it?

At home in my living room. It’s an old
house with a built-in closet that fits the
records perfectly and the vinyl player.
But we had to build more crates next to
it because we couldn’t close the closet
anymore. So the 7”s are in their own space
now. Then there is a small collection at my
parents’ that they said I could have: old
disco records. I take one or two home with
me each time I visit.

What’s the rarest/most unusual/most

valuable item you have?
Probably Yves Klein – Conference A La
Ellen Fullman – The Long String Instrument Kourosh Yaghmaei – Back From The
Sorbonne. Copie no 130 out of 500. And (Apollo AR 118501, LP, Netherlands, 1985) (Now-Again Records NA 5066, 3LP,
Brink
US, 2011)
this record by Allan Kaprow – How To Estimated market value: £50 Estimated market value: £50

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in love with their beloved one, just like How often do you listen to the stuff in
me.” I think Yaghmaei’s story is also the your collection?
complete opposite of my life, and so his Every day. There might be moments where I’m
music interests me. I have his Back From obsessed with one record, and I will put it on
The Brink, Pre-revolution Psychedelic Rock repeat for days in a row. But we all listen to
From Iran, 1973-1979, from where I got this collection in my home. Even my son, who
this information. Another one would be is three, has a very specific taste and asks for
Susumu Yokota’s The Boy And The Tree, or certain records: Ramones, Slits and Le Tigre
Sakura – they’re both classics. I’ve been very are his current favourites. He used to be all
inspired by his music for some years now, about Spacemen 3.
but I only discovered him after he passed
away. I was living under a rock. Is there a visual side to collecting for you?
Have you ever bought a record for the sleeve
alone, or for a picture disc?
“I GOT THE 45RPM Once as a present, but otherwise never. But
Laurie Anderson – Mister Heartbreak

ON THE RECORD
the sleeve always intrigues me first, of course, (Warner Bros. 925 077-1, LP, UK, 1984)
then I listen. If I don’t like the music, I won’t Estimated market value: £6

PLAYER FIXED AND buy it.

DISCOVERED I LOVE How will you eventually dispose of your

collection?
THE 7” FORMAT” They’ll have to get stolen, I suppose. But I will
pass them on to my kid. He’ll know what to do.

What’s given you the biggest thrill? What’s your all-time favourite record,
When I got the 45rpm on the record player regardless of value or rarity?
fixed and I could finally start listening to CAN – Soundtracks. I can always put this
7”s again and discovered that I actually album on. Future Days is up there also, and
really love this format. So, now that’s where Eden Ahbez – Eden’s Island. And I really love
I’m digging in the shops. That and, of Ellen Fullman – The Long String Instrument. It
course, my encounter with The Space Lady. calms the nerves…
I also saw Gróa and Revenge Of Calculon
Moondog – Pastoral Suite/Surf Sessio
live at Lucky Records during Iceland Finger on Tongue by Sunna Margrét is on (Moondog’s Corner MOCO EP1, 7” EP,
n
Germany,
Airwaves last year and bought all of their No Salad Records. 2004) Estimated market value: £10

records because they were so incredible.

And then starting my own label has also
been a constant thrill. Making so many
mistakes and learning from them, one step
at a time. Receiving the test pressing is thrill
no 1 and then thrill no 2, when the final
piece arrives and putting it on in my living
room… golden.

How do you track stuff down?

I don’t, I just walk in and look, then the
stuff finds me. If in need, I would probably
just use Discogs. I’ve started to check out
thrift shops also, they have nice things
sometimes. Also, when we had to build
new crates for the vinyl, some re-arranging PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie Yves Klein – Conference A La Sorbonne
(Island IS 538, 7”, UK, 1993) 3 Juin 1959 (Not On Label, LP, Ltd Ed, France,
had to be done. I discovered a lot I had Estimated market value: £12 1959) Estimated market value: £700
forgotten were there. For example: the 7”s
of Yoshimi’s Two and Big Toast from the
90s are great; Moondog – Pastoral Suite
/ Surf Session; Laurie Anderson – Mister
Heartbreak; PJ Harvey – 50ft Queenie…
I’m spinning those now.

What’s your favourite record shop?

Currently, I’m living in Lausanne in
Switzerland and there are seven record
shops in town; that is quite impressive for
such a small town, really. And they all have
a very nice relationship between each other
– that, I think, is wonderful. I shouldn’t
choose a favourite, but I guess I’ll give a
shout out to Disc-à-Brac since they always
Yoshimi – Two Yoshimi – Big Toast
offer coffee when I’m there and we speak (Ecstatic Peace! E#45, 7”, US, 1994) (Ecstatic Peace! E#31, 7”, US, 1993 )
Estimated market value: £5 Estimated market value: £5
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Record Price Guide,
answers your questions

STATESIDE
SOUND AND
VISION

I
was fortunate enough to study in New York
for a six-month period in late 1976 and
early 1977. I was a fan of David Bowie and
so bought Low as well as the single Sound
And Vision, which came in a colour picture
sleeve. I have your excellent Rare Record Price
Guide and so know that a Mint UK original of Low
is worth in the region of £100. But what are my
US copies of Low and Sound And Vision worth?
Barry Keene via email
Low, released in January 1977, is regarded as
one of David Bowie’s greatest albums. Of course,
back in late 1976, after it had been recorded
and delivered to his record label, RCA, there was
internal disquiet as to whether it might be a form
of commercial suicide similar to Lou Reed’s
Metal Machine Music (RCA CPL 21101, US,
1975, £50). Helmed by producer Tony Visconti,
with late input from Brian Eno, Bowie and his
live band had recorded music that ranged from Cash Box: “Bowie fans are going to probably buy Sales of Low were strong across the country.
the funktronic Speed Of Life, via the off-kilter the album regardless of what price is asked. If “Bowie’s follow-up to his ChangesOneBowie
Breaking Glass to an entire second side of the price was three dollars they’d buy it and if the greatest hit package has generated sales in all
instrumentals. In the UK, RCA sent out a one- price was $7.98 they’d probably purchase it.” major markets,” wrote Cash Box, listing Low as
sided 7” – From The New Album Low (BOW 1 E, an album that had broken out to big sales across
£2000) – containing excerpts from four tracks to America, “most impressively the west region.
warm up (or warn) critics to music that was a “RCA INTENDED TO Reports from Liquorice Pizza, Music Plus,
long way from Fame and Sorrow. Everybody’s Tower (SF), Odyssey, City One
Of course, Low immediately yielded a hit RETAIL LOW AT A NEW Stop… confirm Bowie’s west coast appeal.”
single in Sound And Vision, which went Top 3 in Low was to reach No 11 in the Billboard
the UK in February 1977. Critically well-received, HIGHER PRICE” charts, confounding the view that American
Low showed that Bowie was once again leading listeners preferred the bombast of KISS,
the pack, this time towards a new European On release, Low had positive reviews in both Aerosmith, or the FM fodder of Kansas, Santana,
sound at a time when the waves of punk crashed Cash Box and Billboard. Of course, these were George Benson and Bread. Saying that, since
against the established musical beaches. industry magazines whose advertising relied upon Low is now hailed as a classic, a Mint copy
Sound And Vision was not released Stateside the major labels so every album got a positive of a US pressing (CPL 12030) – with the inner
until April 1977. This was probably to allow review. Indeed, RCA paid for full-page adverts in sleeve and fan club insert – is worth in the region
RCA to lay down the promotional groundwork for both publications with the apt strapline: “Two of £50-60.
Low in January 1977. I actually took a look at sides of Bowie you’ve never heard before”. Cash As with the UK, the US Sound And Vision
original copies of Billboard and Cash Box to Box’s reviewer stated: “David Bowie still seems single (PB 10905) was backed with A New
examine the American industry perception and to stay out in space on one entire side of his Career In A New Town and released in April
promotion of Low. latest release which leans heavily towards 1977. Billboard stated: “This rocking single
What’s interesting is that the first mention of electronic effects. Synthetic strings, Arp and arranges myriad guitar and synthesiser effects
Bowie’s new LP came in an early January feature mini-Moog play prominent roles on a number of around a funky drumbeat, as well as featuring
about album prices. In keeping with similar tunes.” Billboard took a similar tack, stating: Bowie’s vocalising in several textures and
releases by major artists early in the year – “Bowie, the multi-instrumental master, emerges ranges.” Sound And Vision only reached No 69
Animals by Pink Floyd, A Day At The Races by on this disk. The emphasis is on mental journeys on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1977 – four
Queen and In Flight by George Benson – RCA into some brooding, mysterious lands. Bowie’s places higher than Bowie’s last single, TVC15,
intended to retail Low at a new higher price of singing is significantly downplayed here in favour from May 1976. The follow-up – Be My Wife/
$7.98. This was the same price as RCA’s of the overdubbed instruments including Speed Of Life (PB 11017) – got nowhere near
classical Red Seal line and, as one executive told synthesisers and other keyboards.” the Billboard Hot 100 when released in June

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1977. Thus, Bowie collectors like you, There was even a restaurant at
who own Mint copies of any of these Kothenerstrasse so hungry musicians
records, can expect to get between did not have to go out looking for food.
£10 and £15. Hansa studio boss Gerd Lemnitz proudly
Bowie was soon recording again – stated about this site: “Here, everything
with Visconti and Eno – in the same is under one roof. That means we also
musical vein. The first fruit Stateside have our own demo-studios in Hansa 4
was Heroes/V-2 Schneider (PB 11121, and independent copy facilities. With
£30) in September. Though a big hit in our 24-track system – which we had
the UK and other countries, it sold first in Germany – we’ll continue to lead
poorly in America. The album of the the field. We plan to build Germany’s
same name was mostly recorded – like first fully-automatic computerised
the final tracks and mixing of Low – at mixing facilities.”
Hansa Tonstudios in West Berlin. Though Bowie raised Hansa’s profile
In an amazing stroke of luck, the internationally, the studio was already
publishing company, Meisel & Co GmbH, which problem that there were too few studios in producing big-selling hit records by Hansa, other
set up, owned and operated Hansa, had their Berlin and we had constant problems in getting German artists and even the actor Telly Savalas,
50th Anniversary in January 1977. This studio time and bookings for our productions. best-known for playing Kojak on TV. “The fact is
prompted a gushing multi-page feature in It was also our aim to make Berlin attractive that top people work at the studios and visit the
Billboard which, as well as detailing bestselling to outstanding musicians from all over the studios,” stated Lemnitz. “At first, many people
Hansa artists Boney M, Ricky Shayne, Nino world.” thought our forward planning for the studios was
Rosso, Juliane Werding, Roland Kaiser, Fausto Many people who love Low and Heroes unrealistic, but in reality we just cannot go ahead
Papetti, Frank Farian, Toga and Giorgio assume that Hansa was one studio. In fact, quickly enough. Already the studios are steering
(Moroder), contained fascinating details about it was four. Studio 1 was located at towards an annual turnover of 2 Million
the now-legendary studio. Nestorstrasse 8-9. It had three recording rooms, Deutsche Marks [around £500,000 in UK 1977
Though Meisel set up their first recording up to 24-track recording facility as well as an sterling and £3 million today].”
studio in 1969, this was in their office in arrangers’ and producers’ room, kitchen and a Finally, contrary to popular belief, the studio
Wittelsbacherstrasse and it was not until 1973 colour TV in the reception area. Studios 2, 3 and building was near the Berlin Wall rather than
that they had a dedicated facility: Hansa. 4 were located at Kothenerstrasse 38. Studio 2 directly on it. Spookily, the other most influential
Thomas Meisel, who was behind this expansion, was large enough to record a full orchestra act of 1977 – the Sex Pistols – sang about going
told Billboard: “The Hansa studios were born whereas Studio 3 – completed at the end of over it in their fourth single, Holidays In The Sun,
out of an emergency. We were faced with the 1976 – boasted a 32-track recording facility. released in October 1977.

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BYRD IN THE BOOK

I am writing to correct an error in the Sound Factory in Hollywood on
your excellent Rare Record Price 3 and 4 April and 24 November 1972,
Guide. You list the Donald Byrd LP the result was Black Byrd, an album of
Black Byrd as being released in sublime, deeply beautiful and highly
1975. The album was, in fact, commercial fusion of jazz and soul.
released in 1973. If it is any When it was released in 1973, however,
consolation you got the release date American sales were nothing to write
for Places And Spaces from 1975 home about. “At first, people threw it
correct. Maybe this is the reason for away – literally I mean, too!” laughed
the confusion. Byrd. “Radio stations refused to even
Larry Nevin via email listen to it but the company felt so
Thanks so much for your strongly about it that they persevered
communication on this matter. with it and even sent out second and
Sadly, I regret to inform you that the third copies to the radio stations and
RRPG is right and you are wrong. DJs. And it suddenly caught on and
Yes, it is true that Black Byrd (Blue became the rage. And jazz started
Note BNLA 047 F, US) was changing and other musicians started
originally released in 1973 but that doing the same thing and the whole
was in America. It was not officially thing opened up.”
pressed in the UK until late 1975 Black Byrd was the first million-
and was reviewed in publications selling Blue Note album. Such was the
early in 1976. Here is why. LP’s success that the title track was
Born in Detroit in 1932, Donald released as a 7”, paired with Slop Jar
Byrd established himself as a jazz Blues (BNXW 212 W, US, £10),
trumpet player and began recording reaching the Top 20 of the Billboard
as a sideman and leader. His solo debut was Byrd’s Word (Savoy MG R&B chart and No 88 on the Hot 100. Byrd was soon in the studio again
12032, US, 1956, £500) which was released in the UK in a different with the Mizell Brothers on equally successful follow-ups Street Lady
picture sleeve (London LTZ 15039, £200). (BNLA 140 F, US, 1973, £40) and Stepping Into Tomorrow (BNLA 368
Byrd not only wrote music but studied arrangement and even spent G, US, 1975, £40).
time in Europe in the mid-60s arranging for orchestras in Oslo, Madrid, Black Byrd was not released in the UK in 1973 and could only be
Milan, Copenhagen and Berlin. bought as an expensive import. In January 1976, however, Byrd was
Though he still recorded under his own name, Byrd returned to coming to the UK to play live with the group he had nurtured, The
education, earning a doctorate. By the late 60s he was teaching at Blackbyrds, in support of his new LP – one of his best ever – Places And
Howard University in Washington but still releasing questing albums on Spaces, which was issued in the UK (UAG 20001, 1975, £50). The band
Blue Note, such as Electric Byrd (BST 84349, UK/US, 1970, £100) and played five dates at venues including the Hammersmith Odeon,
Ethiopian Knights (BST 84380, US, 1972, £100). It was at this point that Barbarella’s in Birmingham and the California Ballroom in Dunstable.
the Mizell Brothers came into his orbit. Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” were Thus, to coincide with the tour, Black Byrd got its first issue in the UK
students at Howard University, Larry studying engineering and Fonce at the end of 1975. Blues & Soul reviewed the LP, declaring: “The sheer
studying music. Fonce had by this time already written and co-produced a funk power of cuts such as Black Byrd and Flight Time still stands up
number of Jackson 5 hits as part of their “The Corporation” team. today and since this is the album’s first time around officially in this
The Mizell brothers urged Byrd to get into James Brown. “I’d never country and the man is currently on tour over here, I would predict good
even heard James Brown until this point,” Byrd told Blues & Soul in sales.” Of course, most of the Byrd sales at this time went to Places And
January 1976, “But when I did I went crazy because this guy symbolised Spaces which got to No 2 in the Blues & Soul jazz LP chart. But Black
my roots. My father, you see, was a Methodist minister but in learning Byrd did sell. And, since the Byrd/Mizell sound has accrued fans across
and studying jazz, it took me away from that raw natural sound. But generations and is still being discovered by younger listeners today, a
James Brown was roots and it got me to thinking if I could somehow Mint original is worth £50.
integrate my jazz with
that raw rock sound of
the James Browns of
the world. At this point
all the jazz musicians
were shying away from
rock because they felt
as though they would
be selling out if they
became involved at all.
But the rock groups
were getting deeper
and deeper into jazz
and so I knew it could
work if done properly.
Miles Davis and Herbie
Hancock had flirted
with the idea of
merging their jazz with
rock but they hadn’t
made that total
commitment. And that
was how the Black Byrd
album came about.”
Byrd convinced Blue
Note to put him into
the studio with the
Mizell Brothers as
writers, arrangers and
producers. Recorded at

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THE ACCLAIMED ALBUM OUT NOW

‘A record that confronts the idea of human obliteration. It’s an

act of fierce witness bearing. Segarra knows what it takes to
push up through the concrete and wire of a hostile environment,
and they present it with tender but unsentimental empathy.’
Mojo

‘This great American adventure comes across like an

On the Road for the age of face tattoos and fentanyl
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Our regular look at the more arcane corners of record collecting. Includes Vintage Venue and Label Of Love

IN THE FAMILY WAY arranged and conducted by Lex de Azevedo, who became well known as a film
composer and musician, and who happened to be yet another cousin.
THE FOUR KING COUSINS The gushing sleeve-notes praise the album’s “vocal freshness, unique
vitality and a spectacularly complete kind of music-making for our times’ every
Introducing… (Capitol ST 2990, LP, US, 1968) £40 musical generation.” The tracklist pays tribute to several of the decade’s major
music figures. Bacharach and David are represented by Walk On By and This
The US entertainment scene has always had a rich tradition of family acts. Girl’s In Love With You; Lennon and McCartney are here, too, courtesy of
And around the time the Jacksons, Osmonds and Cowsills came along, there Good Day Sunshine and Here, There And Everywhere; and the girls pay tribute
were also The Four King Cousins, whose 1968 debut album is an appealing to The Beach Boys with God Only Knows. Boyce & Hart’s I Wanna Be Free had
synthesis of easy listening and sunshine pop. been on The Monkees’ first album, and there are two fine songs from the
Tina Cole, Cathy Cole, Carolyn Thomas and Candy Wilson were indeed partnership of Roger Nichols and Paul Williams (Love So Fine, I Fell).
cousins and the latest generation of a musical It’s a satisfying blend of ballad and upbeat, with
dynasty going back to the Mormon Driggs family of lots of brass and strings. In a recent interview, Tina
entertainers. William King Driggs had five daughters summed up the overall feel of the group’s sound as
who began performing in the 1930s as The King simply “the happiest music”.
Sisters, working with big band legend Artie Shaw The girls played the Hollywood Bowl, Dallas, New
and scoring a hit with Glenn Miller’s In The Mood. Orleans and Disneyland, as well as engagements in
They appeared in several Hollywood movies in the Canada, France and Japan. But their follow-up
40s, and were regulars on radio in the years that album was to be almost 10 years off. The Way We
followed. They were arguably the first female vocal Were (Playboy Records PB 2003, 1977), issued
group to sing in four-part harmony. only in Japan, was another mix of pop hits, including
In 1965, they hosted their own ABC TV series, Love Will Keep Us Together, Solitaire and Killing Me
The King Family Show. And the following year their Softly With His Song, alongside the title track and a
daughters joined the cast of NBC’s Kraft Summer treatment of that Glenn Miller classic In The Mood,
Music Hall, calling themselves The Five King a nod to the legacy of their mothers.
Cousins. The show was hosted by actor/singer John At the dawning of the 80s, the cousins semi-
Davidson and included a young Richard Pryor in its retired to raise families, but in 2013 came a third
line-up. A nationwide tour followed, though the album, More Today Than Yesterday: Classic Songs
departure of one of the girls reduced them to four. Of The 60s And 70s, not new recordings but tracks
They made countless TV appearances on some cut decades earlier for various King Family TV
of American TV’s A-list shows: Don Knotts, Pat specials. Also in 2013 came their first live
Boone, Donald O’Connor, Barbara McNair, Merv performance in 30 years, at the Catalina Jazz Club
Griffin and many others. They were seen frequently in Los Angeles.
on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, often joining him In 2006, Cherry Red/El released Introducing…
in comedy sketches. on CD. Declaring it to be “one of the most elusive,
Alongside their career as Cousins, they appeared sunshine pop/harmony vocal albums of the late
regularly with their mothers. And Tina Cole began to 60s”, the label placed it “between the romantic
pursue acting roles in shows such as Hawaiian Eye classicism of The Association and Harpers Bizarre
and My Three Sons. and the early 70s pop MOR of The Carpenters”.
Their first King Cousins vinyl credit came in 1968 Chicago online store Dusty Groove described the
courtesy of Capitol Records. Introducing… The Four album as “a sublime blend of vocals and lightly
King Cousins contained 11 songs, lending their snapping rhythms that’s totally outta sight!”
trademark four-part harmonies to familiar Definitely worth your attention.
contemporary hits. Several members of the famous David Pearson
“Wrecking Crew” of sessioneers were in attendance,
with Joe Osborn’s bass particularly audible. Keeping The most recent reissue of Introducing… is
things in the family, the album was produced, Capitol Records UICY 79468, CD, Japan, 2021.

Vintage Venue you found some 84,000

square feet of space across
two floors.
H
Hello Cruel World. She was accompanied
by Americana artist, Lynne Hanson,
b
whose soulful voice has been likened
w
A regular look at unsung Slam ran every Friday tto that of Mary Chapin Carpenter. But
haunts near you between 1992 and 1998, tthe enthusiastic crowd had packed into
hosted by local techno tthe small auditorium to hear Gretchen,
No 52: The Arches, Glasgow producers of the same and they gave her a great reception. She
a
name, but with regular played new songs but also some of her
p
Hidden away beneath the imposing structure guests such as Underworld and nd best-known compositions including The
b
that is Glasgow’s Victorian-built Central Station Daft Punk. Slam then created Pressure, Aviator’s Song, The Secret Of Life, On A Bus
is a network of dark tunnels, situated in the a monthly event where house and techno were To St Cloud and When You Are Old. The sound
brick arches of the viaduct leading into the played across two rooms. quality in the Arches was pretty good, though in
railway station. The venue was a nurturing ground for quiet moments you could hear the low rumbling
In 1990 the area was used as a venue for emerging talent, playwright-performers, artists and of trains passing overhead.
a European City Of Culture event. One Andy musicians. But it also played host to gigs by some The Arches closed in 2015 after its licensing
Arnold then sought to develop the space as major artists, and among those to have played hours were curtailed, and the place went into
a theatre, and in order to fund this he staged there are KT Tunstall, Fatboy Slim, The Ting Tings, administration. In February 2018 it reopened as
nightclub events, something which would be Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Calvin Harris, a food market.
a regular feature on the Glasgow club scene Ronnie Spector and The Ronettes, Vashti Bunyan David Pearson
for more than 20 years. Some club nights were and Belle & Sebastian. A very varied mix.
promoted by outside companies, others were The place could seat 300 or so, much more If you know of an unsung music venue or
in-house productions. for standing-only concerts. In March 2012, US defunct record shop, send 300-400 words,
The entrance was in Midland Street below singer-songwriter, Gretchen Peters, played a set with a venue pic or scanned memorabilia,
the railway lines, a dark gloomy spot. Once in, with her band, promoting her then-new album to [email protected]

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MOON UNIT
[NO CREDITED ARTIST]
Journey To The Moon
(Pickwick International MOON 1, LP, UK, 1969) £4

The catalogue number says it all really. In an era

when even home video recorders were the stuff of
speculative science fiction for most people, this album
enabled the public to hear and retain an unforgettable
part of contemporary history. And truly, this is history.
Side One contains excerpts of recordings from the
Mercury and Gemini missions, including John Glenn.
Side Two features recordings from the Apollo 11 Moon
landing mission in July 1969.
The rear sleeve has a delightful mass of detail,
including biographies of the Apollo 11 team:
Michael Collins, Neil A Armstrong and Edwin E
Aldrin. There is also a “space talk jargon” glossary,
information about the moon and Apollo along with notes by C Bruce Sibley. The landing crew – Armstrong and Aldrin, with Collins remaining on his own in
What is “yaw”, for example? The glossary tells us that yaw is the movement orbit – then prepare to walk on the lunar surface as the world listens and waits.
of a spacecraft akin to a compass needle spinning. As Armstrong climbs down the ladder, he is guided by Aldrin, who will shortly
As the album progresses from its initial mix of music, spacey noises and join him. “How am I doing?” asks Armstrong at one point. “You’re doing fine,”
early-60s presidential announcements, Ed Moreno’s sonorous narration comes the reply. The exchange is deeply moving, given the astronauts were
declares that we are experiencing a chapter in mankind’s book of destiny. approximately 250,000 miles from Earth at the time.
Admittedly, the sound excerpts are sometimes hard to follow, which is Armstrong’s renowned “small step/giant leap” statement is included here.
acknowledged in the album’s introduction. Yet, as we hear the likes of John Almost as gripping are the intricate descriptions of walking on the moon. As
Glenn on Friendship 7 conversing with Mission Control, the occasionally Aldrin joins Armstrong on the surface, there is another overwhelming sense
blurry sound quality somehow heightens the intense drama. Elsewhere, of history being created. Later we hear the landing crew conversing with
the description of some missions’ problems is a sombre reminder of the President Richard Nixon. They sound calm, measured but justifiably proud.
immense risks involved. There is also an affecting moment when the narration tells us that Aldrin and
Side Two’s recordings are similarly awe-inspiring. The announcement Armstrong contacted Collins to describe their experiences.
from Mission Control as the Apollo 11 Moon mission launches captures this The Apollo 11 mission safely returned to Earth, landing on 24 July 1969.
exhilaration in simple terms – “We have a lift off.” The narration carefully sets This recording gives us much to think about, particularly as there are now
the scene, describing how the craft eventually enters the moon’s gravitational plans finally to return to the moon more than 50 years after the last crew
pull. The drama is palpable as the mission progresses, yet the astronauts’ landed. But the historic stature of the Apollo 11 mission remains, as this
composed, precise tones indicate their bravery and vast technical skills. And fascinating album reminds us.
then we hear the statement from the lunar module: “The Eagle has landed.” Steve Burniston

SAX APPEAL
STEVE DOUGLAS
King Cobra
(Fantasy F 9632, LP, US, 1984) £6

Saxophonist Steve Douglas (real name Steven

Douglas Kreisman) can be heard on several
early Duane Eddy records, including his first two
LPs. He’s particularly audible on Peter Gunn,
which opened 1959’s Especially For You and was
a No 6 hit in the UK. (The other side –
“Yep” – also appeared on the album, with
Douglas again strongly featured, and that, too,
made the charts.)
But the rigours of touring got to Douglas
(as they did to Buddy Holly, with fatal
consequences), and he quit The Rebels (Eddy’s
backing band) in 1959. He didn’t quit the
business, though, and became very much in-demand as a session player, commercial for Hovis bread that was voted the UK’s all-time favourite TV
appearing on The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds (1966) and Bob Dylan’s Live ad in 2006).
At Budokan (1979) – evidently touring conditions had improved over 20 The recorders on the title track conjure a hypnotic, Eastern feel, and
years. He would also put out several releases under his own name, on a there are jazzy improvisations on Jump Up and Wrapped Around Your
variety of labels. Finger (tenor sax and flute respectively). The former features the only
He produced and arranged his 1984 album, King Cobra (his second vocals on the album – scat singing by Barbara Mauritz, backed by Douglas
for Fantasy), writing or co-writing five of the nine tracks. And he played and Jeanette Sartain.
a wide variety of instruments across it – alto and tenor saxes, bass and The album is bookended by an original piece of mood music, Mystic
soprano recorders, flute, piano, organ, synthesiser and percussion. Plus Journey, and a punchy version of the standard Harlem Nocturne, Douglas
background vocals on one track. And there’s plenty of variety in the taking the lead on alto sax. If you’re a Cooder or Eddy completist you’ll
raunchy, romantic jazz melodies, too. obviously need this – but it’s far more than just a completist’s record.
Douglas’s old boss, Duane Eddy, guests on Douglas’ composition, Anybody who likes instrumentals – especially sax-led ones – will find this
Sashay, which wouldn’t have been out of place on an Eddy album, though well worth investigating.
instead of a guitar-and-sax-break it’s more an ongoing dialogue between King Cobra was issued only in the USA and Mexico, and only on vinyl
the two. A very effective track. Another guitar star, Ry Cooder, duets and cassette. It’s a fine album, well worth a CD reissue. Steve Douglas
with Douglas on The Everly Brothers’ Let It Be Me (guitar and saxophone died suddenly of heart failure in 1993, aged 54 – but he left behind
only). In a similar romantic vein is Going Home (actually part of the plenty of music that sounds great to this day.
second movement of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, famously used in a Simon Euan-Smith

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Steve Harley
1951-2024
By Paul Bowler

A
s frontman for Cockney Rebel, the poorly, prompting Harley to write the catchy heights, Cockney Rebel released two more
singer-songwriter crafted one of the Judy Teen as a corrective. The single reached albums before Harley went solo, releasing the
glam rock era’s greatest singles in No 5 in the UK. Second album The LPs Hobo With A Grin (1978) and The
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Psychomodo (1974) yielded another hit in Mr Candidate (1979). Both sold poorly,
Me). Born in south-east London, he Soft. Tensions within the band prompted a prompting a number of years largely spent
began his career as a trainee line-up change for third LP The Best Years Of away from the music scene though he
accountant with the Daily Express before Our Lives (1975), an artistic high watermark returned to the charts briefly in 1986, his
spending several years as a journalist on local full of brilliantly crafted songs, not least its duet with Sarah Brightman on the title song of
newspapers. Quitting in 1971, he briefly plied lead single Make Me Smile (Come Up and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The
his trade as a musician on London’s folk-rock See Me) which combined Harley’s scornful Opera reaching the Top 10.
circuit before forming Cockney Rebel the lyrics – aimed at his ex-bandmates – with Assembling a new line-up of Cockney
following year. Signed to EMI, their debut irresistible melodies, propelling it to the top of Rebel in 1989, he continued to tour and
album, The Human Menagerie (1973), sold the charts. Never regaining those commercial release albums into the 2020s.

Karl Wallinger, died 10 the group to concentrate on writing Like Today? For third album Bang!
March, age 66. The singer- his own material he formed World (1993), which reached No 2 in the
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Party in 1986, also working on UK charts, World Party became a
was a member of The Waterboys Sinéad O’Connor’s 1987 debut three-person group with Wallinger
before fronting World Party. Born in album, The Lion And The Cobra. joined by guitarist Dave Catlin-
Wales, he played in several bands World Party’s debut album, Private Birch, and drummer Chris
as keyboardist before spending a Revolution, was released in 1987 Sharrock (drums). Fourth effort,
Photo: (Steve Harley) Ans van Heck

brief period as the musical director and contained the hit single Ship Egyptology (1997), was less
of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Of Fools, which reached No 27 in successful but contained the song
In 1983 he joined The Waterboys the US charts. Wallinger’s output as She’s The One, which became
as a multi-instrumentalist, playing World Party over the coming years a chart-topping single in the UK
on the folk-rock group’s second established him as a highly gifted when covered by Robbie Williams
and third albums, A Pagan Place songwriter of brilliantly crafted, in 1999. A brain aneurysm in
(1984) and This Is The Sea (1985), 60s-influenced pop-rock through February 2001 led to a five-year
the latter featured their biggest hit, singles such as Put The Message In recovery period, before Wallinger
The Whole Of The Moon. Leaving The Box, Way Down Now, and Is It returned to touring in 2006.

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 OBITS

David Libert, died 20 February,

age 81. The US musician was a
founder member of 60s pop group
The Happenings, later becoming a
prominent artist manager. Formed
in 1961 The Happenings scored hit
singles with See You In September
(1966) and a cover version of George
& Ira Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm
(1967), both of which reached US
No 3. Leaving the group in 1970, TM Stevens, died 10 March,
he became the Alice Cooper Band’s age 72. The US bassist added his
road manager between 1971-1975, funk-infused playing to an eclectic
during the peak of their success. Later variety of artists. He began his
forming the David Libert Agency, he career as a jazz fusion guitarist with
managed the likes of George Clinton John McLaughlin’s One Truth Band.
and Parliament/Funkadelic, Bootsy In 1985 he contributed to James
Eric Carmen, died March, output belying his relative obscurity. Collins, and the Runaways. Brown’s latter-day hit Living In America
age 74. The US singer-songwriter He began his career as part of The while between 1986 and 1987 he
(second from right, above) was Gass, a group who fused blues and Vince Power, died 9 March, was a member of The Pretenders,
frontman for power pop group prog rock with Latin rhythms and age 76. The Irish music festival and with whom he recorded the 1986
Raspberries, later achieving solo whose debut album, Juju (1970), venue promoter founded and built the album Get Close. The following years
success with hits such as All By featured Peter Green on guitar. Mean Fiddler Music Group. Begun saw further demonstrations of his
Myself. Formed in the early 70s, Employed by The Jeff Beck Group as the Mean Fiddler venue in versatility, playing on LPs such as
Raspberries positioned themselves in as a singer he contributed to the Harlesden, London, which he opened Cyndi Lauper’s Night To Remember
opposition to prog rock’s grandiosity album, Rough And Ready (1971), in 1982, he grew the group to the (1989), Tina Turner’s Foreign Affair
with a sound built on British Invasion and the following year’s self-titled point it was controlling multiple (1989) and with Steve Vai on Sex &
bands such as The Beatles, The Who, follow-up. The ensuing years saw venues and events, including London Religion (1993) as part of Vai’s self-
and Small Faces. Carmen added a him contribute to LPs such as Ginger Astoria, Camden Jazz Café, the titled supergroup. Beginning his solo
McCartney-esque rock’n’roll holler Baker’s Stratovarious, blues legend Kentish Town Forum, the Leeds and career in the 90s, he released six LPs.
and wrote or co-wrote most of the Freddie King’s Burglar and Larger Reading festivals and the Phoenix and
group’s hits such as Go All The Way Than Life, Van Morrison’s Wavelength, Fleadh festivals. Others who passed away recently
(which reached US No 5 but whose Eric Burdon’s Darkness, Darkness include: Shigeichi Negishi,
UK success was curtailed by a BBC and Humble Pie’s On To Victory Cola Boyy, died 17 March, Japanese inventor of the Sparko
ban on account of its suggestive while he was also part of 70s bands age 34. The US indie pop multi- Box, the earliest Karaoke machine;
lyrics) as well as I Wanna Be With Hummingbird and The Streetwalkers. instrumentalist and singer, whose John Winn, US folk singer who was
You, Let’s Pretend, Tonight and real name was Matthew Urango, a contemporary and friend of Bob
Overnight Sensation (Hit Record). collaborated with the Avalanches, Dylan on the 60s Greenwich Village
Scorned by some critics for being MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden, Air’s folk scene; DJ Katapila, Ghanaian
too wimpy and clean-cut, the group Nicolas Godin and John Carroll Kirby. dance music producer who released
would have an enduring impact, cited As a solo artist his music moved albums on US label Awesome Tapes
as an influence by KISS, Cheap Trick through disco, funk, house and From Africa; Roni Stoneman,
and Bruce Springsteen. Going solo psychedelia styles and he released the American bluegrass banjo player
in 1975, Carmen smoothed out the album Prosthetic Boombox in 2021. and comedian best-known as a
rougher edges of his voice to become Born with spina bifida, he was a vocal cast member on the country music
a successful pop balladeer. Released disability rights and political activist. show Hee Haw; Eleanor Collins,
that year, his debut single All By singer who rose to prominence in
Myself, which borrowed its melody W. C. Clark, died 2 March, the 50s and was known as Canada’s
from Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano age 84. Dubbed ‘the Godfather Of first lady of jazz; Debra Byrd, US
Concerto No 2, reached No 2 in the Austin Blues’, the US guitarist played singer who scored a US Top 30 hit
US and 12 in the UK while 1976’s in Austin groups before joining Joe with the group Ladyflash, sang with
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again Tex’s band in the late 60s. In 1977 Barry Manilow and had a lengthy
reached US No 11. His successful he formed the Triple Threat Revue run as vocal coach on talent show
run of singles continued into the with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lou Ann American Idol; Paul Martinez, British
80s. Taken from the Dirty Dancing Barton, later recording solo albums session musician and songwriter who
soundtrack, Hungry Eyes reached Top Brit Turner, died 3 March, age for Black Top Records. In 1997 his worked with Robert Plant, Chicken
5 in the US, as did 1988’s Make Me 57. The US musician (above) was fiancée and drummer died in a road Shack, and The Adverts. He was on
Lose Control. the founding drummer for country accident in the van he was driving. bass duties in 1985 when Page,
rock band Blackberry Smoke. Formed He rebuilt his career, recording Plant and Jones reunited for the
Randy Sparks, died 11 in Atlanta in 2000, they released albums for Alligator. Tony Burke Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium,
February, age 90. The US singer- their debut album, Bad Luck Ain’t Philadelphia; Boss, Detroit rapper
songwriter was the founder of folk No Crime, in 2003. Their fourth B. B. Seaton, died 4 March, who was one of the first women to
group the New Christy Minstrels. studio album, Holding All the Roses, age 79. The Jamaican singer sign to Def Jam Recordings; Blake
Formed in 1961, the band became topped the US country albums chart and songwriter was best known Harrison, US multi-instrumentalist
renowned for their vocal harmonies, in 2015, a feat repeated by the as a member of reggae group The who contributed samples and layered
scoring US hits with Green, Green, following year’s Like An Arrow. They Gaylads. He began his career in noise to grindcore group Pig Destroyer
Photos: (Karl Wallinger) courtesy World Party, (Brit Turner, TM Stevens) Facebook

Today, Saturday Night and Denver. released eight albums in total. the early 60s at producer Clement between 2006 and 2022; Ronnie
Their debut album, Presenting The Dodd’s Studio One, recording solo King, bassist and co-founding
New Christy Minstrels, won a Grammy Steve Lawrence, died 7 before forming the duo Winston & member of 60s/70s Canadian rock
Award for best performance by a March, age 88. The American Bibby with Winston Delano Stewart. band The Stampeders; Judi Pulver,
chorus and stayed on the Billboard singer was best-known as one half of Joined by Maurice Roberts, the US singer-songwriter best-known for
chart for two years while they were pop vocal duo Steve And Eydie. First group changed their name to The the single Dancing On The Moon,
regulars on US TV. Beyond The New meeting fellow singer Eydie Gormé as Gaylads. Seaton briefly left to join The and later a long-time sales executive
Christy Minstrels, Sparks helped boost a teenager, the pair began working Astronauts before rejoining the group for both The Hollywood Reporter and
the careers of emerging performers together on the Tonight Starring at the end of the ska era, a period Variety; Freddie Chavez, US singer
through his “farm group” called the Steve Allen TV show in 1954. which saw him co-write hits such as who recorded the Northern soul
Back Porch Majority including Steve Married from 1957 until Gormé’s Lady With The Red Dress, Hard to anthem They’ll Never Know Why; Jim
Martin, John Denver, Kenny Rogers death in 2013, the pair were hugely Confess, Over The Rainbow, and My Beard, US pianist and keyboardist
and Gene Clark of The Byrds. popular touring artists in the 60s and Jamaican Girl. Leaving the group in who worked with Wayne Shorter, John
70s and regulars on US talk shows. 1972 he resumed his solo career, McLaughlin, and Pat Metheny. He
Bobby Tench, died 19 As a solo artist known for his smooth, releasing hit singles like Accept had been a member of Steely Dan’s
February, age 79. The guitarist easy listening croon, he also scored My Apology and Lean on Me. touring group since 2008.
and vocalist played with the likes of hits of his own, topping the US chart Signed by Virgin Records, he became
Jeff Beck, Peter Green, Ginger Baker, in 1963 with the pop ballad Go the first reggae artist to be contracted All obituaries by Paul Bowler
and Van Morrison, his significant Away Little Girl. to the label. unless otherwise stated.

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davidquanticklikes
...to write a column for Record Collector. Yay
Baby, comeback!

The other day I was listening to some Art human face forever. And it’s a world
Garfunkel – as you do – when, in among where bands come back so often you end
the choice covers (I Believe When I Fall up keeping a spare bed made up for
In Love, Disney Girls) and total Ibiza them and always have their favourite
rave anthem bangers (Bright Eyes, I cereal in the cupboard.
Only Have Eyes For You, and some Once upon a time, a comeback was
other songs about eyes), there arrived a considered totally ill-advised. Remember
sudden clutch of doomy piano notes, not when The Doors made Other Voices, an
unlike the intro to Seven Nation Army, album which was OK but could easily
but doomier and more piano-laden. It have been called Other, Less Good Voices?
was the intro to My Little Town, the Recall if you will Sly Stone’s Heard Ya
song that Paul Simon wrote for Art in Missed Me, Well I’m Back, a record
the mid-70s, which became a one-off whose follow-up should have been called
reunion record for Simon & Garfunkel I’ll Get My Coat. And let’s never forget
(and as such appeared on both parties’ the endless reunions of punk bands with
solo album – now there’s a column: mildly different line-ups and identical
Songs Which Appeared On Both Parties’ beer guts, later to be followed by
Solo Albums. No, you go first). jumbled-up versions of ska bands (The
Beat AKA, Bad Selecter, etc), stouter
Remember when The indie bands, and most recent of all,
shoegaze bands: we live in a world where
Doors made Other there is nostalgia for Slowdive.
Voices, which could There have been great comebacks, of (except the Electric Light Orchestra, but
course. Roxy Music returned to their you never know. Maybe Roy Wood and
have been called Other, greatest pop success at the end of the Jeff Lynne might have a free afternoon)
Less Good Voices? 70s, while Scott Walker took a break from Girls Aloud to Dexys. Some bands
from recording Theme From The are splitting up just to reunite, and other
I love My Little Town because it Cowboy Man and The Inflammable bands have reunited 100 times, like
reminds me of the real 70s: not the Humpy Merkle to reinvent himself with Madness and Blur, who are basically
flares-and-disco, zany sideburns and genuinely terrifying solo albums at the Madness for students. Soon, bands will
curious-abundance-of-spliff fictional 70s end of the 20th century. And, in a move reunite before they have even split up,
but the dark, exhausted 70s of paranoia, that delighted fans of the unexpected and have comebacks before they’ve
disillusionment and cynicism. “I pledged everywhere, the two founder members of released their first song.
allegiance to the wall” is a brilliant line, Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley and Howard There’s an old joke, attributed to
bleak and sceptical, but it’s ponies and Devoto, reunited as Buzzkunst to record Billy Connolly, which I will now repeat:
balloons compared to the final chorus of a fantastic album in the early 2000s that “What’s the definition of a Scottish
“nothing but the dead and dying in my sounded as if the original band had boomerang? It doesn’t come back, it just
little town”. Vietnam rages, dreams continued into the modern era. sings about coming back.” The problem
don’t come true, and the only people Recommended if you can track it down, with rock music (and probably every
feeling groovy are bleeding cocaine from pop kids. other kind of music) is that it doesn’t
their nostrils. And sometimes it’s the comeback just come back, it keeps on coming back,
Sadly, it was a comeback single that that’s the fire and the spark. Look at and it keeps on singing, and there’s
didn’t lead to a comeback album: what a Mott The Hoople, who had officially nothing we can do about it. Band
grim classic that could have been, right decided to split up when Bowie heard reunions are like school reunions: they
up there with those late period Leonard about it and gave them All The Young should only happen once, they’re always
Cohen records. But it did raise the bar Dudes, thereby giving Mott their first hit a bit embarrassing, they go on too long,
for comebacks and reunions in general. and a new career. Then there’s Joy and you always end up stuck in a corner
We live in an era where the past is no Division who lost a singer, became New with that strange kid who claimed his
longer a foreign country: it’s this Order, got accused of being all kinds of dad was a test pilot when everyone knew
country, or rather a version of it where things, and rose again to great acclaim. he worked in Fine Fare.
heritage rock is nourished like a dying Or Manic Street Preachers, who suffered At least The Beatles are never going
great-great-grandparent, full of tubes and a similar loss and reinvented themselves to come back. Eh?
boxed sets. It’s a Remember The 90s magnificently. It can work.
Britpop Festival poster stamping on a But these days everyone is reuniting David Quantick tweets @quantick

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LORNE BALFE SAM BEAM

Top Gun Maverick composer Iron & Wine singer on his
on his latest venture seventh studio effort, featuring
Fiona Apple
Tell us a bit about your most
recent project. Tell us about the new album.
Working on the new Beverly Hills Cop Fiona Apple kindly loaned her voice
movie, the second time working with to the duet, All In Good Time, and
Harold Faltermeyer’s themes, after there’s a 24-piece orchestra on
Top Gun: Maverick. Working with 80s a number of tracks.
analogue synths is exceptional fun. What was your first record?
Is there anything still unissued? Lionel Richie, Can’t Slow Down.
Plenty of early band songs What records that you own may
and experiments. surprise fans?
Have you done anything that Kyuss, Cannibal Corpse,Deafheaven.
fans may not know about? The theme for Kung Fu Panda 3 written Which album, on first-listen, is Of all the people that you’ve worked
Jingles, from Stannah stairlifts to with my father. the most startling you ever heard? with, who taught you the most?
Coca-Cola, and quite a few films. With whom would you most Capt Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica. Producer, Brian Deck, on arranging and
What’s the last album like to record? What LPs most influenced you? persistence. Jesca Hoop on escaping
that you bought? Depeche Mode or Stevie Wonder. Leonard Cohen Songs Of, Low Curtain your comfort zone. Joey and John of
Peter Gabriel i/o. What’s your favourite songwriter’s Hits The Cast, JJ Cale Naturally, New Calexico for nurturing a community.
Was anyone in your family best lyric? Order Low Life, Cowboy Junkies Trinity. Who’d you like to produce?
a musician? Peter Gabriel, Big Time. Where were you when you first I’m heading to the studio with
My father wrote songs, including Blue Is Of all the people that you’ve worked heard one of your songs on vinyl? Tift Merritt.
The Colour for Chelsea FC. with, who taught you the most? 2002, in a rented apartment in Miami, With who’d you most like to record?
Have you kept studio notebooks My father, on the importance of a good Florida – Call Your Boys 7”. Michael Kiwanuka, Weyes Blood, Sade,
or the like? tune and approaching every project with What’s the oddest thing that’s Devendra Banhart, Caroline Shaw.
I have all musicians and contributing a new voice. And also Hans Zimmer, inspired a song? What song would you contribute to
team members sign the scores from about being a filmmaker and Anyone’s Game, inspired by Vasko a tribute album?
sessions as a memento. understanding storytelling. Popa’s strange, wonderful poems. Laura Nyro, Eli’s Coming.
Who’s taken music forward If you drove an ice cream van, What backstage incident makes you What’s your favourite songwriter’s
in the last decade? what’d it play? laugh most? best lyric?
U2 at The Sphere and ABBA’s Voyage. The theme to Midsummer Murders. First time we played Los Angeles, our Edie Brickell, What I Am.
What’s your most prized I love the composer, Jim Parker, who guitarist told us he’d dreamed he was Dying peacefully on your deathbed,
music item? created a truly unique, catchy theme, chumming around with Winona Ryder. what’d you like to hear?
The first synth that my parents gave me, and a fantastic score. We laughed, played the show, then, Bill Evans, Peace Piece.
my Yamaha DX7. a knock on the door. Winona Ryder
Which of your songs is the most Beverly Hills Cop 4 is in cinemas was standing there. Everybody was so Iron & Wine Light Verse CD, LP,
personally meaningful? on 3 July. shocked, we sat frozen, in silent awe. yellow LP are on Sub Pop, 26 April.

KIESZA Joni Mitchell, Death Cab For Cutie,

Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury,
The Beatles’ Revolution 9.
Do you keep a diary?
Canadian dance/folk artist on Pink Floyd, Boney M, Barbra I write with both my right and left
her latest endeavour Streisand, Robin S, C+C Music hands, and they both have different
Factory and Andrew Lloyd Webber. personalities. So, different pages for
Tell us about your new album. Is anyone in your family each hand.
It’s a fusion of electronic/house music, a musician? Do you plan a book?
and folk/Americana/singer-songwriter. My uncle’s a violin player/producer, Yes. I’ve been working on it for years.
If you could re-visit any of your my dad plays piano, mum, guitar, It will take many more.
albums, what’d you change? two cousins are musicians, and my Is there a myth about you that
I’d re-record my first album. I had to brother, Chase Ellestad, has multiple you’d like to set straight?
write it in a rush. music projects. Some people have confronted me
Is there anything still unissued? What’d you ask your hero? about being an alien! Recently, a
A bunch of early content gathering Joni Mitchell. What inspires and photographer whispered in my ear,
digital dust. unlocks her creatively? “I know you aren’t human.”
Have you done anything that fans What’s the oddest circumstance Who’d you most like
may not know about? that’s inspired a song? to record with?
I co-wrote Donkey Boy’s Trigger Finger. A dinosaur dig in Wyoming, and my Air Mozart. My friend is a medium,
With whom would you like to make B&B host’s stories. He recites a poem Chainsaw Melody, about my best so it’s not impossible!
a split 7”? on an upcoming single. friend passing away. Who’s your favourite songwriter?
David Bowie. Have you ever collected anyone? What backstage incident makes Bob Dylan.
Who’d you like to remix? Pink Floyd, on cassette. you laugh most? Was there ever a life-changing
Lucky Love. I’m obsessed. Is there an unusual story about My luggage didn’t arrive and I had Sliding Doors moment?
Where were you when you first a record that came into nothing to wear at an arena A car crash. I’m grateful to be alive.
heard one of your songs on vinyl? your possession? performance during the Jingle Ball What unfulfilled ambitions
Hideaway, 2014, in someone’s Bono wrote me a note backstage at tour. Sam Smith let me use his do you have?
living room. the European Music Awards and gave makeup, and my dancers and To build a shelter for Penguins
What was your favourite record me signed vinyl. I performed in pyjamas. in Antarctica.
shop when you started out? Who’d you like to cover What fact about you may surprise If you drove an ice cream van,
credit: (Lorne Balfe) Marcus Maschwitz

HMV. one of your songs? your fans? what’d it play?

What was your first record? Cardi B and Celine Dion, duet. I was in the Canadian Navy. Hideaway.
The Tarzan soundtrack. Which of your songs What record that you own may Dying peacefully on your deathbed,
What’s the last album would you segue? surprise fans? what’d you like to hear?
that you bought? Dancing And Crying, Phantom Of Mindless Self-Indulgence Frankenstein Birds and whale song.
I AM Ecdysis. The Dance Floor. Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy.
What records most influenced you? Which of your songs is the most If you had a record-listening party, Kiesza Dancing And Crying Vol I
Cat Stevens, Damian Rice, Bob Dylan, personally meaningful? what’d you play? is on Kartel on 24 May.

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ISOBEL CAMPBELL
Ex-Belle & Sebastian singer on
her latest solo foray

What film could your new

endeavour soundtrack?
Midnight Cowboy, or a Judd Apatow
movie with Paul Rudd [laughs].
Is there anything still unissued?
There is, scattered in many sheds
and garages across the globe.
A cassette tape recording from ’95
including Is It Wicked Not To Care,
is, I bet, at my mum’s house.
What unfulfilled ambitions
do you have?
I’ve always wanted to make a soul
JEFF SLATE record, and do a little behind-the-
scenes writing, like for Mark Lanegan.
Earl Slick collaborator on his Where were you when you first
latest, star-studded set heard one of your songs on vinyl?
In bed, rudely awakened, at the old
Tell us about your collaboration family home, at 12, Northland Drive,
with Dave Stewart, Duff McKagan, Scotstoun, Glasgow, cursing and
et al. seething. I didn’t move out until
It was born in the early days of I was 25 – some kind of safety net,
the pandemic, and I corralled some alongside the creature comforts.
musician friends. My mother took Belle & Sebastian’s
Is there anything still unissued? success as her own personal triumph
Mindless Thinkers’ album of ’85, and woke me up every morning with
and when I recorded an EP under the the records blasting: Tigermilk, If
auspices of Pete Townshend in the You’re Feeling Sinister, The Gentle
90s, there’s was an album’s worth Waves. Blew the speakers on her
of material. record-player! Baby boomer
Where were you when you first parenting, and she was one of the dodos responsible Marlborough Avenue, Broomhill, Glasgow, feeling
heard one of your songs on vinyl? for buying Engelbert Humperdinck’s Release Me inexplicably sad and bereft – a feeling that creeps up
Mindless Thinkers, age 18. I wasn’t and keeping Strawberry Fields from No 1. Yuck! from time to time. Standing in yogi’s tree pose,
happy with the recordings! What was your favourite record shop observing a wood pigeon, thinking ‘WTF’.
What record was most influential when you started out? Do you plan a book?
on your style? The first floor of John Smith’s Book Shop, Byres Road, I met with a publisher last year. At first, I felt very
Small Faces There Are But Four. Hillhead, Glasgow. I worked there, along with Andrew resistant. I burst into tears in the meeting and had to
Have you kept studio notebooks Divine, who DJ’d at the Art School, Good Foot, and run out. Everything felt so bleak on the train ride
or the like? Stephen Pastel. They had the best record collections home. But I’m coming around now. Lots of stuff has
I keep everything! and knew what’s what. Also, Missing Records, been percolating. It’ll be a good challenge once
Have you ever collected anyone? Wellington Street, Glasgow, where I acquired Orange I carve out time, get disciplined and focused, and just
I’m an avid collector: The Who, The Juice’s You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever really get my shit together somehow and hurry before
Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Jam, The LP second-hand. Bliss! I forget everything!
Clash, The Kinks, Small Faces, to What was your first record? Of all the people that you’ve worked with, who
name but a few! On my first solo outing to Clydebank in 1987 with taught you the most?
What’s your most prized Fiona McLellan, I bought Taylor Dayne’s Tell It To My Bill Wells. 200% for the music, 200% of the time. No
music item? Heart, from Boots. The next vinyl that I bought was BS. Just music! I’m the same. I don’t think that I’d
Paul Simonon’s cap, from the Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son of consider staying in the rancid music
Combat Rock tour.
Which album, on first-listen, is the
A Seventh Son in 1988, from In
Echo, Byres Road, Glasgow. Bit
“THE RANCID business, with all its repulsive
stresses and strains, for longer than
most startling that you ever heard?
Bob Dylan Time Out Of Mind.
of a U-turn!
What record made you want
MUSIC BUSINESS two seconds, if I didn’t love music so
much. That’s why I stay. Bill’s always
If you had a record-listening to go pro? IS ALL REPULSIVE had this open approach to creating
party, what’d you play, and Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto Getz/ and been a constant, loyal friend,
who’d you invite? Gilberto. Astrud Gilberto’s STRESSES AND sharing what he’s discovering and
Otis Redding’s Otis Blue,
with Paul Weller.
singing led me to believe that
perhaps I might sing. Singing
STRAINS, BUT listening to. That’s inspiring. Equally,
Evie Sands. An honour knowing her,
With whom would you
most like to record?
along felt transportive, uplifting.
What records most influenced
I LOVE MUSIC” sharing discussions, ideas, outlooks,
and hearing her paving the way.
Pete Townshend. We’ve talked about it your style? Which of your homes should have a blue plaque?
before. And Paul Weller, who offered Getz/Gilberto, and Lee Hazlewood’s Nancy & Lee, Flat 2/1, 90, Marlborough Avenue. I spent all my time
to contribute to this album, but it which inspired Mark [Lanegan] and I on Ballad during nine years there in the tiny kitchen, writing all
didn’t happen. He’s asked me and Of The Broken Seas. the songs for Ballad Of The Broken Seas, Sunday At
Earl to come to record, so I’m hoping Which of your songs is the most personal? Devil Dirt and Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart. A real
he’ll be around. Something To Believe. So many of the songs that monk’s existence – all I did back then. I’d sit in the
What’s your favourite songwriter’s I wrote for the big guy were so fragile, acoustic and kitchen or by the piano, writing, then head to the
best lyric? sparse. Sometimes Mark hated me for that, I think studio, back and forth I went. That was it! Very
John Lennon: “God is a concept, [laughs]. He used to say, “I feel like I’m butt naked”. focused and reclusive, writing songs for Mark and
credit: credit: (Isobel Campbell) VV NKD RH

by which we measure our pain. But part of him was enjoying and gaining from that duets for us. I also lived in Eddie Van Halen’s
I’ll say it again.” experience. I used to love standing to one side, childhood home for three years. He showed up at the
Dying peacefully on your deathbed, listening to that rich, deep voice. On The Circus Is door one Sunday morning in October 2019. I was in
what’d you like to hear? Leaving Town, you could hear a pin drop. He felt very bed. My other half answered the door and didn’t invite
George Harrison, The Answer’s exposed, but he delivered night after night. Both of him in! The plaque on that home would be Eddie’s
At The End. those songs are very personal, very descriptive of me, and Alex’s!
my worldview, existential crisis and loneliness, and
Jeff Slate The Last Day Of Summer life’s experience. I remember working on Something Isobel Campbell Bow To Love blue, yellow LPs,
is on Schnitzel, 17 May. To Believe, gazing out of the lounge window at 90, 2CD are on Cooking Vinyl, 17 May.

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obin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins’ No, that’s your fucking journalistic
guitarist and custodian, is a master bollocks [laughs]. Heaven Or Las Vegas was
songwriter, producer, musician quite simply the next natural record to make
and sonic architect, one of the after Blue Bell Knoll in 1988. It was just a
pioneers of shoegaze/dreampop. new place and some new equipment and,
The eight Cocteau Twins albums “Let’s get back in there.” The albums all
that Guthrie, vocalist Liz Fraser and bassists 33 1/3 minutes seem like that to me. All the recordings
Will Heggie and Simon Raymonde recorded
between 1979 and 1997 eschew
with... I ever did, from when I was young to
the song I recorded this morning, all
conventional routes to beauty for a new feel like one long line to me. Same shit,
advanced form of studio sorcery.
Guthrie, now 61, lives in rural France
with his family, adding regularly to a large
Robin Gutrie different day.

When were you happiest in the band?

store of solo releases via Bandcamp and Interview: Joel McIver Pretty much all the time. Liz and I had that
collaborating on Cocteau Twins reissues as Scottish underdog attitude, mixed with a
they come along. When we meet via video teenage spirit and a lot of hairspray and other
call, the man on the screen may resemble a nonsense. We had this huge internal
bearded sage more than he does the confidence that we were the best thing ever.
hairsprayed goth of yore, but the passion is But we couldn’t come out and say that
still there, along with a zero-tolerance because it would make us sound like a bunch
approach to music-industry nonsense – as we of wankers. Typical Scottish – you don’t big
found out when we asked him about yourself up because your pals at home will
surround sound mixes. think you’re a cunt. I’m probably still a bit
like that.
Bonjour, Robin. How does the Cocteau
Twins’ catalogue stand up nowadays, Did you get ripped off?
as you see it? Everybody got ripped off in the 80s, it wasn’t
I used to have this thing that I said when I just us. The deals were pretty poor, and we
was basically a child, in my twenties – and I were just youngsters who had this dream of
definitely still was a child in my twenties, making a record. That dream got fulfilled
because I was in a band. I was very idealistic pretty quickly, and from that point on we
back then, and I used to think that every were making it up as we went along. The end
time we made a new record, people would of it was a bit of a clusterfuck and a bit of a
have to send the old ones back and have surprise to me, as I was the last person to
them melted down. Just to allow space for know [laughs]. I was too busy doing my
the new album, because the more somebody thing to actually notice personal relationships
knows something, the closer they hold onto
“It was harsh, the way or other people’s agendas. I truly believed
it, and the bigger your catalogue gets, the we were chewed up by that everybody was on the same page as me.
more it gets like that. the music business and Some of those around me, people who were
very close, didn’t necessarily have my best
A lot of your fans are so passionate about shat out the other end” interests at heart, and neither did the
the music that it’s practically a part of multinational record company, although I
their identity. various different media, but I haven’t done assumed they did.
Yeah, but I live in the here and now, so I any of that gimmicky surround sound shite.
accept that, but it comes with certain I’m getting an awful lot of flak for that, but Do people still ask if you’ll ever get
frustrations. If you’re constantly reminded to take some of the music and have it coming back together?
every day of what you did when you were 19, towards the back of your head? I don’t think Yes, and my answer is that my life’s better
it gets a bit old. I’m grateful, but I really have so. When you mix these songs, the sound than that now. It was pretty harsh, the way
to put that to one side. I guess it’s horribly that’s on the actual multitrack tapes is not the we were chewed up by the music business
demotivating to say that to fans who have sound that’s on the record. So much of the and then shat out the other end. I don’t really
taken the music completely to heart and been magic, if that’s the word, takes place in the want to do that again. I make music on my
affected by it and made it the soundtrack to mix. It’s more than just the sum of the parts. terms now. I don’t have an audience or a
their lives. record company behind me, but I still do the
Has your band’s story been told accurately same thing now that I did then. It’s relevant
You’ve always been the de facto curator of over the years? for me but it’s highly irrelevant for anybody
the catalogue, in sonic terms anyway. No. The assumed narrative is so off-kilter else on the planet, and I’m okay with that.
Yes – I spent about three months this year that it’s like I’m reading about other people. Going back would also be pretty disrespectful
just doing mastering and retracing all the You must know this as a journalist, but when to the Cocteau Twins’ legacy. Sorry to all the
steps of the old catalogue and getting my somebody takes a quote out of context from bands that have gone away and then come
head right back into that headspace. And you 35 years ago, it snowballs and it becomes back, but thanks to them doing that, I know
know what, it wasn’t much fun [laughs]. It people’s perceived reality. It was wrong at the I don’t want to do it myself.
was quite a difficult time in some ways. beginning and it’s going to continue to be
There was a lot of stuff going on back then, more and more wrong. That’s the internet for It’s a catalogue like no other.
so revisiting that was quite emotional, and you: the post-2016 idea of an alternate truth. Well, thank you. It’s pretty good, isn’t it?
really demanding in terms of technical I get alienated by some of that stuff. It’s like, We’re talking about music that was made 40
concentration. You had to get it right. oh, fuck off. years ago, so it’s quite humbling to know that
Photo: Jeanne Aimon

it’s still around and that people still love it.

Will we see 5.1 surround sound mixes The received wisdom is that Heaven Or
from you at some point in the future? Las Vegas was a big hit in 1990 and the A vinyl reissue of Milk & Kisses is out now
I’ve taken great care to prepare the music for best album you ever did. What’s your view? on the Proper label.
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INTERVIEW

“THINGS CAN
GO VERY
BADLY WRONG”
But not too often. The Iron Maiden singer, aviator, business mogul and award-
winning everyman, Bruce Dickinson, returns with a new solo album,
The Mandrake Project – Top 10 across the planet at the time of writing – and a
ton of anecdotes about his extraordinarily successful career. Just don’t try and
put him in a box. “I’m not a number, I’m a free man!” he warns Joel McIver.

ruce Dickinson and I are sipping Dickinson works so hard onstage during Ballet School when she was young, but my
Earl Grey and munching slices of Maiden performances that he loses several grandmother wouldn’t let her go. She got
cake in Rhythm & Brews, a pounds in water every night. pregnant with me and married Dad, who was
pleasant, rock’n’roll-themed café It’s a sign of his work ethic that the in the army at the time, and they went off and
that the Iron Maiden singer used release of the new album and this summer’s had a bit of a life while my grandparents
to frequent over the 30 years that supporting tour dates are sandwiched in looked after me. I went to primary school
he lived in Chiswick, west London. Some between two huge world tours with Iron while my parents were off doing a performing
bloke on a laptop on the next table appears Maiden, a band that is – like its undead dog act. There’s a photograph of Mum in a
to be eavesdropping on the Record Collector mascot, Eddie – a monster of mythical leotard holding up a hoop with this little
interview, but whatever he hears Dickinson strength. If anything, this 49-year-old yappy thing jumping through it and Dad
saying, he probably doesn’t believe a word. institution should be slowing down at this going “Voilà!” So yes, that’s probably where it
After all, how many people can honestly point, but Maiden seem to be getting bigger comes from, to a certain extent.
say that they’ve played arenas around the and bigger. I put it to Dickinson that most
world, flown jumbo jets, dropped a rock band people in his position would take a break Could you sing when you were a kid?
into a war zone (Sarajevo, 1994) and amassed between world tours. I have no idea, because I didn’t do any
a list of civilian, military, academic and He chuckles and simply says, “It’s time singing. When I was at school at the age of
scientific honours while still finding the time to make hay while the sun shines.” 10 or 11, we had to go to church and sing
for solo musical, writing and TV careers, hymns. I was taking the piss and singing
actively running an aerospace company and You were born on 7 August 1958 in really, really loud, and probably because he
holding down directorships on a dozen more? Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Was there was deaf, the vicar – whose name was
We’re here, alongside guitarist and music around when you were young? Reverend B.S. Sharp – came up to me and
producer Roy Z, to discuss Dickinson’s new Dad fancied himself as a beatnik when he was said, “You have a very fine voice, boy,” which
solo album, his seventh since 1990. Like younger, and there was a beat-up guitar lying stuck with me.
everything he embarks on, The Mandrake around that was unplayable. He used to have
Project is meticulously planned, accompanied a lot of records by Frankie Laine and people When did rock music come into the
by three graphic novels and a comic prequel like that. I mean, he was really cool – [the picture for you?
that comes with the vinyl release of its first 1957 western movie] 3.10 To Yuma is one of Well, this is interesting. For a lot of my
single, Afterglow Of Ragnarok. my all-time favourite soundtracks. It took me childhood, I lived in the basement of a hotel
We could easily discuss the occult and a while to appreciate what a genius Johnny that my parents ran. A pop band used to
philosophical themes of The Mandrake Cash was, too, but with maturity comes these come and stay on a regular basis; they were
Project, all afternoon, before we even things. Anyway, my dad was an incorrigible quite exotic, because they had long hair and
touched on the 44 years’ worth of work since singer in the pub when he was pissed, and he stack heels. They were called The Casuals
he first appeared on vinyl (Samson’s Head had a decent tenor voice, but there was no and they had a minor hit in 1968 with a
On album, 1980). musicality in the family whatsoever. track called Jesamine. They were playing
Sure, we might work our way through all clubs like the local Top Rank or whatever,
Photo: John McMurtrie

of Rhythm & Brews’ supplies of cake, but Your parents performed onstage in various and they drove around in a splitter bus, so
you doubt that would do him any harm. An capacities. Did you get the showbiz bug I was like, “Whoa!” One of them showed me
athletic fellow despite his 65 years of age and from them? how the electric guitar worked, and it was the
an episode of throat cancer a few years back, Well, Mum got a scholarship to the Royal most exotic thing I’d ever seen. And then
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Points to prove: Dickinson
isn’t slowing down
any time soon
“It was the best thing I ever did” (this page, left to right): Dickinson makes his solo
bow for Tattooed Love Boys in 1990; in 1994, after leaving Maiden the previous year for our label, which I think
was RCA – the Recording
I got to boarding school, and that’s when I kids. I was one and my mate was Cemetery of America, you
heard all this music – ELP’s Tarkus LP and the other one, so we monopolised know: Elvis never out of
stuff like that. To this day, if I hear, “Take a all this stuff, and on a Wednesday stock... I noticed that in the
pebble and cast it to the sea”, I’m back in 1974 afternoon 20 or 30 of us would photos, I was prominently
in the prep room at boarding school, lonely as say, “We’d like to form a special unit,” and the five paces ahead of everybody else in the band.
fuck, and locked up away from normal people. teachers would say, “Jolly good, chaps.” So, I realised that this was now going to be “Samson
we’d say, “Right, let’s go and have a war” and featuring Bruce Dickinson”, and I thought,
What kind of kid were you? we’d take weapons with blank ammo and “I don’t want to be the solo bloke, I want to be
I was annoying. My history teacher accused me thunderflashes and shoot at each other in the in a band.” It was going nowhere fast.
of having a grasshopper mind, and I thought, woods for two hours.
“Why is that a bad thing?” I was quite into When did you first encounter Iron Maiden?
amateur dramatics, so I was in all the school You considered a career in the army after The first time I saw Maiden was at what was
plays. I used to play everything for laughs: if I leaving school. then the Music Machine in Camden. Samson
could get a laugh, I would. Actors take their Yes, I did army camps, and got thrown out of were headlining because our management had
craft very seriously, and I can’t really do that. helicopters, and did leadership courses and all bankrolled the gig and said, “We want the top
kinds of shit like that before I got kicked out of slot,” although we didn’t really deserve it. That
You went to Oundle, a private school in school, when I joined my local Territorial became obvious when Maiden came on, because
Northamptonshire, but you were kicked out Army as a private up in Sheffield. I was there the whole place was rammed. I’d heard rumours
for urinating in a teacher’s food. about six months and then I went to uni at about how good they were, and I thought I’d
It’s true. I also had two tons of manure delivered Queen Mary College in London. I went to an better see them. When they came out, I
to one of the masters. I couldn’t handle the fact officer training course, but I only lasted about thought, “I’ve never seen Deep Purple, but this
that everybody’s seniority was decided when three sessions, because they were a bunch of is what it must have felt like to see Deep Purple
they arrived, not on whether they were any good wankers compared to my TA unit up in in their prime, rocking up a storm.”
at anything. The Japanese have a saying: the nail Sheffield, who were steelworkers and
that stands up is always hammered down. I was bricklayers and so on. I think the army had a What did you think of Maiden’s frontman
always the nail that stood up, except they very lucky escape that I didn’t join them. Paul Di’Anno as a singer?
couldn’t fucking hammer me down. Mind you, He was OK, but he didn’t have a lot of flex to
I’d be jailed now for the shit we used to do at You joined the metal band Samson in 1979 his voice. I thought his voice had come as far as
that school. We were blowing stuff up with high and stayed for two years. How do you look it was going to get. I saw what the rest of the
explosives, because I was allowed to teach this back on those times? band were capable of straight away, and I
other kid in the armoury. We did all these crazy things. At one point we remember thinking, “Good God, I’d love to
fired our management in a very inept manner, front that band.” And as soon as they finished
What kind of school has an armoury? and got ourselves successfully injuncted and playing, everybody in the venue left and we
Any school that has 400 Army cadets. We had signed into a ridiculous amount of debt, which were headlining to about three people.
automatic weapons from World War Two – was great, because none of us had a pot to piss
Bren guns, rifles, live ammunition, two-inch in, or I certainly didn’t. They said, “You owe the What would you have done if Maiden’s
mortars, smoke grenades, smoke bombs, management £270,000,” and I thought, “I’m manager, Rod Smallwood, hadn’t asked you
everything. I rose to the exalted rank of under- finally fucking worth something!” At one point, to audition for them in 1981?
officer: there were only two of those out of 400 we did some photo sessions with Fin Costello I’d probably have joined another band or
started one with somebody. It would have been
music, definitely. I had burned all my bridges.
I mean, I had nothing, literally – no money, no
“GUNS, MORTARS, GRENADES... job. I was living in a squat. But that’s the best
time of your life, because you’ve got nothing
I’D BE JAILED NOW FOR WHAT to lose and everything to gain, with no
commitments. You can focus 100 per cent on

WE DID AT THAT SCHOOL” what you want, because there’s nothing else in
your life.
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re-recorded by Iron Was it scary to step away?
Maiden, reaching No 1. Well, I asked myself, “What do I do if I’m not
Yeah. Ralph Simon at in Maiden? What am I?” I realised that I had
Zomba Music said, “Have no idea because I’d lost my identity. I’d literally
you got a song kicking lost my mojo. But there was a quote in the LA
around that we can use on Times, a “thought for the day”-type thing, that
this soundtrack?” and I said, I read when I was doing my second solo
“Oh, yeah!” lying through album, Balls To Picasso. It was by Henry
my teeth. I borrowed a Miller, and it ran, “All growth is an
mate’s guitar and started unpremeditated leap in the dark with no idea
playing it while he was off of where you’re going to land.” I thought,
taking a piss, and by the time “This is a sign. I’m leaving.” So, I phoned Rod
he came back from the toilet and I said, “I’ve got good news and bad news.”
I was singing, “Bring your And he said, “What’s the good news?” I said,
daughter to the slaughter...” “You’ve got two great artists to manage now”
Ralph said, “What’s it and he said, “Okay. What’s the bad news?” I
about?” and I said, “I dunno, said, “Well, I’m leaving the band.” It was right
but it’ll do for now.” A guy out of the blue, as much for me as it was for
from Columbia in America everybody else. You could call it artistic
Reunion of the beast: Dickinson (third from left) said, “Is there more stuff like madness, I suppose.
back in Maiden in 2000 that?” and I said, “Oh, yes!” and Janick and
I spent the next two weeks in his front room, No regrets?
When the single, Run To The Hills, was a writing the songs for Tattooed Millionaire. No. From the vantage point I have now, it
hit in 1982, did you feel that Maiden had At the time Janick was living right was the best thing I ever did, although
made it? underneath the Heathrow flight path – the I had no idea what the effect on people would
Oh, yeah. I mean, we sold a quarter of a wheels were virtually scraping the top of his be. I thought, “Maiden will just get another
million singles. And then The Number Of The roof – so when we were writing the songs, singer, it’s no big deal.” The reaction was a
Beast was a No 1 album, which was a step we’d have to stop every three minutes when complete surprise to me. People were like,
change for us. From there, it was like the a plane went over. “Oh my God!”
world’s biggest rollercoaster ride, but one that
never actually bothered to go back up again. Here’s a question you’ve never heard Balls To Picasso (1994) took a while to
It just went down and down for the next before... Why did you leave Maiden assemble.
three or four years. in 1993? I had three failed attempts at making a second
[Laughs] Yes, it’s like The Prisoner – “Why solo album. I’d done one with Myke Gray from
You released your first solo album, did you resign? I’ll never tell!” Well, I’d like to Skin, and another with Chris Tsangarides, and
Tattooed Millionaire, in 1990. say I had a plan, but I had no plan, and in a then I did a third one with Keith Olsen, who is
That was a good, solid, not very imaginative bizarre way that was why I left. I realised that a great producer, but the music was a bit too
rock album – a classic rock album, basically. I was in an institution, a very well-run one. slick. I was a big fan of Peter Gabriel’s solo
Janick Gers was my guitar player, who later career, particularly his second solo album, which
joined Iron Maiden. I covered Mott The Were you institutionalised, then? is very dark. I wanted to do something like that
Hoople’s All The Young Dudes on that Well, that’s the whole point – I didn’t know, – dark and scary – but Keith doesn’t really do
album, because I’d sung that song at a charity and I thought, “You’ll never know until you’re dark and scary. So, me and Roy Z got together
show with Fish. I’d never thought I could outside.” You can be temporarily outside – and started bashing out the tunes for Balls To
sing a song like that, but as it turned out, it like, “Oh, bless him, he’s going to do a side Picasso. It ended up with some great tracks, but
really suited my voice. project, but he’ll be back inside the institution we’re actually redoing that record the way it
soon and everything will be back to normal” – should have been. We’ve remixed some
You wrote the song Bring Your Daughter... but I thought, “Fuck that. I’m not some additional bits, and added a lot of bits to it that
To The Slaughter for the Nightmare On fucking commodity. I’m not a number. I’m a were recorded but never found their way onto
Elm Street 5 soundtrack in 1989, and it was free man.” Boom! it, like a shitload of heavy guitars. It’s still a work
in progress.

Scream idol:
Dickinson
helms Maiden
on the Book Of
Souls Tour,
Nottingham, 2017

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Super fly guy: (above): Dickinson pilots Ed Force One as it takes off from Cardiff in 2016; (above right) Maiden in full flight onstage
in Mexico City in 2019 and (inset) Bruce dressed for a skirmish at London’s O2, August 2018

You released Skunkworks in 1996, a semi- though. They just assume that you have intention was always to put a team in that I
grunge album. shitloads of money. I mean, it’s purely could trust to do that. Anyway, I finally got
Skunkworks is a great record, but a record that relative, but when I found that Skunkworks much more focused on it, because it was
nobody listened to because they were still saying, had come to an end, I was thinking, “I’m costing a small fortune, and we turned it
“Oh my God, he’s left Maiden and he’s singing going to have to get a job.” And then Roy Z around. We’re making £400,000 net profit
in a different voice,” even though that different phoned me. We’d stayed in touch since Balls every month now, and we’re busy until the
voice made its way onto other things later on. To Picasso, and I’d met him in London not end of 2026.
long before this, when he said, “If you ever
When you rejoined Maiden in 1999, was want to make a metal record again, I’ve got Far from slowing down, Iron Maiden seem
your relationship different with the band? some stuff.” He said, “I’ve got a couple of to be getting bigger and bigger. Did you
It was different, but in a much better way than things I want to play you down the phone” expect that?
before. It was a very strange process, with and he played me these amazing songs. The I didn’t expect that, to be honest. I think it’s
everybody tiptoeing around and setting up very next day I was in LA, and we demoed six because we have a unique set of characteristics.
secret meetings. Honestly, it was like a spy or seven tracks in three weeks, and eventually There’s nobody else like us. When we get in a
exchange, and I felt it was unnecessary, like, they became Accident Of Birth [1997], which room together, it sounds like nobody else.
“Can’t we just get together and have a coffee?” was the big turnaround. I was really in my People try and copy it, but they can’t, even if
Anyway, so Steve [Harris, Iron Maiden bassist] comfort zone there: it was big storytelling, they’re the best cover band in the world. I’m
said, “Why d’you want to come back?” and I and I wasn’t referencing anybody else. not even going to try and analyse it, because
said, “Because I think it’d be great” and he said, you can’t. It just is.
“All right” – and that was that. I went off on You currently have 13 active directorships,
one in the press, though, because they were according to Companies House. That’s a lot You run around so much onstage that you
saying, “Oh, you’re just getting back together of meetings. lose a load of weight in water. How long can
for the money.” I said, “Fuck off. We’re getting No, it’s not – most of them don’t do anything. you keep doing that?
back together because we’re going to make a The main one is [aircraft maintenance experts] As long as I can find water to replace it
great record [Brave New World, 2000], and Caerdav, which is doing fucking brilliant. That [laughs]. I mean, Jagger’s still doing it. I’ve cut
then we’re going to do a great tour, and we’re was something I started, and about five years in down a little bit because both my hips have
going to be better than Metallica.” I said that I wished I hadn’t, but I stuck with it. I won’t been replaced. After all that jumping around
deliberately, to wind people up. Everybody go into the gory details, but it was a money pit onstage, they were fucked. I had one of them
went, “You can’t say that!” but I said, “I just for a long time. One of the reasons for that is fixed in February 2023. It was incredible. My
did. Tell you what, why don’t you buy a ticket that I was so busy working, trying to put wife Leana’s got footage of me standing
and find out?” I was a loudmouthed gobshite. money into it, that I wasn’t there long enough outside the hospital, dancing, within an hour
to make sure that people weren’t gaslighting of being in surgery. I had to have it done
Have you ever come close to running out me and ripping me off. My intention was because on the last tour in America, it was
of money? never to sit there at the office in Cardiff, getting to the point where I couldn’t walk after
Oh, fuck yes, absolutely. People don’t believe it, managing the company hands-on; my a show. I couldn’t even get up the stairs – it
was pathetic. I had to have a cortisone shot,

“WHEN SKUNKWORKS CAME TO

AN END, I WAS THINKING, ‘I’M
GOING TO HAVE TO GET A JOB’”
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MAIDEN HEAVEN
FIVE SLABS OF BRUCE VINYL
Samson Head On
(GEM/RCA, 1980)
£15 The New Wave
Of Heavy Metal was a
blast at its best, with
the reliable
B-leaguers Samson
delivering energetic,
if unsophisticated, biker-rock to the
masses. Here’s Bruce’s debut, showcasing
the air-raid-siren pipes that made him a
star with his next band.

Iron Maiden
The Number Of The
Beast (EMI, 1982)
£40
“There’s nobody else like us” – Maiden in 2021 (l-r): Janick Gers, Steve Harris,
Middle America
Bruce Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray, Nicko McBrain
soiled its collective
drawers at the creepy
and the guy said, “Don’t worry, we’re going to season as a display pilot at air shows. I can’t artwork, British
swap your hip out in February, so you don’t dress it up: it’s fucking dangerous, and my headbangers loved it and sent it to No 1:
need to have cortisone guilt!” appetite for doing dangerous things when you Iron Maiden’s third album was a metal
have people that rely on you, and people you masterpiece. The still-astounding Run To
You had throat cancer in 2015. Did that really care about, is not what it was. The Hills ushered in a whole new era of
change your worldview? loud music.
For the first couple of years after I had it, Your new album is a fully realised package,
people would ask me that question and I thematically and musically. How long has it Iron Maiden
would always say, “No, not at all – it hasn’t been underway? Powerslave
made a damn bit of difference.” But now, Ten years. Roy and I got together in 2014 (EMI, 1984) £40
when I look back at what I’ve been up to, and and said, “Let’s do a follow-up to [the 2005 Arguably Maiden’s
what I’m planning to do, I think to myself, album] Tyranny Of Souls.” We did about 60 definitive album,
“Don’t waste your fucking time.” I know I’m per cent of the writing and demos, and then Powerslave was
renowned for going off on tangents and doing I went off and did Maiden. Then I got throat packed with bangers,
millions of things, but I’ve stripped away a lot cancer, and then it was a mad Maiden year among them the
of that stuff. For now, I’m just going to focus after that, and then it was Covid – so it was epic, 13-minute Rime Of The Ancient
on the music and the comic. Having Leana in seven years before I got a chance to work on Mariner. Combined with the monstrous
my life has really helped as well, because I’m the new songs. The oldest song on the record World Slavery tour and the accompanying
no longer running around like a mad person. is more than 20 years old. Live After Death album, this was where
I’ve got stability, which I like. Maiden took on the world.
What makes you happy?
Are you still flying planes? I love what I do. That’s the key. If you don’t Bruce Dickinson
I don’t have time. I’ve got love doing something, don’t Skunkworks (Raw
the company that fixes the do it, unless you can Power, 1996) £100
big airliners, and that’s compartmentalise it and say, An underrated album,
great, so I concentrate on “I don’t actually enjoy this Skunkworks – also
that. I’d still like to fly little job, but I can do it.” People the name of the
planes around, but I’m should be fulfilled in what band intended to tour
acutely aware – having they do. When I’m not the project – failed to make an impact
flown 7,500 hours in my working, though, what because fans and industry couldn’t accept
life, 6,500 of those in big makes me happy is sitting Dickinson as a grunge singer. It’s aged
airplanes – how quickly and watching telly with the surprisingly well.
things can go very badly wife. I know it sounds
wrong if you’re not 100 per boring, but that’s what Bruce Dickinson
cent switched on. The most makes me really, really The Mandrake
dangerous guy to ride a happy. Mind you, I live in Project (BMG,
motorbike is the guy that France – so it’s all in bloody 2024) £30
used to ride a motorbike French, and I have no idea The new album isn’t
forever, but hasn’t sat on what I’m watching... RC just a musical idea,
Photos: John McMurtrie; Robert Sutton

one for 10 years, and then it’s a fully mapped-

goes out for a ride. I don’t The Mandrake Project is out philosophical
want to make Leana a on BMG. Order the graphic treatise that will be accompanied by a
widow before her time, so I novel series at www. series of graphic novels over the next
sold my triplane: it was a Projecting himself: Bruce themandrakeproject.com. couple of years.
replica of a World War One launches a new solo album Bruce’s UK solo tour starts
Fokker that I flew for a on 16 May.
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54 Record Collector
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She’d only

With their rapturous harmonies, the Carpenters dominated the 70s’

airwaves, selling over 100 million records with hits like Close To You and
Yesterday Once More. But by 1979, lead singer Karen was seeking a new
direction… Biographer Lucy O’Brien recounts her attempts to move out of
the restrictive environment of the family band that had made her a star

n January 1979 Karen Carpenter label that something else could be done “Karen liked that sound – the 1970s
was dismayed at a downturn in with Karen’s magical voice. Her boss, disco era was an incredible time for
record sales. Though the Carpenters’ Herb Alpert, suggested Phil Ramone as women. It was that moment of realisation
1977 album, Passage, was home to producer, who in 1977 had produced Billy of our power and letting people know,
their captivating opus Calling Joel’s Grammy-winning 52nd Street. ‘I’m here to stay and my voice needs to be
Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft, Karen assumed that Ramone would come heard’,” recalls Stephanie Spruill, who was
it was deemed patchy and, compared to to LA and record at A&M Studios with to sing backing vocals on the Carpenters’
the statuesque harmonies of early ballads, the usual session musicians, but Ramone’s 1981 album Made In America and whose
the band were chasing trends rather than working methods were different, with the powerful soprano graces classic hits such as
creating their own timeless sound. emphasis on raw energy and live Donna Summer’s Hot Stuff and Gloria
Also, her brother Richard was in spontaneity. He persuaded her to travel to Gaynor’s I Will Survive. Karen’s decision
rehab in Kansas, trying to beat Quaalude New York instead and change her to cut free from the safe haven of LA
addiction, and that sent her into a restless approach. Though nervous about working showed a yearning to stretch herself as an
panic. “I was anxious to go back to separately from Richard, Karen agreed. artist, even though it was challenging. “I
work,” she said. Even though she had her “Doing something out of the family was was scared to death… I basically knew one
own mental health issues, struggling with important, a show of strength, of producer, one arranger, one studio, one
long-term anorexia, Karen kept driving independence,” said Newton-John. record company and that was it,” she said.
herself forward. Just before she flew to New York, on In 1979, New York was smelly, dirty
She decided to record her own album 30 April, she telephoned Richard and and crime-ridden, side streets piled high
– as well as offering something new to the started to cry. “I can’t do this without your with rubbish and subway cars covered in
fans, Karen wanted recognition as a solo support,” she admitted. Reluctantly, graffiti. But it had a distinct musical
performer. She noted how best friend Richard told her to go ahead. “Just identity. DJ Larry Levan span an explosive
Olivia Newton-John had reinvented promise me one thing,” he said, “Don’t dance mix every weekend at Paradise
herself after Grease, making a dramatic do disco.” Garage, the Danceteria had just opened,
transformation from soft country star to a But when she arrived in New York to playing new wave and British post-punk
vision in leather and skin-tight Spandex. listen to demos with Ramone, Karen alongside funky freestyle, while drag
This sparked Karen’s innate sense of went straight for the dance tracks. At 29 performers stalked through the Pyramid
competition – maybe she could explore a years old, she wanted to make a record Club in the East Village.
new direction? reflecting her autonomy and desires as a Rob Mounsey, a key arranger on
Initially, there was support for the woman. She was tired of being marketed Karen’s solo album, describes the New
project at A&M; there was a feeling at the as asexual and square. York sound as “chaotic and anarchic, more
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high-energy and less manicured than
LA”. Phil Ramone chose Billy Joel’s
backing band for Karen’s solo sessions,
because he liked their full-tilt exuberance.
Fired up with a brash energy, drummer
Liberty Devitto, guitarist Russell Javors
and bassist Doug Stegmeyer were Long
Island natives who had played with Joel
since the mid-70s.
Karen had come from a sheltered
background, but she was willing to
experiment and enjoyed the camaraderie
of the studio. “We liked Karen a lot. She
was extremely smart and a very good
musician in her own right and
appreciative of what everyone did,” recalls
Mounsey. At first, though, she found the
rock’n’roll swearing a little challenging.
“She came from a conservative southern
California family and had trouble getting
away from that good-girl attitude. The
musicians could be a salty bunch of guys,
using unprintable language, especially the
F-bomb. Every time the F-word went by Rhythm queen (clockwise from above): Karen at
Karen was sorta bothered. She talked the kit in 1974; with Phil Ramone in the studio,
about it, ‘Oh, that word, I don’t like that 1979; the Carpenters recording circa 1972
word!’ We respected her, so the guys tried
to clean it up, but everyone thought that saw this as a sign that the sessions were
was funny.” working. “I was so proud her mother
Devitto distinctly remembers “not being hated my lyrics!”
able to say what we’d normally say with Billy Even though Karen stayed chirpy
and the guys, but her sense of humour was so during the recording sessions, it was
great”. One day it was Devitto’s birthday and clear there was underlying frustration
Ramone brought in a cake from an erotic – something that was conveyed in
baker with a large icing penis. Devitto held the habitual behaviour. Ramone’s brother-
cake up to Karen. “You wanna piece?” in-law, Doug Ichiuji, visited the studio
She gave a wry smile. “I don’t think I’ve and noticed that Karen always had
ever been that close to one of those before!” drumsticks. “She played them all the time. Run-D.M.C. to Slick Rick.
“That’s the kind of humour she had, she She’d be talking to Phil in the sound room and James had worked with jazz greats like
just fit right in with us,” laughs Devitto. hitting the sticks on the table. I think it was a Sarah Vaughan and he was at first optimistic.
One of the biggest ‘what if’ questions stress reliever.” “Karen had the jazz feel, no question.” But
around Karen’s solo work arises from the fact Karen’s incessant drumming hinted at a then she seemed a little overawed and
that Rod Temperton, a key songwriter on the nervousness about the project, as there was a conversation was minimal. Her mother’s
album, offered her the songs Off The Wall lot riding on the album. When lead arranger underwhelming response to early material had
and Rock With You. Much to Ramone’s Bob James joined the sessions, Ramone triggered Karen’s nerves. “She was struggling,
dismay she decided to pass, and they ended warned in advance that his role was to be “a her health wasn’t great, and the sessions were
up becoming big hits for Michael Jackson. kind of substitute Richard”. James was not in kinda awkward,” says James. He describes it as
Many now believe these tracks could have his comfort zone. “I loved the challenge that a fishing trip deal. “You don’t know what
been the hits to spectacularly launch Karen’s Phil was putting in front of me, with a firmly you’re looking for, so you try stuff and throw
solo career. Instead, she went for the subtler established superstar talent. It was a very big in a line. You might try a polka or a waltz, to
soul sound of Temperton tracks Lovelines deal and flattering to be asked,” he says. “But see what bites.”
and If We Try. what could I possibly come up with? There James got the impression that Richard had
What’s striking about Karen’s solo album was so much history and baggage. I knew we a silent psychological hold over the process.
is how many songs reference sex – from the were setting out to do something that the “Even though people perceived Karen as
snappy rhythms of My Body Keeps Changing Carpenters’ fans didn’t necessarily want.” having the ultimate talent, the voice that
My Mind to the club pop of Remember When A towering influence in jazz and fusion music, people fell in love with, she yearned for more
Lovin’ Took All Night. She was willing to James is one of the most sampled players in control over her art.”
express herself in a way that was at odds with hip-hop, with fragments from his songs By the time Karen completed her album
the Carpenters’ audience, and with songs Nautilus and Take Me To The Mardi early in 1980, the mood was jubilant. Ramone
aimed at the gay dancefloor. “The Carpenters’ Gras used as breakbeats by everyone from invited Javors along to the listening party in
image was America’s favourite, very Disney-
esque, but on this record she sounds mature,
less guarded,” says Rob Mounsey. “She’s not a
little girl anymore; she’s a woman.”
“She played them all the time. She’d
The risque lyrics sent out shock waves
when halfway through the sessions Karen went be talking to Phil in the sound room
to LA for a short visit and came back saying
and hitting the sticks on the table.
Photos: Getty

that her mother Agnes was horrified by the

demos, particularly sexually suggestive lines in
the song Still In Love With You. Russell Javors I think it was a stress reliever”
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A&R Studios, where the album was played to get past the freight of the Carpenters’ success
Senior VP of A&M Derek Green, who had and couldn’t take a risk. Its release would have INTERPLANETARY
flown over from London specially for the strengthened Karen’s career as a solo performer CRAFTSWOMAN
occasion. Even though Ramone claimed later and given the Carpenters a whole new
that the New York playback elicited a positive audience. “It was bitter-sweet,” says Javors. “I KC deep cuts
reaction, with Champagne corks popping, felt bad for Karen, because she put her heart
Javors remembers it differently, picking up on and soul into this. And her money. So, to have Looking For Love/I’ll Be Yours (solo 7”,
strange tension. her opinions and desires squashed was very Magic Lamp, 1966)
“It was like an oil painting in there. It was hard to watch.” Taped on four-track, Karen’s solo debut was
brutal,” he says. What about the Champagne It is clear that Karen was at the start of a a double A single released in 1966 on
popping? “All I know is, it was very tense. new phase, but once the album was shelved, she Magic Lamp, a tiny LA garage label founded
Somebody from A&M [Green] was sitting lacked the stamina to fight for her solo career. by Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn. On
there stony-faced, not responding. Usually Devitto became aware of Karen’s struggle with this vibrant slice of psych-pop, 16-year-old
you’ll hear, ‘Oh, that’s great,’ but there was anorexia when they finished recording and were Karen already sings with a deep, resonant
nothing like that. You could just see the air go doing overdubs. “Karen didn’t drink. She voice. Only 500 copies were pressed, but
out of the room. My feeling was, it was already didn’t eat, either. I remember hugging her and thankfully, you can still hear it on Spotify.
dead, the decision was already made.” feeling nothing but a sack of bones. I hate to
Shortly after that Ramone and Karen flew say it that way because she was so beautiful.” Another Song (from
to LA to play the album to Richard, Herb Devitto recalls that time with sadness. “I Close To You, 1970)
Alpert and Jerry Moss. The response there was didn’t know anything about anorexia, but This idiosyncratic piece
even worse. Tracks were met with indifference someone explained to me what was going on of baroque fusion on
and Moss asserted there was no hit song. Even with her. Being Italian, from an Italian family, the band’s debut LP
though the sales team were poised, a catalogue you eat all the time. Just the concept of begins with medieval
number had been assigned and Karen had somebody eating and then getting rid of it was song before moving into
invested $400,000 of her own money into the like, What? Are you from Rome? Romans used to a jam in which Karen creates a trancelike
project, A&M cancelled the album. Karen was do that to eat some more. The concept of rhythm. No wonder she loved the drums –
deeply hurt at this rejection. anorexia was so foreign to me. I was like, Why? she had the chops.
She had made a female soul album, her Why would you do that?”
first compelling statement as a solo artist. Even though her health was deteriorating, Sometimes (from Carpenters, 1971)
Listening to the record 40 years later, what Karen knew how to conserve enough energy to The closing song on the self-titled 1971
comes through is Karen’s own fresh, funky sing well in the studio. Resolutely professional album, this originated as a poem written by
aesthetic. She sings in a higher register with during recording, she went to great lengths to Henry Mancini’s daughter. So taken with
an upbeat, intimate approach, a conscious keep her private anguish secret. this dedication to love and friendship, he set
departure from the lush overload of songs like A&M then coaxed Karen back into the the poem to music and punted to the
Solitaire or This Masquerade. This is an studio with Richard (for 1981’s Made In Carpenters, who loved it. What’s so special
album of nimble, sophisticated soul; classy America), as if the solo outing had just been an about this version is its simplicity. Richard’s
and smart like Teena Marie’s Lady T or embarrassing mistake. Karen’s ex-lover Tom long melodic piano intro perfectly sets up
Patrice Rushen’s Pizzazz. Bahler, a good friend of Ramone’s, considers Karen’s warm, heartfelt vocal. A track that
Unfortunately, A&M executives could not her solo record to be a pivotal point. “She could features a contented Karen, before the raw
have done a number of records with Phil. I anxieties crept in.
think she was beginning to free herself. But she
Family tied: Karen was not free – she had one foot in the B’Wana She No
hides her troubles
with brother Richard
Carpenters and one foot in the new Karen Home (from
in 1981 Carpenter,” he says. Because she was a Passage, 1977)
drummer she could sing with rhythmical drive This track on Passage
and “kick booty”, whereas Richard was a shows how Karen
classically trained pianist and “more of a ballad could indeed “kick
guy. Maybe he wasn’t crazy about her record booty”. The
because it was so different”. arrangement was scored by Gene Puerling,
It would have taken Karen great strength founder of vocal groups the Hi-Lo’s and
to resist her family and stand her ground as a Singers Unlimited. In the song she plays the
solo artist. Bahler believes that Karen needed part of a wealthy recluse who instructs her
to rebel against the Carpenters’ juggernaut, servant to tell visitors, “B’wana (Sir or
that she had many possibilities available to Madam in Swahili), the mistress is not at
her. “But I think in that family, she was home.” Playful and savvy, Karen branches
swimming upstream. No… she was out into jazz soul, setting the template for
swimming up the waterfall.” her solo debut recorded two years later.
Karen died of complications from anorexia
at the age of 32. At the behest of fans, her self- If I Had You (from Karen Carpenter,
titled album was finally 1996)
released in 1996, 13 years The high point of Karen’s solo album is a
after her death. The record departure from the lush saturation of
has become an important Carpenters’ harmonies. Responsive to Rod
part of her legacy as a Temperton’s fluid melody and sax player
vibrant, iconic artist. RC Michael Brecker’s jazz tones, Karen plays
fast and light with her own vocal blend.
Lucy O’Brien’s book, Lead “She built the vocal arrangements very
Sister: The Story Of Karen carefully,” says songwriter Rob Mounsey, “it
Carpenter, is out now in was all mapped out in her head.”
paperback (NineEight).
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Drilly saying something:
Neubauten lay waste
to the ICA, London,
3 January 1984

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Forming in West Berlin in 1980 and lixa Bargeld is not one for small
achieving their greatest notoriety talk. When I first encounter the
circa 1984, industrial noise-punks fearsome Einstürzende Neubauten
frontman, I ask him how he is. He
Einstürzende Neubauten have far complains that he’s sick. “I’ve got a
exceeded their projected life very bad cold,” he grumbles. “I’ll
expectancy. Founding frontman Blixa be gentle with you,” I splutter, and
immediately wish I hadn’t. Bargeld, the drill-
Bargeld traces the evolution of the wielding noise terrorist with a scream that
metalbashing pioneers. Jeremy Allen is could shatter the Reichstag Dome in the
all (suitably protected) ears Platz der Republik, sits stony-faced on our
Zoom call as silence descends and memories
of journalists previously devoured and spat
out no doubt enter his thoughts.
Once in flight, Blixa will be erudite and
polysyllabic. Nick Cave, who played with
Bargeld for 20 years in Nick Cave & The Bad
Seeds, remembered when he first entered
Blixa’s orbit, having moved to West Berlin in
1982: “I know he wouldn’t speak English to
me for a long time and I couldn’t speak
German at all,” said Cave, in an outtake from
the 2014 documentary drama, 20,000 Days
On Earth. Having assumed Bargeld was a
monoglot incapable of conversing with him,
he added: “And then one day he spoke
English; this beautiful, expressive English.
Blixa was always playing the long game.”
With an hour allotted for our interview,
and with pleasantries fizzling like damp
fireworks, we press on. Bargeld is here to talk
about Rampen (APM: Alien Pop Music),
Einstürzende Neubauten’s expansive,
kaleidoscopic new double-album, which is
sprawling and understated, driven more by
mood and texture than melody. There’s
tension, too, like an unexploded ordnance or
a praying mantis lying in wait.
Before long, however, we will be
examining Neubauten’s evolution, from feral,
speed-munching noiseniks crawling out of the
rubble of bomb-damaged West Berlin in
1980 – making ear-shattering music with
scrap metal, power drills and jackhammers –
through to the slicker, though no less
idiosyncratic, outfit they are today.
Now 44 years into a career that started
with an impromptu gig at the Moon Club in
West Berlin, with a makeshift lineup that
included Mania D’s Beate Bartel and Gudrun
Gut, Neubauten are in rude health creatively.
They’re always managed to shrug off
classification, being too industrial for punk
and too punk for industrial, and dismissive of
the avant-garde. But now, deep into the 21st
century, Bargeld has given Neubauten their
own genre term.
“In the early 1980s, I coined the term
Geniale Dilletanten [ingenious dilettantes],”
he tells RC, “and I just thought maybe it’s
time to make up a new genre. Pop music is
not normally something you would associate
with Einstürzende Neubauten, but in a way,
I think it is a form of pop music for the alien.
Not necessarily aliens in the sense of
extraterrestrial beings – though even that is
possible – but more in the sense of the
Photo: Getty

outsider, the abnormal people who are not

getting satisfied by normal music.”
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 In this alternative universe, Neubauten example of this method is Letztes Biest (Am the American Congress. And it was the Cold
are as big as The Beatles, and Rampen… is Himmel) from 1985’s Halber Mensch, War, so they played so much music, especially
their ‘White Album’. “There is one song on according to Bargeld. for the East! I taped everything from Jethro
the album where the colour yellow is During the group’s much delayed The Tull to Alice Cooper… that whole classic
mentioned a lot,” he says. “And when we Year Of The Tiger 2022 Tour (the sardonic rock music catalogue formed my musical
were thinking about a title and what to do for promotional poster included The Year Of The social background, but I moved very quickly
the artwork, Andrew said ‘Gelb’ – which is Rat Tour 2020 and The Year Of The Ox Tour from Pink Floyd to krautrock.”
German for yellow – in reference to ‘The 2021 crossed out), Neubauten performed Bargeld namechecks Neu! as a major
White Album’.” Andrew Chudy, for the several improvisations each night, and the influence; CAN and Kraftwerk, too. How
uninitiated, is a percussionist also known as best of them form the foundations for the about Faust, often cited as antecedents to
N.U. Unruh, a founding member of songs on the new album. The Pit Of Neubauten, themselves erroneously sold to
Neubauten who over the years has invented Language, for instance, began life at their Polydor with the promise of a “new Beatles”
sundry experimental instruments fashioned Kentish Town Forum show, with Bargeld on the roster?
out of metal and objets trouvés. An example improvising via fragments of text fed into a “I had The Faust Tapes because it only
of his handy work is “the Air Cake”, pictured monitor onstage. The title Gesundbrunnen, cost five marks,” he admits. Does he have a
on the cover of 2004’s Perpetuum Mobile, a meanwhile, taken from a Berlin locality, big record collection? “Yes,” he replies. “But
contraption assembled from sawn-off plastic provided the letters G, E, D and B – the root it’s in my office. It’s archived, like most other
bottles, an airhorn and an old record player. notes the song is built on. The song itself is things, including books. And I’ve also
“Andrew was born in New York, and he concerned with blackholes and the cosmos, digitised all my cassettes.”
has two sisters, and he was probably the lightyears away from the original catalyst. In 1993, he bought his first computer,
greatest Beatles fan under the sky,” reveals Talk of the cosmic nature of the album which became part of a meticulous operation
Bargeld. “He has every release that came out leads to a conversation about kosmische, or in the production of words. “I still write by
in America at the time from [1964’s debut] krautrock, and the music Bargeld grew up on. hand,” he drawls, “and I still write in
Introducing The Beatles: England’s No 1 Vocal Back in 70s Berlin, double-albums such as notebooks, but at some point, I type them up
Group, because his older sisters were obviously Rampen… would have been scarce, with new into the computer and the file goes into the
infected by Beatlemania. And so, he basically sounds more often discovered via the cassette archive. And then at some point later I print
inherited the whole collection.” underground and the American Forces all these ideas and bind them in books. You
The similarities with the Liverpudlians’ Network. wouldn’t be able to open a
eponymous ninth studio album don’t end “The tape recorder document from ’93 now, but I
there. The initial, strictly limited edition, coincided with my musical have 90 lengthy volumes of
release of the new record will include bas- socialisation,” Bargeld says. “Of notes.” It’s some of these
relief lettering on the monochromatic cover, course, I loved vinyl, too, but fragments, fastidiously tucked
with a poster and five postcards of the vinyl was fucking expensive in away, that he’ll pick randomly
members inside, with each record individually Germany. They had a kind of and load into the monitor
numbered. cartel where a vinyl album was when he’s onstage for some
So what does “Rampen”, from their new 22 German marks, which I Rampen action.
album title, actually mean? “Rampen, as we couldn’t afford very often. So, It all sounds like a far cry
call it in Neubauten lingo, is a ramp,” Bargeld I grew up with cassettes, and in from the messy birth of a band
explains. “Like a starting ramp for a rocket.” West Berlin you had a radio that looked as though it could
Essentially, Rampen is improvisation by station called RIAS, the US self-destruct at any moment
another name, just as Tangerine Dream call radio in the American sector, following their formation.
their creative process “sessions”. The earliest where half of it was paid for by Neubauten’s debut album,

Deconstruction time again

(clockwise from left): N.U. Unruh
(top middle) and Mark Chung
(crouching, front) pose with EN
associates including Fad Gadget
(top right), a few days after the
notorious ICA stunt, 1984;
Bargeld (far right) with Neubauten
in the early 80s; the ICA takes a
hammering, 3 January 1984

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LICENSED TO DRILL
10 Neubauten rarities
Tabula Rasa (Mute
Stahlmusik BETON 106, 1993)
(Eisengrau/Rip Off, £120
1981 ‘mass market’ Original vinyl copies of
edition) £80 this Neubauten classic
Debut C38 cassette are rare, and therefore
tape sold from the expensive.
Eisengrau shop in Berlin and distributed
by the Hamburg label Rip Off, it was Ende Neu Remixes
recorded from inside a motorway bridge. (Mute BETON 602,
1997) £40
“There were bets on how long I would continue Kalte Sterne A double 12” package
living”: Bargeld (centre) with Neubauten, 1990 (ZickZack ZZ 40, with remixes by Barry
1981) £50 Adamson, Jon
1981’s Kollaps, remains a compellingly harsh Double 7” put out by Spencer, Alec Empire and a pre-Too
listen, though through the dentist drill Neubauten’s first Many DJs Soulwax.
dissonance and decay is a detectable glimmer proper label, ZickZack.
of beauty, such as the impromptu cover of Berlin Babylon
Gainsbourg and Birkin’s Je T’aime… Moi Thirsty Animal (Not (Reihe EGO 1101,
Non Plus, played with a scything, distorted on label, 1982) £80 2001) £70
organ and renamed Jet’m. Less talked about is 12” self-released Vinyl version of the
the preceding 1980 cassette album, Stahlmusik, collaboration with soundtrack to this
sold at Eisengrau, a West Berlin clothes shop- Lydia Lunch and Neubauten
cum-meeting point run by Gudrun Gut and Rowland S Howard. documentary, with music specifically
Bettina Köster. composed for the film.
“That was something that I recorded with 2 x 4 (ROIR A-133,
Andrew alone in the inside of a hollow 1984) £10 Perpetuum Mobile
highway bridge,” he explains. “We found a Live recordings from a (Mute Stumm 221,
way through a hole into the inside of the variety of European 2004) £100
bridge. Because the whole thing is steel, you dates issued by Ridiculously scarce
could actually play the bridge itself.” I mention famous German double vinyl LP.
that I listened to it before our interview and cassette label ROIR.
was surprised by how much the whole thing Grundstück
sings. “There was an incredible sound in Heiner Müller – Die (Potomak 158681,
there!” Bargeld enthuses. “And, and when Hamletmaschine 2018) £35
trucks run over the bridge, it would make a… (Rough Trade RTD Neubauten’s first
[imitates the rumble of an articulated lorry].” 197.1208.1, 1991) fully-crowdfunded
In 1982, Neubauten signed with Some £50 album came out on
Bizzare, run by the maverick eccentric Stevo A musical soundtrack CD in 2005 with this vinyl/DVD
Pearce, a record producer and label boss who by EN to the subversive East German reissue in 2018.
managed to help bring acts like Soft Cell and playwright Heiner Müller’s best-
The The to prominence. Some Bizzare known work.
punched above its weight as an indie, but some
of Stevo’s methods to grab attention were not
always appreciated, and there’s been plenty of One thing is for certain, though; without three days later. Because Stevo is stopping us
rancour in recent years from artists who feel Some Bizzare, Neubauten would have wherever he can, and he still has not paid us.
they’re still owed money, including struggled to make resonant, panoramic And he’s still trying to fuck us wherever and
Neubauten. When Coil, whose principle albums like 1983’s Zeichnungen des Patienten whatever we do.”
members are now deceased, reissued their O. T., recorded at Trident Studios, or Halber In 1984, Neubauten, with cement mixer
1984 album, Scatology, in 2001, they retitled Mensch (1985) at Hansa Studios in Berlin. and drills in tow – along with like minds
it Stevo, Pay Us What You Owe Us! while Does Bargeld look upon that time as Genesis P-Orridge and Frank ‘Fad Gadget’
Neubauten have not kept their feelings of bittersweet, where the breakdown of a Tovey – achieved infamy and sparked a
enmity to themselves. I refer Bargeld back to contractual relationship is tempered by the number of headlines when their Concerto For
the 2022 Kentish Town gig, where he put a great work they produced? Voice And Machinery went rogue. The
punter in their place who was audibly “It’s not bittersweet at all,” he fires back, collective assembled drilled into the stage at
requesting Morning Dew, to which he “it’s pure animosity. Whenever we do the London ICA, and the show was pulled
retorted: “No, because then Stevo would get anything, such as load up a video on after 25 minutes, a mini-riot ensuing.
some money.” He chuckles. YouTube from 1986, it will be taken down Neubauten were simultaneously alienating

“I RECORDED IT INSIDE A
and being embraced, a young generation of
impressionable musicians taking notes.
Photos: Getty; Fritz Brinkmann

Fad Gadget issued the single Collapsing

HOLLOW BRIDGE. IT HAD

New People (a pun on the name
Einstürzende Neubauten which means

AN INCREDIBLE SOUND”
“collapsing new buildings” in German) based
on a rhythmic loop provided with the band’s
full cooperation. Test Dept, a crew of South
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“IT USUALLY MEANT GOING

London metalbashers, were more
opportunistic. “They founded after they saw

STRAIGHT FROM THE AIRPORT

us play in Amsterdam,” says Bargeld with a
smirk. Test Dept, in copying Neubauten, had
cursed themselves with a recurring border

TO A SCRAPYARD”
control problem.
“We had a couple of conventional
instruments like a bass guitar and a guitar that
we could actually transport,” remembers the ideas in a different context, in the company, a pioneering move at the time. They
Bargeld, “but it usually meant going straight context of pop.” eventually achieved it with the help of Bargeld’s
from the airport to a scrapyard, and then In the 90s, Neubauten – now signed to wife Erin Zhu, who wrote the code for a
when the concert was finished, we’d leave Mute Records – attained a certain crowdfunding website at Neubauten.org before
everything there. We played in the Danceteria respectability as Bargeld slipped out of his it was known as crowdfunding, and years before
[New York club] about five times in two years tatterdemalion garb and into a suit. Albums people were using social media. Rampen (APM:
and we just left all the junk in their backyard. like 1993 masterpiece Tabula Rasa Alien Pop Music) is the fifth and final instalment
And then when we played in Montreal, demonstrated a new-found maturity where of the supporter project, which Bargeld says has
Andrew figured out where Test Dept kept all more mellifluous elements would converge become too “elitarian and fanatical”. The group
their stuff, so we basically raided their gear.” with noise and fierce electronica. The fact are searching for a new model to maintain their
The noise was seeping into the Bargeld was still alive didn’t go unnoticed by synergistic relationship with fans, but Bargeld
mainstream: Depeche Mode, impressed by those who’d been certain – through his drug says they won’t be returning to a record
Neubauten’s innovative use of found sounds, consumption and general dissolute living – company any day soon.
borrowed ideas for 1983’s Construction Time he’d be in the ground before the 80s were over. In 2014, Neubauten were commissioned
Again. “I don’t know that, nobody knows “There were bets put on my head as to by the Belgian town of Diksmuide to
that,” says Bargeld, cautiously, “but we how long I would continue living,” he commemorate the outbreak of the First World
worked with Gareth Jones, the remembers with a macabre War with a performance, which they
producer of Fad Gadget’s Collapsing chuckle. “Nobody believed reconstructed in the studio for the record
New People, and later they asked that I would still be around, Lament, released via BMG. And then in 2020
Gareth if he would be interested in but I am. I am more healthy came their first album proper in 12 years, Alles
making an album with them, which than I was in 1984.” In Allem, which may well be their best,
meant Depeche Mode and Bargeld, surprisingly, likes landing at the worst possible time.
Neubauten had the same producer to share recipes on the “Oh, you’re rubbing it in now!” roars
in the same studio.” internet and has become Bargeld like a wounded lion. “We were so
Martin Gore confirmed what something of a gourmand happy when that record came out. We were
others had already assumed when he whose book, European high, really high when that record was
spoke to NME in 1984: “I think Crosswise: A Litany offers a finished. Finally, we had achieved something
really we have nicked a few of strange array of setlists and where we were 100 per cent happy with it.
Neubauten’s ideas,” he admitted. “I epicurean indulgences in the And then the pandemic came and everything
was at their ICA date when they did poshest restaurants across we had planned for it was dumped in the
the metal concerto and the power the continent. ground. For two years, nothing happened.”
and the excitement was brilliant. In the early 2000s, Talking of might-have-beens, let’s return
What we’re doing, though, is using Neubauten attempted to go it to the Moon Club, the scene of Neubauten’s
alone without a record very first ever gig, and ponder upon what
might have happened had Gudrun Gut and
Building blocks (clockwise Beate Bartel not left Neubauten to form Mania
from bottom left): EN in 1985 D? Would Neubauten sound very different?
(l-r): FM Einheit, Mark Chung,
“That’s not quite correct,” he remonstrates,
Alexander Hacke, N.U. Unruh,
Blixa Bargeld; Bargeld in 1986; “they were already in the process of forming
Neubauten today, with Bargeld Mania D when the first Neubauten show
bottom centre happened. I was asked to play a concert
at the Moon, and then I asked my
friends Gudrun, Beate and Andrew if
they would join me. And it wasn’t even
clear at that point that it was a band, and
certainly not one that would still be here
40 years later. Everything was in flux.”
A memory comes to him: “I recall
talking to Gudrun at the Dschungel,
the nightclub, and we’d just signed the
contract with Some Bizzare. Gudrun
said to me: ‘Are you going to continue
doing Neubauten?’ sounding surprised,
because in that scene everything
happened in a flash and then the next
week, you’d do something else. And it
was while talking to Gudrun that I
realised: ‘Okay, now this is a band…
a band that exists.’” RC
Photo: Getty

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 Bananarama had their first Top 3 hit in 1984, Robert De Niro’s Waiting.
Rob Hughes meets lifelong friends and bandmates Sara Dallin and
Keren Woodward as they look back on their career, album by album

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 BANANARAMA
e know where we’ve come from reputation elsewhere. The band also show a
and what we’ve done together,” serious side to their lyrics on Rough Justice,
says Sara Dallin of her lifelong a song inspired by the shooting of Thomas
friendship with Bananarama Reilly, brother of Siobhan Fahey’s boyfriend
bandmate Keren Woodward. Jim Reilly of Stiff Little Fingers, during the
“It’s very rare to actually go to Troubles in Northern Ireland.
school together, leave home together, work KW: It was still really early on in our career
together and still be friends.” when Cruel Summer went Top 10 in America.
Now in their early sixties, Dallin and That was a huge turning point. That was like,
Woodward have known each other since “How on earth are we in New York City with
they were seven-year-olds. This afternoon, a huge hit, appearing on American Bandstand
Record Collector finds them pouring tea in with Dick Clark?” And meeting Andy Warhol
their London hotel room, presiding over an was a moment in time. You thought, “Oh
extraordinary career that’s seen them rack up my God, Andy Warhol has just said we’re the
sales of over 30 million and earn a spot in the coolest thing in New York!” And everybody
Guinness Book Of World Records as the most wanted to know us in LA. A few years later
commercially successful female band we were walking back from a diner and Mike
of all time. Fun girl three: Siobhan Tyson was sitting there on the front of his
Bananarama’s journey to global Fahey, Keren Woodward limousine, singing Cruel Summer back at us. It
superstardom began in earnest when they were and Sara Dallin in 1983 was extraordinary.
invited to back Fun Boy Three on 1982’s It SD: Keren and I were huge fans of Robert
Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Hey Kiss Him Goodbye and Really Saying De Niro, so that’s where that song came
Do It). The following year’s debut, Deep Sea Something, featuring Fun Boy Three. Also from. It was about how teenage girls put
Skiving, scrambled preconceived ideas of what included is their version of Young At Heart, pictures of fantasy figures or pop stars on their
an all-girl band could be: post-punks with a later a No 1 hit for The Bluebells. bedroom wall. Not that I ever put Robert De
pop vision and strong DIY aesthetic. SARA DALLIN: We’d done our first photo Niro on my wall, but it’s kind of about hero
“We were shoot with worshipping. And it’s always much easier to
making our Derek Ridgers have that pretend boyfriend than actually
own career,
writing our
own music
“I DON’T THINK ANYONE on Brighton pier
[1981]. And we all
had moccasins on.
having a real one, with all the problems that
might involve. Robert De Niro actually
called us one night, while we were watching
and managing
ourselves,” KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH Terry Hall wore
those as well – that
Brookside. That was very strange, but we had a
fun night out with him in Soho.

US. WE DIDN’T KNOW”

explains Dallin. was the standard
“Onstage, we shoe for the Fun TRUE CONFESSIONS
were exactly as Boy Three – and (London, 1986, £5)
we would’ve saw those photos Switching
been if we were in a club or anywhere else. in The Face. He phoned us up, we met, and producers midway
I think that’s why young girls could relate it was all a bit monosyllabic: “Do you want to through, the trio
to us.” sing with us?” “Yeah.” And off we went. But enter a more
The hits kept coming throughout the 80s, I don’t think anyone knew what to do with sophisticated,
during which time Dallin, Woodward and us. And, in a way, we didn’t know what to do dance-oriented
fellow co-founder Siobhan Fahey transitioned with us. phase. Covering
into sophisticated dance-pop. And while chart KEREN WOODWARD: When you start a Shocking Blue’s
success became more sporadic in subsequent band, you don’t necessarily have a masterplan. Venus was a commercial masterstroke.
years, Bananarama – with Dallin and We didn’t come from stage school, and we KW: There’s some great stuff on there, like
Woodward as the core duo – have lost little of weren’t put together in a manufactured way, More Than Physical and Ready Or Not. That
their appeal. but we were creative, we wrote songs. We were was another turning point, because we did
A new self-curated compilation, Glorious - enjoying the ride but learning at the same time, most of it with Jolley and Swain then moved
The Ultimate Collection, toasts over 40 years in so it was like, “OK, let’s see where this takes onto Stock, Aitken and Waterman to do
the industry. us.” Venus.
“We decided to choose our favourite tracks SD: We were very much involved with the SD: It was at that point where I think we’d
from across four decades,” says Woodward. songwriting, learning how to write from just heard Janet Jackson and then the Dead
“Sara and I have a history that no one else has, [co-writers/producers Steve] Jolley and [Tony] Or Alive song [You Spin Me Round (Like
and it’s been going for an extraordinary time. Swain. To be in the studio with them was just A Record)] and we just felt it was time for a
I’m very proud of us.” fantastic. Steve, in particular, was so good at change. Venus had already been in our setlist
What better occasion, then, to look back on harmonies and counter-melodies. And it was for a few years. It was one that we rehearsed
their recorded work. really exciting because it was all new. We’d really early on, with Really Saying Something
started to travel and were having a few hits. and Aie A Mwana, back in our Denmark
DEEP SEA SKIVING Street days. By the mid-80s, clubbing was just
(London, BANANARAMA a massive part of our lives. Keren and I would
1983, £5) (London, 1984, £6) be clubbing at Heaven constantly. So that
Mischievous The Nanas conquer hi-NRG beat and feel of Venus, that’s how it
post-punk America with came about.
pop rules on the irresistible KW: Recording Venus properly lent itself to
their engaging Cruel Summer that kind of [SAW] production. Doing it in
debut, (later included on that style was a move that really worked. True
featuring The Karate Kid Confessions was another one that did really well
hits Shy Boy, soundtrack), while in the States, and I presume that’s because of
Na Na Hey Robert De Niro’s Waiting compounds their Venus. I mean, it was massive.
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 technology we fit in now?”
WOW!
(London,
1987, £5)
was changing,
too. It was
all drum
“IN SOME WAY WE HAD KW: I’m not
sure we really
knew what our
Co-written
with Stock,
Aitken and
loops and
samples. And
Pop Life was
LOST THE EXCITEMENT position was.
Maybe we felt
that the Youth
Waterman,
the band
hit top
completely
different from
anything else
WE HAD ON WOW!” departure was
enjoyable but
wasn’t really
form with I Heard A Rumour and Love we’d ever done. It was like, “Let’s just where we should be. There was a safety
In The First Degree. Siobhan Fahey try this!” Youth would press a button net of Stock and Waterman, but, equally,
quit afterwards, replaced by Jacquie and this sound would come out, then going back to them didn’t really work for
O’Sullivan. Sara would press something else. It was us. In some way or other it had lost that
SD: We just wanted to make some pop very DIY, like going back to the way we vibe and excitement that we’d had on
music. Stock, Aitken and Waterman had worked with the Fun Boy Three. I think WOW! We didn’t want to do really cheesy
already done Princess’s Say I’m Your Preacher Man is my favourite song from stuff, we wanted to do dancey stuff. I think
Number One and then they were working that album. we wanted to do classic pop.
with Mel & Kim, which was cool stuff as SD: I have no idea how we ended up SD: It was all about harmonies. Then
well. So, it was early days and because we working with Youth. It wasn’t like we’d Erasure did a thing called Abba-esque
co-wrote with them, we just took it where kept in touch over the years [they’d known [1992 EP] and you thought, “Well, that’s
both sides wanted it to go. I love I Heard him since his Notting Hill squat days]. what we were doing. Bugger off!” A few
A Rumour and Love In The First Degree. The same goes for people like the lovely years later, Steps covered Last Thing On
After that it got a bit more formulaic. Andy Caine [guitarist and bassist] on My Mind [1998] from Please Yourself and
KW: I think WOW! was very much a case [Doobies cover] Long Train Running. we did quite well out of that. Thank you,
of developing a sound with them [SAW]. We also had the Gipsy Kings on that one. Steps! They did Movin’ On as well, which
They were brilliant to work with and But we were allowed to just try anything is a great song.
hugely talented, but I think they got so we wanted. And everything was so quick.
massively successful that resentment builds You’d press a button and it’d just be there. ULTRA VIOLET
up from other people. So it’s like, ‘Oh, It wasn’t like playing a guitar or doing the (Avex Trax,
you’re just a Stock, Aitken and Waterman whole reel-to-reel thing, which is how we Japan, 1995;
act.’ And it did get formulaic in some ways. started out. So, if one idea didn’t work, UK, LP 2020,
We’d be in a car and think our track was we’d just try something else. Pop Life was £35)
coming on the radio, but it was someone really fun to make. A new
else. The other thing with WOW! is that label sees
Jacquie [O’Sullivan] came in towards the PLEASE YOURSELF the Nanas
end and we re-recorded I Want You Back (London, rediscover
and Nathan Jones with her. 1993, £15) their sleek
Slimmed to 90s club
POP LIFE just a duo, groove. They also get pally with The
(London, Dallin and Prodigy.
1991, £7) Woodward SD: Working with [producer and
Youth mark their co-songwriter] Gary Miller was fun. I love
steps in as final album Every Shade Of Blue and Take Me To Your
producer for London Heart. I think we felt it was all a bit more
for a wildly by returning indie-based – let’s just do this and see how it
eclectic set to producers/songwriters Stock and goes. The videos were very casual, too.
that spans Waterman. With mixed results. KW: We were a bit more chilled at
dance-pop, SD: In ’93, Keren and I both had young that point. I don’t think we expected
reggae, acid families. I’d just had a baby and the decade anything and didn’t want anything, other
house and even elements of terse rock. had changed to Britpop and different kinds than to make some music and have a great
Arguably their greatest moment. of music. And for us it was like, “OK, time doing it. The production side of it is
KW: It was a change of decade and where are we going from here? Where do very 90s.
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SD: We performed Prove Your Love VIVA crying shame that, after a certain amount
in Japan and that’s where we first met (Fascination, of time, you don’t get your songs back that
The Prodigy. We were on the same 2009; LP 2019, you’ve written. You don’t own them, ever.
label, Avex, only we were headlining the £60) It’s disgraceful. Owning them was really
show. There was a big dinner and we Initially important to us, and that’s how In Synk came
all had to go up onstage and introduce conceived about. We’d written In Stereo over a period of
ourselves. I remember walking past their as a set of time, so it was like a mishmash of stuff.
table, expecting them to say something readjustments, KW: And there was Love In Stereo.
disparaging. But they absolutely loved their 10th We really liked it, we just didn’t know it
us, and they became such good friends. album is was a Sugababes song. Sara and I love
Keith Flint was lovely, nothing like the instead dominated by Hi-NRG originals. their voices.
Firestarter that people expected. He was KW: We were going to do an album of all
very gentle, very kind. covers to begin with. Bryan Ferry’s Tokyo
KW: Everywhere he went, everybody Joe is on there, and S-S-S-Single Bed
loved Keith. I know it’s a cliché, but he [originally a hit for Fox], which dates back
was genuinely the smile that lights up a to when Sara and I used to go ice-skating
room. He was just adorable. as teenagers. So that had always been at
the back of our minds.
SD: They used to play that song and Steve
Harley’s Come Up And See Me (Make Me
Smile) a lot, though we didn’t cover that
one. I think Viva probably started out as
a covers idea, but then we couldn’t resist
writing our own stuff.
KW: It ended up becoming something
else. It’s a bit like doing this new
compilation album, Glorious, deciding
to put one new song on there and then
getting carried away and doing more. MASQUERADE
That’s how it tends to work. Love Comes (In Synk, 2022, £20)
is a great song, and Seventeen has always A late-career highlight, pulsing with
been a special one for us. Extraordinary is electro-dance goodness. Several tracks
another one. are co-written with Dallin’s daughter,
SD: We’d also started working with Alice D.
DRAMA (A&G, 2005; LP 2019, £50) [producer/keyboardist/programmer] Ian SD: I still think In Stereo is a great album,
After the low-key release of 2001’s Masterson on Drama, but that became but for me, Masquerade is the one. It
Exotica (available only in France), more of a thing with Viva. That was a might have begun as an EP, then ended up
the duo decamp to Scandinavia for a collaboration that’s carried on ever since. being an album.
fabulous Eurodisco comeback. KW: Masquerade is different because it
SD: We absolutely loved doing Drama, IN STEREO was written and recorded in a shorter
which came about after a slower period (In Synk, period of time. And therefore, for me,
in our career, although we were still 2019, £20) it’s a bit like WOW!, in that there’s a vibe
creative. We suddenly found ourselves Their first that goes all the way through. As much
recording in Sweden with a Swedish team, new album as I think there were some great songs on
so it felt like a new lease of life. And I in 10 years In Stereo, Masquerade is a more cohesive
think that showed in the music. And it (on their album, one that actually sounds like it’s
gave us two Top 20 hits, which we hadn’t newly- come fully together.
had in a while. minted label) SD: Alice is a singer-songwriter in her own
KW: Drama sort of rejuvenated followed right and she initially became involved
everything for me, after being quite a spate of because we loved her song, Favourite.
unsure of where we were going. There international tours, an extensive reissue Her version is much slower, more R&B,
was no pressure with this at all. We didn’t campaign and successful reunion shows but we just gave that a go. Then as I was
even record it in a set time – we made it with Siobhan Fahey. writing, Alice happened to be in
in three separate periods throughout a SD: In the interim we’d done the Now Or my house, so I wrote a couple of songs
year. It meant that a little more time and Never EP [2012] and a couple of tracks with her. And it just worked really well.
thought went into it. And just a lot more for the States. And we did a tour of Hard Forever Young is about me and Keren.
joy. Rock cafés over there, a charity thing It’s quite a sweet song really, and it’s very
SD: We went to Sweden in each season [Pinktober, a breast cancer campaign]. personal for us. Since we were 18 or 19,
and bought UGG boots, which had just That was another highlight for me. we’ve been able to write and perform
become popular. You’re in big jumpers We took our band to America and had music and travel the world. It really has
and all cosy, just writing all these songs. such a laugh. been incredible. RC
It felt perfect. I was at my happiest then. KW: Even though In Stereo came out in
I love Move In My Direction. And Look 2019, Sara and I had been writing on and Glorious: The Ultimate Collection
On The Floor is probably in my Top 10 off. So, we already had quite a few songs is out now on London records.
songs of ours. ready for the album. Bananarama play London’s Mighty
KW: Working with them was really SD: That’s when we realised we could Hoopla on 1 June 2024, Leeds’ 80s
inspiring. And again, open to any kind of actually release it ourselves and set up our Classical on 20 July and Glasgow’s
experiment and trying different stuff out. own label. We just thought that’s the way Summer Nights At The Bandstand on 10
That’s how music should be. to go, as so many bands do now. I find it a August.
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Being Soaring.
 PET SHOP BOYS

In April 1984, the original, faster Bobby O-

produced version of West End Girls was
released. Twenty months later they were
No 1 with the statelier Stephen Hague mix.
Since then, Pet Shop Boys have become
the biggest-selling UK duo in pop music
history. And they’re still purveying their own
unique line of euphoric/melancholic
electronic dance music, as evinced by their
b r a n d - n e w a l b u m , N o n e t h e l e s s.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe talk
Pete Paphides through their brilliant
40-year career while, on p. 73, John Earls
rates all 15 of their albums and, on p. 77,
Joh n C olem a n compi les a hef t y
discography. On pages 58 and 64 you will
have already read about Einstürzende
Neubauten and Bananarama, who both
had a good 1984. There is more ’84-related
goodness here: on p80, we celebrate the ruby
anniversary of PSBs’ emergence
by reliving 1984’s format wars,
when for the first time vinyl
went into battle with the CD,
before finally, on p. 86, naming
The Best Records Of 1984.

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 wo hours?!” gasps Chris Lowe.
The idea that the next couple of
hours of his life might be spent
talking about his past and present
life as a Pet Shop Boy momentarily
throws him. With Neil Tennant
yet to arrive, it falls upon him to tell the
group’s publicist when the tea should be
served. “Bring it in halfway,” he decides.
And then, half-jokingly, he suggests we
should get AI to do the whole thing. Lowe
promptly pulls his phone from the pocket
of his black Adidas top and issues the
command for his AI app to “write an
interview with Neil Tennant and Chris
Lowe of the Pet Shop Boys for Record
Collector.’” Then, addressing your
correspondent, he adds, “I’ll send it to you
if you want, then you can use it. Save us
both a job!”

Boys to men (this page, clockwise from above):

Neil Tennant in 1983, in the Smash Hits offices
where he was assistant editor; on the cover of
the same mag in February 1986; Tennant and
Lowe promoting remix LP Disco later that year

Photos: Eric Watson

70 Record Collector
 PET SHOP BOYS
At this precise moment, in the West Wing Over-chairing:
boardroom of Somerset House, a stone’s Chris and Neil in
throw from Waterloo Bridge, Neil Tennant 1987 and (below)
strides in. He removes his black greatcoat and on magazine
covers including a
drapes it over a chair. As he does so, paragraphs rare Tennant
of pristine copy fill Chris Lowe’s empty screen. ‘triumphant’ smile

Interviewer: Thank you both for joining us today.

Let’s jump right in. Your latest album has been
highly anticipated. Can you tell us about the
inspiration behind it and how it differs from your
previous work?

Neil Tennant: Absolutely. Our new album, titled

Electric Dreamscape, is a departure from our
previous work in many ways…”

“Well, that’s obviously rubbish,” cuts in the

real Neil Tennant, gazing disappointedly at his
virtual counterpart, who has failed to
acknowledge one of the core Pet Shop Boys
commandments. Every one of the duo’s
albums has had a one-word title. This bizarro-
world version of Pet Shop Boys has failed at
the first hurdle. “Never mind,” he says, “It’s
reassuring that, after all this time, the only announced that he had tracked
people who know how to be us are still us.” down the producer and played
him the demo that he had
For emphatic proof, we need look no further brought with him. Can he
than Pet Shop Boys’ 15th album, Nonetheless. remember what Orlando said
Produced by console wrangler du jour James when he heard the songs?
Ford (ending a three-album run with future- “Oh, he was always going
disco don Stuart Price), subjects addressed to like them,” laughs Tennant.
include Rudolf Nureyev’s escape from Russia “It all sounded like a homage
(Dancing Star), Oscar Wilde’s post- to him!”
imprisonment sojourn in Nice (Love Is The “And Sting?” wonders
Law) and a song which uses the imagery of Lowe, “What did Sting think
Greek mythology to imagine life as Donald about being used in this way?!” the aloof
Trump’s bodyguard (Bullet For Narcissus). Tennant replies: “Sting – to give credit “survival
The erudite, embattled humanism that where it’s due – has consistently listed West persona” which
shines through the sleek exterior of its 10 songs End Girls as one of his favourite records of all he feels has
leaves you in no doubt whose name adorns the time. Actually, it was great when I interviewed remained with
sleeve. Yet 40 years ago, it wasn’t altogether him, because it was Shea Stadium, the biggest him. “My way
clear that Pet Shop Boys knew what being show of their career, and afterwards, only one of dealing with
themselves entailed. To read their earliest journalist gets the interview. The entire New it was to think, you’re all going to have
interviews is to remember the extent to which York rock corps – Rolling Stone, The Village hopeless jobs in Newcastle and I’m going to be
their existence was a vessel for their adoration Voice, Billboard – are all there, and I’m talking rich and live in London or New York and be
of other people’s records. When New Order to Sting. Because, of course, we’d been to the like David Bowie.”
put out Blue Monday, Tennant remembers same school.” For Tennant, pop stardom What’s perhaps most interesting about
feeling like he almost wanted to cry because it might have been beyond reach for the time this story isn’t the differences it highlights
sounded so close to what he and Lowe had being, but the pair would nonetheless have had between Tennant and the erstwhile Gordon
envisaged for themselves. Well, of course it was much to bond over. Tennant remembers Sumner, but the similarities. In pop star
– a key influence on New Order at this time The Police singer, three years his senior, from terms, both were fairly old before finally
was New York producer Bobby Orlando, who their days at St Cuthbert’s School Grammar alighting on the formula that allowed them to
had masterminded a string of early Hi-NRG School in Newcastle as “what you would have quit their day jobs. In Sting’s case, that meant
club hits for Divine. called ‘a poser’. “There was a picture of the swapping a life as a teacher and part-time jazz
At Smash Hits, where Tennant famously gymnastics team and everyone’s like this, arms musician in order to move to London in
worked as a music journalist, the singer’s folded and slightly butch-looking, apart from 1977 and jump on the punk bandwagon with
adoration of “Bobby O” was so total that, one person, who’s like that.” Tennant affects a The Police. And Tennant?
when he returned from a trip to New York – side-on smoulder. One of the most moving songs on
ostensibly to interview The Police at Shea As well as helping to inspire It’s A Sin, Nonetheless, New London Boy, details
Stadium – the entire office cheered as he Tennant credits his and Sting’s alma mater for Tennant’s arrival in the capital city in 1973. By
that time, he had been writing songs for three
years – initially alongside his friend
“It’s reassuring that, after all this time, Christopher Dowell in Dust. “We had entered
the Newcastle Evening Chronicle talent
the only people who know how to competition,” recalls the singer. “This was
when we were trying to be the Incredible
be us are still us” String Band, and Christopher played a zither,
which was perpetually a semitone out.” For
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 Pet chopper boys: Lowe and Tennant promote
their 1987 Dusty Springfield collaboration What
Have I Done To Deserve This?

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IT’S A SYNTH
All the PSBs albums rated. By John Earls

Please (1986) **** Release (2002) **

Arriving fully formed, PSB’s debut The momentum of a triumphant first
perfectly established their sonic Glastonbury was crushed by PSB’s first
identity. Among the irresistibly “We’re serious artists, actually” album.
infectious synth-pop bounce, Eschewing pop for pomposity, it’s largely
ballads including Later Tonight hard work.
showed their depth.

Fundamental (2006) ****

Actually (1987) **** Although its overtly political stance
Housing two No 1 singles and continued Release’s seriousness, having
several other permanent staples of Trevor Horn at his most orchestral as
their shows, Actually is – in Neil co-producer leavened the message.
Tennant’s own phrase – an imperial Grandiose, but satirically hilarious, too.
phase writ large.

Yes (2009) ***

Subsuming themselves into Noughties
Introspective (1988) ***** production titans Xenomania’s world didn’t
Perfectly suited to incorporate rave result in an all-out pop triumph like Very.
into their extended visions, like Nonetheless, when the chemistry worked
Station To Station or Spirit Of Eden it was exhilarating.
Tennant/Lowe only needed six songs
to shine. Elysium (2012) ****
A hidden gem, PSB’s self-proclaimed LA
album glides like the Drive soundtrack
while inhabiting Behaviour’s sombre world.
Behaviour (1990) ***** Stark beauty meriting reassessment.
Virtually every critic’s favourite PSB
album, this autumnal beauty
concluded their imperial phase.
Typified by Being Boring, it remains a Electric (2013) *****
towering work of austere grandeur. New producer Stuart Price ushered PSB
straight to the dancefloor for their most
full-on club album. That Neil Tennant kept
up the lyrical standard among the
Very (1993) ***** punishing beats was hugely impressive.
By contrast to its predecessor, Very
was the Pets going as pop as
possible, Go West and all. Dayglo Super (2016) ****
pointy hats provided the perfect Very much a second volume of Electric, its
iconography – here were the pop dancefloor mood was less surprising, but
songs to match. the standard stayed high. The Pop Kids is
Pet Shop Boys’ manifesto in four minutes.

Bilingual (1996) ***

Inspired by a South American tour,
PSB had a blast merging Latin music Hotspot (2020) ***
into their Englishness. The ballads The final part of their trilogy with Stuart
are unusually flat, offset by unusually Price was designed to be less frantic.
filthy grooves such as Discoteca. That’s largely true, yet Monkey Business
and Wedding In Berlin are the Pets at their
lewdest and giddiest.

Nightlife (1999) **
Despite its clubbing title, Nightlife Nonetheless (2024) ****
showcases a multitude of genres. Featuring several atypical unabashed love
Made while writing their musical, too songs, Neil Tennant’s voice has never been
Photo: Eric Watson

many songs resemble pastiches more gorgeous. Among the generally lush
rather than heartfelt homages. mood, Bullet For Narcissus epitomises
PSB’s history/bangers Venn diagram.

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Tennant, London was the had been [her producer and
Emerald City. He’d had his head boyfriend] Jellybean [Benitez]’s
thoroughly turned by David birthday party the night before.
Bowie, and Tennant’s attire – She had a hangover and she
heading to London’s self-styled arrived on the subway. I liked
“gayest nightclub” Chaguaramas her. She was chunky in those
in his women’s platform shoes, days. Very down to earth.”
where the DJ would play Walk By this time, they’d already
On The Wild Side and Papa Was recorded the song that would
A Rolling Stone – reflected that. “I give them their first No 1 single.
wanted to be a pop star,” he West End Girls grew fully
affirms, “My plan was to visit formed out of a couplet that
music publishers and play them landed in Tennant’s head just as
my songs, except I would have he was getting ready to go to
needed an electric guitar.” sleep. He had been listening to
Dowell, who contracted HIV Grandmaster Flash’s The
and died in 1989, would be Message. In his mind, the beat
pensively commemorated in Being kept playing and on top of it,
Boring from Pet Shop Boys’ 1990 the song’s vocalist Melle Mel
masterpiece, Behaviour. Dowell’s intoned, “Sometimes you’re
response to the news that his old better off dead/There’s a gun in
friend had started making music your hand and it’s pointing at
with another Chris – an electro your head.” Once you know, it’s
and hip-hop-smitten architecture impossible to miss. And yet, if
student from Blackpool, who he’d you didn’t, it sounded like the
met in a Chelsea hi-fi shop – quintessential evocation of
inspired another song that would London in the mid-80s. “I was
end up on that album, the sitting next to Paul Weller on
unflinching emotional reportage In bloom: Tennant and the plane during one
of Jealousy. The quality of the Lowe in 1990, posing for one of our endless promo
of the shots seen on the
duo’s first compositions together cover of Behaviour
trips to Italy,” recalls
tells you all you need to know Tennant. “He was
about the creative electricity that surprised that West
sparked between Tennant and Lowe from day unbelievable classic.” End Girls did so well
one. Forget everything you know about in America, because
What’s less well-documented is the pair’s Neil Tennant after West End Girls, and it was so English. I
initial uncertainty about how their new songs you can understand his uncertainty that said to him, ‘I think
would be best presented. Worried that he pop stardom was something he could they like us because
might not be up to the challenge of fronting plausibly carry off. This was January we’re English.”
this project, Tennant mooted a third Pet Shop 1986 – five years after the commercial For Chris Lowe,
Boy as singer. Incredibly, it was very nearly explosion of British synth-pop duos such as who constantly reminded his singer not to
Jimmy Somerville, soon to become lead singer OMD, Soft Cell and Yazoo (and three after smile or look “triumphant” on Top Of The
of Bronski Beat. relative latecomers Eurythmics broke through). Pops, the excitement of getting to appear on US
“This,” Tennant explains, “dates back to a But other factors came into play. In the “new TV’s Soul Train became so great that he forgot
period where Chris has moved up to Liverpool, pop” heyday of ABC, The Human League and his own rule. Interviewed by show host Don
but he and I are writing songs pretty seriously Frankie Goes To Hollywood – groups who all Cornelius, Lowe explained, “When we came to
and he comes down every weekend. He’s seemed to come with their own manifesto – New York to record the first time, we didn’t
staying with these guys in Ealing who are the the door was ajar to all sorts of unlikely have a name, so we took the name Pet Shop
original pet shop boys [Lowe had some friends aspirants. In Pet Shop Boys lore, Opportunities Boys for ourselves because it sounded like one
in Ealing, who worked in a pet shop]. Anyway, (Let’s Make Lots Of Money) is the song whose of those New York hip-hop groups that we like
that’s the connection – these guys know Jimmy ironic subtleties were lost on those who saw it so much.”
Somerville, right? as a celebration of Thatcherism rather than a “It’s great,” Tennant says, “because
“Yes,” Lowe elaborates. “He wasn’t there, critique of it. But perhaps by exaggerating [Cornelius] says, ‘You don’t look like a hip-hop
but one of them was going out with him.” something that’s already present, a song can be band to me’, and you go [strikes ‘gang’ pose],
Tennant adds: “Jimmy was in a film made about two entirely different things. Hiding ‘What do you mean?!’”
by something like the London Gay Teenage there in plain sight is Pet Shop Boys’ origin Why was it important to not look
Group that was shown at the ICA – Lost story. Aged 30 by this point, Tennant had to triumphant? Lowe recalls the time he saw
Youth, I think it was called. And Jimmy sings get a hustle on if he was going to make it. Boomtown Rats appear on the show the week
in his falsetto voice: well, it’s extremely “Oh, the whole thing was a hustle,” he they got to No 1 with Rat Trap, in the process
impressive. And I said, ‘Why don’t we get him says. “I’d never really thought about it like ousting John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
to be the singer, because he’s really good.’ that.” Another Smash Hits trip to NYC allowed after several weeks at the top. “I always
Chris was not going to entertain that idea him to study a singer whose beginnings in remember Bob Geldof tearing up the photo of
for a second!” music were one almighty hustle: “Madonna John Travolta at the start of that performance. I
Bronski Beat were a far more explicitly was very ambitious,” he remembers. “Actually, found it really annoying, and I’ve never liked
political entity than Pet Shop Boys. the article was pretty much about that. She was him since.”
“Well,” Tennant says, “I always used to say forthright about it, but also funny, and, of
Photo: Eric Watson

that Jimmy went into music to advance gay course, in those days, she was very street: she The handy thing about being a frontman with
rights. All the songs were a commentary or an arrived at the photo session with a hangover, a degree in history but equally at home
expression of various elements of being gay. she had the lollipop [photos at the time would deconstructing the arc of a pop star’s trajectory
And, of course, Smalltown Boy is just an often show Madonna sucking a lollipop]. It is that you can often draw parallels between
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the two. Less self-aware pop stars who achieve
commercial and critical dominance at the
same time only realise what they had when “We used to go to the Groucho club four
it’s gone. In interviews to support the release
of their 1988 album Introspective – whose hits nights a week. Robbie Williams might
included Left To My Own Devices, Domino
Dancing and Always On My Mind –
be there, Vic Reeves, Tracy Emin...”
Tennant acknowledged they were now in
their “imperial phase”. always going to be difficult, weren’t they?” and all the funerals – there were so many
Later, he would elaborate: “We felt, suggests Lowe. funerals in that period.”
making it, that we understood the essence of Recalls Tennant, “They asked us many But then, to quote the title track from
pop music and so we felt we could do what times to write a song. And Sarah [Dallin] said, 1996’s Bilingual, it seemed more important
we liked.” Writing for Pitchfork in 2010, pop ‘You’ve just picked something off the shelf, than ever to be seizing life: “Going out/And
theorist Tom Ewing further set out three haven’t you, and given it to us?’” He smiles. carrying on as normal.” London in the 90s was
criteria when it came to identifying an artist’s “She just knew. She’s clever.” a fine time to be doing just that. On the duo’s
imperial phase: “command, permission, and For most era-defining pop stars, the decade new album, perhaps the most magisterial
self-definition”. He defined ‘command’ as an after the one in which they broke through moment is A New Bohemia, an unabashed
artist’s ability to push the boundaries of their tends to be the most unforgiving. Perhaps requiem to the cultural renaissance that swept
medium in a way that produces lasting because they were self-aware enough to know through the capital in that decade. Tennant
change. ‘Permission’ covered the public’s that their legacy was secure, the 90s didn’t see explains that the song is “based on a
goodwill toward and interest in the artist’s Tennant and Lowe overly concerned with conversation we often have that: (a) we don’t
work – goodwill which, during this phase, is emulating past glories. Burrow into the albums go out often enough anymore and (b)…
pretty much inexhaustible. And ‘self- from this era: from Behaviour through to the Lowe: “…if we did, where would we go?”
definition’, argued Ewing, was the idea that raw emotional disclosure of 2002’s Release, Tennant: “One time it used to be the
future releases will be compared to those from recorded amid the streets where Tennant grew Groucho Club, four nights a week. This was
the imperial phase. up. In their canon, the latter is perhaps akin to the 90s. We used to see Damien Hirst all the
In Britain, by the late 80s, pop belonged to Marvin Gaye’s post-divorce 1978 confessional time, and that’s how we got to know Sam
Pet Shop Boys as thoroughly as it did to the Here My Dear and it reflects the duality of Taylor-Wood. Robbie Williams might be in
Bee Gees in America a decade previously. And their world. Songs such as This Must Be The there. Sarah Lucas might be downstairs, and
just as the Bee Gees did, the demand for their Place I Waited Years To Leave, Se A Vida E Vic Reeves. Tracey Emin…”
services meant that, suddenly, hits by other and The Survivors are all sculpted by fresh Lowe: “And absinthe had just become
singers – Liza Minnelli, Dusty Springfield and sorrow – the latter a particular moving available, so it
Eighth Wonder – were effectively Pet Shop memorial to Tennant’s Smash Hits colleague, did feel quite
Boys songs featuring guest vocalists. The sense Kimberley Leston: “She committed suicide,” bohemian.”
that they were almost coughing out albums at he says, “and her funeral was the starting point And you
this point isn’t dissipated by their recollection for that one. But, of course, surviving AIDS, thought it
of working with Liza Minnelli would last
on Results (an album that got forever?
its name from Janet Street- “No, no,”
Porter’s description of a dress replies
she was wearing on a night out Tennant,
with them: “It gets me emphatically.
results”): “We did the whole “The Pet Shop Boys never
album in 10 weeks. Which think everything lasts forever,
has never happened before but it was fun while it lasted.
or since.” Now there’s probably a similar
The feeling of having a scene happening somewhere
song turned down isn’t a else. And we don’t know where
common one for Pet Shop it is!”
Boys. It quite possibly It’s impossible to talk about
happened with one of the the movement that would
highlights of their new LP, a become known as Cool
purring slice of devotional Britannia without discussing
electro-pop called Feel, which Britpop. Perhaps surprisingly,
they initially earmarked for Pet Shop Boys were excited to
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers. interact with its most
“We sent it to him when he prominent exponents. Their
was making his solo album retooling of Blur’s Girls &
with Stuart Price, but we don’t Boys kicked off a continuing
know if it reached him – and trend for Pet Shop Boys
then, during lockdown, I read remixes – see also Hallo
a book about the spy, George Spaceboy with David Bowie;
Blake, escaping from prison. Sorry with Madonna; Cosmic
For some reason, it inspired Fringes with Paul Weller – that
me to return to this, so now effectively blurred the line
it’s about visiting a loved one Meet and Magritte: the Boys between remix and
Photo: Derek Ricgers

in prison.” raid the costume cupboard redefinition.

They remember another for a scene from 1991’s “Well, we liked the song,”
song offered out, this time to Performance video collection says Tennant. “And our remix
Bananarama. “They were ended up being the version that
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was released across Europe. Blur did a
promotional tour of Europe, miming on Cone groovers: the dynamic
duo in 2003; (below inset)
television shows to our remix.” the ever LGBT-friendly PSBs
They were big Oasis fans, too, even to the grace the covers of
extent that a couple of their songs – 1996 Out and Attitude
B-side The Truck Driver And His Mate and I
Get Along from 2002’s Release – are homages
to Oasis. What did they like about Oasis?
“I thought the songs were good,” says
Lowe. “But what I really liked about them was
that they enjoyed their celebrity – they
embraced it all. That’s something we’ve never
been able to do. It’s just not in our nature to
go with it.”
Tennant recalls seeing Oasis at Earl’s Court
in 1995 and being approached backstage by
Liam Gallagher. Apparently, he turned to the
PSBs frontman and said, “Eh, you’re a bit like
me: you just stand there and don’t do
anything.” “This,” says Tennant, “was
obviously meant as a compliment.”
Lowe warms to the idea: “I took it as a
compliment. We don’t really do anything,
do we?”
Talk turns to working with outside writers.
Collaborations have been a feature of Pet Shop
Boys’ recent career: West End musical Closer
To Heaven with Jonathan Harvey; a new
soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent
film Battleship Potemkin orchestrated by
Torsten Rasch. For their 2009
album, Yes, they hooked up with
Girls Aloud hitmakers, Xenomania.
Yes remains a professional highlight
for both parties. “Brian Higgins
[main Xenomania producer/writer] is me in the Wag Club when Opportunities came
a complete one-off, like working with out. He said, ‘I think you should have the
Bobby O in a way,” says Tennant. middle bit in twice.’ I immediately thought,
“His method of working was just He’s right.”
completely alien to us,” enthuses Not too many of Pet Shop Boys’
Lowe. “It was fascinating. There contemporaries have stayed the course. And of
would be teams of people dotted those that have, few suit that overused epithet
around the house in little ‘national treasure’ quite as perfectly as they do.
writing rooms.” Tennant isn’t so sure. “I sometimes feel with us
Tennant: “Girls Aloud wandering that we’ve been glossed over a bit. People often
in and out.” we went back to our dressing rooms for a quiet write great things about us, but I sometimes
Lowe: “At a certain point, they’d all be half-hour before getting ready to do it live. The think the public’s affection for us is a bit
summoned into the living room area. And they person in the dressing room next to ours was lacking, and maybe that’s our fault. We’ve
all had to play the bits they’d written, and playing music really loudly on a stereo system, never made it easy to like the Pet Shop Boys.”
they’d be marked out of five.” and I said to our tour manager, ‘Can you go “Hah!” exclaims Lowe. “We’re just not
Tennant: “And that included us. No and tell them to turn that down, or preferably very likeable!”
special treatment.” turn it off?’ He said, ‘It’s George Michael,’ and Then again, gaze across the cultural
Yes seemed to mark a shift in the way Pet I said, ‘Well, you can still tell him to turn it landscape of this decade and they’re never too
Shop Boys were perceived beyond the pop down!’ Next thing we know, the door’s flung far from the action. Sophie Ellis-Bextor may
literate Gen X-ers who first propelled them to open, George Michael comes in and says, ‘Did have provided the feel-good coda of Saltburn,
ubiquity. That was the year they were invited to you ask me to turn my music down?’ I said, but it was the deathless electro-noir of Rent in
close the Brits with a medley of their best-loved ‘Yes, I fucking did!’ And he said, ’Give me a that film’s karaoke scene that anchored it to a
songs. For What Have I Done To Deserve hug’ – very sweet – then he went back to his moment in time. A couple of years previously,
This, Lady Gaga assumed the Dusty Springfield room and played West End Girls very loudly.” when Russell T Davies came to name his mini-
role. Three years later, at the closing ceremony It would be the last time they met. series set in London as the AIDS crisis
of the London Olympics, a global audience “He reminded me a bit of me, slightly escalated, he called it It’s A Sin. Sleaford
watched them being cycled around the geeky,” Tennant decides. “He once came up to Mods’ most recent single was a faithful cover
Olympic stadium on chariots. Also appearing at
Photos: Chris Nash, Alasdair McLellan

the ceremony was George Michael, who had

remained friends with Pet Shop Boys ever since
Tennant interviewed Wham! for Smash Hits.
“George Michael comes in and says,
“There was sort of a panicky rehearsal,” ‘Did you ask me to turn my music down?’
recalls Tennant, “because all the people
working there were volunteers. There were a lot And he said, ‘Give me a hug’”
of selfies going on with One Direction. And so,
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of West End Girls; while masked rap and
grime MC Casisdead collaborated with
Tennant on a song which featured on his
Brit Award-winning album Famous Last
Words – a chalk-cheese contrast which
seems to cause Lowe moderate amusement.
The widespread affection in which
they’re held – one that traverses all lines of
tribal loyalty, gender, generation and sexual
orientation – would have been apparent to
anyone who saw, either on TV or in
person, their barnstorming headline set on
the Other Stage at Glastonbury in 2022.
The passing of the decades meant that
Always On My Mind, Being Boring and
Go West – songs charged with emotion the
first time around – now landed like
grenades of euphoria and longing.
For 22 agonising minutes, however, Boys II Mannequin:
none of this was apparent to Lowe. The Tennant and Lowe
giant screen onto which graphics were to be in 2024, about to
release their 15th
projected failed to rise, leaving Tennant album, Nonetheless
alone before 70,000 fans, unable to
communicate with the rest of his musicians.
Beside the singer was a keyboard lacking its
owner who, unbeknownst to him, was The Pet Shop Boys UK Discography
By John Coleman
stuck behind the screen playing the
keyboard allocated to him for set opener Neil and Chris are a truly prolific duo, but this is a near-complete UK discography as far as vinyl is concerned and we
Suburbia. have added a few choice CD releases for good measure.
“I realised,” says Lowe, “that I wasn’t SINGLES
going to get to my front keyboard in time 84 Epic A 4292 West End Girls/Pet Shop Boys (7”, original “Nouvelle Version”, p/s).................... £30
84 Epic TA 4292 West End Girls (Extended)/Pet Shop Boys (12”, p/s) ....................................... £30
to start playing, so I climbed up the steps to 85 Parlophone R 6097 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)/In The Night
get back to my second keyboard at the (matrix A-3-1-2) (7”, 1st mix, white p/s)............................................................ £15
back. I actually fell over at one point 85 Parlophone 12R 6097 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
(Dance Mix)/In The Night (12”, white p/s)......................................................... £30
because I had this stupid mask on. So, I 85 Parlophone 12RA 6097 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) (Version Latina)/
can’t see, it’s pitch black and I’m literally (Dub For Money Remix)/In The Night (Extended Mix)
(12”, large picture labels, die-cut p/s)................................................................. £25
crawling on my hands and knees. And I’m 85 Parlophone 12R 6097 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) (Dance Mix)/In The Night
trending on Twitter: #WheresChris!” (Extended Mix) (12”, mispressing, b-side plays ‘Opportunities
RC puts it to Pet Shop Boys that they (Dub For Money Remix)’, p/s) ............................................................................ £30
85 Parlophone 12R 6097 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) (Dance Mix)/
may be in the throes of another imperial In The Night (Extended Mix) (12”, 2nd mispressing, b-side plays
phase. As ever, history holds all the answers. ‘Opportunities (Version Latina)’, p/s) ................................................................... £30
Tennant cites the example of Napoleon who, 85 Parlophone R 6115 West End Girls/A Man Could Get Arrested (7”, paper labels, p/s) ........................ £6
85 Parlophone 12R 6115 West End Girls (Dance Mix)/A Man Could Get Arrested/
while being held prisoner on St Helena, West End Girls (12”, paper labels, p/s) ............................................................. £12
fashioned his own myth – which endured to 85 Parlophone 10R 6115 West End Girls (Untitled Mix)/A Man Could Get Arrested (4.09 mix)/
West End Girls (7” mix) (10”, round fold-out p/s; sealed with sticker) .................. £60
such an extent that, several years later, his 86 Parlophone 12RA 6115 West End Girls (Shep Pettibone Mastermix)/West End Dub/
nephew became Napoleon III. Now in their A Man Could Get Arrested (4.09 mix) (12”, black/blue/red p/s, standard labels).. £10
myth phase, Pet Shop Boys are in their 86 Parlophone 12RA 6115 West End Girls (Shep Pettibone Mastermix)/West End Dub/A Man Could Get
Arrested (4.09 mix) (12”, same as above with 6” circle on sleeve ....................... £10
Napoleon III years. 86 Parlophone 12RA 6115 West End Girls (Shep Pettibone Mastermix)/West End Dub/
“Perhaps we can get our nephews to A Man Could Get Arrested (4.09 mix) (12”, stickered black/blue/red p/s
do our next Glastonbury set,” ponders with 6” die-cut hole & 6” yellow picture labels) .................................................... £10
86 Parlophone R 6129 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)/Was That What It Was?
the singer. (7”, reissue, silver sleeve) ................................................................................... £8
“As well as getting AI Chatbot to do the 86 Parlophone R 6129 Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)/Opportunities (Reprise)/
Opportunities (Original Dance Mix)/Was That What It Was?
interviews, obviously,” adds the (12”, reissue, silver sleeve) ............................................................................... £12
keyboardist. 86 Parlophone R 6116 Love Comes Quickly/That’s My Impression (7”, paper labels, p/s) £6
“That reminds me,” says Tennant, 86 Parlophone 10R 6116 Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)/That’s My Impression
(Disco Mix)(10”, PVC sleeve with poster) ......................................................... £100
pointing at Lowe’s phone on the 86 Parlophone 12R 6116 Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix)/That’s My Impression (Disco Mix)
boardroom table. “What else did we say?” (12”, large picture labels, die-cut white sleeve) ................................................... £10
Lowe picks up his device and scrolls 86 Parlophone R 6140 Suburbia/Paninaro (7”, black labels, paper p/s or glossy card p/s) ......................... £6
86 Parlophone 12R 6140 Suburbia (The Full Horror)/Paninaro/Jack The Lad (12”, p/s) ............................ £10
through the remainder of the interview 86 Parlophone RD 6140 Suburbia)/Paninaro/Love Comes Quickly (Shep Pettibone Remix)/
with the AI Pet Shop Boys. Jack The Lad/Suburbia Part Two (double pack, gatefold p/s) .............................. £10
87 Parlophone R 6171 Always On My Mind/Do I Have To? (7”, p/s) ....................................................... £4
“Apparently, ‘We’re constantly evolving 87 Parlophone 12R 6171 Always On My Mind(Extended Dance Version)/Do I Have To?/
as artists, and we’re excited to see where this Always On My Mind (12”, p/s) ........................................................................... £8
journey takes us next.’” 87 Parlophone 12RX 6171 Always On My Mind(Remix)/Do I Have To?/Always On My Mind
(Dub Version) (12”, p/s) .................................................................................. £10
“Fair enough,” nods Tennant. “But 87 Parlophone R 6158 It’s A Sin/You Know Where You Went Wrong (7”, black labels, p/s)...................... £5
would we literally say that?” 87 Parlophone R 6158 It’s A Sin (Disco Mix)/You Know Where You Went Wrong/It’s A Sin
“No,” says Lowe. “But our nephews (7” Version) (12”, p/s) ....................................................................................... £8
87 Parlophone R 6158 It’s A Sin (Ian Levine Remix)/You Know Where You Went Wrong
might.” RC (Rough Mix) (12”, p/s)..................................................................................... £10
87 Parlophone R 6168 Rent/I Want A Dog (7”, Injection moulded or paper labels, p/s) ............................. £6
87 Parlophone 12R 6168 Rent (Extended Mix)/Rent (Dub)/I Want A Dog (7”, p/s) .....................................£8
Nonetheless is released by Parlophone 87 Parlophone R 6163 What Have I Done To Deserve This (with Dusty Springfield)/
on 26 April. A New Life (7”, silver/black labels, p/s) ................................................................£6

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 87 Parlophone 12R 6163 What Have I Done To Deserve This (with Dusty Springfield)/
A New Life/What Have I Done To Deserve This (with Dusty Springfield)
(Disco Mix) (12”, p/s) .........................................................................................£8
88 Parlophone R 6177 Heart/I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too) (7”, Neil or Chris p/s/)..........................£6
88 Parlophone 12R 6177 Heart (Disco Mix)/I Get Excited (You Get Excited Too)/Heart (Dance Mix)
(12”, Neil or Chris p/s/) ..................................................................................... £10
88 Parlophone 12RX 6177 Heart (12” Remix)/Heart (Dub Mix)I Get Excited
(You Get Excited Too)/Heart (Dance Mix) (12”, Neil and Chris p/s/).................... £10
88 Parlophone R 6198 Left To My Own Devices/The Sound Of The Atom Splitting
(7”, paper sleeve/outer sleeve, p/s/) .................................................................£5/£6
88 Parlophone 12R 6198 Left To My Own Devices (The Disco Mix)/Left To My Own Devices/
The Sound Of The Atom Splitting (12”, paper sleeve/outer sleeve, p/s/) ....... £10/£12
88 Parlophone R 6190 Domino Dancing/Don Juan (7”, p/s/) ...................................................................£4
88 Parlophone 12R 6190 Domino Dancing (Disco Mix)/Don Juan/Domino Dancing
(Alternative Mix) (12”, p/s) .................................................................................£4
88 Parlophone 12RX 6190 Domino Dancing (Base Mix)/Don Juan (Demo)/
Domino Dancing (Demo) (12”, p/s).................................................................. £16
89 Parlophone RS 6220 It’s Alright/One of The Crowd/Your Funny Uncle
(7”, Limited Edition with obi strip, p/s/) ..................................................................£8
89 Parlophone 10R 6220 It’s Alright/It’s Alright (Extended Dance Mix)
(10”, alternative versions, poster, p/s) ................................................................ £15
90 Parlophone R 6275 Being Boring/We All Feel Better In The Dark (7”, paper labels, p/s)......................£5
90 Parlophone 12R 6275 Being Boring (Extended Mix)/We All Feel Better In The Dark
(Extended Mix) (12”, p/s) ................................................................................ £12
90 Parlophone 12RX 6275 Being Remixed: Being Boring (Remix)/We All Feel Better In The Dark
(After Hours Climax)/We All Feel Better In The Dark (Ambient) (12”, p/s)......... £15
90 Parlophone R 6269 So Hard/It Must Be Obvious (7”, red paper or injection labels, p/s) ........................£5
90 Parlophone 12R 6269 So Hard (Extended Dance Mix)/It Must Be Obvious/So Hard (Dub Mix)
(12”, p/s) ...........................................................................................................£8
90 Parlophone 12RX 6269 So Hard (The KLF Vs Pet Shop Boys)/It Must Be Obvious (UFO Mix) (12”, p/s).... £15
91 Parlophone R 6301 DJ Culture/Music For Boys (7”, p/s) ....................................................................£5
91 Parlophone 12R 6301 DJ Culture (Extended Mix)/Music For Boys/DJ Culture (Part 2) (12”, p/s) ............£8
91 Parlophone 12RX 6301 DJ Culturemix /Music For Boys (Part 3)/Overture To Performance (12”, p/s) .... £12
91 Parlophone R 6306 Was It Worth It?/Miserablism (7”, p/s) ...............................................................£X
91 Parlophone 12R 6306 Was It Worth It? (12” Mix )/Was It Worth It (Dub)/Miserablism (12”, p/s)............£8
91 Parlophone R 6285 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
(7” Edit)/How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (7”, p/s) ..........................£6
91 Parlophone R 6285 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
(Extended Mix)/How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?
(Extended Mix) (12”, p/s) ...................................................................................£8
91 Parlophone R 6283 Jealousy/Losing My Mind (7”, paper or injection labels, p/s) ..................................£5
91 Parlophone R 6283 Jealousy (Extended Mix)/Losing My Mind (Disco Mix) (12”, p/s)..........................£8
93 Parlophone R 6356 Go West/Shameless (7”, p/s) .............................................................................£6
93 Parlophone 12R 6356 Go West (Mings Gone West: First And Second Movement)/
Go West (Farley And Heller Disco Mix)/Go West
(Kevin Saunderson Tribe Mix) (12”, p/s) .......................................................... £12
93 Parlophone R 6370 I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing/Too Many People (7”, p/s) .................£6
93 Parlophone 12R 6370 I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Extended Nude Mix)/
I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (Grandballroom Dub)/
West End Girls (Sasha Remix)/West End Girls (Sasha Dub) (12”, p/s).............. £12
93 Parlophone R 6348 Can You Forgive Her?/Hey Headmaster (7”, p/s) ................................................£5
93 Parlophone 12R 6348 Can You Forgive Her?: 4 Mixes (12”, p/s) ........................................................ £15
93 Parlophone R 6348 Can You Forgive Her? (7” version)/Hey Headmaster
(red or blue vinyl, factory custom press, p/s)...................................................... £600
94 Parlophone 12R 6386 Yesterday, When I Was Mad: 3 Mixes (12”, p/s) .................................................£8
94 Parlophone R 6377 Liberation/Decadence (7”, p/s)...........................................................................£6
94 Parlophone 12R 6377 Liberation (E Smoove 7” Edit)/Liberation (E Smoove 7” Edit)/
Liberation (Oscar G’s Dopeasdub Mix)/Liberation (Murk Dirty Club Mix)/
Young Offender (Jam & Spoon Trip-O-Matic Fairy Tale Mix)/Young Offender
(Remix No 2) (12”, double pack, p/s) ................................................................ £15
94 Spaghetti R 6382 Absolutely Fabulous/Absolutely Fabulous (Dull Soulless Dance Music Mix)
(7”, words and music from the BBC TV Series Absolutely Fabulous.
Produced and mixed by Pet Shop Boys, p/s ......................................................... £10
94 Spaghetti 12R 6382 Absolutely Fabulous: 4 Mixes (12”, words and music from the BBC TV Series
Absolutely Fabulous. Produced and mixed by Pet Shop Boys, p/s).......................... £15
96 Parlophone RLH 6414 Paninaro (7” Mix)/In The Night (7”, jukebox issue, plain sleeve) ............................£8
95 Parlophone 12RX 6414 Paninaro ’95 (The Remixes Part One): 4 Mixes (12”, p/s) ................................ £15
95 Parlophone 12R 6414 Paninaro ’95 ((The Remixes Part Two): 3 Mixes (12”, p/s) ............................... £15
96 Parlophone RLH 6431 Before/The Truck Driver And His Mate (7”, jukebox issue, plain sleeve) .............. £10
96 Parlophone 12RX 6431 Before: 9 Mixes (3x12” vinyl, Box Set, grey cover, inners)................................... £20
96 Parlophone RLH 6443 Se A Vida É (That’s The Way Life Is)/Before
(Single Edit) (7”, jukebox issue, plain sleeve) ..................................................... £15
96 Parlophone 12RD 6443 Se A Vida É (That’s The Way Life Is): 7 Mixes
(2x12”, yellow and green dayglow colour vinyl, p/s) .............................................. £25
97 Parlophone 12R 6460 A Red Letter Day (Basement Jaxx Nite Dub)/A Red Letter Day
(Trouser Enthusiasts Congo Dongo Dubstramental)/The Boy Who
Couldn’t Keep His Clothes On (The Far Away Dub) (12”, Limited Edition
red vinyl, stickered sleeve, p/c) .......................................................................... £15
97 PSB Fan Club PSB97 It Doesn’t Often Snow At Christmas
(CD, fan club issue in sealed silver bubble wrap)................................................ £125
97 Parlophone RLH 6470 Somewhere/Se A Vida E (That’s The Way Life Is)
(7”, jukebox issue, plain sleeve)......................................................................... £15
99 Parlophone 12R 6523 I Don’t Know What You Want But I Can’t Give It Any More: 6 mixes
(12”, inner, p/s) ............................................................................................... £15
00 Parlophone 12R6533 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk: 4 Mixes
(2x12”, inners, p/s) .......................................................................................... £12
03 Parlophone 12R 6620 Miracles: 3 Mixes (12”, white vinyl, die-cut sleeve, inner)................................... £15
06 Parlophone R 6690 I’m With Stupid/Girls Don’t Cry (7”, picture disc, p/s) ...........................................£8
06 Parlophone R 6708 Minimal (Radio Edit)/In Private (7-inch Mix) (7”, clear vinyl, p/s) ....................... £20
06 Parlophone R 6723 Numb (New Radio Version)/Party Song (7”, Limited Edition, inner, p/s) .................£8
06 Parlophone 12R 6723 Numb (Album Version)/Numb (a capella)/Psychological
(Ewan Pearson Mix) (12”, Limited Edition, inner, p/s)............................................£8
09 Parlophone 12R 6772 Did You See Me Coming?: 3 Mixes (12”, inner, p/s) ......................................... £15
10 Parlophone R 6810 Love Life/A Powerful Friend (7”, blue Parlophone die-cut sleeve,
RSD issue, 1,000 only)..................................................................................... £25
12 Parlophone R 6879 Leaving/Leaving (Demo) (7”, 500 only, sealed, p/s)........................................... £20

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12 Parlophone 12R 6879 Leaving (Lost Her Remix)/Happy Sad Remix/
Happy Hour Remix (12”, 180g vinyl, inner, p/s) ................................................ £20
13 x2 0001 VL1 Axis/Axis (Boys Noize Remix) (12”, Limited Edition, die-cut back sleeve)............. £25
13 x2 0002 VL 1 Vocal: 8 Mixes (2x12”, Limited Edition, orange inners, p/s) ................................. £30
13 x2 0004 VL 1 Love Is A Bourgeois Construct: 8 Mixes (2x12”, Limited Edition, p/s) ................ £30
13 x2 0005 VL 1 Thursday: 3 Mixes (12”, Limited Edition, p/s) .................................................... £20
13 x2 0006 VL 1 Fluorescent (Indio Mix)/Fluorescent (Cali Mix)
(12”, 1-sided RSD issue, die cut p/s) ................................................................. £50
16 x2 0007 VL 1 Inner Sanctum: 4 Mixes(12”, inner, p/s) .......................................................... £10
16 x2 0009 VL 1 The Pop Kids: 5 Mixes (12”, white vinyl, p/s)..................................................... £12
16 x2 0012 VL 1 Say It To Me: 4 Mixes (12”, inner, p/s)............................................................. £10
16 x2 0012 VL 1 Lost EP: The Lost Room/I Will Fall/Skeletons In The Closet/Kaputnik
(CD, unreleased demos from Super Album, card p/s) ........................................... £60
17 x2 0013 VL1 Undertow (Tuff City Kids Remix)/Left To My Own Devices
(Super Version)/Burn (Baba Stiltz Remix)/Undertow
(Tuff City Kids Dub) (12”, inner, p/s)................................................................. £12
20 x2 0020 VL1 Monkey Business (Radio Edit)/Monkey Business
(Prins Thomas Diskomiks)/At Rock Bottom/Monkey Business
(Friend Within Remix) (12”, inner, p/s) ............................................................. £10
20 x2 0020 VL1 Monkey Business – Tracklisting as per 12” (CD, insert, p/s) ............................. £15
20 x2 0020 VL1 Cricket Wife/West End Girls (New Lockdown Version)
(CD, Limited Edition, insert, only available via the Pet Shop Boys Annually 2021
book, with/without book p/s) ....................................................................... £30/£60
24 Parlophone
5054197946363 Loneliness (Radio edit)/Party In The Blitz/Through You (Extended mix)
(CD, insert, p/s)...................................................................................................£8
ALBUMS
86 Parlophone PCS 7303 PLEASE (LP, 1st issue, EMI Pressing, glossy picture inner) ................................... £25
86 Parlophone PRG1001 DISCO (LP, 6 tracks, 1st issue, black labels)....................................................... £15
86 Parlophone PRG1001 DISCO (LP, 6 tracks, reissue, picture labels, inner) .............................................. £12
87 Parlophone PCSD 104 ACTUALLY (LP) ................................................................................................ £15
87 Parlophone PCSDX 104 ACTUALLY (LP, with US import 12” Always On My Mind, stickered sleeve).............. £25
88 Parlophone PCS 7325 INTROSPECTIVE (LP, inner) .............................................................................. £18
88 Parlophone PCSX 7325 INTROSPECTIVE (LP, 3 x clear vinyl 12”, factory custom pressing
with wraparound paper strip, 10 copies only).................................................. £1,500
88 Parlophone PCSX 7325 INTROSPECTIVE (LP, 3 x black vinyl 12”, with picture labels and wraparound
paper obi strip)................................................................................................. £50
90 Parlophone PCSD 113 BEHAVIOUR (LP, red inner).............................................................................. £18
91 Parlophone PMTV3 DISCOGRAPHY (2LP) ....................................................................................... £50
93 Parlophone CDPCSD 143 VERY (CD, custom made “Orange relief” jewel case, booklet,
hidden track Postscript)........................................................................................£6
93 Parlophone PCSD 143 VERY (LP, ‘European issue’, yellow cover, inner).................................................. £45
93 Parlophone CDPCSDX 143 VERY RELENTLESS (2CD, Limited Edition,
transparent plastic bubble-embossed wallet, sealed stickered sleeve, inners).......... £12
94 Parlophone PCSD 159 DISCO 2 (LP, inner).......................................................................................... £40
95 Parlophone PCSD 166 ALTERNATIVE (3LP, printed inners, catalogue booklet, lenticular sleeve)................ £60
95 Parlophone CDPCSD 166 ALTERNATIVE (2CD, booklet, lenticular sleeve) ................................................... £10
96 Parlophone PCSD 170 BILLINGUAL (LP, inner) .................................................................................... £60
96 Parlophone CDPCSD170 BILLINGUAL (CD, jewel case with frosted front, 1st issue with circular sticker, insert) ... £8
99 P’phone 724352185719 NIGHTLIFE (LP, inner, postcard, stickered sleeve)................................................ £40
99 P’phone 724352185788 NIGHTLIFE (Minidisc, insert, stickered case) ....................................................... £25
99 P’phone 724352185726 NIGHTLIFE (CD, 24 page booklet, stickered jewel case) ..........................................£8
02 Parlophone 538 1501 RELEASE (LP, white marbled vinyl, lyric inner, stickered sleeve) ............................ £45
02 Parlophone 538 5982 RELEASE (CD, Limited Edition 1st issue, available in a choice
of 4 metallic flower design colour slipcases: Blue Daisy/Red Orchid/Grey Poppy/
Pink Rose, inserts)..................................................................................... £20-£25
03 Parlophone 724358146 DISCO 3 (3LP, red and black inners, 1,000 only) ................................................ £40
03 Parlophone 593 8841 POPART – THE HITS (3LP, individual photo sleeves, in spot varnished/foiled box) . £200
03 Parlophone 593 8841 POPART – THE HITS (3CD, in spot varnished/foiled cardboard box, inners,
stickered sleeve) .............................................................................................. £12
05 Parlophone 874 4502 TENNANT/LOWE: BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (CD, slipcase, stickered sleeve) ........... £10
06 P’phone 946 36285917 FUNDAMENTAL (LP, lyric inner)......................................................................... £30
06 P’phone 946 36285917 FUNDAMENTAL (2CD, Limited Edition, inc Fundamentalism
bonus remix disc, inner) .......................................................................................£8
06 Parlophone 377 4602 CONCRETE (2CD, jewel case, inner) .....................................................................£8
07 Parlophone 506 0461 DISCO FOUR (Remixed By Pet Shop Boys) (2LP, ltd. ed, inners)........................... £90
09 Parlophone 695 3471 YES (LP, lyric inner) .......................................................................................... £35
09 Parlophone 695 3452 YES ETC. (2CD, special edition tri-fold card sleeve, inner) .......................................£9
09 Vinyl Factory VF 003 YES (11 X 12” in smoked Perspex box with gold-plated ‘tick’ on cover,
with art print, signed and numbered by both band members, 300 only)............. £1,500
11 EMI/ART VINYL AVLP6 INTROSPECTIVE (LP+CD, originally only available via Art Vinyl
or from John Lewis, stickered sleeve,inner).......................................................... £25
12 Vinyl Factory VF 090 x2 ELECTRIC (Box set 5 x 12”, 45RPM, coloured vinyl in acrylic box, 12-page booklet) £1,000
12 Parlophone C955 7162 FORMAT: B-SIDES AND BONUS TRACKS 1996 –2009 (2CD, box, booklet) ......... £10
13 x2 0003 VL1 ELECTRIC (2LP, 180g vinyl, inners) ................................................................... £18
16 X2 008 VL1 SUPER (LP, hand numbered w/l, signed by Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant, 8 copies only) ....£230
16 X2 008 VL1 SUPER (LP, inner)............................................................................................ £20
16 x2 0008 CD1 SUPER (CD, pink stickered jewel case, insert)........................................................£6
17 Parlophone
0190295944049 RELEASE (LP, 180g remaster, lyric inner, stickered sleeve) .................................. £20
20 x2 0018 VL1 HOTSPOT (LP, inner, gatefold sleeve, initial copies were available
with a limited signed print) ......................................................................... £20/£80
23 Parlophone 197618833 RELENTLESS (LP, reissue, Ltd Edition yellow 180g vinyl, inner) ............................ £40
24 P’phone 0190295021962 SMASH (THE SINGLES 1985-2020) (6LP, box set, printed inners) ...................... £90
24 P’phone 0190296459368 SMASH (THE SINGLES 1985-2020) (6LP, white vinyl, box set, printed inners).... £300
24 P’phone 5054197296215 SMASH (THE SINGLES 1985-2020) (3CD/2BR, box set, 60pp booklet, mispress
with ‘censored’ US version of Being Boring promo)............................................... £30
24 P’phone 5054197590665 SMASH (THE SINGLES 1985-2020) (3-cassette box set, website exclusive)......... £80
24 P’phone 5054197903540 NONETHELESS (LP, black vinyl) ........................................................................ £25
24 P’phone 5054197903588 NONETHELESS (LP, grey vinyl, indie exclusive).................................................... £30
24 P’phone 50541979035 NONETHELESS (LP, clear vinyl, Amazon Exclusive) .............................................. £30
24 P’phone 50541979035 NONETHELESS (2LP, white vinyl + bonus four-track 12” EP Furthermore
– website exclusive) .......................................................................................... £40

Look out for a special “Collecting the Pet Shop Boys” feature in a future issue, where we will be investigating PSBs
rarities and curios.
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Frankie Said
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War power:
Eric Watson
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The first commercially released pop/rock CD is either said to be

Billy Joel’s 52nd Street or ABBA’s The Visitors, while Bruce
Springsteen’s Born In The USA is presumed to be the first CD
ever made in the States. One thing’s for sure: by 1984, the CD
was starting its takeover. Indeed, The New York Times ran an
article entitled ‘Invasion Of The Compact Disks’. There were,
they said, 16.4 million CDs sold worldwide in 1984, with a
projected jump to 32.5 million in 1985 while 35,000 compact-
disc players were sold in the US in 1983, jumping to 250,000 in
’84. The BBC’s Tomorrow’s World may have wondered back in 1981
“whether there’s a market for this kind of disc” but the fact is,
the CD was here to stay. MATTHEW QUINLAN recalls the rise of
the new format – and the fightback from VINYL (and CASSETTE).

ream, if you can, a courtyard. An album sales and promote 28 artists at once.
ocean of violets in bloom. The labels were like toddlers with a Sherbet
Alternatively, a 1984 record shop Fountain and went giddy with it. The year
and all its pristine treasures. Close ended on Now 4, and CBS-WEA’s fast-
your eyes, let’s go there together. following Hits.
What do you see? From chest-level Flaccid single sales turned into a ski-jump.
down – vinyl. Chest to eye-level – cassettes, One single went platinum in 1982, one more
pressed tight against the wall like teenagers at in 1983, then half a dozen in 1984. Frankie
a school disco. High above those – picture Goes To Hollywood’s Two Tribes was a
discs, promo displays, collectibles, charts, and million-seller by summer and Relax did the
a menu of new releases. same on 7” alone. Careless Whisper and I Just
What do you hear? Music, some wonderful Called To Say I Love You, ditto. Ghostbusters
sounds, but also the soft slap of record sleeves and Last Christmas/Everything She Wants
being browsed, and perhaps, from the classical both sold a million without bothering to
corner, an unfamiliar sound, the metronomic reach No 1.
clack-clack-clack of CD jewel cases. The year closed with Band Aid. The
The UK recording industry hadn’t spent Special AKA’s Free Nelson Mandela (an
1983 in the rudest of health. Brian Southall at urgent, drum-tight four minutes) and Bronski
EMI, interviewed on the BBC in March: Beat’s Smalltown Boy (extended for one of the
“Over the last two or three years it’s dropped decade’s great 12”s into a patient, plaintive
between 20 and 30 per cent overall. The prime nine) had turned our attention outwards. After
area for loss of sales has been the LP. Singles BBC coverage of the Ethiopian famine
have remained static over the last couple of mobilised a thick slice of the UK and Ireland’s
years but that’s significantly lower than it was pop stars, we bought three million copies of
four or five years ago. And the pre-recorded Do They Know It’s Christmas? in four weeks.
cassette market has consistently increased.” Dave Lewis, now an author and sometime
The pattern held for most of the year. RC writer, then a staffer at WH Smith in
Nineteen eighty-four opened with the first Bedford, sold 1,000 of those in the first seven
Now That’s What I Call Music at No 1; a days. He remembers 1984 as “the last great
Virgin-EMI collaboration designed to pump blast of vinyl” (and the year he married Janet,
after meeting her over the
counter). He built a
destination record
department to compete
with HMV, Andy’s
Records, Boots, and
Woolworths – five healthy
outlets for a population of
100,000. He kept
customers loyal with all the
single formats, a full slate of
12”s, indie picture sleeves,
club mixes, and imports.
“You could watch 1984
as much as listen to it,” he
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says. Top Of The Pops was a call to prayer for a deep catalogue store in the middle of
every Thursday evening. Record shops London, what Gennaro Castaldo, who was
knew that the line-up they were shown working for HMV in the mid-80s, calls
on Wednesday would ring the tills on “Spotify in physical form”. British
Saturday; Lewis remembers Nena’s first customers still flicked through sleeves and
performance of 99 Red Balloons lighting picked up their records at the counter (the
a rocket. The Tube on Friday evening masterbag system) but HMV’s megastore
was a different animal. Nowhere else would have enough space – 50,000 square
could you find a 16-minute Style feet – to put the records on the racks.
Council set, a first look at The Smiths, a John Manship was running Tracks in
discussion about picture discs with style 1984, five independent stores from Melton
commentator Peter York, and an hour- Mowbray to Nottingham, selling
long feature on Einstürzende Neubauten collectables, chart releases, every indie and
and the Berlin music scene. Other shows punk single going, and home video: VHS,
put pretty pictures to music; The Tube Betamax, and Philips V2000. Nineteen
made music culture dance barefoot on eighty-three’s The Making Of Michael
white hot coals for us. Jackson’s Thriller had kickstarted music
Every week, Record Mirror offered a video sales. As the LP faltered, he says,
halfway house for Smash Hits and record companies turned to Harvard
Number One readers, and three papers MBAs for cost-cutting schemes. Some
dug deep: NME, Sounds, and Melody started shipping thinner LPs to save a
Maker. Each expressed penny a disc. “Polydor were the worst,”
its DNA in their critics’ Manship says. “Their vinyl went down to
choice of Album Of really low grade.” (He may be right. In a
The Year: NME’s statistically slight experiment, UK LPs
contrarian The Poet II from Level 42, ABC, and Visage, all on
by Bobby Womack; Polydor or related labels, started losing
Ocean Rain by Echo & weight in 1983 and were down around
The Bunnymen for 5 per cent by 1985).
Melody Maker; Prince’s In the final reckoning, record labels
Discs and tech: Oxford Street
Purple Rain in Record HMV was “Spotify in physical
gave collectors far more than they took away.
Mirror; Sounds went form”; left, the mighty Walkman; Singles as gatefolds, double packs, picture discs,
R.E.M.; and Smash Hits below, picture disc heaven coloured vinyl, 12”s, more 12”s. Fans could
readers chose Duran vote five or six times for their favourites; a self-
Duran’s Seven And The It’s a lightning year-end review, but it’s not imposed loyalty program. The Thompson
Ragged Tiger. the story. Twins’ You Take Me Up came as a jigsaw of
There were first albums – some popular, three shaped picture discs and no one was
some just promising – from Sade, The Blue ',*,)<28:,//7+(3,&785(',6& buying only one of those. David Sylvian’s Ink
Nile, The Pogues, Everything But The Girl, Cassettes were building up and up. Sales were In The Well 12” offered a free T-shirt. The Pet
Prefab Sprout, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, solid. Solid as a rock thanks to car stereos and Shop Boys’ original West End Girls, which
The Smiths, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. the Walkman. Orange foam did nothing to reached No 133, kept it simple, just 7” and 12”
Second albums from R.E.M. (Reckoning), stop sharp black plastic edges from torturing picture sleeves. And their singer Neil Tennant,
Metallica (Ride The Lightning), and Talk Talk our ear lobes, but we loved them. Headphones Smash Hits’ news editor, wasn’t the only
(It’s My Life) suggested some staying power, turned our music mobile and mixtapes gave us journalist to cross the divide.
and Queen and U2 started scoping out bigger self-expression.
venues. 4AD grazed the charts with Cocteau We took to the streets for new releases. 6(;&5,0( 1,1(7((1(,*+7<)285
Twins’ Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops and Treasure, Monday was launch day and record collections Trevor Horn had hired NME journalist Paul
and Rough Trade with The Smiths and Mute were built during and after school and work. Morley into ZTT on a very long leash. “By
with Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward Fans congregated at 363 Oxford Street in writing about music I had stored up a lot of
competed on terms with the majors. London for HMV’s in-store signings and ideas about how to package and make available
The second British pop wave had crashed monumental window displays: Bruce my favourite kind of music,” Morley told The
over the States in 1982 and 1983, and the Springsteen three-stories high, six-foot-square Quietus in 2014, “and because I had written
backwash arrived in 1984. A beefcake, hit- album sleeves scaled up by students from Saint about a certain kind of music for the NME,
making edition of Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Martin’s School of Art. Tower Records stood I had a kind of ideological commitment to
remodelled and Tina reborn, and a reflowered up David Byrne’s jumbo suit in making pop music stranger, cleverer, more
Madonna writhing around on the first MTV a New York store window beautiful, more surprising, and record sleeves
Video Music Awards. Run DMC released the to promote Stop and associated paraphernalia more
first rap album to go gold. They would be the Making Sense; entertaining and provocative.”
only act from the class of 1984 to make it into HMV’s Managing
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the first Director Brian
time of asking. McLaughlin
But Prince was the phenom. He produced might have
an Oscar-winning, 111-minute music video, seen it when
the critical and commercial album of the year, he visited the
and four singles. Chaka Khan rode his I Feel US to see how
For You to the top. The US saw only five No 1 Tower
albums all year: Michael Jackson’s Thriller until worked.
mid-April, a few weeks of Born In The USA, McLaughlin
Footloose and Huey Lewis, then it was Purple came back
Rain from August on. with a vision
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The Washington Post called him “the smartest

pop Svengali since Malcolm McLaren pointed
the Sex Pistols at the world.”
Merch ado about nothing?
Morley told The Tube: “As a record label, (clockwise from above left):
pressed, it was a phantom
the biggest influence in terms of presentation Frankie’s must-have T-shirts; that now commands £30.
was definitely Factory.” New Order’s Blue ZTT’s multi-formated output; RC
Monday had spent 14 weeks in the Top 20 in keeps tabs on turbulent times ,&$1·7%(/,(9(7+(5(·6
1983. It might not have made money, but it 127)/877(5
sold 700,000, the biggest selling 12” of all could be. Nine of their “Filthy In February 1984, a Sony
time, if not for long. The lesson was ‘long runs 15” were released in 1984, each executive presented the
sell tons’. ZTT ignored the lesson about labelled with their sins, Compact Disc at the first
keeping it to one format. including Prince’s Darling ever TED conference and
ZTT’s commercial domination was built Nikki and Cyndi Lauper’s She offered jaw-dropping
on controversy – hot sex and cold war: water- Bop (both “sex/masturbation”), numbers for signal-to-noise
cooler videos, red-top outrage, “FRANKIE and W.A.S.P.’s Animal (Fuck ratio, dynamic range,
SAY…” T-shirts, Horn’s insistent, impeccable Like A Beast) (“sex/language/ frequency response, and
production and tunes, such tunes, and violence”, the full bingo card). distortion. No wow and
formats, so many formats. Today, it would be Pluggers at each of the acts’ record labels flutter in case you had too much of those in
called integrated multi-channel marketing or thanked their lucky stars. your life. By Christmas, Hitachi was running
somesuch. Boy, did it work. Relax broke the TV ads and Sony had already jumped ahead to
Top 40 in the first week of 1984, and stayed :,//7+(%$5*$,1%,16 the CD Walkman and in-car players. But what

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until mid-September. Two Tribes went could we – what did we – buy in 1984?
straight in at No 1 in June and stayed for nine Not a lot. EMI had played wait-and-see
weeks. Then the (double) album, Welcome To
The Pleasuredome, in October and The Power
2)$/7(51$7(0,;(62) when the LP came along in 1948, and did
again, this time balking at the three-pence cut
of Love in November. If 1984 flashed before 7:275,%(6"21/<7,0( that Sony and Philips levied on every CD sold.

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our eyes, Frankie would be No 1 for more A CD player would set you back upwards of
than a quarter of it. The album came out in £500 and each CD cost twice as much as an
America with an order form for T-shirts, LP or cassette. Who would pay that?
enamel badges, temporary tattoos, overnight Record Collector gave Frankie a three-page Well, classical music buffs. It’s a stereotype,
bags, socks, and boxer shorts. But America spread in its year-end issue. Band history, the but it’s not far off. Philips targeted classical fans
proved uniquely immune to Frankie. story of ZTT, records broken: all-time biggest- – it also held a big stake in Deutsche
Only Relax made the Top 40 and the album selling 12”, picture disc, and cassette single. Grammophon – so Herbert Von Karajan and
stalled at 33. There were already enough variants to interest Kiri Te Kanawa became the early CD pin-ups.
Were we living in a land where sex and collectors. The article ended: “Will the bargain Allders department store on Sutton High
horror were the new Gods? Or were we under bins of tomorrow be full of alternate mixes of Street in 1984: ground floor perfumery,
the boot of a censorious state that showed just Two Tribes? Only time will tell.” stationery and leather goods, wigs and
how on-the-money George Orwell had been? Time has told. A reminder of what Frankie haberdashery, kitchenware and food; third
It depends who you asked. The BBC banned put out in 1984: Relax, 7”; three 12”s sharing floor audio and video. The shop floor was all-
Relax, after playing it 90 times and putting it one catalog number – a 16-minute Sex Mix, in-one hi-fis, tape decks, video laserdiscs, and
on Top Of The Pops, and the Two Tribes 8-minute Sex Mix Edit, and shorter US Mix; wall-mounted record players; in the back
(Godley & Creme-directed) video – Reagan picture discs, 7 and 12; cassingle; Two Tribes room, audiophiles could take a CD player for a
and Chernenko beating seven shades out on 7”, 12” Annihilation Mix, Carnage Mix, spin with Roxy Music’s Avalon and assorted
of each other – debuted on The Tube WAR, then Hibakusha Mix, cassingle “limited” classical and ambient electronic exercises. But
at midnight. to 40,000, 7” and 12” picture discs; The Power the popular bellwether was the Argos catalog,
There was certainly broadcaster Of Love wrapped in pink envelopes and a the nation’s wish-list for Christmas 1984. Page
squeamishness, but savvy labels welcomed it. gatefold and two picture discs; The double- 218 was Walkman copies: Philips, Cathay, or
In 1985, four “Washington Wives”, including album in vinyl, cassette, and picture disc. Crown, starting at £14.99. Four pages of
Tipper Gore, wife of future Vice President Al, Today, the full set, 27 near mint items, will set cassette players, four more of blank cassettes,
would campaign for censorship around a list of you back around £230. Scarcity drives value. storage, headphones, four of car stereos (all
songs that showed how corrupting music The Hibakusha version is top of the tree: 5,000 played cassettes). Six record players. Not six
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pages, six record decks, four with cassette decks
built in. Not a single CD player.
7+(%(676(//,1*8. 9,1</ /362)
Chad Kassem pegs 1984 as Year Zero for ARTIST ALBUM SALES RELEASED
the compact disc. “Sure,” he says, “one came
1 LIONEL RICHIE CAN’T SLOW DOWN 1,150,000 1983
out in ’82, 100 came out in ’83, but you didn’t
start seeing them in stores until ’84.” They were 2 THE HITS ALBUM SERIES THE HITS ALBUM 1,130,000 1984
sold as the finest expression of recorded music, 3 BOB MARLEY & THE LEGEND 1,100,000 1984
but were “emotionless, brittle, sterile, cold.” It WAILERS
was also Year Zero for the vinyl comeback; after 4 WHAM! MAKE IT BIG 960,000 1984
all, it was 1984, and “Doublethink means the
power of holding two contradictory beliefs in 5 NOW SERIES (UK) NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL 940,000 1984
MUSIC! 3
one’s mind simultaneously and accepting both
of them”. 6 MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER 910,000 1982
When others started going right, Kassem 7 SADE DIAMOND LIFE 800,000 1984
went left. He turned 21 in 1984, got sober and
8 NOW SERIES (UK) NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL 800,000 1984
moved from Louisiana to Kansas with his MUSIC! 4
record collection and not much else. He
worked on the lightbulb production line for 9 BILLY JOEL AN INNOCENT MAN 780,000 1983
Philips North America, the parent of the 10 FRANKIE GOES TO WELCOME TO THE 750,000 1984
compact disc. “I went to one of my friends’ HOLLYWOOD PLEASUREDOME
houses and he showed me some audiophile
records and I told him I already had some of and streaming were coming. Tracks’ John says. “And we’re currently about 10 per cent of
those and I wasn’t that impressed,” he recalls. Manship would eventually move his stores and world consumption.” That’s British artists’ share
“He shot me down, told me to shut up and stock of four million records and compact discs of global music sales and streams, one in 10.
listen. And he taught me how to listen and online. He now sells 30 LPs for every CD, Impressive, but in February 1985 the BPI could
what to listen for. And then he played me a many to a young audience looking for tactile, boast at the Brits, “One in every four records
few. And that’s when the lightbulb moment beautifully presented, retro vinyl. sold anywhere has a British connection.”
happened for me in ’84.” Vinyl made more money than any other Before we slip 1984’s grip and come back to
His local record store in Salina, Kansas, the physical format in 2023. We know how unlikely the present, let’s pop into a betting shop and put
House Of Sight And Sound, punched above its that once looked. Vinyl sales grew 10 per cent in money on the Stones, Pretenders, and Duran
weight for a small town, stocking out-of-print 1984, and another 3 per cent in 1985, but then Duran making it onto 2023’s Now That’s What
audiophile LPs that already fetched hundreds of it was all downhill and cassette sales overtook I Call Music 116. Grab some goodies off the
dollars – direct-to-disc from Sheffield Labs, LPs in 1986, according to data from the BPI, shelves and, eyes closed, swirling time tunnel,
Nautilus Half-Speed Mastered, Mobile Fidelity the recording industry’s trade association. There and ... we’re back. Blink the light in. You left the
Half-Speed Masters. Kassem went all in. He were more million-selling singles in 1984 than cassettes and CDs behind, right? There are
bought five, sold three; bought another eight, in the whole second half of the decade. exceptions, of course. If you grabbed a single-
sold six; and built an income that let him quit In 1984, the agenda at the BPI included sided cassette of Primus’s self-released 4-track
the factory and start Acoustic Sounds, a mail- combatting piracy – “home taping is killing demo Primus, well played: that’s £1,000. A tidy
order business. Then he began producing music” – and promoting British talent vinyl haul would have been the Japanese promo
audiophile records himself, starting with Cat worldwide. Forty years on, its agenda looks 7” of Iron Maiden’s 2 Minutes To Midnight
Stevens’ Tea For The Tillerman. Today, his 150 similar. The resurgence of vinyl has brought (PRP-1136), Samhain’s LP Initium (PL9-04),
staff take vinyl all the way from recording – he the counterfeiters back, pumping out good- The Crew’s 7 Seconds LP on blue-green vinyl
converted his local church to record old looking fakes in China and Eastern Europe. (BYO 005), and Su Tissue and Arspenlian
bluesmen like Pinetop Perkins – through Legitimate factories retool for after-hours runs Reeves’ US LP Salon De Musique (SMLP 3263).
mastering, plating, pressing, printing labels and of Adele’s non-existent Greatest Hits. British Around £12,000 the lot.
inserts, and designing the jackets. Chad music now competes in a global streaming What did you leave behind? Personally,
Kassem’s Quality Record Pressings plant market where governments have realised there’s I would go back just to take the original Two
produces a million audiophile records a year. value in supporting local creative industries and Tribes 12” out of its sleeve and study the relative
K-pop marketers have mastered the ZTT strengths of the US and Soviet nuclear arsenals,
&20(%$&. “gotta-have-’em-all” playbook. “We’ve always while hearing that air raid siren for the first time
Looking deeper into the entrails of 1984, it’s punched above our weight. We’re 1 per cent of all over again. RC
the year JANET – the UK’s local branch of the the world’s population,” Gennaro Castaldo,
very early internet – was turned on. Downloads now the BPI’s Director of Communications, Further reading: www.untilitsbillwithers.com

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2 I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU STEVIE WONDER 1 1984
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TO HOLLYWOOD 1 1984
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6 LAST CHRISTMAS/
EVERYTHING SHE WANTS WHAM! 2 1984
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Prince & The
2) extraordinary
By Chris Roberts

word of mouth hit, the modest Glaswegian

Revolution Purple abstract challenge, trio’s dreamlike first was sparse in its
Rain (Warner Bros. which baffled critics electronica but cinematic in its emotion.
925 110-1, LP, UK, then but still
6/84, No 7) £20 thrills now. Nick Cave & The
The soundtrack from Bad Seeds From Her
the sleaze-glam R.E.M. Reckoning To Eternity (Mute
seraphim’s self- (I.R.S. IRSA 7045, STUMM 17, LP,
mythologising movie saw him hailed the new LP, UK, 4/84, No 91) £20 UK, 5/84, No 40)
Hendrix, James Brown and possibly Christ. The second from the US college radio £40
favourites saw their Byrds mannerisms taking After The Birthday
Lloyd Cole & The flight in newly crisp and individual directions. Party, Cave “wanted
Commotions to be more lyrically orientated”. His new
Rattlesnakes The Go-Betweens band’s Hansa-recorded launchpad was
(Polydor LCLP1, LP, Spring Hill Fair (Sire romantic, ghoulish, and unrestrained.
UK, 10/84, No 13) 925 179-1, LP, UK,
£15 9/84, N/A) £35 Echo & The
In love with Joan Despite receiving an Bunnymen Ocean
Didion, Eva Marie oddly muted response Rain (Korova
Saint, Dylan and Mailer, this gorgeous debut back then, the Aussies’ KODE 8, LP, UK,
wrote the book on shrewd pop-rock. third has the 5/84, No 4) £20
McLennan-Forster writing team reaching the Revived by the
The Smiths The zenith of deftness. ‘discotheque’ thrust
Smiths (Rough Trade of Never Stop, the
ROUGH 61, LP, Sade Diamond Life Bunnymen made another left turn into
UK, 2/84, No 2) £20 (Epic EPC 26044, opulent orchestras and rainswept
Contrary to the LP, UK, 7/84, No 2) surrealist angst. Debatably their
prevailing winds of £15 “mature” pinnacle.
80s pop, the maudlin Slated by indie boys
Mancs’ debut placed as style over U2 The
proudly dysfunctional feelings hand in glove substance, the Unforgettable Fire
with highly functional guitars. precision of Sade’s (Island U2 5, LP, UK,
multi-platinum smooth soul sophisti-pop has 10/84, No 1) £10
Frankie Goes To stood the test of time. Aware that the world
Hollywood Welcome now expected them
To The Pleasuredome The Style Council to wear the crown as
(ZTT ZTTIQ1, 2LP, Cafe Bleu (Polydor kings of rock, U2
UK, 10/84, No 1) £10 TSCLP1, LP, UK, instead went arty, hired Eno and
They’d bossed 1984 3/84, No 2) £15 Lanois, and expressed yearning,
with Relax and Two Paul Weller’s shock widescreen ambience.
Tribes. The sexed-up switch to fey lefty
Scousers’ Horn/Morley-guided double album divided fans but paid Cocteau Twins
was as hot to trot commercially as its critical dividends on this Treasure (4AD
reception was lukewarm. debut full of lounge-funk and soulful balladry. CAD 412, LP, UK,
11/84, No 29) £30
Bruce Springsteen Prefab Sprout Their first as a trio,
Born In The USA Swoon (Kitchenware and the awe-
(Columbia CBS KWLP1, LP, UK, inspiring album
86304, LP, UK, 3/84, No 22) £10 which prompted the
6/84, No 1) £20 A debut of immense music press to start overusing “ethereal”.
Beefy pop songs, poeticism which The birth of dreampop. They disliked it
misunderstood somehow channelled themselves, the silly billies.
anthems and his ass on the cover turned the Cole Porter, Steely
heartland rocker into a superstar. Dan, Tom Jones and the masculine id. Aztec Camera Knife
(WEA WX 8, LP,
Scott Walker The Blue Nile A UK, 9/84, No 14) £5
Climate Of Hunter Walk Across The Roddy Frame was
(Virgin V 2303, LP, Rooftops (Linn joined by Orange
UK, 3/84, No 60) Records LKH 001, Juice guitarist
£25 LP, UK, 4/84, No Malcolm Ross for a
Walker’s only 80s 80) £30 second set of Costello-
album was an A slow-burning inspired songcraft, produced by Mark Knopfler.
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The Fall The Madonna Like A morbid and deceptively musical, rebooted and
Wonderful And Virgin (Sire 925 arguably redefined a tiring genre.
Frightening World 181-1, LP, UK,
Of… (Beggars 11/84, No 1) £10 Art Of Noise Who’s
Banquet BEGA 58, With Nile Rodgers Afraid Of The Art Of
LP, UK, 10/84, producing and young Noise? (ZTT ZTT
No 62) £35 Madge at her most IQ2, LP, UK, 6/84,
Their seventh, and provocative, the No 27) £5
first for Beggars, found fresh aggression material girl mutated into a phenomenon. While Frankie went to
despite, or because of, Mr Smith breakfasting war, their backroom
daily on lager, vodka and speed, according to Wham! Make It Big brains quietly
producer John Leckie. (Epic EPC 86311, refashioned electronica with Fairlights,
LP, UK, 10/84, No 1) samples, inventive edits and moments in love.
David Sylvian £8
Brilliant Trees The pumped-up pop Bobby Womack The
(Virgin V 2290, LP, duo conquered Poet II (Motown ZL
UK, 6/84, No 4) £20 America, having 72205, LP, UK, 3/84,
After breaking up tremendous fun while No 31) £5
Japan, golden-voiced doing so. Album closer, Careless Whisper, For some, the
Sylvian astonished hinted at George Michael’s solo career. lachrymose soul of
sceptics with a NME’s top album has
sublime, perfectly weighted jazz/ambient/ Marillion Fugazi dated a little, but
funk meditation namechecking Cocteau (EMI EMC 2400851, Womack’s in great voice, as is Patti LaBelle.
and Sartre. LP, UK, 3/84, No 5)
£20 The Pretenders
Simple Minds A neo-prog landmark Learning To Crawl
Sparkle In The Rain from the genre (Real Records WX 2,
(Virgin V 2300, LP, leaders, indulgent and LP, UK, 1/84, No 11)
UK, 2/84, No 1) £5 tortured but yielding £10
Received wisdom says surprise hits Punch & Judy and Assassing. Refusing to buckle
they nosedived after after the deaths of
New Gold Dream. Iron Maiden James Honeyman-
Thrilling adrenaline Powerslave (EMI Scott and Pete Farndon, Chrissie Hynde
rushes Up On The Catwalk, Speed Your POWER1, LP, UK, gifted her third with enduring greats Back On
Love To Me and Waterfront testify pretty 9/84, No 2) £40 The Chain Gang, 2000 Miles and Middle Of
powerfully otherwise. Including a lengthy The Road.
retelling of Coleridge’s
The Waterboys A The Rime Of The Talking Heads Stop
Pagan Place (Ensign Ancient Mariner, Making Sense (EMI
ENCL 3, LP, UK, their fifth, a fan favourite, caught the metal TAH 1, LP, UK,
6/84, No 100) £10 messiahs’ global popularity exploding. 9/84, No 24 [2000
The title of classic re-release]) £15
single The Big Music Teena Marie Not just any live
became a descriptor Starchild (Epic EPC album from not just
for Mike Scott’s 26315, LP, UK, any movie, this
gang’s surging, soulful, hopefully 11/84, N/A) £5 transcended its origins with funk as fiery as its
romantic sound. The ever-undervalued art was agile.
R&B queen scored a
Psychedelic Furs gold album and a Tina Turner Private
Mirror Moves major US hit with Dancer (Capitol
(Columbia CBS Lovergirl. My Dear Mr. Gaye honoured her TINA 1, LP, UK,
25950, LP, UK, recently deceased hero. 5/84, No 2) £5
8/84, No 15) £8 The high-performing
Clever, insistent Rush Grace Under hatful of hits which
croons like Heaven Pressure (Vertigo resurrected Tina’s
and The Ghost In VERH 12, LP, UK, career can all be found
You saw the smoothened Furs embraced by 4/84, No 5) £10 here; from Let’s Stay Together to What’s Love
America and MTV. Dumping long-time Got To Do With It to Mark Knopfler’s
producer Terry Private Dancer.
Malcolm McLaren Brown, Rush damped
Fans (Charisma the guitars, upped the The Replacements
MMDL 2, LP, UK, synths and sounded highly refreshed. Let It Be (Zippo
9/84, No 47) £5 ZONG 002, LP,
An insane fusion of Metallica Ride The UK, 10/84, N/A)
opera and R&B Lightning (Music For £50
which, against the Nations MFN 27, LP, Lyrics about
odds, delivered UK, 7/84, No 87) awkward youth
breathtaking creations like Madame £50 and sexual
Butterfly. McLaren’s finest half-hour. The thrash-metallers’ embarrassment distinguished this perversely
(Discuss – Ed.) second, lyrically named college rock staple from its peers.
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Run DMC Run
DMC (4th &
Orange Juice The
Orange Juice
THE 10 BEST SINGLES
Broadway BRLP 506, (Polydor OJHP 2, New Order Thieves Like Us (Factory
LP, UK, 3/84, N/A) LP, UK, 11/84, N/A) FAC103, 12”, UK, 4/84, No 18) £3
£25 £15 A flawless non-album track which
This debut smashed Edwyn Collins and soundtracked that summer.
hip-hop/rock crew’s final offering
boundaries with Rock was strong and “a Grandmaster & Melle Mel White Lines
Box while It’s Like That (a UK hit 14 years little too sensitive”, hatching shoulda-been- (Don’t Don’t Do It) (Sugar Hill SH 130, 12”,
later) brought the social reportage. hits in What Presence?! and Lean Period. UK, 10/83, No 7) £5
Not a UK hit until summer ’84, but this hip-
The Pale Fountains The Special AKA In hop landmark made up for it by sticking
Pacific Street (Virgin The Studio (Two- around for ages, outselling numerous No 1s.
V 2274, LP, UK, Tone CHR TT 5008,
2/84, N/A) £20 LP, UK, 6/84, No Pet Shop Boys West End Girls (Epic A 4292,
Mick Head’s first 34) £15 7”, UK, 4/84, No 133 [this version]) £30
brush with near- After (Free) Nelson The Stephen Hague-slowed 1985 re-recording
success came with the Mandela was a hit, a was their big British career-maker, but the
Love-inspired band, bleaker tone followed (faster) original Bobby Orlando-produced take
showcasing his growing songwriting chops. on War Crimes, Alcohol and Racist Friend. was a US West Coast club hit.

Van Halen 1984 Bronski Beat The Womack & Womack Love Wars (Elektra E
(Warner Bros Age Of Consent 9799, 7”, UK, 3/84, No 14) £1
92-3981-5, LP, UK, Forbidden Fruit BIT Lifted from the 1983 album: the Womacks’
1/84, No 15) £10 LP1, LP, UK, 10/84, knack for setting marriage counselling to slinky
Lubricated MTV No 4) £5 grooves charmed all. Live that year, they were a
pop-rock which After Smalltown Boy sight to behold.
spawned a blockbuster boldly challenged
in Jump as well as the, homophobia, Jimmy Somerville’s falsetto Dennis Edwards ft. Siedah Garrett Don’t
er, of-its-time Hot For Teacher. soared on their disco-fuelled debut LP. Look Any Further (Motown TMGT 1334,
12”, UK, 4/84, No 45) £5
Queen The Works Change Change Of Sampled frequently ever since, the former
(EMI WORK1, LP, Heart (WEA WX 5, Temptations’ vocalist’s seductive gem perfectly
UK, 2/84, No 2) £10 LP, UK, 4/84, No 34) expressed R&B’s new temperature, which was,
Any album rendering £5 without doubt, sultry.
the irresistible Radio Jimmy Jam and Terry
Ga Ga and I Want Lewis were entering Chaka Khan I Feel For You (Warner W9209
To Break Free cannot full imperial phase T, 12”, UK, 10/84, No 1) £3
be ignored. here as this smooth glider for the Italian/ After late ’83/early ’84’s Ain’t Nobody cleared
American post-disco outfit verified. the way, this Prince song was a double-
The Cure The Top Grammy winner. Fascinating fact: Patrice
(Fiction FIXS 9, LP, Ashford & Simpson Rushen had turned it down. She should have
UK, 5/84, No 10) Solid (Capitol EJ 24 sent a forget-me-not.
£20 0250, LP, UK, 9/84,
The Cure’s trippy No 42) £4 David Bowie Blue Jean (EMI America EA
fifth divides even fans The Motown writer 181, 7”, UK, 9/84, No 6) £2
but doesn’t forsake couple surfed a post- Nobody’s claiming Tonight was Bowie’s best
darkness and paranoia. The Caterpillar, in disco wave with the album, but the lead single (like Loving The
context, counted as light relief. eponymous anthem. Alien) was a consummate flash of the old magic.
“It’s just a piece of sexist rock’n’roll,” he winked.
Siouxsie & The Friends Again
Banshees Hyaena Trapped And April Showers Abandon Ship (Chrysalis CHS
(Wonderland SHE Unwrapped 12 2787, 12”, UK, 6/84, N/A) £120
HP1, LP, UK, 6/84, (Mercury MERL 43, Half-forgotten twee-pop jewel from a
No 15) £25 LP, UK, 11/84, N/A) Glaswegian duo, the late Beatrice Colin and
From the opening £12 Jonathan Bernstein, which trembles with
orchestral sweep of The Glasgow-formed feeling. Produced by Anne Dudley.
Dazzle, their sixth “post-Postcard” group
soared with invention. Multi-tasker Robert wooed with singles like Honey At The Core, The Sisters Of Mercy Walk Away
Smith served as guitarist/co-writer. even if the hype machine had moved on. (Merciful Release MR 033T, 12”, UK, 10/84,
No 45) £15
Xmal Deutschland Tom Verlaine Cover Building up to the First And Last And Always
Tocsin (4AD CAD (Virgin V 2314, LP, debut album, the goth gods fanned the flames
407, LP, UK, 6/84, UK, 9/84, N/A) £5 of anticipation with this jet-black jaunt.
No 86) £20 Post-Television,
The German Verlaine pursued new Flesh For Lulu Subterraneans (Polydor
priestesses of post- sounds and stimuli FFL1, 2x7”, UK, 5/84, N/A) £5
punk reached their top rather than retreads. If you were young, gothically inclined and
goth-adjacent gear on His fourth solo partying in the city in ’84, this is what you
this intoxicating bonfire of sonic cathedrals. caught fire, and universal critical acclaim. thrashed about to after dark.
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No Smoke Without Fire

Expansive box set edition celebrating a hard-rock classic. By Joel McIver

intended to record the new LP at the venue

Deep Purple but it burned down before the sessions,
inspiring the lyrics of their biggest song,
Machine Head: Super Smoke On The Water.
Deluxe Edition If you’re as sick of that
++++ guitar-shop staple as
you are of Stairway To
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Like Teen Spirit,
There’s a fascination around Deep Purple play any one of
that doesn’t linger around any other band the versions
from their specific 70s demographic. here – assuming
Uriah Heep have it to an extent, but they you’ve got the
were always smaller, weirder, more “big right audio
in Eastern Europe” than Purple. setup – and
Maybe it’s because Purple you’ll be reminded
are the last of the how effective and
original three muscular it is. In
heavy rock acts, fact, it’s easy to
Led Zeppelin forget how taut the
having called seven original studio
it a day over 40 album songs
years ago and Black are, because
Sabbath executing a they stretch out
managed exit in 2017. so much when
Whatever its source, this played live: the
fascination is obvious in the fact original Highway Star
that Purple are still going strong, and and Space Truckin’ are tightly-
not just phoning in subpar new albums The Machine arranged and relatively stripped down.
and playing clubs but writing genuinely good stuff Head band, as you’ll Even the longest song, Lazy, doesn’t rest on its
and selling out arenas. Large numbers of people almost certainly know if laurels at any point in its seven minutes, packing
evidently still want to hear the music, even though you’ve read this far, is the best-known iteration of a dose of musicianship into every second, and the
this band formed 57 years ago and had their last Purple – its Mark II line-up (does any other band mere three minutes of the single B-side, When A
major hit in 1974. refer to its line-ups this way?) of singer Ian Gillan, Blind Man Cries, are sublime.
Purple’s ongoing appeal is explained by “mercurial guitarist” Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Machine Head was Deep Purple’s biggest album
reissues like this one for 1972’s Machine Head Roger Glover, keyboardist Jon Lord and drummer for all the above reasons, topping the UK charts and
album, a nicely curated triple-CD box set with a Ian Paice. This is a gathering of rock royalty by going double platinum. For me, the gold in this box
purple/white vinyl LP, a 60-page booklet and an any standards, and they’re on peak performance set comes with the Zappa mixes, the quad mix and
audio Blu-ray. Between the various discs, the form here. the Montreux show, where Gillan delivers batlike
album is available as a remaster of the original LP, Two live shows are included and demonstrate vocals on a 20-minute Child In Time and Blackmore
two new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes by Dweezil those world-class skills, one from 9 March 1972 and Lord both dig in spectacularly for Speed King.
Zappa, and the American quadrophonic mix from at the Paris Theatre in London and the other, For once, a review like this doesn’t end with some
1974. The Blu-ray also includes Dolby 5.1 mixes previously unreleased, from April 1971 at the sort of gloomy, “if you missed them live, you’re out
of When A Blind Man Cries, Maybe I’m A Leo and Montreux Casino in Switzerland. Of the two, the of luck” line, because a highly competent version of
Lazy, although it omits the rest of the album, which Montreux concert has extra resonance despite Purple, the Mark IX line-up (yep), is still out there.
was released as a 5.1 Super Audio CD in 2011. its less-than-perfect audio, because the band Go and see them.

Q&A coming at me from all different directions.

I like stereo.
The live shows in this edition sound
particularly engrossing.
Well, we never played anything the same way
Ian Gillan on how Purple’s Popular wisdom has twice, so it was always an
sixth album took them to the it that Machine Head adventure. The only way we
next level. elevated Purple to “This was the album knew that one of us was
another commercial about to take a solo was
I review a lot of these box level. Did it feel that that launched us. when that person rolled his
sets, and you can always tell way at the time? eyes at you. We used to call it
when the record company have made an effort I think so. The band was It was so exciting” “horse’s eyes”. We knew each
or not. This one is great. exploding at the time. other so well that we would all
I think it’s fantastic. I’ve been mightily impressed Deep Purple In Rock [1970] was a complete shift to the start of the solo at the same moment: it
with the effort that’s gone into it. Getting Dweezil shock and we had to get Fireball [1971] out was a pleasure and a privilege to be in a band that
Zappa to do the remixes was a masterstroke. Mind of our system, and it all came together with tight. I remember Luciano Pavarotti telling me, “I’m
you, I don’t have an Atmos system, and nor do I Machine Head, so yes, it was a pinnacle. so jealous of you, Ian. I’ve seen you sing Smoke
want one. I did an album in surround-sound years This was the album that launched us. It was On The Water six times, and you sang it differently
ago and I couldn’t get my head around music so exciting. every time. If I made the slightest change to an aria,

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Deep Purple: the bell
boy would not be
getting a good review
on Trip Advisor

the critics would kill me.” He was a good friend – we I’ve been unhappy. I was happy in the first period
talked about doing an album together. [1969-73], very happy actually, until the band
expanded and became a bit Spinal Tap. Perfect
Do you still play the songs differently every Strangers [the 1984 reunion album] was brilliant,
time, all these years later? too, I loved it. And the early days with Steve Morse
Well, there’s a structure. You can’t fool about with [from 1994], because he is a very singular person
people’s concepts of what the songs are about, or whose background was not high-energy British rock
they’ll be disappointed. They don’t want a whole but laid-back American Southern rock. I’m very
programme of new material, but they also want an happy now, too. There’s been lots of happiness,
edge to it, and that’s what we want, too – to keep and a few hiccups along the way, but they’re all
it alive – so to say that we play them differently forgotten now.
every night would be stretching a point. The trick to
keeping it fresh is to keep the bits that people know, How is it possible to sing in a band of this size
but change the solo sections up. for 50 years and remain sane?
Follow your nose. I didn’t smoke my first joint until I
When was it most fun to be in Deep Purple? was 38 years old – maybe that had something to do
I’ve been happy in Purple a lot more times than with it. As told to Joel McIver

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From The Vaults
JAZZ album much overlooked by some of
Jarrett’s most earnest fans.
Anyone who’s read ART PEPPER’s
Alternating between flute and two
saxophones, Lateef journeys through
different musical landscapes, from
in CD form. It’s an incredible archival
discovery giving the listener a front-row
vantage point from which to admire

COLLECTOR shocking autobiography Straight Life

will know that despite being a great
jazz musician, the California-born alto
intense modal jazz and swinging
soul jazz to softly meditative Eastern-
tinged music.
Tatum’s phenomenal talent.
Moving to contemporary releases,
Chicago-born CHRIS POTTER, whose
By Charles Waring saxophonist and “Cool School” doyen Lateef famously played in credits range from Pat Metheny to
wasn’t the nicest of people. Heroin CANNONBALL ADDERLEY’s band Steely Dan, is widely perceived as
Famed for his horn’s forlorn, anguished addiction and chronic alcoholism between 1962 and 1964. The one of contemporary jazz’s greatest
cry, Norwegian saxophonist JAN played a big part in shaping his Florida-born alto saxophone giant tenor saxophonists. On Eagle’s
GARBAREK is synonymous with behaviour, while several stretches is celebrated by two superlative Point (++++Edition) he leads a
Manfred Eicher’s Munich-based ECM in prison derailed his career. One of limited-edition RSD double vinyl formidable supergroup of sidemen
label. Although 77-year-old Garbarek his greatest albums, 1960’s Smack releases capturing him on stage in (Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, and
is still with the company today, he was Up (++++ Contemporary/Craft the European country nicknamed Brian Blade), who offer inspirational
an important figure in establishing the Recordings), was recorded before “L’hexagone.” Burnin’ In Bordeaux: support throughout. Highlights include
ECM brand in its infancy. Now reissued Pepper faced imprisonment for Live In France 1969 (++++ the lyrical ballad Aria For Anna and the
on vinyl, Afric Pepperbird (++++ the second time for drug offences. Elemental) features Joe Zawinul on deeply atmospheric Málaga Moon with
ECM), his 1970 debut for the label, Sounding glorious on audiophile vinyl, piano and includes excellent renditions its yearning sax melody.
proves to be far edgier than many it reveals Pepper at the top of his game of his classic compositions Walk Tall Ancient Relics (++++ Deluge
of the saxophonist’s later releases. with a quintet including pianist Pete and Mercy Mercy Mercy. By the time Records) is the second album by
Fronting a quartet including guitarist Jolly and trumpeter JACK SHELDON. Poppin’ In Paris: Live At L’Olympia New Zealand saxophonist LUCIEN
Terje Rypdal, Garbarek navigates a The latter musician can be heard 1972 (+++++Elemental) was JOHNSON, who proffers a sumptuous
path somewhere between avant-garde collaborating with fellow crooner recorded, Zawinul had left to form showcase of Pharoah Sanders-inspired
music and modal jazz-rock a la Miles and horn maven CHET BAKER on Weather Report and was replaced spiritual jazz featuring fellow “Kiwi,”
Davis’ Bitches Brew, with viscerally Set In Perfect Harmony: The Lost by another keyboard maven, George harpist Natalia Lagi’itaua Mann, whose
exciting results. The intense title tune Album (+++ Jazz Detective), a Duke, writer of Black Messiah, the cascading glissandi evoke the sound
and fiery Beast Of Kommodo are the previously unreleased studio session album’s sensational opening cut. The and spirit of Alice Coltrane.
best cuts. from 1972. At the time, Baker had excellent-sounding concert reveals the With his credits ranging from
Garbarek’s forceful playing on taken a sabbatical from the jazz world versatility of Adderley’s then band, as Prefab Sprout to Radiohead, ex-Loose
Afric Pepperbird reveals no sign of the due to heroin addiction but his friend it seamlessly switches from exploratory Tubes saxophonist MARK LOCKHEART
aching bittersweet lyricism that had Sheldon persuaded him to return avant-jazz to fusion, hard-bop, swing, boasts an eclectic resume. His latest
become his hallmark by the time he to the studio. After the death of the and gospel-funk. “Sensationnel,” as opus Smiling (+++Edition) is a
recorded Luminessence (++++ record’s producer in 1973, the album they say in France. fascinating foray into jazz-rock utilising
ECM), his 1975 collaboration with was canned but now, thankfully, sees MAL WALDRON lived in Paris in the skills of a twelve-piece ensemble
KEITH JARRETT, also reissued daylight as a limited-edition RSD the 1960s. A versatile musician whose featuring noted trumpeter Laura Jurd.
on vinyl. Jarrett didn’t play on the vinyl release. Showcasing the two career took him from hard bop to jazz’s Veteran UK vibraphonist ROGER
album but composed three pieces men’s contrasting approaches to outer limits, he was the house pianist BEAUJOLAIS impresses with Bags
orchestrated for strings functioning singing and playing trumpet, it’s an at Prestige Records in the 1950s. Of Vibes (++++ rogerbeaujolais.
as a lush framework for Garbarek’s absorbing listen. Focusing on his output from that era is com), a tasteful homage to his
effusive sax improvisations. The first Another exclusive RSD vinyl release Four Classic Albums (++++ Avid), hero, mallet maestro and Modern
two numbers are deeply melancholic is Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert which offers an excellent introduction Jazz Quartet co-founder Milt “Bags”
but the third and longest, the In Avignon (++++ Elemental), to the New Yorker’s music, combining Jackson. Beginning with the self-
15-minute title track, is livelier and which captures the revered multi- the terrific but largely overlooked penned tribute, Blues For Bags,
brighter although it can’t suppress instrumentalist YUSEF LATEEF in albums Mal 1, Mal 2, Left Alone (a Beaujolais’ quartet, augmented by
Garbarek’s innate lugubriousness. France in 1972 fronting a quartet heartfelt tribute to his former employer guitarist Jim Mullen, interpret several of
Nevertheless, a terrific reissue of an featuring pianist Kenny Barron. “Lady Day”) and Mal 4. Saxophonists Jackson’s signature numbers, including
John Coltrane and Jackie McLean a wonderful reworking of the iconic
contribute stellar cameos. MJQ tune, Django.
Waldron patented a spare, almost The vibraphone is also an
minimalist piano style, which was integral element in the distinctive
the complete antithesis of the florid post-bop sound of the London
pyrotechnics that sprang from the fleet quartet EMPIRICAL, who return with
fingers of ART TATUM, one of jazz’s Wonder Is The Beginning (++++
most virtuosic musicians. A previously Whirlwind), their first album in eight
unreleased set of performances years. Featuring guest artists Alex
capturing Tatum and his trio at Hitchcock and Jason Rebello, the
Chicago’s Blue Note Club in 1953 is group shows why their long absence
released as Jewels In The Treasure has made the UK jazz scene a poorer
Box (++++ Resonance), initially place. Among the highlights is She
available as an exclusive RSD 3LP Moves, spotlighting Lewis Wright’s
package before going on general sale shimmering vibes.

ABBA half-speed master. The follow- Butthole Surfers a major label despite their PCPPEP. It doesn’t provide
Waterloo up to their 1973 debut Ring Psychic... Powerless... vulgar name and arsenal of a full recreation of the
+++ Ring, Waterloo was originally Another Man’s Sac unhinged sounds. Before sensory overload that was the
Polar Music 5577719 (LP) released in March 1974 and ++++ then, they’d created a Butthole Surfers’ in-person
Pop royalty’s second record while some of the songwriting Matador OLE 2056 LP (LP) remarkable series of indie experience. Nevertheless, it’s
turns 50 on the album hasn’t aged too Rembrandt Pussyhorse records including 1984’s still wonderfully demented.
ABBA’s famous well (see: the gloriously daft ++++ debut studio LP Psychic... JR Moores
1974 Eurovision King Kong Song), it has plenty Matador OLE 2057 LP (LP) Powerless... Another
winner Waterloo of early sketches of the band’s Live PCPPEP Man’s Sac which was Ron Carter
turns 50 this brilliance. Highlights include +++ packed with garage-psych Where? (Original Jazz
summer, just the glorious poppy funk of Matador OLE 2062 T (LP) riffs, transgressive lyrics Classics Series)
in time for the annual song My Mama Said, the soaring Texan noise-rock nutters and dizzying distortion. ++++
contest which is, happily, taking Honey Honey and the folky reissued 1986’s darker Rembrandt Craft Recordings CR 00718 (LP)
place in the pop icons’ home (and often underrated) Suzy Once upon Pussyhorse pinched piano Bass legend’s debut plucked
country of Sweden. Despite Hang Around. The Swedish a time even chords from Neil Young, from the vaults
the fact the UK famously gave version of Waterloo is here, the weirdest deconstructed The Guess Still active at
the song nul points, the song too, but other than that, bands could Who’s American Woman 86, Carter
was ABBA’s breakout hit and it’s quite an underwhelming become and had guest vocals from is a prolific
the album of the same name revisit. Thankfully, much better relatively well-known. Take a growling pit bull. Also Detroit double
now receives a special 50th- was to come. Butthole Surfers, who by remastered is the rougher bassist listed
anniversary re-release with a Elizabeth Aubrey 1993 were bankrolled by concert recording, Live in the Guinness Book Of

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Records as the most-recorded an enthralling spiritual jazz BBC Saturday Club appearance.
jazz bassist of all time. He manifesto. Joined on stage Add two unreleased tracks by
started as a cellist, but with by seven other musicians, bassist Derek Cleary’s group
few opportunities for African including saxophonists Friendly Persuasion and it’s a
American musicians in the Pharoah Sanders and Archie tale of a band who really should
classical music world, he Shepp, Coltrane offers a have stayed. Nick Dalton

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same period, but his presence High Above Harlesden their longest-
is still scintillating, exemplified 1978-2023 ever excursion, The Cure were
by his rangy flute solos. Even ++++ nothing if not match-fit when
so, with his impeccable bass On-U Sound ONUCD 159 (6CD) they recorded Paris during a
and cello work, Carter is the Revisiting London dub three-night stint at Le Zénith.
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The CBS Years perch, Creation reissue continues to support
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+++ young Adrian strong line-up which included
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Carl Douglas’ Released in 1978, Dub From Paris, remastered by Robert
an album, the first CD in this 6CD box set.
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she might have seemed as Encounters Of The Third two rediscovered cuts, Shake Hero and The Rock, plus )"#%)$ &%! The
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of Take All Of Me and Love Me vocals. 2023’s brilliant, Simon Price
Like A Lover, the formula palls. righteous comeback, Hostile SMASH YOUR HEAD
Just One Smile attempted to
shift with the times, with its
Environment, rounds off this
excellent collection.
Dadawah AGAINST THE WALL
Peace & Love
ABBA-esque epic flourishes David Stubbs ++++ WHISTLE RYMES
and electric guitars, but the
game was up for the game The Cryin’ Shames
Cherry Red DB 2 CD 135 (2CD)
Reggae gem reissued
RIGOR MORTIS SETS IN
The first three albums are also available
Charles, until the decades-long Please Stay Ras Michael’s
on coloured vinyl, in their original gatefold sleeves,
nostalgia circuit beckoned. ++++ 1974
for the first time since their original release.
David Stubbs Tea Chest TCT 2 CD 11 (CD) masterpiece
A shame that they’re not still – originally
Alice Coltrane with us released by
The Carnegie Hall Concert Liverpool beat Wild Flower, later on Trojan – is
++++ combo with a rarely spoken of in the same
Impulse! 5882869 (CD, LP) psych-garage hushed terms as Heart Of
Much-bootlegged gig gets edge who didn’t The Congos or Two Sevens
an official release quite match Clash, but it’s up there – a
Continuing the The Beatles’ output but their devotional album of Nyabinghi
mission her two singles, for Joe Meek, rhythms and righteous Rasta
husband John springboard this 51-track set. proclamations. Four stretched
began towards The title track, a Drifters’ cover, out near-hypnotic mixes,
the end of was, in 1966, Meek’s final produced by Lloyd Charmers,
his life, Alice Coltrane began hit, backed by What’s News make it reggae’s answer to
her career by exploring modal Pussycat, all chugging guitar those magisterial Isaac Hayes
jazz in tandem with South and squealing harmonica. albums from the same period.
Asian music. Her pilgrimage Sourced from Meek’s Tea Special shout out for guitarist
to India in 1970 inspired her Chest Tapes, there are covers Willie Lindo whose curly licks
greatest album, Journey In (including Them’s Gloria), their add so much to the heady
Satchidananda, which she audition tape and four versions brew. The extra disc here can’t
promoted with a Carnegie Hall of second single Nobody Waved quite compete – it’s a selection
gig in February 1971. After Goodbye. Offshoot Paul And of lightweight dubs by Charmers
languishing in Impulse’s vaults Ritchie And The Crying Shames’ – but it ensures centre stage
for 53 years, a recording of only single, September In The for the main course. A bona AVAILABLE FROM
that performance has finally Rain and psychotic B-side fide classic and an important
been unearthed and proves Come On Back are here plus a reissue. Johnnie Johnstone
From The Vaults
Funkadelic as she screams, “His eyes Soul: Consolidated Productions CHAKA KHAN’s Chaka (++++
SOUL are like balls of fire.”
Beehive Breaks (++++
Vol. 1 (++++Numero) is a
satisfying introduction to his work. The
Rhino) is her 1978 debut, recorded
with producer Arif Mardin in New York’s
COLLECTOR Numero) is an excellent guide to
late 60s to mid-70s rare sister funk
Deb Tones and The Del-Reys knock it
out of the park with their ecstatic girl
Atlantic Recording Studios and notable
for US R&B No 1 I’m Every Woman,
collated from the Numero label’s group take on Eddie Floyd’s Knock On written by Ashford and Simpson. But
By Lois Wilson reissue archive. Tracks include Sandy Wood and BB Carter’s Cool It Baby is also ripe for rediscovery are her cover
Gaye’s Watch The Dog That Brings a demonstrative call and response. of Stevie Wonder’s I Was Made To
Bruce Watson set up Bible & Tire in The Bone, written by Richard Marks The aforesaid Del-Reys on Walk Proud, Love Her and the gospelly ballad Roll
2019 to reissue ELIZABETH KING’s of Funky Four Corners fame and a meanwhile, channel the silky, slippery Me Through The Bushes.
early 70s gospel sides on Juan D combustible mesh of thundering tones of Smokey Robinson and the This Is Mod (++++ Kent) and
Shipp’s D-Vine Spirituals label. He also bass, scratchy guitar and brazen Miracles and Billy Williams’ So Called This Is Street Funk 1968-1974
persuaded King, then 79, to come brass and Gaye’s screaming vocal. Friend summons a mood evocative of (++++ Kent) fanfare the arrival
out of retirement to record Living Also included are Betty Wright’s Mr a woozy late night. of Ace records’ new ‘this is…’ genre
In The Last Days, her long overdue Lucky, a funk noir with gunshot sound CEDRIC BURNSIDE honed his specific vinyl compilation series at
debut album – she’d spent the past effects on Solid Soul from 1967; craft playing drums in his grandfather a budget price with tracks culled
five decades raising her 15 children. Marva Whitney’s Daddy Don’t Know RL Burnside’s band and like him, he from the label and its associated
Working out of Delta-Sonic Sound About Sugar Bear, a raw, forceful makes hypnotic hill country blues – catalogues. The first named includes
in Memphis with Watson and the shout on the Forte label from 1972; he calls himself the “inheritor” of the such choice cuts as Clarence Carter’s
four-piece Sacred Soul Sound Section Oklahoma City high school outfit The genre. Hill Country Love (++++ Looking For A Fox; The Ikettes’ Camel
behind her, King hit the ground Trinikas’ Remember Me, a 1969 Provogue/Mascot) is the follow-up Walk, Hank Jacobs’ Elijah Rockin’ With
running. Her vocal was deeper than it yearning lament pinned to a propellant to 2021’s Grammy Award-winning Soul and Mary Love’s Lay This Burden
was in her youth but still immensely backbeat on Pearce and Houston’s I’ll Be Trying and every bit as good Down. The second Millie Jackson’s
powerful and totally commanding, kept Fay Cooper’s Closer Together from as its predecessor. It was recorded Hypocrisy and the Fame Gang’s Grits
in shape by Sunday morning singing 1970 on Kris which brings dynamical live with no overdubs over two days And Gravy.
in church and captured again in R&B and a bluesy keen to the funk. in an abandoned legal office filled Also out: CYMANDE’s Promised
2022 on the great I Got A Love. Soul Producer, songwriter, singer with trash cans – it had initially Heights ++++ Partisan), their third
Provider (++++ Bible & Tire), her Mel Alexander started out with been earmarked to be turned into album, produced by John Schroeder
third album in four years, is once more Consolidated Productions in 1961 Burnside’s jukejoint – and it’s and originally issued on Contempo in
driven by King’s mighty energetic life and never stopped, over the next buoyed by positive energy and good the UK, and featuring Jimmy Lindsay
force. She’s joined by her daughters three decades launching imprints vibes. With his three-piece band, on lead vocals. High point: Brothers
on backing vocals on Tables In The such as Ajax, Angel Town, Car-A-Mel including producer Luther Dickinson, On The Slide. CANDI STATON’s
Temples, which mines the same and Kris which made few commercial he delivers covers of Mississippi Candi Staton ++++Kent) is her
gospel funk territory that the Staple inroads but based in LA and taking Fred McDowell’s You Got to Move 1972 third album for Fame, produced
Singers did while on Stretch Out, a Motown as the blueprint – his slogan and RL’s own Po Black Maddie by Rick Hall at Fame Studios and
song dating back to her early days. was ‘Sounds Of Success’ – created alongside originals such as Love You including her classic reading of In The
Fuzz and wah-wah guitar summon gorgeous out-on-the-floor dancers and Music, which touches on African Ghetto plus Lovin’, You, Lovin’ Me and
a more apocalyptic feel, redolent of proto-quiet storm ballads. Eccentric desert blues. Do It In The Name Of Love. JAMES
BROWN’s Please Please Please
(++++ Waxtime) is the soon-to-be
godfather of soul’s first album on King
from 1958. The title track and Try Me,
both singles, set out his stall, drop to
his knees yearning ballads, they’ve still
not been beat.
DONNIE ELBERT’s What Can I Do?
1957-1962 (+++ Jasmine) is just
that; named after his debut solo single
on Deluxe which hit the US Number
61, it includes everything he put out
during the timeframe on labels such
as Vee Jay, Red Top, Jot and Jalynne.

Toumani Diabate & both versions have photos by released by Warner Records, that will be different every felt like the final
Ballaké Sissoko broadcaster Lucy Durán. four other CDs fill the gaps time it’s screened. The word on Faust’s
New Ancient Strings Tony Burke with the singles, covers (The accompanying soundtrack conveyor belt
++++ Smiths’ Please, Please, Please remains the same every play, of outtakes,
Chrysalis Records CRV1637 (CD, LP) The Dream Academy Let Me Get What I Want) and, though; and is a fascinating and that seems
Jawdropping collaboration Religion, Revolution & most notably unheard tracks attempt to capture the essence to be the case with III and
between Malian geniuses Railways such as the pounding House Of of Eno’s 50 years on a single IV largely repackaged from
Originally +++ Heartbreak and ethereal These CD/double LP: by including previous comps such as 71
released in Cherry Red QCRCDBOX 136 (7CD) Walls, predating shoegazing. 17 tracks from 14 different Minutes and BBC Sessions+.
1999 on Joe Expansive set documenting Irina Shtreis albums, it makes quite the fist Some names have been
Boyd’s Hannibal “impeccably lush” 80s of it. Productions for others are changed (Jean-Hervé Peron’s
Records, New popsters Brian Eno left aside, but collaborations Party 10 chanson is now Ma
Ancient Strings was seen as a With classically Eno (Original Motion are included (probably the only Trompette) but most tracks
follow-up to the 1970 album trained multi- Picture Soundtrack) album to have Cluster and Fred will be familiar to Faust
Ancient Strings – a collaboration instrumentalists +++++ Again.. on it). It hangs together nuts. That doesn’t take away
between singer Toumani and Kate St John, Universal Music Recordings 5584958 extremely well – the new from the magnificence of
kora player Ballaké’s fathers, Gilbert Gabriel (CD, LP) material sits sweetly with the the material on offer here,
Sidiki Diabaté and Djelimadi and songwriter Nick Laird- Celebrating an influential old. Daryl Easlea with Don’t Take Roots from
Sissoko. It was recorded in one Clowes on board, The Dream icon’s half century III ably demonstrating why
night with no overdubs in a Academy’s MO was to deliver It was highly Faust Faust are the Monty Python
makeshift studio in the marble- impeccably lush arrangements unlikely that Momentaufnahme III of noise rock, while Das
floored Palais de Congrés and baroque pop harmonies when Brian ++++ Meer on IV perfectly balances
overlooking the Niger river, and with wistful undertones, a Eno finally was Bureau B BB 450 (CD, LP) Werner “Zappi” Diermaier’s
it captures two artists at the somewhat retro approach that involved in a Momentaufnahme IV machine-like precision
peak of their powers. Consisting contrasted with the futuristic career-spanning film, it was ++++ drumming and Rudolf Sosna’s
of eight timeless instrumentals stylings of like-minded new going to go out at 10.30pm Bureau B BB 456 (CD, LP) beautiful Debussian melodies,
of traditional Mande music wave explorers of the time. This on a Friday night on Channel More odds and sods from exemplifying essentially two
– some dating back to the box set captures them in their 5. Appearing in cinemas this legendary krautrockers bands trying to fight their way
13th century, along with more element. Following the material spring, Eno is a generative The 2021 releases out of the same sack.
recent Malian variations, from the three albums originally documentary by Gary Hustwit Momentaufnahme I and II Jeremy Allen

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REVIEWS
at the idea that Tanx
was the last great

Clearing The Way T.Rex record

The end of an era for Bolan’s glam-rock

trailblazers. By Daryl Easlea

T.Rex
Tanx
++++
Edsel ESDL 0193 (2CD)

As 1972 progressed, Marc Bolan’s

undisputed 18-month leadership
of ‘Dream Is Over’ pop was being
contested: noisy upstarts Slade
were on one flank, the Osmonds/
David Cassidy teeny-weeny axis in
the middle and then, old pal David beautifully; it
Bowie’s Starman was finally on the rise among is very easy
the left-field glamerati: Bolan was squeezed from to play ‘spot
all sides. The Born To Boogie film, released in the template’ “myxomatosis is an
December 1972 hadn’t exactly enamoured the
wider world to Bolan’s cause. Whereas July 1972’s
throughout – Rapids
mines the Get It On
Most of Tanx is more animal’s disease, but I
got so shook up Mama,
The Slider was the album released at the absolute
zenith of Trexstacy, its follow-up, Tanx, was arrived
groove; Life Is Strange
and Broken-Hearted Blues
of the same performed it ate away my knees.”
It all ends with a snort
in March 1973, as the group’s inexorable decline
in popularity had slowly yet significantly begun. It
are Cosmic Dancer, the
latter doused in Casey’s beautifully . . . a metaphor for this
era of T. Rex.
needed to reassert Bolan’s authority. Recorded at saxophone. It’s also very, This Tanx expanded
the Château d’Hérouville in Autumn 1972, Bolanists very beautiful, and reminds this writer of David edition – a box repackage of the previous
will ponder the subject into the night: was Tanx the Jackson’s sax playing on Van Der Graaf Generator’s doublepack – contains the ‘Left Hand Luke’ version
last truly great T.Rex album? more reflective moments. Shock Rock (“if you of the album, acoustic demos and all of the
It certainly had all the component parts in place: know how to rock, you don’t have to shock”), which attendant singles and B-sides, still begging the
Tony Visconti was again in the producer’s chair, free seems to swipe at the Alice Coopers of the world, question as to how different Tanx could have been
from Bowie duties for a while, so could concentrate channels Metal Guru. if Solid Gold Easy Action and 20th Century Boy
on his original superstar charge. Mickey Finn was But there are enough trimmings to mark out had opened up each side. These and Children Of
still Bolan’s foil, with his congas, ‘hand percussion’, a difference: after a false start, Tenement Lady The Revolution are the primest cuts of Bolan and
and vocals; rounded out by one of glam’s most choogles in, but then dissolves into a cosmic, Visconti’s professionalism – the formula had been
dependable rhythm sections, Steve Currie on bass phased ballad; the swooning orchestration that struck and with final amendments, was perfected.
and Bill ‘Legend’ Fifield on drums. However, there Visconti arranges for Electric Slim And The Factory Whether Tanx was Bolan’s final artistic helicopter
were additions to the line-up – Bolan was expanding Hen encourages one of Bolan’s most satisfying leaving Saigon is up for much dispute – what is
his palette to incorporate soul elements. What was performances; The Street And Babe Shadow adds definite is that it would never be the same again.
of great interest was the use of the crème de la a soulful melodrama. With barely any of the tunes This version offers the opportunity to mull over
crème of UK session voices, Madeline Bell, Barry getting past three-and-a half minutes (Shock Rock all the arguments, while revelling simply in the
St John, Vicki Brown, Sue and Sunny and Lesley and Country Honey struggle to get to two) the five glittering audacity and tuneful beauty of Marc
Duncan, as well as sax playing from Howie Casey, minute-plus closer Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Bolan. Tanx is T.Rex caught in the eye of the storm
and use of a most un-T. Rex-like instrument, the Boys seems like Tanx’s Huge Statement. With full – what it sounded like to have a ‘mania’ named
Mellotron. What was of less interest was reported soul vocal backing and Mellotron swells, Bolan after you, while considering options as how he
temper tantrums, with Bolan’s ego getting in the takes it to church, growling, preening, testifying, could escape the teenybop straightjacket and have
way of the recording process. offering one of his greatest performances as a lasting career. File under: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix
Most of Tanx is more of the same performed well as the astonishingly bewildering doggerel of it, embellish.

COLLECTING… TANX
Tanx a whole year before Annus Glammus Festivus (I think he
(EMI/T. Rex BLN 5001, LP, with printed inner and poster, means the glam xmas of 1973 – Ed). Unlike the following
UK, 1973) £40 year, it was still thought that, like The Beatles before him,
Simply put, this was the last T.Rex album that was bought festive wishes were the preserve of fan clubs and flexidiscs.
and played in significant order, so of course, that means perfect copies are
increasingly scarce. Whereas the fold-out poster can still be found in the Tanx
package, to find it without drawing-pin holes is rare. (Odeon, EOP-80777, LP, Japan, with obi-strip, printed inner,
poster, plastic cover, Japan, 1973) £100
Children Of The Revolution/Jitterbug Love/ As with all Japanese releases of this (or any) era, finding
Sunken Rags them in mint condition with all parts in tact is something of
(Stateside TSS 4141, 7”, Turkey, 1972) £30 a challenge. Copies of this have sold beyond £200, and one to aim for if
Recorded at Ascot for the Born To Boogie film, the track – completism is your scene.
with Elton John on piano – was released in September 1972, and kept off
the UK No 1 spot firstly by Slade’s Mama Weer All Crazee Now and then Złoto Ułatwia Nam ycie (Solid Gold Easy
– horror of horrors – David Cassidy with How Can I Be Sure? Released on Action)
Stateside in Turkey, this yellow-label version of arguably the ultimate T.Rex (Przedsi biorstwo Wydawniczo-Poligraficzne RSW Prasa
single is a delightful curio. Ksia ka Ruch R-0410, 5” flexi, one- sided, card-backed,
Poland, 1973) £25
Christmas Time/Wanna Spend My Christmas The pocztówka d wi kowa (sound postcard), was a popular format in
With You/Christmas/Everybody Knows It’s Christmas Poland in the 1970s. Made from plastic-coated paper, they were virtually
(Lyntone, fan-club only 7” flexi, with letter on brown envelope/without, unplayable, and made a flexidisc feel like a 180g pressing. Credited to
UK, 1972) £45/£30 ‘M.Belan’ a copy of this version Solid Gold Easy Action, although not
Always pioneering, Bolan released his entry into the Christmas market bank-breaking, can be hard to acquire, especially in decent condition.

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with Felix Pappalardi who’d produced to heavy, jazzy and instrumental 666 (+++Sugar Candy Mountain)
PSYCH Disraeli Gears by Cream. Their next
step together was to form a power-
material, Part Of The Dance is a
powerful nine-minute jam. The band
showcase the group’s sophisticated
and varied forms of kitsch. Some

COLLECTOR quartet, named after that solo LP:

MOUNTAIN. There’s a no-nonsense
vibe to 1970’s Climbing! (+++
let themselves even looser elsewhere.
SANULLIM were a South Korean
group formed by three brothers in
listeners will get right on board with
the way SCM’s lushness brushes
politely against the fuzz. Others
By JR Moores Music On Vinyl). The boys rock as the 70s and their output is being might shrug their shoulders like Alan
hard as any hard rock group should. reissued for the first time outside of Partridge and return to the source
Blow My Mind!: The Doré-Era-Mira The drums thud rather than soar. their native country. While punk was material that’s influenced the group.
Punk & Psych Legacy (++++ Opportunities for guitar solos are breaking in the West, this trio were Truth be told, a record named 666
Munster) compiles top moments never missed. Some listeners might churning out fuzzy, tuneful psychedelic should sound a lot more EVIL.
from 45s released in the 60s by the wonder whether Pearl Jam had in rock with spiky guitar solos aplenty. It started in the late 80s. There
three labels in its subtitle. It offers mind the lead licks of Silver Paper 1977’s Volume 1: Already Now was a modest revival in the new
heaps of fun, be this delivered with when writing Dissident some twenty (+++ Guerssen) got the ball rolling. millennium, involving bands like Ringo
the aid of organs, harmonicas or a years later. Overall, it’s good stuff Stick with it because the LP’s B-side Deathstarr. (Remember them?) Then
whole lotta yelping. Highlights include rather than great. Y’know, like Led is livelier than the first, peppered as My Bloody Valentine finally finished
the cowbell break on Ty Wagner’s Zeppelin or whoever. (Please don’t it is with commanding basslines and their third album and likeminded
Slander and The Motion’s vivid tale of write in.) frisky keyboard motifs. On Volume 2: acts reformed to perform for bigger
being mugged on the sidewalk. The After he left a certain progressive Spread Silk On My Heart (++++ audiences than ever before. That’s
appearance by The Outlaw Blues lasts rock band from Canterbury, Robert Guerssen) the trio hit their stride. The right, baby. Shoegaze is back.
under three minutes. Bit of a shame, Wyatt formed MATCHING MOLE. leap is apparent from the first track’s And this time Damon Albarn can
given it’s called Non-Stop Blues. The Their name sounds a bit like the lengthy, confident and absorbing intro. do nothing to stop it, cor blimey.
groove they hit sounds like it could’ve French phrase “machine molle”. This time the recording is meatier, to Seattle’s SOMESURPRISES are led
rattled on eternally. Extra points for Translate that and you get... “soft boot. Vol. 3: My Heart (My Soul Is by Natasha El-Sergany who’s built the
some of the band names on this machine”. LOL! The first of their two A Wasteland) (++++ Guerssen) project from a bedroom folk affair to
double LP. The Puddin Heads? The albums, Matching Mole (+++++ has another great opener and its the sonic ocean it now resembles.
Tormentors? Basil & The Baroques? Music On Vinyl) begins with the second side is filled with one massive There’s been a five-year break since
As if they won’t deliver the goods. gorgeously pastoral O’Caroline. When piece which couples Blue Cheer their last record but the material
Following his stint in The Vagrants, not wailing wordlessly on this LP (now stomp with proggier aspirations. The on Perseids (++++Doom Trip)
Leslie West recorded a solo album with a second disc of bonus content), same label has curated a handy 2LP suggests nobody’s been twiddling
Wyatt comments on what he’s up compilation of songs from Sanullim’s their thumbs. The songs have been
to, in a postmodern fashion. The 1979-83 period, Evening Breeze skilfully crafted. That’s in terms of
words and music might work better, (++++ Guerssen), so there’s really both the writing itself and the
he concludes, if Caroline was still in no excuse to miss out on their crucial decorative effects. El-
the picture. On Signed Curtain he Korean chops. Sergany’s voice floats at just the
ponders aloud, in that high voice of Two limited re-pressings have right level in the mix: loud enough
his, whether he’s singing the bridge, been exhumed from the vaults of to hear her thoughts and feelings;
verse, chorus or another bit of the SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN, an not so dominant that it would risk
song. If that makes its lyrics sound Oakland collective based around core overshadowing the instrumentation.
unfinished, wait until the poignant duo Will Halsey and Ash Reiter. The On the title track, Jessika Kenney
denouement in the final lines, where reissues come from 2013 and 2016 recites a poem about the redemptive
Wyatt admits he’s lost faith in his but sound more like time capsules power of music. If you ain’t behind
own song, “Cos it won’t help me from the late 60s. Mystic Hits that sentiment, you’re probably
reach you...” For those more partial (+++Sugar Candy Mountain) and reading the wrong magazine, kiddo.

Flowered Up extended mixes. returned. There was woozy rock) for the big-chorused it’s Hersh alone, generally
A Life With Brian Terry Staunton brass (Fortress), shimmering Run Baby Run and Why Do eschewing the ferocity of the
+++ Street Legal-period organ You Love Me, while Shirley Muses on the likes of Houdini
London LMS 1725047 (2CD, 2LP) Robert Forster (Rock’n’Roll Friend), and Manson’s lyrics move into Blues, her unique vocals
The return of a curious Beautiful Hearts low-end R&B (Half The Way evocatively dark territory, gleaming like a twisted blade
cultural touchstone +++ Home recalled peak Mitchell taking in subjects like self- catching the sunlight. The
Arguably even Needle Mythology NEMYLP 014 and Green). It proved to be harm (Bleed Like Me), male bonus material here includes
more than (CD, LP) Forster’s last outing before his violence (Boys Wanna Fight) strings-only versions of tracks
contemporaries Warm Nights reunion with Grant McLennan. and sexual puritanism (Sex like A Loon, the disquieting,
the Happy ++++ Johnnie Johnstone Is Not The Enemy). With dramatic Hysterical Bending,
Mondays, Needle Mythology NEMYLP 013 17 B-sides, remixes and which recalls acoustic Led
Camden’s Flowered Up (CD, LP) Garbage alternate takes on the more Zeppelin – and, hey ho, a
unwittingly became shorthand Go-Betweens founder’s Bleed Like Me expansive available versions, brilliant slide version of Zep’s
for the hedonism of the late solo efforts revisited +++ this version gets to call itself When The Levee Breaks.
80s/early 90s rave scene. Instead of BMG/Stunvolume 4099964004069 definitive. David Pollock David Stubbs
Much of the mythology facing the (2CD, LP/2LP)
grew up around their ‘third album Shirley Manson and co’s Kristin Hersh Davy Jones
single Weekender and its syndrome’ head hard-won fourth Hips And Makers Davy Jones
accompanying 12-minute on, Robert Garbage’s ++++ +++
promotional film, but this, Forster embraced his writer’s 2005 fourth 4AD 4 AD 0652 LPX (2CD, 2LP) 7a Records 7A57 (CD, LP)
their sole long-player, is block, seeking inspiration album Bleed Throwing Muses Cloy boy ploy from singer
more than just a footnote through his interpretations Like Me was frontwoman’s solo album of Cuddly Toy
to their story. Hearing A Life of others’ songs. Originally the one which By 1994, What happens
With Brian again some three entitled I Had A New York almost broke them. After Throwing to a pop
decades and more later, the Girlfriend, Beautiful Hearts, a decade of hard-grafting Muses’ Tanya idol when
impression is of a series of from 1995, was a curious success, initial recording Donelly was the idolatry
snapshots of London’s pubs, selection of covers, with the sessions brought band friction striking out in a passes? This is
clubs and grimy streets, a more traditional material such and burnout to a head, until more pop direction with Belly. where Davy Jones was after
kind of kitchen sink odyssey as Guy Clark’s Broken Hearted a four-month break and the For her debut solo outing, The Monkees’ break-up, cast
with a dance groove. Ecstasy People and Bill Anderson’s involvement of producer Hersh opted for a more out into pop’s wilderness.
clearly informs the pulsating sublime Three A. M winning (the first time they’d used sombre, deeply personal This superbly curated album,
Sunshine and Mr Happy out over shaky renditions of one) John King and stand- tone, reflecting the gravitas the 1971 follow-up to 1965’s
Reveller, more mannered Spirit’s Nature’s Way and in drummer Dave Grohl on of contemporaries like Bob David Jones, is exactly as one
soulfulness elevates Take Martha & The Muffins’ Echo the straight-up rock opener Mould with her use of Jane would expect it to be. Imagine
It (with lyrics co-written by Beach. The following year’s Bad Boyfriend reset their Scarpantoni on cello. Your Pepper, Paris 1968 and
Joe Strummer), while a Edwyn Collins-produced musical dials. The results Ghost features the arguably Woodstock hadn’t happened.
second disc digs deep into Warm Nights was starker are a mainstream pop-rock extraneous guest appearance Davy Jones was an artist who
previously unreleased and but the confidence had sound (with an emphasis on of Michael Stipe; thereafter never missed the mark. Like

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REVIEWS
a spell on you

Transmission Tests
Entrancing compilation of Trish Keenan’s
unreleased demos and dry runs.
By Chris Roberts

Broadcast
Spell Blanket – Collected Demos
2006-2009
+++
Warp WARPLP 372 (CD, 2LP)

Transition, transmission. Between the late 90s

and their last full studio album, 2005’s Tender
Buttons, Broadcast finessed an enigmatic mix of
electronica, 60s psychedelic tropes and often eerie angles, it’s fresh-faced and sweet. Petal Alphabet,
samples, earning them an obligatory mention every too, taps into that feel – “one by one, the gods
time somebody discussed hauntology. Which for what would have been the album to follow Tender fall asleep” – as she harmonises committedly with
a brief while everybody did. Hauntology involved Buttons. It would be a lovely story if we could say it’s herself. By contrast, the folk is forsaken on more
retrofuturism – an uncertain sense of a half-lost past a grab-bag of unmitigated genius. In truth, it’s never electronic-based rough workings like Hip Bone To
and a sporadically glimpsed future. Broadcast’s best expansive enough to dazzle neutral listeners, nor Hip Bone, which successfully evokes an anxious,
music still haunts, whether on 2003’s Ha Ha Sound was it ever meant distracted Sandie
or the soundtrack for the 2012 film Berberian Sound
Studio. It was subtly spooky, rather than full-on
to be. It’s less an
album per se, more
As an insight into Keenan’s Shaw at her
breathiest.
gawdy giallo. In a shrugging, shy, averting-its-gaze
way, it could also be playful, fun.
a document purely
for the fascination
creative process, it’s March Of The
Fleas gravitates
Trish Keenan’s untimely death in 2011
effectively ended their output, and for over a decade
of Broadcast buffs,
who will be able illuminating and intriguing closer to
shoegaze, with
Broadcast’s surviving member James Cargill has to overlook the ominous treated
spoken of compiling the work-in-progress demos undercooked, underfed nature of the majority of the guitars signifying torment.
she left. “Trish left a lot of tapes, four-tracks and snippets. And as an insight into Keenan’s creative Most of this collection, however, offers fleeting
stuff, and I’ve been going through those”, he told process, it’s illuminating and intriguing. impressions rather than signed-off, finished portraits.
Under The Radar, months after her passing. “It’s It’s a lo-fi scrapbook, where occasionally a That’s it’s raison d’etre, as the opening “song”
difficult, but I’m connected to it at the same time. shaft of light lands on a page pregnant with true exemplifies: it’s 42 seconds of Keenan seemingly
It’s wonderful, but I’m also feeling a sense of loss.” inspiration. Take for example I Want To Be Fine, singing to herself while walking in the rain, perhaps
These tapes might one day make “a monument, or a the longest piece here at nearly four minutes, and just so she’d remember a melody that had popped
tribute” to her, he added. one of the more fully realised. It’s an acoustic folk into her head. It’s intimate, and very poignant
Finally formulated, Spell Blanket is that item. number with Keenan’s voice switching between now, naturally. As are many of the biro marks,
The mass of material here – 36 tracks in all, though spoken word and Steeleye Span-style singing. It’s brushstrokes and try-outs here. For Broadcast’s
many are blink-and-you’ll-miss-it short – was only creepy because we now reflexively associate true believers, this is an essential and edifying
sketched out from 2006 to 2009 as groundwork for this timbre with sinister films. Perceived from other experience, casting its own spells.

Micky Dolenz, his closest to Asia and his pre-fame essential item album Slim Harpo
compadre in The Monkees, beginnings. Disc three, playing at the time, imminent, Sings Raining In My
showbusiness was his scene. the better-known ELP material it was also here’s a Heart
This collection is superb fun. with later solo bands, is the frustratingly reminder ++++
Incredible musicianship, too, least essential disc, but lesser- incomplete. that her Blues Joint 8014 (LP)
Jones’ unmistakable voice, known cuts with Mike Oldfield Were several songs missing main band ranked among Bee-fixated bluesman’s
covering material by writers and, intriguingly, the Buddy to fit the mould of Pixies the most vital live acts of debut stings again
of the calibre of Neil Sedaka. Rich Orchestra, entertain. A albums lasting under 40 their time. Released in With his
As on The Monkees’ albums, DVD documentary completes minutes? Here, finally, is the 1998, Roseland captures smooth,
there are moments where it the four-disc package. The complete picture, with its Portishead in 1997 with an honeyed vocal
all gets simply too much – slipcased small-format components now arranged in orchestra, their players laser- delivery, Slim
Welcome To My Love is like 200-page autobiography chronological order, as they locked on the expressive Harpo was
Cuddly Toy to the power of a is a worthy, detailed but should be. The thrilling cuts fluctuations in Gibbons’ voice. the antithesis of hollering
hundred. This writer needed rather downbeat read, the follow the live-in-the-studio The abrasive scratch’n’cackle bluesmen like Howlin’ Wolf
to listen to some acidic denouement of ELP – with spirit of debut LP, Surfer Rosa. of Cowboys and brittle and Muddy Waters. Originally
post-punk afterwards just to the members not on speaking The full set provides greater luxuriousness of All Mine from Lobdell, Louisiana,
cleanse the palate. terms – particularly sad. No sense of the band’s journey snap and shudder, locating Harpo, who played a mean
Daryl Easlea discography, alas. Palmer, and development. Towards the a nerve’s-edge poise that harmonica as well as the
74, plays on today with a end emerge bittersweet hints holds you rapt – little wonder guitar, pioneered a rural
Carl Palmer keyboardless band – and of the impending dissolution. the strings tremble in awe swamp-blues style with a hint
Fanfare For The while his headline-making The penultimate Peel session of Over. For this reissue, a of rock and roll that influenced
Common Man heyday is long behind him, is performed alone, by Black desolate Roads and stylishly The Rolling Stones, the
++++ this set pays ample tribute to Francis, and includes a Beach haunted Sour Times are Yardbirds, and Them, who all
BMG 4050538869842 his talents. Boys cover destined for his reinstated from the right covered his songs. This album,
(3CD/Blu-Ray) Michael Heatley first solo album, under the concert. Undenied and Numb whose title track was a Top 20
Progressive percussionist adopted alias Frank Black. are rhapsodic additions to CD/ US R&B hit, first appeared on
is profiled Pixies JR Moores vinyl, before strings gather the Nashville Excello label in
This box set Pixies At The BBC like harbingers of doom for a 1961 and is revamped here
retrospective ++++ Portishead magisterially uneasy Western with eight bonus tracks. The
of drummer 4AD 4AD 0635 (2CD, 3LP) Roseland NYC Live 25 Eyes, “aching at the view” track with the biggest sting
Palmer’s career Overdue anthology from The +++++ of a world gone wrong: a is I’m A King Bee, which the
gives its first Beatles of alt-rock UMC 5568929/5568931 (CD, 2LP) sharp-edged lament from a Stones covered on their debut
CD over to Emerson, Lake & Pixies At The BBC was Bristol veterans’ fraught band on piercingly peak form. LP. Other standouts include
Palmer’s more percussion- released in 1998, five years majesty preserved Any chance of a Third tour I Got Love If You Want It and
heavy material, the second after the group split. An With Beth Gibbons’ solo recording next? Kevin Harley Buzz Me Babe. Charles Waring

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Solar Flair
Incredible lost studio project and two
stunning unheard concerts testify to
jazz game-changer’s mind-blowing
genius. By Charles Waring

Sun Ra
Inside The Light World: Sun Ra
Meets The OVC
++++
Strut STRUT 288 (2LP, CD)

Sun Ra At The Showcase: Live

in Chicago 1976-1977
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Jazz Detective (2LP, 2CD)
Sun Ra: saluting
In the year that marks current Arkestra leader his genius on two
Marshall Allen’s momentous centenary, music new releases
archivists have exhumed two significant
archaeological finds that capture his former leader, the music,
jazz mystic Sun Ra, in studio and live settings. an approach
Arguably, the paramount discovery is Inside The that results in elongated grooves with fewer band soundscapes (View From Another Dimension), and
Light World, Ra’s collaboration with Bill Sebastian, solos that allow the music to breathe, imbuing it with unhinged acapella vocal experiments (Ebah Speaks
a boffin-like inventor who patented satellite designs a freer, uncongested quality. In Cosmic Tongue). Most arresting is the unearthly
to fund his groundbreaking Outer Space Visual The blithe, Latin-tinged Sunset On The Nile and The Shadow World, an engulfing storm of noise
Communicator (OVC), an apartment-sized fractal light percussion-propelled Love In where Marshall
projector controlled by a touch-sensitive keyboard.
After initially hooking up for live shows in the
Outer Space show the Arkestra
at their most serene. Even
Sun Ra At The Allen’s squally
saxophone shrieks
late 70s, Ra and Sebastian went into the studio
together in 1986, when the latter filmed the Arkestra
slinkier is the mellow Stardust
From Tomorrow featuring June Showcase exudes a are juxtaposed
with Ra’s manic
spontaneously running through a series of tunes Tyson’s soulfully husky lead morse code-like
against OVC-generated psychedelic backdrops. The vocals. These tracks and others wild, untamed quality synth bleeps. The
session resulted in two promotional videos sold on like them on the album reveal album’s crowning
VHS cassettes at Ra’s live shows, though until now, that Ra’s wilder, more outré side is conspicuously glory is a gloriously dissonant rendition of Ra’s
the audio recordings have never seen daylight. absent from the polished and highly accessible Inside signature number, Space Is The Place, lit up by Dale
The OVC performances were never earmarked The Light World. Indeed, such is its mellow charm Williams’ interstellar electric guitar, which sounds like
for an LP release but now, dusted down and spruced that the album has the potential to attract listeners it’s beamed from some distant world far beyond
up, function as a fantastic album-length showcase who were previously wary of the Arkestra’s more this one.
spotlighting some of Ra’s best-known pieces. Though outré recordings. In addition to being available as exclusive Record
sadly, we can’t see Sebastian’s OVC machine In sharp contrast, Sun Ra At The Showcase, Store Day limited edition double-vinyl releases, both
interacting with the Arkestra, the music, newly edited which combines two unreleased mid-to-late 70s these Sun Ra albums – enhanced by illuminating
and remixed from the original 24-track master tape, concert recordings taped in a small Chicago jazz club, and copious liner notes – will be available on general
is astonishing in terms of both its sonic fidelity and exudes a wild, untamed quality. release in CD format. Both amount to buried treasure
performance quality. To accommodate Sebastian’s The Arkestra is in electrifying form, serving a guaranteed to expand our awareness of the man
light displays, Ra intentionally left a lot of space in mixture of organ-led swing (Rose Room), eerie synth born Herman Blount.

Sonny Rollins you into the heart of the flute and vocals, Live! catches Status Quo Ling’s sleevenote adds
A Night At The Village Vanguard and giving you, as Smith at the height of his The Early Years necessary perspective, while
Vanguard: The producer Joe Harley says, jazz-funk success. In fairness, 1966-69 a BBC Sessions disc rounds
Complete Masters “the best seat in the house.” the funk component of this is +++ things off in style – though
+++++ Rollins, just 27 at the time, better than the jazz, with the BMG CAT 900 BOX (5CD) avids will have them on the
Blue Note 1581 (3LP) is on fire, spewing out a guitar soloing on Sorceress, Pre-denim, very now-hard-to-find 2010 Beeb
Toned up hard bop classic torrent of melodic invention for example, affording little matchstickable... box set. Nothing new, then,
Originally a that justifies his “Saxophone more than an opportunity to It’s a stretch but comprehensive as far as
single LP, Colossus” tag. He’s brilliantly go get a cup of tea. However, from the mid- it goes: the two ‘transitional’
Rollins’ 1957 supported by bassist Wilbur Liston Smith’s trademark 60s band albums from 1970-71 will
masterpiece Ware and drummer Elvin whirlpool electronic keyboards, covering presumably be next.
has been Jones, who helped to create on Prelude or the Stevie Shirley Michael Heatley
expanded into a deluxe a night to remember. Wondrous Watercolours, for Bassey and the Bee Gees
three-disc Tone Poet version. Charles Waring example, remain a thing of to the boogiemeisters of Tina Turner
Amazingly, the original tape, eternal beauty, dark droplets the 70s, so buyer beware. What’s Love Got To Do
recorded on a 7.5ips tape Lonnie Liston Smith of limpidness. Meanwhile, This is highly produced pop With It
machine at the venue, was Live! there’s no resisting the mixed with some trendy +++
+++
Photo: (Sun Ra) Charles Steck 1988

never used to master the soulful, irresistible, electric psychedelia, pure and Rhino 5054197555558 (4CD/DVD)
LP; instead, engineer Rudy Ace HIQLP 100 (LP) velocity of Expansions, with simple. But if you want Fulsome reminder of what
Van Gelder transferred it Reissue of keyboardist’s Donald Smith in full throated to know the roots of Quo, we’re missing
onto a bigger 15ips tape only 70s live album top form. Smith isn’t quite this box is keenly priced While we
reel. Now, for the first time, Featuring his up there with Miles Davis and intelligently presented await a more
the original recording has band Cosmic or Weather Report but Live! (despite naff artwork), and considered
been located and used for Echoes and contains the essence of a includes the bonus tracks posthumous
mastering. The results are his brother music no longer practised. from the first two albums’ overview
staggering, transporting Donald on David Stubbs 2003 deluxe reissues. Dave of Turner’s entire career,

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Status Quo: to relieve
some tension every
this expanded 30th an exciting hard rock outfit now and then, they’d
anniversary edition of her who never really fulfilled have a boating knot
biopic soundtrack is a fine their potential. Vices (here competition
placeholder. The parent augmented by six bonus cuts)
album boasts re-records was a good start but didn’t sell
of earlier hits (Nutbush enough to keep the Chrysalis
City Limits, A Fool In Love) executives happy; fortunately
alongside contemporary Music For Nations were on
tracks, including a fiery holler hand to pick up Waysted’s
on the live favourite cover of self-titled mini-album and
Trammps’ dancefloor classic following full-length The Good,
Disco Inferno. The Bad And The Waysted
Two discs, plus a DVD, which featured former UFO
are given over to a full colleague Paul Chapman on
concert from 1993 for much guitar. With a new singer,
grittier versions of the songs, Danny Vaughn, a new label
plus a properly sleazy take (Parlophone) and more polish
on Robert Palmer’s Addicted 1986’s Save Your Prayers
To Love. It’s this part of the should have been massive
package that best serves but wasn’t, and the band split
as a tribute to Tina the shortly afterward. A recording
charismatic performer, as of the band’s support slot
does the singles edits and to Iron Maiden in Cardiff in
remixes disc’s a capella glory October 1984 completes the
of John Fogerty’s Proud Mary. story. John Tucker
Terry Staunton

UFO
VARIOUS
Covenant + Sharks
+++
ARTISTS
Cherry Red / Hear No Evil Congo Funk! - Sound
HNE3CD215 (3CD) Madness From The
Noughties’ albums Shores Of The Mighty
re-issued Congo River
UFO purists (Kinshasa/Brazzaville
were delighted 1969-1982)
when guitarist ++++
Michael Analog Africa AALP 0098 (CD, 2LP)
Schenker Another crack compilation
rejoined the band for 1995’s from Analog Africa
Walk On Water, although The 1974
he was gone again by the Ali-Foreman
end of the year. Two further fight (and
short stints with the band – the Zaire ’74
boasting founder members music festival
Phil Mogg and Pete Way, featuring James Brown) had a
together with drummer massive impact on Congolese
Aynsley Dunbar – resulted music. Out went established Slimelight, Los Angeles’ Club obvious that DJ Started at
in Covenant in 2000 and European record labels Fuck and Toronto’s Bovine Notoya would Glasgow’s Sub
Sharks two years later. and in came a indie labels Sex Club would resonate to a have another Club in 1997
Covenant is the better, still recording rhumba/jazz/funk and confluence of the gnarly end of rummage by DJs Keith
boasting some of that early shimmering electric guitars, Techno and the bleepy end of through ‘JD Twitch’
UFO swagger in tracks like with Radio Brazzaville and Télé- Goth, the Venn crossover twixt Japanese catalogues for McIvor and Jonnie Wilkes,
Love Is Forever and Midnight Zaïre beaming the new music the two being EBM (Electronic WeWantSounds. Electric Bird – the Optimo (Espacio) club
Train, while Sharks is a bit across Africa. After collecting Body Music), as epitomised a sub-label from King Records night ran on Sundays for 550
of a plodder and hardly a 2000 tracks during two visits by Nitzer Ebb, one of whose – was set up in 1977 to cater nights, and still takes place
fitting end to Schenker’s to Kinshasa and Brazzaville, totemic monsters gives its for the booming Nippon jazz once a month. It’s arguably the
career with the band. Ten Analog Africa’s Samy Ben name to this album. As well funk audience that King, as the biggest influence on the city’s
cuts from the Walk On Water Redjeb distilled them down to as such obvious candidates Japanese licensee for labels at music scene in the last two-
tour show at Blind Melon’s, 14 songs by the new generation as Meat Beat Manifesto, Blue Note and CTI, had grown and-a-half decades, inspiring
Cheektowaga, in September including Petelo Vicka Et Son Front Line Assembly, Ministry for years. Funk Tide offers a everyone from Franz Ferdinand
1995 (some of which was Nzazi; Groupe Minzoto Ya Zaïre and Laibach, the depth of potent mixture of Japanese to Hudson Mohawke, and this
originally released as a and Orchestre Celi Bitshou. curators Michael Sefton and and American artists such as anniversary collection (not
bonus CD with Covenant) Comes with a superb booklet. Richard Anderson’s knowledge Yasuaki Shimizu, Shunzo Ohno, a ‘greatest hits’!) released
completes the package. Tony Burke is displayed by lesser-known Bobby Lyle, Toshiyuki Honda on four x 12” vinyl (two for
John Tucker names like Esplendor and Ronnie Foster. Honda’s each part) illustrates what an
Control I’m Here: Geometrico, Hunting Lodge, Living In The City – with Paulinho Optimo clubber might expect,
Waysted Adventures On The Executive Slacks and Screaming Da Costa on percussion – from from the out-there, ambient
Won’t Get Out Alive: Industrial Dancefloor Trees. No, not that Screaming his 1980 album Easy Breathing opening disc, which cycles
Waysted Volume One ++++ Trees. A sampler-wielding aggro- is a standout: the mid-paced through psychedelic funk,
Photo: (Status Quo) Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

1983-1986 Cherry Red CRCD 3 BOX 165 (3CD) Acid duo from – where else? summer groove evoking trippy electronica, post-punk
++++ The punishing flipside of the – Sheffield. Simon Price youthful sweetness. Katsutoshi Afro rhythms and blunted dub
Cherry Red / Hear No Evil HNE 4 BOX second Summer Of Love Morizono’s Space Traveller – a (Brainticket, Robert Rental,
172 (4CD) A cavalcade of Funk Tide: Tokyo remake of James Vincent’s cult African Head Charge, Smokin’
Early years round-up for close-cropped Jazz-Funk From classic from 1976 – is located Cheeba, Idjut Boys) to the
post-UFO outfit men in muscle Electric Bird 1978-87 at the sweet spot where funk electro-disco energy of the
Having quit UFO vests sternly Selected By meets yacht. Daryl Easlea second, featuring Chris &
in 1982 bassist working up DJ Notoya Cosey, Divine and the song
Pete Way a sweat to songs about ++++ Optimo 25 which named the night,
initially created vivisection and dictatorship, Wewantsounds WWSLP 81 (CD, LP) (Parts 1 & 2) Liquid Liquid’s Optimo.
Fastway with Control I’m Here does a fine A superb opening of an +++++ For dancefloor or head
ex-Motörhead guitarist Fast job of recreating that late 80s obscure door Above Board Projects OPTIMO 2501 listening, Optimo 25 (Parts 1 &
Eddie Clarke but left within a period when darkly disreputable After the success of 2021’s (4x12”) 2) is just sublime.
few months to form Waysted, nightspots like London’s Tokyo Glow collection, it was Celebrating feted club night David Pollock

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Victory Lap
Cult British singer-songwriter seizes his second chance
and makes a modern masterpiece… By John Earls

Whatever Head is in the mood for, The Red Elastic

Michael Head And The Band deliver with the minimum of fuss. Three albums in,
Red Elastic Band they’ve perfected the ability to both match their frontman
for an economy of scale, offering the greatest emotional
Loophole heft in the fewest notes, while managing to convey fresh
+++++ moods and tempos in Head’s music. Ciao Ciao Bambino
and A Ricochet Moment zip along giddily, more like early
Modern Sky M 9616 UK (CD, LP)
Belle And Sebastian in their skittishness and excitability
than someone so experienced at making acoustic pop
When Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band’s previous these past five decades.
album Dear Scott reached No 6 in 2022, it finally put Head’s gravitas is most explicit on the autobiographical
to rest NME’s classic front cover from 1999 claiming Ambrosia. Inspired by writing his forthcoming memoir, also
that Head was “our greatest songwriter” who nobody titled Ciao Ciao Bambino, Head recalls the chaos of
recognised. It had taken 10 albums across nearly 40 Shack tours, from his brother John losing his shoe pre-
years, but with Dear Scott the mainstream had belatedly show near London Astoria to the band’s frequent liquid
woken up to Head’s genius. lunches. Even by Michael Head standards it’s sparse, as
This being Michael Head, chart success would he’s accompanied by just a gently shaken tambourine
traditionally have led him to a grandiose act of career for some lines. What else do you need, though? It’s
self-sabotage, or at the very least a disappearing act for Loophole’s second song and anyone remotely familiar
a few years. Instead, Loophole is the joyous result of a with Head’s music will know two minutes into Ambrosia
gentle soul getting his shit together. Made on the bounce that we’re in for a classic of gentle and gentlemanly
from Dear Scott, this is the quickest turnaround between songwriter pop.
Head’s albums since his first band The Pale Fountains Sure enough, the quality doesn’t falter throughout.
tried working at a major label’s pace in the mid-80s. Whether forcing Head into his highest, most fragile vocals
Suddenly, every critic’s favourite Liverpool mystic has in Tout Suite! or offering room for his rarely deployed
become unstoppable. gruffest delivery for the poignant Merry Go Round, Ryder-
Again produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, himself no slouch Jones’ pitch perfect production adroitly marries The Red
as a stargazing Merseyside singer, adding a dedicated Elastic Band’s tender playing with supple strings and brass
workrate to his CV has only made Head bolder as a that also don’t waste any notes.
songwriter. The beautiful simplicity that’s been a constant If there’s a complaint about Loophole it’s that the
since The Pale Fountains’ debut album Pacific Street in 108-second ballad Naturally It’s You is too short: just
1984 is still present, of course. How could it not be? as we’re getting used to the idea of Michael Head as
What’s new is the variety of styles Head’s music can seductive loverman over a relaxed groove, the song
flourish in, without distilling his melodic gifts. abruptly stops.
The Human Race sees God dissatisfied by a visit to In the same way that the 2022 instrumental version
His creation. Quite why God should be so dissatisfied with of Shirl’s Ghost hinted at Loophole, maybe the taster of
The Left Banke is a mystery, but the Red Elastic Band Naturally It’s You is ushering in the notion of an album of
recreate 1968 Greenwich Village psych-pop to perfection. Michael Head slow jams next time out.
Equally unexpected is Head aping George Gershwin on He’s helping his sister Joanne Head make her
You’re A Long Time Dead, an aural picnic whose tuba riff debut before another Red Elastic Band album, while
resembles the bullfrog in a Looney Toons cartoon. It’s a Shack’s catalogue has also finally begun to become
cautionary tale lyrically about getting high, but listeners will available again. So there’s no rush. But what the mighty
be forgiven for trying to turn blades of grass into reeds to Loophole proves is that Michael Head can keep up
gently blow along by the second chorus. the quality without needing to go into the wilderness
There are even guitar solos. Head would never be so in between. It leaves RC with a slight problem, though:
gauche as to rock out, but the new vocal version of Dear Dear Scott was our Album Of 2022, yet in its scope
Scott’s closer Shirl’s Ghost here takes flight halfway through the follow-up is even better. Where does that leave
via a Monkees-esque rattling guitar suddenly intruding. Head’s competition?

Q&A albums since The Pale Fountains’ two LPs

were exactly a year apart. How have you
become so prolific?
blow each other’s minds with our ideas.
He’s created the perfect environment for me
in the studio, doing the booth out like a living
Michael Head on My new environment helped. Coming into room, with a lamp and a couch. When I go in
belatedly becoming a sobriety before Dear Scott, I’d gone from a there, it feels like home. I have to travel 50
chart star, timing his shithole into a new flat. In my new place, I minutes down the Mersey coast to get to Bill’s
autobiography right and thought: ‘This is great!’ Being in a different studio, but I love working with him because it
the power of a smile place sometimes helps you venture into new feels effortless.
places in your mind. You can hear that on these
Loophole is your first album since Dear two albums. The two records are intertwined, Your autobiography, Ciao Ciao Bambino, is
Scott became your first Top 10 record. What there’s no gap on a songwriting level. published in August. Why is the time right to
did that success mean to you? tell your story?
Right back to the Paleys, it was always “The two records are I’d met the publisher [Nine Eight Books’
all about the music. We knew success Pete Selby] to pitch a collection of short
mattered, but only because it mattered intertwined, there’s no gap stories I’ve been writing for 20 years
to other people. We’d go along with and a book I’d love to do with John
doing Top Of The Pops, but we weren’t on a songwriting level” Johnson, the photographer who does my
that arsed about it. That hasn’t changed, but album sleeves, where we’d go around Liverpool,
it’s nice. Both albums are produced by Bill Ryder- analysing places on and off the beaten track Pete
Jones. What makes him right for you? changed my mind, saying: “The stories you’ve got
This is the shortest gap between your Bill is brave, not afraid to take chances. We with people like Arthur Lee would be fascinating.”

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Michael Head And The Red

Elastic Band: granted they
weren’t the world’s
friendliest baristas but they
made a delicious mocha

Pete made me think of the pivotal moments That one’s mostly true. In sobriety, your emotions dates and anniversaries come and go because
in my life. I started telling him a story and I flood back like a newborn baby. At first, I was I’m always busy.
thought: “If I can write the same way I’m telling a rabbit in the headlights. Without being too A mate recently asked me about a song on
this, it could work.” A decade ago, I wouldn’t dramatic, when you’re integrating back into Pacific Street and I had to say: “If someone said
have been ready, but since then I’ve made society just by going to the shop, making eye to me ‘Here’s £1 million, play it,’ I’d have to tell
Adios Senor Pussycat, which has led to these contact is harrowing. them to keep their money, because I couldn’t.”
two records. I’ve also got married, I’ve got a After a while, it becomes natural again. But But it made me listen to it again and it sounded
connection with my kids: those things need when things aren’t going well, the power of great. I thought: “Who the fuck did you think you
to be written about. somebody smiling at you, it takes over your whole are, going: ‘Let’s have an orchestra,’” but I was
body. You think: that smile was just for me. adventurous as a songwriter when I was 20.
Has writing the book fed into the new album? I’d written most of You Smiled At Me, then I met
They’ve fed off each other. I’d write the book in my wife. She made it complete. It’s a love song, Last year saw …Here’s Tom With The
my kitchen. For a break from that, I’d go upstairs and it simplifies things – on how a smile has so Weather become the first Shack album to get
to the attic where my guitar is and songs would much depth and meaning. reissued. Are there plans for any more?
start formulating. Writing the book opened my Our John said to me early on with that reissue:
mind, so that when I went upstairs I was ready to It’s 40 years since The Pale Fountains “Have I got your blessing to do this?” I told him:
write songs, because the stories in the book are released their debut album, Pacific Street. “Of course, I’m behind you 100 per cent.” He did
Photos: John Johnson

content to formulate into songs. How much of a milestone is that for you? a lot of work on the bureaucracy there always is
For the last decade, people have told me, “It’s for bands getting their songs back and he wants
In You Smiled At Me, you fall for a stranger 25 years since this” or “It’s 20 years since that.” to do more. So I’m going to go with yes.
on a train. Is it true or a short story? Forty years since the Paleys, that’s “Wow!”, but As told to John Earls

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New Albums singer has made

“an album to fall in
love with”

Out Of The Darkness

Long-anticipated solo debut from Portishead
singer is worth the wait. By Johnnie Johnstone

Beth Gibbons If the

single, Floating
Lives Outgrown On A Moment,
++++ finds Gibbons
bedevilled
Domino WIGLP 287 (CD, LP)
by existential bad amphetamines. Oceans is
Thirty years have passed since Portishead’s Dummy,
but perhaps even more remarkably, 22 since Out
doubt, musically
it draws its spirit
The emotional weight more expansive but the brushed
toms, stark picking and treated
Of Season, Beth Gibbons’ visionary autumnal
collaboration with Talk Talk’s Paul Webb (aka Rustin
from a holy
marriage of late
in these grooves background vocals add a sense
of understatement with the
Man). So, what’s she been up to? It would be
tempting to guess very little. The only music that
60s psych-folk
(perhaps Jan &
would suggest she has harpsichord content to creak gently
beneath the panoramic sweep. Of
has surfaced since 2002 was a typically bleak
interpretation of Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No.3,
Lorraine: those
kids’ voices add
been preoccupied with course, Gibbons knows precisely
when less is more. Allowing the
made with Polish film composer Krzysztof Penderecki in such gravitas), weighty concerns drama and foreboding on For Sale,
2019. However, the emotional weight in these grooves with the ethereal perhaps the album’s bleakest
would suggest she has been preoccupied with more genius of Il Maestro, all harpsichord and melodies moment (“smiling with white teeth, the taste of
weighty concerns. Lives Outgrown is a deeply personal spiralling upwards to the heavens. It’s sublime. On ammonia, the need a delusion, a choice made to
record – 10 years in the making – conceived during a Burden Of Life, Gibbons possibly sounds less agitated fail, ‘cos the dreams are for sale from afar”), to take
troubled period of restlessness and self-doubt, during (the voice caresses more like, say, Joan Wasser’s) root. The penultimate track, Beyond The Sun, raises
which Gibbons experienced the loss of several people but the dissonant chamber arrangement strikes a the temperature slightly with its prickly Turkish bazaar
close to her. decidedly avant-garde chord. rhythm, a free-jazz Fun House blast and an oscillating
For her solo debut, the singer has chosen to Lost Changes is the kind of song that Nick Cave dronelike finale. It‘s the last bite of winter.
collaborate once again with a former member of excels at these days, and is unquestionably one of the Then, for the first time, a chink of light. Out of
Talk Talk – this time Lee Harris, who is billed as co- album’s highlights, with its stoic pacing and epic string hibernation come thrushes and starlings singing their
producer of the album alongside Gibbons and James arrangement. A whistling interlude can’t quite quell the song of spring while a solitary squawk of the fiddle
Ford (Last Shadow Puppets, Simian Mobile Disco). gathering storm. By the end, Gibbons’ voice (“Know evokes a garden chair swinging on a chain. Whispering
Harris’ masterful rumbling underpins the album’s that I want you to love me/The way that you used to”) Light, the album’s ambrosial finale, promises hope.
stark avant-folk opener Tell Me Who You Are Today. is beginning to disintegrate. She’s broken. Gone. The bubble of darkness has burst and suddenly, the
Its vaguely formless ebb and flow might at first seem The two songs that follow are clothed in entirely world is transformed. It feels like blessed relief.
wilfully esoteric. A wheezing, queasy cello conjures a different threads. Rewind bares its claws, with searing One suspects Gibbons agonised over every word
solemn Nico-esque atmosphere before being upended guitars buried deep in the mix, and contains a brief and note on Lives Outgrown, but the result is an album
by exotic Eastern strings, an oriental dimension which percussive meltdown, while the paranoiac, ghostly to fall deeply in love with. If you allow them to, these
resurfaces at regular intervals throughout the album. Reaching Out sounds like PJ Harvey on some really songs will envelope your soul.

And Also The Trees A Christian alongside Soup Unit create than their
Mother-Of-Pearl Moon missionary’s Dragons and background debut. It leans
+++ daughter who Teenage Fanclub music designed generously into
AATT AATTCD 14 (CD, LP) rebelled and (the former’s to be listened their strengths:
Trees of a different timbre became a goth Sean Dickson to intentionally. gorgeous
The arty, off- in her teens, Birch, now 41, mastered this record), new That might sound like a Americana folk married with
kilter Brit combo has lived all over the world but work from gentle Scottish indie contradiction, but the idea gentle country and just a hint
who’ve worked now resides in sleepy Somerset, maverick Duglas T Stewart’s is nevertheless interesting. of the blues. Their harmonies
with admirers where she’s rediscovered her BMX Bandits is always welcome Though their brand of not-quite- are especially impressive and
The Cure during muse. Birch seemed to lose her – but a decade-in-the-making post-rock (or perhaps post- recall early 70s Fleetwood Mac,
their long, productive and way after her promising 2010 album about the life-giving post-rock) never quite reaches like on tender fingerpicked
generally under-the-radar career debut Bible Belt but now the qualities of being an outsider the energetic exhilaration of, ballad Mother. Headache is a
return with their most out-on- Michigan-born singer/pianist idealist arriving after a period say, Three Trapped Tigers or country ballad straight out of
the-edge album yet. Always is firmly back on track with a of personal health problems the emotional resonance and vintage Nashville while Muzzle
one for tinkling guitar and tremendous collection of self- feels garlanded in an extra beauty of Sigur Ros, there builds into a thrilling blues solo:
beguiling rhythms this, however, penned songs in a 70s singer- sense of triumph. The odd, are moments when these think Jack White losing it on
is closer to movie soundtrack songwriter vein that reverberate bleeping internal monologue My eight songs truly come alive. his Gretsch. Many of the songs
enigma. Created from, we’re with evocative echoes of Joni Name Is Duglas (Don’t Listen That might be the space-age explore how we find strength
told, lonely guitar improvisations Mitchell’s bittersweet lyricism, To What They Say) aside, it’s atmospherics of When Do We in our shared outsiderness
during lockdown, the faraway Laura Nyro’s heart-on-the- classic Bandit country, from the Start Fighting?’s second half or and the best example here is
doodlings of guitarist Justin sleeve earnestness and Judee lush, vintage orchestral style of the delicately nuanced strains perhaps the cinematic, string-
Jones meld with the drifting Sill’s Biblical imagery. Working the title track and Things You of closer The Dogs Are Barking led Love Is Real. At 14 songs
vocals of brother Simon in ways alongside guitarist/producer Threw Away, to Setting Sun Again, but while those passages long, it could do with an edit,
that at one moment seem Paul Stacey (who’s worked and The World Was Round’s are stunning, too often the but it’s nonetheless a special
pastoral, at another far more with Black Crowes and Noel breezy beatpop, the halogen-lit execution isn’t quite there, and second album. Elizabeth Aubrey
mystical. Elsewhere the elegant Gallagher), Birch has crafted ballad Home Before Dark – In these songs remain trapped
Englishness – Cure-like in its a sublime, career-defining The Industrial Zone and the in the background, sadly lost Ganavya
pop innocence with delicacies record, its highlights including Simon & Garfunkel-like whimsy inside themselves. Like The Sky I’ve Been Too
such as This Path Through the soulful Jukebox Johnny and of Hop Skip Jump (For Your Mischa Pearlman Quiet
The Meadow and the darker, dreamily infectious Moto Moon. Love). David Pollock ++++
spoken-vocal Field After Field – Outstanding. Charles Waring Ferris & Sylvester Native Rebel Recordings NRR 8 LP
sideslips into something more Dog Unit Otherness (CD, 2LP)
exotic, evident on the languid BMX Bandits At Home +++ Indian-American vocalist
title track. Nick Dalton Dreamers On The Run +++ Archtop ARTLP 101 (CD, 2LP) shows her versatility
++++ Brace Yourself BYREC 56 LP (CD, LP) British folk couple craft a Born in New
Diane Birch Tapete Records TR 513 (CD, LP) London four-piece unleash stirring second York and raised
Flying On Abraham A Scottish indie-pop original their post-post-rock debut. Husband-and-wife duo Issy in Indian Tamil
++++ returns to the fray On their debut full-length Ferris and Archie Sylvester’s Nadu, singer
Legere Recordings LEGO 319 (CD, LP) Formed nearly 40 years ago album, London-based second album feels like much and composer
US singer-songwriter soars amid the seminal Bellshill scene instrumental shapeshifters Dog more of an assured arrival Ganavya’s latest album finds

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her rich vocals paired with a Theres’s a higher proportion of Lenny Kravitz big deal about Anderson,
variety of musical textures. grumbling and griping – This Blue Electric Light breaking up, conductor
Rooted in classical South Indian Ain’t Rock’n’Roll sets the ++++ only to return a Charles
music tradition but capable of standard – while the Brian BMG 4050538939286 (CD, 2LP) few years later, Hazlewood,
working in a variety of settings, May-propelled Precious kicks Let Len rule! The king curator the unexpected Paraorchestra
her ethereal voice adds a sense up a duststorm that will be on majestic form return of Les Savy Fav is a and various guests connected
of deep spirituality throughout, noticed all the way to Memphis. Kravitz’s radio- breath of fresh air. Not that through songs about death in
drifting beautifully around the Close your eyes and you can friendly fusion of the artful Brooklyn indie-punks many guises. Ranging from la
delicate strumming of a harp on easily forget this fella is 84. rock and soul ever called it a day, but it’s petite mort to mortality itself,
the Alice Coltrane-esque Forgive One thing’s for sure: he is still has served him been 14 years since their last the result unfurls as a warmly
Me My, the chirping electronics a contemporary artist. ’Unter’s well over 11 album, Root For Ruin. A lot luxurious tribute to kinship
of the Floating Points-assisted back on the ’orse… and that’s previous albums, and it’s by no has happened in that time, and influence, mounted with
First Notebook Of Songs, the a fact. Michael Heatley means intended as derisory to but while older and greyer, Les poise and drama. Echo & The
ambient jazz wash of El Kebda, call Blue Electric Light more of Savy Fav’s fun, raucous and Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon
and the courtly plucked strings Iron & Wine the same. This is a man who occasionally silly sound remains shudders with anticipation,
of a west African ngoni on final Light Verse knows his wheelhouse inside largely intact. Whether that’s Anderson’s voice attuned to its
track I Walk Again, Eyes To ++++ out, and continues to craft the acerbic staccato, slow- silvery ambience. An imperious
The Sky. Having recently been Sub Pop SP 1615 (CD, LP) robust material that wears its motion stomp-punk of opener Nadine Shah is a magnificent
tapped up to work with the Singer-songwriter makes a bygone influences on its sleeve Guzzle Blood, the spoken word crooning partner for Anderson
likes of Quincy Jones, Shabaka stunning tenth yet manages to sound melancholy of Dawn Patrol, or on a gently lapping cover of
Hutchings, Esperanza Spalding Having served intriguingly up to date. As Lenny the (funnily enough) Oi!-inspired Mercury Rev’s Holes, while the
and Sault, Ganavya is a vocalist two decades as accompanies himself on a Oi! Division, these 14 erratic, Paraorchestra’s mellifluous
set to make a significant impact the brainchild succession of instruments, the wonderful and unpredictable backing on Nightporter
on the musical landscape. of Iron & Wine, sly groove of It’s Just Another songs are a powerful reminder honours the song’s twilit tread
Paul Bowler Sam Beam Fine Day takes its cue from of what’s been missing. judiciously. Standouts include a
found his inspiration had dried Aaron Neville’s stone cold Mischa Pearlman dreamy Wonderful Life, a stately
Hawkwind up during the pandemic. It classic Hercules, Paralyzed Enjoy The Silence (featuring
Stories From Time And took two years, via an EP of stomps like a séance with Marc Ministry Gwenno) and a surging take
Space Lori McKenna songs and an Bolan and John Bonham, and Hopiumforthemasses on Suede’s She Still Leads Me
++++ acoustic tour, for his muse to the power ballad title track +++ On, before Anderson wrings My
Cherry Red CDBRED 901 (CD, LP) return. Light Verse is the result holds a flickering Zippo up to Nuclear Blast 4065629701611 Death for a spirit of carpe-diem
Space rockers continue their – an album that straddles Iron Prince. Naysayers might dismiss (CD, LP) affirmation: “So let’s drink to
cosmic course & Wine’s earlier, stripped-down it all as derivative, but who Al Jourgensen’s industrial that,” indeed. Kevin Harley
Time and work and his later, more layered cares when it’s despatched with mischief-makers return
space, indeed: tunes. The gorgeous Sweet Talk such confidence and an innate The first wave of Pet Shop Boys
Dave Brock’s and All In Good Time (which understanding of pop’s rich industrial rock Nonetheless
ever-changing features sumptuous backing grammar? Terry Staunton acts typically ++++
crew have vocals courtesy of Fiona Apple) dealt in Parlophone 5054197903649
been orbiting for 55 years. are particularly reminiscent of The Lemon Twigs Cassandra-like (CD/2CD, LP/2LP)
And, like an eclipse, we know the former, while Tears That A Dream Is All We Know foretellings of mechanised Business as usual for
what’s coming but it’s always Don’t Matter is Beam at his ++++ warfare and eco-destruction. infallible synthpop legends
impressive. The opener, Can’t most dynamically majestic. It Captured Tracks CT 375 LPC 2 (CD, LP) Ministry’s strain was always Pet Shop Boys
Last Forever, starts with a folk- took a while, but this album is Luscious Medium Wave laced with a certain dark glee, are seemingly
like tinkle reminiscent of earliest certainly worth the wait. melodies from US brothers as if some of the sicko humour incapable of
Hawkwind but rises with choral Mischa Pearlman Initially pitched of Al Jourgensen’s side-hustle, making a bad
vocals and wild guitar then The in some Revolting Cocks, was seeping record. On
Starship (One Love One Life) Mark Knopfler quarters as through. What, now that we’re their 15th attempt, producer
thunders hypnotically for seven One Deep River harbingers of yet actually living in the dire James Ford rides the faders
minutes while What Are We +++ another glam- dystopian future they once and filters to shape Chris
Going To Do While We’re Here, EMI/British Grove EMIV 2113 (CD, 2LP) rock revival, Hicksville NY’s predicted, is Ministry’s angle? Lowe’s synths into the perfect
another seven-minute barrage, More Tyne tales from Dire Lemon Twigs, centred around Surprisingly sincere and on-the- balance of modernity and
is topped and tailed by curiously Straits don the fraternal duo of former nose (at least, if the last half- timelessness. Nonetheless is
jazzy sax. The line-up, featuring None of the child actors Brian and Michael dozen Ministry albums passed as sumptuous and graceful
experimental keyboard player 10 solo studio D’Addario, turned out to be you by.) Opener B.D.E. takes as any of the previous 14,
Thighpaulsandra, is the same albums Mark something subtly different: aim at teenage incels in thrall with the instantly-euphoric
as last year’s The Future Never Knopfler’s shamelessly nostalgic purveyors to the likes of Andrew Tate. Just Why Am I Dancing and the
Waits; there’s a floating eeriness made have of sun-dappled 70s AM radio Stop Oil is an unironic satirical The Schlager Hit
to The Night Sky while near-title equalled the impact former pop, with a gorgeously gooey, endorsement of that campaign. Parade reminders that nobody
track Traveller Of Time & Space band Dire Straits made in ice-creamy production and Aryan Embarrassment, to which does this stuff better. Neil
is a dreamy, wistful wonder. their 80s heyday, a period in a sentimental, philanthropic Jello Biafra brings some Tennant remains our most
Nick Dalton which his band were one of streak a mile wide. Their fifth declamatory DK energy, targets emotionally intelligent lyricist,
the biggest selling acts on the album contains traces of Todd the resurgent Far Right. One writing with exquisite empathy
Ian Hunter planet. Yet still he stubbornly Rundgren, Squeeze, Ben Folds thing which has barely changed about non-obvious subjects.
Defiance Part 2: Fiction ploughs his furrow – and while and, above all, The Beach Boys, since their Psalm 69 peak is On Bullet For Narcissus, he
++++ One Deep River is unlikely to most notably on In The Eyes Of the Ministry formula of chugging imagines the inner monologue
Sun 5047807321 (CD, 2LP) make many new converts, it The Girl, a collaboration with metal machine grooves, of a bodyguard for a right-
Mott man plus heavy friends will more than satisfy his loyal Sean Ono Lennon. A Dream Is newsreel samples and stuck-pig wing blowhard politician. On
Ian Hunter’s army of fans. His observational All We Know flows seamlessly, screaming. But, when it works, Dancing Star it’s the culture
career has themes have not really with no snags disrupting its they can still make the shock of the newly-defected
been more changed: Ahead Of The Game mellow mood-tapestry, right up apocalypse sound fun. Nureyev. On Loneliness it’s a
stop-start than is a loping, countrified first until final track Rock On (Over Simon Price pensive Ringo Starr skimming
most. Tinnitus cousin of Sultans Of Swing, And Over) throws us a curveball stones on a canal. And on
had removed him from the substituting Nashville for South by actually glamming out, Paraorchestra with New London Boy, featuring
road before Covid struck, but London, while the title track Bolan-style, as if to say, “Here’s Brett Anderson and a West End Girls-style rap,
his response was to assemble finds him once again taking what you thought we were Charles Hazlewood it’s his own teenage self: a
two albums of brand new inspiration from his native about”. Superb. Simon Price Death Songbook Roxy/Bowie-obsessed Glam
material. Defiance Part 2 Newcastle. The moving Black ++++ Rocker running the gauntlet of
follows its similarly named Tie Job, a standout, tells of his Les Savy Fav World Circuit 4050538978049 skinheads and navigating the
2023 predecessor in treading journalist past doorstepping the Oui, LSF (CD, 2LP) capital’s gay scene.
the ‘all-star’ route – Cheap bereaved. He may have left the ++++ Suede singer and friends’ The duo’s ongoing quest
Trick, Lucinda Williams, Taylor Money For Nothing days behind Frenchkiss FKR 1211 (CD, LP) death’s-head party for a dud disc has once again
Hawkins and Jeff Beck, among him, but Knopfler can still Chaotic art-punks return with Socially distanced across a ended in abject failure. Maybe
others – but sounds altogether plumb new inspirational depths. long-awaited aplomb Cardiff stage circa lockdown, next time.
looser and more assured. Michael Heatley In a time when bands make a Suede frontman Brett Simon Price

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New Albums Fat White
Family:
barking mad

Relative
Success
Redemptive fourth from the
cult South London reprobates.
By Jeremy Allen

Fat White
Family
Forgiveness Is Yours of the live performances. 2019’s Serfs narrative delivered in intimate sing-speak. The
++++ Up! was a step in the right direction, latter song recounts singer Lias Saoudi’s tale of
Domino WIGLP 467 (CD, LP) though with the departure of main encountering Yoko Ono whilst on ketamine and
musical ideas man Saul Adamczewski, being told by the legendary artist that he has the
Fat White Family are a band who’ve consistently and members channelling their efforts into other look of her late husband. Musically, it’s as weirdly
snatched defeat from the jaws of victory over ventures, the signs didn’t necessarily look good for dreamlike as you’d hope, very nearly tipping
the years. Founded in Peckham, London in the long term. into new-age-y at times, but when set against
2011, the self-destructive tendencies they’ve As contradictory as ever, then, Fat White Saoudi’s sardonic lyric, it instead seems to take us
become notorious for seem oddly anachronistic Family have shaken off an integral member to somewhere we’ve never really been before.
a little more than a decade later. The six-piece become the band they’ve always promised to be, There are two spoken word tracks, too; the
gives the impression of being the last great pooling their resources to make everything more opener The Archivist, which comes on like a Fast
rock’n’roll survivors, living up to very 20th century multidimensional and unpredictable. Forgiveness Show buried gem, and the remarkable Today
expectations in the service of Dionysus. The Is Yours is without question the band’s best album You Become A Man, which takes on unusual
landscape has changed and everything feels safer to date, full of surprising diversions and even more subject matter, namely Saoudi’s older brother’s
these days, and more to the point, nobody really surprising musical ideas that sometimes border circumcision in Algeria. It’s a terrifying, hysterical
forms bands anymore (and if they do, record on the sophisticated. Even though there’s little four minutes, as hilariously dark as The Velvet
companies are unlikely to touch them). uniformity, it hangs together nicely and is always Underground’s The Box and as avant-funky as
The Fat Whites are a reminder of how we once intriguing, like a series of vignettes or short stories. Miles Davis’ On The Corner. As you may have
were, which can be uncomfortable for some. It’s Bullet Of Dignity sounds like the Happy guessed by now, the title of the album is grimly
perhaps a factor in why they’re not yet as huge Mondays, had they discovered Dabke, while John mocking, taking a swipe at the endless need in
as they could be. More importantly, while they’ve Lennon eschews any notion of pastiche, employing modern discourse for everything to have some kind
made some excellent, forward-thinking music, it’s doughy electronica and Kruder & Dorfmeister-style of redemptive arc. Nevertheless, Forgiveness Is
never quite lived up to the energy or the danger flutes carried along by a quickening pulse and the Yours, and victory is theirs… should they want it.

Q&A it was a rough time.

“We didn’t nearly kill Yoko the early production
before we had a mad
Famously, you’d
always been at
Ono. It’s a strange thing to falling out. Saul went
and then there was
FWF frontman Lias Saoudi
on fraternity, factionalism
loggerheads with
Saul Adamczewski,
even have to deny” a brief moment of
like, “Okay, how are
and getting a footie up into but that working relationship finally we going to reinvent the wheel?” because saying he
Yoko Ono’s bedroom disintegrated, didn’t it? What happened? was a key part is a bit of an understatement. He was
That was a long running thing that was just repeating really the architect, musically, for the first couple of
Is it true that Forgiveness Is Yours took five itself over and over again. But I think we definitely albums and he played a big part on Serfs Up!. But it
years to make? came to a head in that period because when you’re soon descended into brutal factionalism.
That’s not quite the full story. We threw a bit of shade separated for long enough, you do just start going
at the wall in 2019 and we had a bit of momentum your separate ways. That was the thing with the Did I read something in your book, Ten
going but it was really early days. And then the pandemic, you wouldn’t see people for months and Thousand Apologies, about the Fat White
pandemic struck and it was like somebody just lifted months so there wasn’t that fraternal thing, there Family nearly killing Yoko Ono by accident?
the fucking Monopoly board and all the pieces were wasn’t that update, and you grow apart. I’m super We didn’t nearly kill Yoko Ono. It’s a strange
scattered everywhere. I think everybody responded sad that it didn’t work out – we did some really thing to even have to deny. I think Nathan, with
to that in different ways. I found it personally was great work together – but for whatever reason, it just Saul in a kind of assistant role, broke into her
kind of a good thing for me; my inner nerd had been became untenable. bedroom – Saul gave him a footie up the wall.
pining for a bit of downtime. I went back to just We were staying in the guesthouse and Yoko’s
being who I was before I got embroiled in London Did you take control of this album? room was at the big house. It was all quite feral.
and drugs and all of that madness. But it was a It’s a real mixture of everyone: Adam Harmer wrote He got a real grilling from Sean [Lennon] who
borderline psychotic time, like the world was mentally Polygamy Is Only For The Chief, that’s really his baby. was quite rightly pissed. But she wasn’t in the
ill. And society became one fucking endless bickering Nathan [Saoudi] has written the bedrock of a bunch bedroom when he broke in. That would have
match with this Maoist culture of denunciation and of tracks like Feed The Horse and Work. Alex White been another level of seriousness.
counter-denunciation and just fear, you know? Yeah, stepped in and wrote a track. Saul was involved in As told to Jeremy Allen

Pinhdar and multi-instrumentalist/ vocals are swathed in Tarenzi’s Abysses. One of the year’s rare have since supported Coldplay
A Sparkle On The Dark producer Max Tarenzi follow swirling sonic pyramids gems. Kris Needs and Metronomy, which is a
Water 2021’s Howie B-produced of synths, guitars and decent indication of where
++++ minimal lockdown classic electronics, enhanced by Bruno Porij their polished dance music
Fruits de Mer/Friends of the Fish 78 Parallel with a more expansive Ellingham’s production. Lyrically Teething sits. Singer Eggy is in the
(CD, LP) sound bringing out their innate reflecting on post-pandemic ++++ lineage of Tracey Thorn and Neil
Milan triphoppers dazzle on bared soul emotion and planet Earth’s multi-tiered PIAS PIASR 1474 (CD, LP) Tennant for precise enunciators,
second flight melodic drama. disintegration, darkly poignant Irksome spellers but very imperiously narrating the type
Trailered by Those singles, Human Murders Of A Dying God, classy ravers of radio-friendly drum & bass
stunning singles and Little Light, evocatively house-driven Cold River and Meeting at initially popularised by Kosheen,
videos directed encapsulate Pinhdar’s unique ravishing In The Woods ripple Manchester recently back in vogue via hits
by Mexico’s magic, harnessing spectral with meticulously channelled Royal College from LF System and Venbee.
Telavaya dreampop textures to trip hop passion, flaring to orchestral Of Northern Marmite and Sweet Risk are
Reynolds, singer Cecilia Miradoli beats as Miradoli’s impassioned heights on desolate ballad Music, Porij especially convincing in their

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frantic call to the dancefloor, ballad that is likely to pop up Robed In UB40 Jane Weaver
while the mournful Slow Down on TV idents all year. A lesson Rareness, UB45 Love In Constant
is reminiscent of Lamb in its to singer-songwriters that “First Exotic Birds ++++ Spectacle
perfect comedown evocation. thought best thought” really can Of Prey: the SRG SRG 1069 (CD, LP) ++++
Their name might reflect their pay off. John Earls titles of these Firm-footed new material Fire FIRELP 682 (CD, LP)
roots and imply tedious student companion mini-albums (the and faithful retreads Tangled webs from alt-pop
japes await, but in capturing so Lucy Rose former released just this past The title shapeshifter
many club moods, Porij are one This Ain’t The Way You Go October) alone express what alludes to the 2021’s Flock
of heartfelt pop’s best recent Out Shabazz Palaces has become anniversary of saw the Widnes
examples. John Earls +++ under Ishmael Butler’s sole the band’s first genre-blender
Communion COMM 576 (CD, LP) reign, encapsulating the recordings, twisting her
Billy Reeves A defiantly solid return allure of Butler’s aesthetic, highlighting the album’s psychedelic
Steve (A Weekend In Rose’s fifth the singularity of his vision contents being split equally and electronica tendencies
Egham 1966) album follows a and, in that word “prey”, the between new songs and re- into pop and dance shapes.
++++ five-year break, instinctual way in which he recordings of past triumphs. Her 12th album retains that
Last Night From Glasgow LNFG 145 during which pursues it. As with Robed In Certainly, the opening Home rhythmic panache, but insists
(CD, LP) time she was Rareness, the music here is shares obvious DNA with the on engaging with actual
Educated, catchy pop for the sidelined by both the pandemic insular, at times verging on the politically-driven contents of emotions, too. She works with
knowing elders and a severe back injury after claustrophobic, though Butler debut long player Signing Off, an outside producer for the
An eloquent sort giving birth. Knuckling down again looks out to his wider leading neatly into that record’s first time, and John Parish
in his late 50s, to work with fruitful sessions network, granting features on killer double punch of Food For seems to understand the brief:
Billy Reeves is at Paul Weller’s Surrey studio all but one of the collection’s Thought and King. it always sounds like Weaver,
a stand-up gent spawning several songs a day, seven tracks, and, on the likes Thankfully, Robin Campbell whether leaning into exuberant
of pop. As well This Ain’t The Way To Go Out of the squelchy Angela (which and buddies have resisted or taciturn, but gently explores
as being a much-loved BBC is partly a chronicle of those addresses female gang crime) the temptation to rework the adjoining neighbourhoods.
football correspondent, he is obstacles. “Life could be so and the frenetic Well Known oldies too much, save for Fuzzy motorik beats still
from the skewiff Tony Newley/ simple but it’s full of pain,” she Nobody (conflating politics the occasional multi-tracked feature, while her words
Syd Barrett end of Britpop, first sings on the contemplative with celebrity culture, in order saxophone, and they serve as a interact with the wooziness,
coming to prominence as the Dusty Frames, typical of the to dismiss both), finding a template for the newer tracks. the slightly off-centre ambience
guitarist/writer of theaudience. record’s elegant pop with folk world beyond the zero-gravity Shining out among those is a (which moves towards
Along with many other things, and jazz flourishes. Over When strip club Robed In Rareness respectful lovers’ rock cover minimalism later on). The title
he can be credited as the It’s Over flirts with the dance appeared to have been made of Bill Withers’ Hope She’ll Be track hovers as if suspended
man who gave Sophie Ellis floor while the hushed Whatever for. “We will walk the fine lines Happier and the shanty town in mid-air. It’s accessible
Bextor her big break. Inspired You Want is worthy of Tapestry- between the realms of the shuffle of the self-penned Fool though,ss and Perfect Storm
by Finnish dreampop, Steve (A era Carole King, as a driven and worlds, sounds born in the Men Once. Terry Staunton and the slinky Emotional
Weekend In Egham 1966) is articulate artist confidently finds blind spots,” Butler seemingly Components welcome you in
Reeves’ first album under his her feet again. Terry Staunton intones over the landing- Vampire Weekend with groove and grace. This
own name, and bristles with spaceship synths of Synth Dirt, Only God Was Above Us both feels and swings.
warmth, humour and invention. Shabaka perfectly expressing how, at ++++ Chris Roberts
Reeves’ vocals have an Perceive Its Beauty, its best, the Shabazz Palaces Columbia 19658886892 (CD, 2LP)
endearing untechnical delivery, Acknowledge Its Grace experience is an invitation to Preppy pop heroes sharpen The Zutons
being able to imbue songs like +++ have your senses tweaked. their bite on fifth album The Big Decider
the sweet bossa of Ten-Bob Impulse! 6504311 (CD, LP) Jason Draper As the cover’s ++++
Milko with a music hall charm British jazz doyen creates an canted subway Icepop ICELP 01 (CD, LP)
(especially using vocabulary idyllic sonic space Slim Chance car and grim It’s almost like they never
such as ‘florin’ and ‘Unigate’). Shabaka Live At The Greystones newspaper went away
Catchy choruses, smart turns Hutchings’ ++++ headline Fifteen years
of phrase and joyous winks twin groups The Last Music Company LMCD 238 suggest, Vampire Weekend’s since their
abound. Recommended. The Comet (CD) fluent and richly fretful fifth last album,
Daryl Easlea Is Coming Ronnie Lane’s old muckers album occupies a world gone Liverpool’s
and Sons Of Kemet are on joyous form wonky. With New York as loose-limbed
Maggie Rogers renowned for their crackling Over 50 years its locus, Only God… was popsters with pleasingly gritty
Don’t Forget Me energy and propulsive cut and ago, Ronnie recorded between London, LA, funk undertones are back in
++++ thrust, but here, on the multi- Lane left Manhattan and Tokyo, tracing business, and it’s business
Capitol 5819953 (CD, LP) instrumentalist’s solo debut the Faces fractured global trajectories. Ice as usual. The Big Decider
Country-pop star doesn’t album, he’s in a reflective to pursue Cream Piano finds Ezra Koenig spins and struts with the joie
hang around mood, revealing his hitherto a rootsier path with Slim declaring “Fuck the world” de vivre of old, statements
Having broken unexplored meditative side. Chance, touring his Passing amid brash mêlées of distorted of intent provided by crunchy
through with Assisted by a stellar supporting Show and recording stellar guitars, tipsy pianos and frantic opener Creeping On The
the Top 10 cast – including slam poet albums before succumbing to strings; throughout the album, Dancefloor and Pauline,
success of her Saul Williams, harpist Brandy Multiple Sclerosis in 1997. vibrant melodies and guitars another groove-infused witty
second album Younger, bassist Esperanza Thirteen years ago, his old come accompanied by gnawing ode to a difficult woman, cut
Surrender in 2022, country- Spalding plus vocalists Eska bandmates Charlie Hart, Steve doubts and dense, agitated from the same cloth as Valerie.
pop crossover Maggie Rogers and Lianne Le Havas – Bingham and Steve Simpson settings. Even the dreamy The chief difference from
hasn’t overthought how to Hutchings fashions a series revived Slim Chance to play Capricorn wears its soundscape the three albums released
capitalise. Writing two songs of pastoral soundscapes his classics and their originals like a shroud, while Hope’s between 2004 and 2008 is
a day in just five days, Don’t dominated by breathy flutes. in celebration of their fallen plea for release evokes The discipline: the arrangements
Forget Me was recorded It’s not all a case of sonic stasis comrade. Their fifth album National at their most elegantly are more robust, the playing
equally quickly with new co- and folky bucolic minimalism, Live At The Greystone catches fraught. Best of all, Gen-X sturdier, most likely due to
producer Ian Fitchuk (Kacey though, as Body To Inhabit the current lineup featuring Cops sets a post-punk clip for the presence of Nile Rodgers
Musgraves, Maren Morris) at proves, lit up by rapper Elucid’s veteran keyboardist Geraint a take on cursed generational in the producer’s chair. It’s
New York’s Electric Ladyland. verbal fireworks. The album’s Watkins, sax titan Frank Mead inheritances: “Blacken the sky especially evident in the title
Many of the vocals are first killer cut is the Steve Reich- and drummer Brendan O’Neill and sharpen the axe,” sings track’s dizzying carousel of
takes too, yet the results evoking I’ll Do Whatever I live in Sheffield in May last Koenig, nailing the extremes of harmonies and a hook that’ll
sound far from rushed. Drunk Want featuring Floating Points’ year, tangibly relishing classics a dark and whip-keen return to squat in your head until you
and Sick Of Dreaming carry somnolent synth work. Music to including The Poacher, One duty. Kevin Harley opt for surgery. Terry Staunton
over Surrender’s sophisticated dream to. Charles Waring For The Road, Kuschty Rye,
playlist-friendly infectiousness, You’re So Rude, Ooh La La
with Never Going Home’s
pared-back Nashville mood still
Shabazz Palaces
Exotic Birds Of Prey
and ever poignant Debris
before a rousing Goodnight
NEXT MONTH
as accomplished as it is catchy. +++ Irene. Thankfully, the tapes Bernard Butler Camera Obscura
Written and recorded last, Sub Pop SP 1612 X (CD, LP) were rolling to capture this Paul Weller Pavement
the wholly self-produced title Ishmael Butler widens focus magical evening. Luther Vandross Bat For Lashes
track is a stunning full-throated on quick-fire follow-up Kris Needs

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Books mirroring the tome’s pain and
pleasure. The book ends in
1985 when he stopped drinking
The West’s Greatest
Rock Shows
1963-1978
relations with Doobies co-
founder Tom Johnston, whom
he replaced as lead singer
Slobodan Milosevic in the 90s. but there’s a new insight into Robin Askew and whose style he effectively
For his fourth book, Collin looks later happiness, married to ★★★★ erased from the Doobies’
homewards, turning his scalpel American singer-songwriter Amy Bristol Books, £25 repertoire. “Don’t ask” was his
towards the origin and Rigby and becoming a ISBN 9781909446397, 352 pages typically non-confrontational
augmentation of electroacoustic grandfather. Sardonic and Avon calling attitude to someone he still
music in the UK, forensically personal, yet rich in throwaway If you’ve ever spent time in plays with.
examining everything from the asides like accompanying Stiff Bristol, where I grew up, you’ll McDonald, now long-time
Radiophonic Workshop to boss Dave Robinson to see a know that it’s always been a sober, has certainly done well
Orbital, with very little absent in prospective signing’s video. vibrant place for live music, with for a once-faceless keyboardist/
between. Any frustration comes How they laughed – although a range of venues from backing singer. His battles with
from the fact that the author’s Meat Loaf did OK with Bat Out spit’n’sawdust (the Fleece & the music business, drugs and
parameters only allow him to Of Hell elsewhere. Eric, Firkin) to upper-crust (the depression are chronicled with
mention key figures like the meanwhile continues to make Colston Hall, recently renamed the help of writer Paul Reiser,
Frenchman Pierre Schaeffer in bittersweet records like last the Beacon). Long-time resident but be warned: this memoir is
passing, though the topic is so year’s Leisureland. Nick Dalton and rock writer Robin Askew, less Doobie Brother, more Mike
vast that you have to set whose columns in the local mag the father. Michael Heatley
The Rolling Stones restrictions somewhere. As it Venue were essential info for us
Rare And Unseen goes, Dream Machines: in the 80s, has compiled the
Gered Mankowitz Electronic Music In Britain From musical history of Bristol, Bath
★★★★ Doctor Who To Acid House is a and the surrounding areas into
Welbeck Publishing, £35 comprehensive overview of this excellent volume, ending a
ISBN 9781802797336, 256 pages postwar Britain’s multifarious decade or so before Massive
A new angle on old friends sonic innovations, and its Attack and Portishead made
You may think you know the innovators you don’t hear about Somerset briefly fashionable.
work of the famed too often like FC Judd, the Askew’s focus is 60s and
photographer, but you don’t, Workshop’s John Baker, and 70s pop, prog, hard rock and
not by a long shot. Here are the criminally underappreciated metal, evoking a vivid world
300 images that might ring a Coldcut, whose key role in the whose traces still linger in the
bell (“the shot next to the sampling culture of the late 80s now cleaned-up city centre and
famous one” he says in his has so often gone dockside. His detailed
introduction), expanding on uncommented upon. It’s a introduction sets the scene
those rolled out in books and must-read for anyone seriously Sniffin’ Glue and before The Beatles play their
glossy mags. And some in interested in the history of Other Rock’N’Roll first local show at Bath Pavilion
between, such as the cover electronic music. Jeremy Allen Habits on 10 June 1963: “Their price
photo previously hiding on the Mark Perry [£250] was an absolute liberty,” The Liverbirds: Our
back of the Stones' Got Live If ★★★★ moans the promoter, one of Story Of Life In
You Want It. One glorious 1965 Omnibus Press £20 many interviewees tracked down Britain’s First Female
shot taken in his hip Piccadilly ISBN 978191541223 224 pages for the book. The Rolling Stones Rock’n’Roll Band
studio becomes a dozen, the First punk fanzine’s 2009 are next, followed by The Kinks, Mary McGlory and
contact sheet exploding into compendium back in print The Animals, Chuck Berry, The Sylvia Saunders
life. Mankowitz, then almost a Following in the DIY footsteps Who, Dylan, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, ★★★★
group member, talks us through of the UK’s first serious music Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Faber & Faber, £20
them – including passport monthly Zigzag, Deptford’s Beach Boys, Zappa, Yes, Bowie, ISBN 9780571377022, 320 pages
photos that Stones manager Mark Perry was propelled into Purple, Sabbath, Slade, Uriah The tale of the Merseybeat
Andrew Loog Oldham requested starting Sniffin’ Glue by the Heep, Bob Marley, Elton John, trailblazers
during one session. seismic arrival of the Ramones’ Queen, Lou Reed, Sparks, The Liverbirds were Pamela
This is a chronicle of 1965- debut album and their London Kraftwerk and a huge list of Birch (vocals/guitar), Valerie Gell
67, a time of conquering debut in 1976. As he says in other pioneers, all (vocals/guitar), Mary McGlory
America, and there are photos his introduction, he was in the contextualised expertly. Highly (bass) and Sylvia Saunders
on planes, on wild west horses right place at the right time, recommended, even if you don’t (drums). Told by the two only
and onstage, moving onto reporting on Brit-punk from the like cider. Joel McIver surviving members McGlory and
sports cars and country frontline as bands formed, the Saunders, this story still gives a
mansions, even the London scene accelerated and kids What A Fool Believes four-dimensional perspective. It
Palladium. Mesmerising is the A Dysfunctional like Shane McGowan followed Michael McDonald is not a straightforward
exploration of the arty shoot for Success: The his xeroxed example starting ★★★ rock’n’roll biography. The bassist
the Between The Buttons Wreckless Eric ‘zines. After witnessing the Sex HarperCollins, £25 and drummer augment their
album, the cover currently Manual (Written By Pistols that September, Perry ISBN 9780063357563, 338 pages personal narrative(s) with facts,
featuring in Mankowitz’s The Author) gave up his banking job and More melancholy than music figures, and eyewitness
exhibition at London’s Gibson Eric Goulden Sniffin’ Glue became punk from Mike accounts from their
Garage. Visuals aside, there’s ★★★★ rock’s ultrahip barometer, Many musicians’ contemporaries. As a result, this
plenty to read with essays from Ventil Verlag, £22 adding more pages, photos autobiographies go easy on kaleidoscopic book lifts the lid
music and fashion experts, ISBN 9783955752231, 240 pages and Danny Baker to his original their pre-fame life, assuming on various aspects of the 60s,
plus a foreword by Keef and The world of a pop genius, template. most of us will skim to the especially the Star-Club era in
afterword from Loog Oldham. revisited Conducting The Clash’s ‘interesting’ bit. Doobie Brother Hamburg where the band had a
Exhilarating yet quietly touching. Here is a tale of chaotic near- first interview affirmed punk’s Michael McDonald, in contract, residency in 1964. While their
Nick Dalton stardom, from the rocky road to massive socio-cultural goes heavy on his early life, and name suggested loyalty to
fame to the path to relevance for Perry and with good reason. His father’s native Liverpool and its high-
Dream Machines: redemption, screamingly funny his readers, once-powerful propensity to leave home at octane scene, they took risks
Electronic Music In stories pegged back by a music papers now suddenly the drop of a hat gave him and had to turn down the offer
Britain From Doctor descent into alcoholism. If you followers. The Glue set up lifelong anxiety that led to drug from Brian Epstein who was
Who To Acid House only know Wreckless Eric from office at Rough Trade’s and alcohol dependence, while ready to manage them. “If you
Matthew Collin Whole Wide World, magnificent, original premises then Miles when he had two children he go to the Star-Club you’ll never
★★★★ innocent love song and pop Copeland’s office at Oxford was ravaged with guilt that his come back,” he said
Omnibus, £25 single, there’s so much more, Circus, where Perry started touring lifestyle would lead to prophetically. Shows around
ISBN 9781913172558. 416 pages whether the sad finale to his Step Forward Records. By similar absences. Europe, TV appearances on
This is a journey into sound time on Stiff Records or early September 1977, punk had All this may explain the Beat Club and two albums on
of the electronic variety attempts to ditch the Wreckless become a copycat trend and, aching, agonised vocal style the Star-Club Records followed.
Matthew Collin has form when tag in garage bands such as the not wishing to lose its spark, that served him well through With their final tour in Japan in
it comes to writing about Len Bright Combo. Then there Perry finished Sniffin’ Glue, first Steely Dan and then the 1968, The Liverbirds had a
electronic music as the author are the dodgy flats, dodgy cars declaring his future with the Doobies. But his career moves shorter lifespan than their male
of Rave On and Altered State, and dodgy pubs. last issue’s Alternative TV were scarcely calculated, counterparts in the Fab Four.
and he’s also homed in on the Originally released in 2003, flexidisc. Punk’s crucial first Dan guitarist Jeff ‘Skunk’ Still, their presence was
regional before, with the it re-emerges in celebration of months are all here (along with Baxter having facilitated the essential and so was their
excellent This Is Serbia Calling Eric’s 70th birthday in May, issue 12’s pin-up of this writer, switch before the pair fell out. dedication. A diverting,
about underground radio complete with a lengthy new now editing Zigzag and feeling Talking of fallouts, McDonald revelatory, at times heart-
resistance during the tenure of foreword (by the author), the strain). Kris Needs is disappointingly vague about rending and all the way through

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heartening read about devotion time. Christophe Dallach’s Spanning more than 700 Howard – he of the revived romance, realism, and wit in
to music, womanhood and oral history of everything pages, it’s a dense but post-Kid In A Big World a story that’s both complex
camaraderie. Irina Shrteis kosmische works well fascinating read, featuring career, and already the and intriguing. Howard’s eye
because it came out in extensive, in-depth pieces author of several excellent for detail is strong, as is his
Germany first, meaning the about the history, music autobiographies – and be sense of humour and his
interviewees get to express and musicianship of the able to report that it’s good. ability to seek out the
themselves without, in most band during their A novel about people who emotional aspects of a story.
cases, the obstacle of trying 1965-1974 lifespan, and disappear in and out of time, One hopes for more of this
to be erudite in a second plenty of imagery to set Across My Dreams With Nets sort of thing in the future.
language (Katy Derbyshire the scene. Of Wonder combines David Quantick
provides a pristine Brief tribute words from
translation). Dallach was Robert Plant, Bill Drummond,
inspired to write this almost David Bowie and the former
exhaustive account when it Archbishop of Canterbury
occurred to him that many of Rowan Williams appear, and
these musicians wouldn’t be Billy Connolly fascinatingly
with us much longer, and so contextualises the 60s
it has transpired with artists Scottish folk scene, boldly
like Holger Czukay and Jaki claiming ISB were as
Liebezeit of Can, Dieter influential as Dylan. There
Moebius of Cluster and Klaus are interviews with
Dark Luminosity: Schulze, solo artist and early bandmembers and
Memoirs Of A Geezer member of Tangerine Dream. collaborators, new words
Jah Wobble Neu Klang only falls down from fans Neil Tennant and
★★★★ – and this is all that prevents Alasdair Roberts, and even a
Faber & Faber, £12.99 it from gaining those coveted quiz, a crossword and an
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Bass master updates his chapter about Kraftwerk is a band’s extensive
autobiography little too slight (perfectly instrumentation.
This expanded edition of understandable given the Throughout, ISB’s legacy
Wobble’s 2009 memoir secretive nature of Kling as part of their era’s musical
features a lengthy Epilogue, Klang). Nevertheless, there cutting edge is reinforced, as
updating the story. On one are fascinating chapters on The Rolling Stones and Paul
level a cautionary tale about figures you might not McCartney looked to them
the pitfalls of the music ordinarily be able to access and they were decades
business and the perils of information about, like the ahead of the game in
alcoholism (which brought him shadowy Ohr mogul Rolf- seeking out world music for
close to suicide), it also Ulrich Kaiser, and the Faust inspiration. This vast,
functions as an indispensable chapter is a laugh-out-loud authoritative document is the
socio-cultural history. masterpiece of slapstick next best thing to being
The author’s life took such comedy. Jeremy Allen there. David Pollock
odd turns that the story seems
almost surreal at times. For
instance, after taking flight
from the chaos and poison of
PiL, Wobble had to choose
between working for a courier
company or hopping into the
studio with half the members
of CAN. Later, he would be
bumping into awestruck fans
while working as a ticket
collector on the Northern Line.
Films (Jack O’Connell) as jumping-
off points for the creation of
the likes of Rehab, Love Is A
Losing Game and Back To
Black itself, without any
in-depth examination of
Then, between jobs as a Back To Black her subject.
delivery driver, he was being ★★★ Writer Matt Greenhaigh
ferried around NYC in a limo In cinemas has form in this area of
before contributing bass parts Workmanlike but filmmaking, having provided
to a Ginger Baker album. Be Glad For The occasionally sparkling screenplays for biopics of
It is a riotous life-affirming Song Has No biopic Lennon (Nowhere Boy, also
read and as much a tale of Ending: An Across My Amy Winehouse’s formidable directed by Taylor-Johnson)
(spiritual) redemption as it is of Incredible String Dreams With Nets talent made her a star, but and Ian Curtis (Control), but
violence, marriage breakdown Band Compendium Of Wonder the songs on the album that his portrait of Winehouse
and depression, although Adrian Whittaker (ed.) John Howard gives this movie its title were seems less considered, more
there’s plenty of that, too. ★★★★ ★★★★ written and recorded in the superficial. The script is
In the end Wobble always Strange Attractor Press, £25 Fisher King, £12 white heat of a tempestuous littered with clunky,
fought his way through the ISBN 9781913689506, 704 pages ISBN 9781914560941, 352 pages relationship that also made exposition-serving dialogue
bullshit. As Jon Savage testifies An updated 20-year reprint Fantastic fiction from cult her a tabloid fixture. that all too often stumbles
in the foreword, John Wardle for this vast, authoritative singer-songwriter Consequently, as much as into cliché, while big-name
“is who he says he is”, and it is ISB history Books by musicians are rare the filmmakers stress how support from Eddie Marsan
the unflinching honesty of his “The Incredible String Band enough – and most of those they wanted to tell the and Lesley Manville as the
self-examination that really were arguably the most are autobiographies – but the singer’s story through her singer’s dad and grandmother
makes the book sing. multi-faceted group in British subbest sub-genre of all music, the more troublesome only intermittently conveys
Johnnie Johnstone popular music, and this book must be novels by musicians. aspects of her short life can’t the concern her family has as
attempts to mirror the There’s the work of Kinky be ignored. she threatens to careen off
Neu Klang: The complexity of their story,” Friedman, of course, and Marisa Abela portrays Amy the rails.
Definitive History writes editor Adrian Whittaker Bruce Dickinson’s The as a driven figure resisting That said, Abela is
Of Krautrock in this new, updated edition Adventures Of Lord Iffy music biz attempts to magnificent in the lead role;
Christophe Dallach of his long out-of-print Boatrace, and from time to package her into something her nuanced approximations
★★★★ collection of writing on ISB, time there’s a children’s more instantly sellable (“I of Winehouse’s singing voice
Faber, £25 and it’s hard to imagine a book by megastars like ain’t no fuckin’ Spice Girl,” impress in a series of well-
ISBN 9780571377671, 500 pages more comprehensive or Madonna or Paul McCartney, she declares early on), yet staged musical sequences,
One for the motorikheads lovingly-made book about but as a rule musicians leave that single-mindedness second only to the subtlety
There have been several a band. the fiction for either their arguably contributed to the she brings to the offstage
absorbing histories of Originally published in memoirs or the lyric drama of her private life. Amy, spinning between
krautrock (Julian Cope, David 2003, the book compiles collection. This is probably a Director Sam Taylor-Johnson headstrong and vulnerable.
Stubbs), but here’s the first research and documentation good thing: not quite as bad delivers snapshots of It’s a genuinely affecting,
written entirely from the by the near-30 strong group as authors making records, Winehouse’s on-off romance awards-magnet performance
perspectives of those who of writers at the ISB fanzine but close enough. So it’s a with bad-boy beau and future that ultimately deserves a
made it or were there at the BeGLAD, founded in 1992. relief to read a novel by John husband Blake Fielder-Civil better film. Terry Staunton

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LPs, 12”, 7”, CDs, Audio Systems, Posters, T-shirts, Steampunk,
collectables, etc…Free and easy parking. 162 Tuckton Road,
Bournemouth, BH6 3JX. Tel: 01202 770236,
[email protected] www.pandemonium.shop.
Rapture – ‘A huge selection of brand new CDs, DVDs and vinyl,
plus around 5,000 pre-owned titles. We are also proud stockists
and installers of Sonos streaming systems.’ Unit 12 Woolgate
Sounds Original, Ealing Centre, Witney OX28 6AP. Tel: 01993 700567 / Stylus Records, Lichfield
www.rapturewitney.co.uk

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Grey ‘n’ Pink Collectors Records – ‘Established for 25 years we Shop Of The Month: Gatefield Sounds – Whitstable
specialise in vinyl and CDs: Rock ‘n’ Roll, 60s, Blues, Folk, Reggae,
Indie, New Wave and Punk, to present day Rock and Pop.’
57 Brook Street, Chester CH1 3DZ. Tel: 0124 431 1921.
[email protected]
Replay Records – ‘Established in 1999. Stocking new and pre-
owned CD’s and Records. Shop open – Tues-Sat 9.30–5.30.’
62-64 Freeman Street, Grimsby DN32 7AG.
Tel: 01472 [email protected]
Reflex – ‘Classic indie high-street store, catering to all musical
tastes, fads & fashions. Fully geared up online with worldwide
mail-order. Specialist in new release vinyl on 7” and LP.’
23 Nun Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5AG.
0191 2603246 reflexrecordshop.com
RPM Discs– ‘A traditional record shop specialising in quality value
for money second hand vinyl. CDs and new vinyl also stocked.
Home to one of the UKs largest singles only on-line shops. 7A The
Shop, Front Street, Wingate, County Durham,
TS28 5AA. Tel: 07711 450045 / [email protected]
www.rpmdiscs.co.uk / www.45rpmdiscs.co.uk
Skeleton Records – ‘Established in 1971, we carry over 150,000
new and used LPs, singles, CDs, tapes, videos and DVDs. All types
of music catered for – we buy your unwanted vinyl, CDs, DVDs.’
11 Oxton Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside CH41 2QQ.
Tel: 0151 6539 003. [email protected]
www.skeletonrecords.co.uk
Spinning Discs Sheffield – ‘An independent record shop where
music lovers can meet, relax, drink coffee and browse new, reissue
and select second hand vinyl in a friendly community environment.’
107 to 109 Chesterfield Road, Meersbrook, Sheffield, S8 0RN
Tel. 0114 258 2387. [email protected]
www.spinningdiscssheffield.co.uk
The Musical Box– ‘Liverpool’s oldest record shop since 1947,
owned by a family business spanning four generations. We take
pride in our longevity and extensive history, having been featured in
several TV programmes and documentaries. We are renowned for
being a ‘hidden gem’ and specialise in new old vinyl LPs, 7” singles,
CDs, 78s & cassettes.
One of the fascinating features about the UK Over the last four years our CD sales have
457 West Derby Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool L6 4BL Tel:
01512633845. [email protected] music industry is how many excellent record increased year on year, though not to the levels
www.instagram.com/themusicalboxrecordshop shops can be found in the coastal towns and of vinyl. More young people are now buying CDs
www.facebook.com/themusicalboxrecordshop cities. Gatefield Sounds is one such place – a and their first cars can still have CD players. And
Vinyl Tap – ‘New & Used, Vinyl & Cds. New Releases, Indies multi-genre gem with a loyal customer base, it’s they are so much cheaper than vinyl.
Exclusives, Dinked Editions. Over 150,000 items in stock online and
available in store. Can’t find in the shop, please ask’ a great example of how to run a friendly,
42 John William Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1ER. knowledgeable and well-stocked record shop. The shop looks great. How often do you
01484 845999 www.vinyltap.co.uk Jon Ashby tells Steve Burniston the story change the layout?
behind this successful and much-admired shop. The layout hasn’t really changed too much over
NORTHERN IRELAND the years. The shop was fitted out by my
Boneyard Records – Stockists of new and used vinyl. Blues, soul, jazz, Tell us about the shop’s history. grandad Bert and my dad, both carpenters; they
country, folk, reggae and indie. Also a selection of guitars, strings and Gatefield Sounds was founded by Mick Winch in fitted all the shops over the years. The original
record players. 27-29 Market Street Arcade, Omagh, County Tyrone 1972. We opened in Gatefield Lane in vinyl racks were covered with CD racking, and
BT78 1EE Tel: 07765 788591 Email: [email protected]
Faversham, hence the name. We opened here gradually my dad would come in and lift out
Vanilla Records – 1000’S of quality pre-owned and new records and
CDs nestled upstairs in an ice cream parlour. Rock, roots, indie, punk, in Whitstable in 1979. Later we had shops in those with the original vinyl racks underneath.
psych, wave, blues, jazz. On Facebook + Instagram. Collections bought. Herne Bay, Sheerness, and our sister shops the My grandfather is no longer with us, but I always
4 William Street, Cookstown, Co.Tyrone, BT80 8ND Soundhouse in Deal and Broadstairs. Now there feel close to him in here.
Tel: 07903249850 www.vanillarecords.co.uk /
[email protected] is just one – the vinyl revival came too late for
the other branches. How has record retailing changed in the last
I took over the business from my uncle in few years?
OVERSEAS 2016; I was back where I started in my The big one, and what fills me with confidence
Nostalgipalatset / Trash Palace – ‘Sweden’s BIGGEST store for hometown and where I started as a Saturday for the years ahead, is how many more girls and
VINYL! We specialise in collectable rock, progressive, indie, jazz, blues,
soul, reggae etc. Also Scandinavia´s No 1 stockist of RARE metal & punk.
boy in 1989. women are coming in and buying music.
Even a wide range of pop memorabilia like posters, magazines etc.” Open
Mo-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat-Sun 11am-3pm.’ Sankt Eriksgatan 101, 11331 And what range of music do you sell? Name one album that you would love to see
Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: (+46)8340061 /
[email protected], www.nostalgipalatset.com We sell everything on CD and vinyl, all new, from reissued.
Gibert Joseph Musique – ‘Biggest independent records shop from Abba to Zappa, André Rieu to Aphex Twin. I’ve narrowed that down to two:
France for more than 35 years.’ 34 Boulevard Saint Michel, 75006 Although we do love jazz, electronica, hip-hop, Dick Morrissey – Storm Warning and U.N.K.L.E.
Paris, France. Gibertjoseph.com Tel: +33 44 41 88 53. indie alternative and classic rock. – Never Never Land.
Email: [email protected]
Hot Stuff AB – ‘Southern Sweden´s leading shop for collectable records
& ephemera. 50.000+ items of second hand, “new” limited editions and You sell CDs and vinyl. What do you think Gatefield Sounds, 70 High Street,
inhouse labels. Bank vault with high end collectables and wide range of the future of the CD will be? Whitstable, Kent CT5 1BB / 01227 263337.
vinyls in almost any genre. If you travel a long way, we even got special deals
for hotels.’ Norra Esplanaden 5, Almhult, Sweden 34330.
Tel: +46 476 10449 / www.hotstuff.se

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DAVE BERRY, Stranger (Decca F12579) M 5.50 PAUL JONES, Aquarius (Col. DB8514, Demo) M 4.50 PROFESSOR LONGHAIR, Mess Around
BLUESBREAKERS, Curly (Decca F12588) M 9.50 JORDAN BROTHERS, Never Never (London HLW8908) M 20.00 (Harvest HAR5154, Demo) M 15.00
BOONES FARM, If You Can’t Be My Woman (CBS 8212, Demo) M 12.50 AMORY KANE, Reflections Of Your Face (MCA MU1036) M 9.50 RAINDROPS, What A Guy (London HL9718) M 20.00
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JO ANN CAMPBELL, Motorcycle Michael (HMV POP873) M 9.50 (Font. 267261TF) M 9.50 (HMV POP1067) EX 9.50
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BRUCE CHANNEL, Number One Man (Mercury AMT1177) M 7.50 BEN E. KING, Seven Letters (Atlantic AT4018) EX 15.00 REGENTS, Barbara Ann (Col. DB4666) EX 20.00
CHANTAYS, Pipeline (London HLD9696) EX 3.50 KNOCKOUTS, Riot In Room 3c (Top Rank JAR279) EX 15.00 CHARLIE RICH, Lonely Weekends (London HLU9107) EX 35.00
CHIMES, Once In A While (London HLU9283) EX 8.50 BUDDY KNOX, She’s Gone (Liberty LIB55473, Demo) EX 12.50 RICK & SANDY, Creation (Decca F12311) M 20.00
CHANTELS, Look In My Eyes (London HLL9428) M 45.00 BUDDY KNOX, She’s Gone (Liberty LIB55473) EX 9.50 RIPCHORDS, Here I Stand (CBS AAG143) M 20.00
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NEIL CHRISTIAN, Two At A Time (Strike JH319) M 7.50 DON LANG, White Silver Sands (Gold HMV POP382) EX 9.50 RIP CHORDS, Hey Little Cobra (CBS AAG181) M 25.00
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DEE CLARK, Just Keep It Up (Tri-London HL8915) M 12.50 LEMON TREE, I Can Touch A Rainbow (Parl R5671) EX 37.50 PIERCE ROGERS, Do You Still Love Me (Parl. R4838) EX 5.50
CLOVERS, Love Potion No. 9 (Round Centre Lon. HLT8949) EX 20.00 HANK LEVINE, Image (HMV POP947) EX 6.50 MARK ROGERS & MARKSMEN, Bubble Pop (Parl. R5045) EX 12.50
EDDIE COCHRAN, Sweetie Pie (London HLG9196) EX 20.00 GARY LEWIS & PLAYBOYS, She’s Just My Style ROLLING STONES, Come On (Decca F11675) EX 30.00
CLAY COLE, Twist Around The Clock (London HLP9499) M 6.50 (Liberty LIB55846) EX 12.50 ROLLING STONES, The Last Time (Decca F12104) M 9.50
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BILLIE DAVIS, Tell Him (Decca F11572) EX 4.50 LITTLE FRANKIE, Kind Of Boy You Can’t Forget (Col. DB7490) EX 12.50 BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE, Universal Soldier (Fontana TF614) M 3.50
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DEANO, Please Don’t Talk To The Lifeguard (Col. DB7965, Demo)M 9.50 LOCOMOTIVE, Rudi’s In Love (Parl. R5718) EX 12.50 NEIL SEDAKA, I Go Ape (Tri RCA 1115) EX 7.50
AL DE LORY, Yesterday (London HLU9999, Demo) M 20.00 PATTI LYNN, Johnny Angel (Fontana H391) EX 9.50 SETTLERS, Lightning Tree (York SYK505) EX 4.50
DICK AND DEEDEE, The Mountain’s High (London HLG9408) M 4.50 NEIL MACARTHUR, She’s Not There (Deram DM225) EX 17.50 HELEN SHAPIRO, Queen For Tonight (Col. DB4966) M 3.50
DION & BELMONTS, Where Or When (London HLU9030) EX 12.50 LONNIE MACK, Memphis (Stateside SS207) EX 17.50 SHERRYS, Pop Pop Pop-Pie (London HLW9625) EX 12.50
DIXIE CUPS, Iko Iko (Red Bird RB10024) EX 7.50 MANCHESTER UNITED F.C., Manchester United SHEVELLS, I Could Conquer The World
FATS DOMINO, Whole Lotta Loving (Tri-London HLP8759) EX 9.50 (Decca F13633, PC) EX/M 7.50 (U. Artists UP1059, Demo) EX 25.00
FATS DOMINO, I Want To Walk You Home (Tri-London HLP8942)M 15.00 CARL MANN, Pretend (London HLS9006) EX 25.00 SHIRLEY & LEE, All I Want To Do Is Cry (Vogue Pop 45-V9129) EX 60.00
DOVELLS, Be My Girl (Cameo Parkway P901, Demo) EX 25.00 MANFRED MANN, 5-4-3-2-1 (HMV POP1252) EX 3.50 SHORTY & THEM, Pills Or Love’s Labours Lost (Fontana TF460)EX 30.00
JOHNNY DUNCAN, Last Train To San Fernando (Col. DB3959) EX 4.50 MANFRED MANN & MIKE HUG, Michelin Theme SHOUTS, She Was My Baby (React EA001) VG 17.50
ECHO VALLEY BOYS, Wash Machine Boogie (RM RMA1019) EX 9.50 (Michelin MIC01, PC) EX/EX 9.50 NANCY SINATRA, These Boots Are Made etc. (Reprise R20432)EX 3.50
DUANE EDDY, Your Baby’s Gone Surfin’ (RCA 1357) EX 4.50 SHADOW MANN, Come Live With Me (Roulette RO504) EX 7.50 P.F. SLOAN, Sins Of A Family (RCA 1482) EX 8.50
DUANE EDDY, Kommotion (London HLW9225) M 3.50 ERNIE MARESCA, Shout Shout (London HLU9531) EX 12.50 SMALL FACES, Whatcha Gonna Do About It (Decca F12208) VG 5.50
ENGLAND SISTERS, Heartbeat (HMV POP710, Demo) EX 20.00 JOY MARSHALL, When You Hold Me Tight (Decca F11863) M 9.50 SMALL FACES, I’ve Got Mine (Decca F12276) VG 6.50
EPISODE SIX, Mozart Versus The Rest SAMMY MASTERS, Rockin’ Red Wing (W. Bros WB16) EX 17.50 SMALL FACES, My Mind’s Eye (Decca F12500) EX 6.50
(Chapter One CGH104, Demo) M 15.00 JOE MEDLIN, I Kneel At Your Throne (Mercury AMT1032) EX 17.50 SMALL FACES, Sha-La-La-La-Lee (Decca F13727) M 6.50
ESCORTS, Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Fontana TF453) EX 12.50 MIGHTY AVENGERS, So Much In Love (Decca F11962) EX 15.00 SMOKE, My Friend Jack (Col. DB8115) M 35.00
ESSEX, Easier Said Then Done (Col. DB7077) EX 7.50 BETTY MILLER, Jack O’ Diamonds (Top Rank JAR127) M 4.50 SONS OF PILTDOWN MEN, Mad Goose (Pye Int. 7N25206) EX 12.50
DAVID ESSEX, Can’t Nobody Love You (Fontana TF620) M 40.00 MOJOS, Everything’s Al’ Right (Decca F11853) M 5.50 JIMMY SOUL, If You Wanna Be Happy (Stateside SS178) EX 12.50
PAUL EVANS, Midnite Special (London HLL9045) EX 12.50 MOMENTS, Walk Right In (London HLN9656) EX 6.50 SOUNDS INCORPORATED, Order Of The Keys (Decca F11723) EX 17.50
EVERLY BROTHERS, So It Always Will Be (W. Bros WB94) EX 4.50 HUGO MONTENEGRO, Hang ‘Em High (RCA 1771) M 4.50 SOUTHERN COMFORT, Morning Has Broken (Harvest HAR5047)M 6.50
GEORGIE FAME, Bend A Little (Col. DB7328) EX 12.50 MOODY BLUES, From Bottom Of My Heart (Decca F12166) EX 4.50 SPOTNICKS, Orange Blossom Special (Oriole CB1724) M 8.50
DON FARDON, Belfast Boy (Young Blood YB1010) EX 12.50 CASH McCALL, Many Are The Words (Ember EMBS204, PC) EX/M 9.50 RINGO STARR, Snookeroo (Apple R6004) Factory Sample M 15.00
EDDIE FISHER, Cindy Oh Cindy (Gold HMV POP273) EX 8.50 CHRIS McCLURE, Hazy People (Polydor 56227) EX 9.50 STATUS QUO, Pictures Of Matchstick Men (Pye 7N17449) EX 8.50
FLAMINGOS, Love Walked In (Top Rank JAR213) EX 35.00 CLYDE McPHATTER, A Lover’s Question (Tri-London HLE8755) VG 7.50 RHET STOLLER, Ricochet(Windsor WPS130 , Demo) M 25.00
EDDIE FLOYD, On A Saturday Night (Stax 601024) EX 9.50 CLYDE McPHATTER, Think Me A Kiss (MGM 1061) EX 12.50 SPOKESMEN, The Dawn Of Correction (Brunswick 05941) EX 8.50
FRANKIE FORD, If You’ve Got Troubles (London HLP9222) EX 8.50 NASHVILLE TEENS, Google Eye (Decca F12000) EX 4.50 GALE STORM, Dark Moon (Tri-London HLD8424) EX 9.50
FORTUNES, You Gave Me Somebody To Love (Decca F12429) EX 6.50 NATURALS, I Should Have Known Better (Parl. R5165) EX 6.50 STORMER, My Home Town (Ring O’records 2017113) M 35.00
DOTTY FREDERICK, Ricky (Top Rank JAR106) M 25.00 RICKY NELSON, It’s Late (Tri-London HLP8817) EX 3.50 STRANGLOVES, Cara-Lin (Immediate IM007) EX 20.00
BILLY FURY, Give Me Your Word (Decca F12459) EX 7.50 NERO & GLADIATORS, Czardas (Decca F11413, Demo) EX 12.50 SURFARIS, Waikiki Run (Brunswick 05894) M 9.50
BILLY FURY, That’s Love (Decca F11237) EX 9.50 JIM NESBIT, Tiger In My Tank (Vocalion V9241, Demo) M 17.50 SWINGING BLUE JEANS, Good Golly Miss Molly (HMV POP1278)M 3.50
GENTLE PEOPLE, It’s Too Late(Col. DB8276, Demo) M 8.50 NEW INSPIRATION, You Made A Fool Of Me SWINGING BLUE JEANS, It’s Too Late Now (HMV POP1170) EX 8.50
BILLY FURY, Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt (Parl. R5658) EX 25.00 (Major Minor MM539) M 20.00 TAD & SMALL FRY, Checkered Continental Pants
GALE GARNETT, We’ll Sing In The Sunshine (RCA 1418, Demo) EX 8.50 NICE, America (Immediate IM068) EX 6.50 (Lon. HLU9542) EX 9.50
GENE & EUNICE, Poco-Loco (London HL8956) VG 12.50 PATSY ANN NOBLE, Don’t You Ever Change Your Mind DEMETRISS TAPP, Lipstick Paint A Smile On Me (Coral Q72470)EX 30.00
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Voodoo Woman (U. Artists UP1091) EX 7.50 (Col. DB4956) M 12.50 JOE TEX, You Better Get It (Atlantic AT4021) M 12.50
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Broomstick Cowboy (U.A. UP1120, Demo)EX 8.50 PATSY ANN NOBLE, Heartbreak Avenue (Col. DB7008) EX 9.50 THYRDS, Hide ‘n’ Seek (Decca F12010) EX 45.00
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, No Fun At The Fair (U. Artists UP1166) M 15.00 NORMAN & THE INVADERS, Stacy (U. Artists UP1031, Demo) EX 9.50 JOHNNY TILLOTSON, Without You (London HLA9412) EX 9.50
LESLEY GORE, It’s My Party (Mercury AMT1205) EX 3.50 TOM NORTHCOTT, 1941 (W. Bros WB7160) M 9.50 TIMES, Looking Thru’ The Eyes etc. (Parl. R5855) EX 4.50
CHARLIE GRACIE, Wanderin’ Eyes (Tri-London HLU8467) EX 9.50 MAYF’ NUTTER, Head Shrinker (Vocalion VL9282, Demo) M 15.00 ART & DOTTY TODD, Chanson D’amour (Tri-London HLB8620) EX 9.50
IAIN GREGORY, Cant You Hear The Beat etc. (Pye 7N15397) EX 9.50 OLYMPICS, Western Movies (HMV POP528) EX 7.50 TOGETHER, Memories Of Melinda (Aurora 4278) EX 35.00
WILBERT HARRISON, Kansas City (Top Rank JAR132) EX 9.50 TONY ORLANDO, Chills (Col. DB4871) EX 12.50 TORNADOS, Early Bird (Col. DB7589) EX 17.50
TUBBY HAYES, Sally (Fontana TF397, FS Sticker) M 12.50 ORLONS, Don’t Hang Up (Cameo Parkway C231) EX 17.50 M. TOROK, When Mexico Gave Up Rhumba (Tri-Bruns 05589) EX 17.50
BOBBY HELMS, Jacqueline (Tri-Bruns. 45-05748) EX 4.50 OUTER LIMITS, When The Work Is Thru’ (Elephant LUR100) M 40.00 GRANT TRACY, Great Matchmaker (Ember EMB8148) M 15.00
CLARENCE FROGMAN HENRY, Little Green Frog OUTLAWS, Ku-Pow (HMV POP990) M 15.00 TRENDSETTERS, At The Hotel De France (Oak RGJ999) EX 25.00
(Lon. HLU9936) M 25.00 PASSIONS, Just To Be With You (Top Rank JAR224) M 50.00 TRIPLETS, When Lovers Say Goodbye (President PT243) EX 4.50
HIGH KEYES, Que Sera Sera (London HLK9788) EX 17.50 PATIENCE & PRUDENCE, Gonna Get Along Etc. TRITONS, Satisfaction (Barclay BAR24, Demo) M 30.00
HINES HINES & DAD, Something Extra (Gold Tri-Lon. HLU8369) EX 22.00 SAMMY TURNER, Always (London HLX8963) M 8.50
(CBS 3667, Demo + Insert) M 4.50 TRACY PENDARVIS, Is It Me (London HLS9213) EX 17.50 SAMMY TURNER, Paradise (London HLX9062) EX 5.50
RON HOLDEN, My Babe (London HLU9116) M 40.00 RAY PETERSON, Corrine Corrina (London HLX9246) EX 9.50 RITCHIE VALENS, That’s My Little Suzie (Tri-London HL8886) EX 30.00
CHIC HOLIDAY, God Country And My Baby (Coral Q72443) M 12.50 RAY PETERSON, I Could Have Loved You So Well MALCOLM VAUGHAN, St. Teresa Of Roses (Gold HMV POP250) M 4.50
MICHAEL HOLIDAY, Hot Diggity (Gold Col. SCM5273) M 8.50 (London HLX9489) M 9.50 VENTURES, Blue Moon (London HLG9465) EX 9.50
BUDDY HOLLY, Early In The Morning (Tri-Coral Q72333) EX 17.50 RAY PETERSON, Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA 1195) EX 8.50 VENTURES, Slaughter On Tenth Avenue (Liberty LIB300) EX 6.50

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MIKE VICKERS, Eleventy One (Col. DB7825) M 15.00 JOHN DANKWORTH, Zodiac Variations (Fontana TL5229, GF) M/M 20.00 R.Stones, Led Zep, J Hendrix, P. Floyd, Santana, Robbie Williams, P. Floyd,
MIKE VICKERS, Air On A G-String (Col. DB8171, Demo) M 12.50 SPENCER DAVIS GROUP, Their First LP (Fontana TL5242) EX/M 65.00 Oasis, Queen.
TONY VICTOR, Dear One (Decca F11459) EX 15.00 DAYBREAKERS, Daybreakers (John Hassell 814/5) EX/M 45.00
VIPERS, Cumberland Gap (Gold Parl. R4289) EX 9.50 DAYBREAKERS, Vol. 2 (John Hassell HASLP1126) EX/M 45.00 PHONE CARDS from 3.00
VISCOUNTS, Mama’s Doin’ The Twist (Pye 7N15414) EX 4.50 AYNSLEY DUNBAR RETALIATION, Same Abba Beatles + Macca, Bowie, B Gee,s B.Jov, B*Witched, Boyzone,
VOGUES, You’re The One (London HLU9996) M 17.50 (Liberty LBS83154E) EX/EX 95.00 Back.S.Boys, Clapton, Che,r C Dion, Corrs.Dylan, Duran, D Mode, Elvis,
VOLCANOS, Polaris (Philips BF1246) EX 12.50 BILLY ECKSTINE, My Way (Tamla TML11046) EX/M 35.00 Elton, Estafan, Genesis ,Kylie, Maiden, INXS ,Mic’ & Jan’ Jackson, Kiss,
GARY WALKER, You Don’t Love Me (CBS 202036) EX 12.50 MATTHEW ELLIS, Matthew Ellis (Regal Zono. SRZA8501, GF)EX/M 30.00 Madonna, G Michael, P Floyd, D Parton, Prince, Police , Queen + Freddie,
ROBIN WARD, Wonderful Summer (London HLD9821) EX 17.50 EMERSON LAKE PALMER, Same D Ross, Rob Williams, R Stones, Cliff Shadows, Rod, Spice Girls, Quo, T,
OSSIE WARLOCK & WIZZARDS, Juke Box Fury (HMV POP635) EX 8.50 (Pink Rim Island ILPS9132) EX/EX 27.50 Turner, U2, Shania Twain, Will Smith… Dr Who, Friends, Titanic.
WARM SOUNDS, Birds And Bees (Deram DM120) EX 6.50 EMERSON LAKE PALMER, Tarkus
PAT WAYNE & BEACHCOMBERS, Roll Over Beethoven
(Col. DB7182) EX 12.50
(Island ILPS9155, Sides 1&2 Label)
FAIRPORT CONVENTION, Unhalfbricking
M/M 45.00
SET SALE LIST
(Orig. Island ILPS9092) EX/M 145.00 Write to: PAUL BAILEY, 9 HAYWARDS COURT, ARMORY LANE,
WEB, Baby Won’t You Leave Me Alone (Deram DM217) M 20.00
WEB, Monday To Friday (Deram DM253) EX 17.50 FAIRPORT CONVENTION, Liege & Lief (Pink Island ILPS9115)EX/M 95.00 OLD PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE PO1 2PH. Tel: 02392 839457.
WEDGWOODS, September In The Rain (Pye 7N15642, Demo) EX 12.50 FIRST IMPRESSION / GOOD EARTH, Swinging London Mobile: 07805 685198. Email: [email protected]
MARY WELLS, You Lost The Sweetest Boy (Stateside SS242) VG 7.50 (Saga FID2117) M/M 20.00 Postage: LPs £5.00. 45s £3.50.
MARY WELLS, My Guy (Stateside SS288) M 9.50 FLEETWOOD MAC, Fleetwood Mac 45 DOORS, Tell All The People
DODIE WEST, Goin’ Out Of My Head (Decca F12046) EX 9.50 (Mono Blue Horizon 7-63200) EX/EX 150.00 (Elektra Rare Demo EKSN 45065) EX 65.00
WHITE PLAINS, I’ve Got You On My Mind (Deram DM291) EX 4.50 WAYNE FONTANA, Wayne One (Fontana TL5351) EX/M 17.50 45 THE NERVE, Magic Spectacles (Page One POF 055) VG 20.00
WHITE PLAINS, Julie Do Ya Love Me (Deram DM315) EX 4.50 FOTHERINGAY, Fotheringay (Pink Island ILPS9125, GF) EX/EX 85.00 45 ZOMBIES, She’s Coming Home (Decca F12125) EX 25.00
WHITE PLAINS, Carolina’s Comin’ Home (Deram DM325) M 4.50 CAROL GRIMES, Warm Blood (Caroline CA2001) M/M 20.00 45 TYRANNOSAURUS REX, King Of The Rumbling Spires
WHITE PLAINS, Step Into A Dream (Deram DM371) M 5.50 HOLLIES, Sing Dylan (Parl. PMC7078) EX/M 27.50 (Regal Zon. RZ 3022) VG 25.00
WHO, I Can’t Explain (Bruns. 05926) EX 25.00 INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, Hangmans etc. 45 BO STREET RUNNERS, Tell Me What You’re Gonna Do
WHO, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere (Bruns. 05935) EX 25.00 (Elektra EUKS7258, W/I) M/EX 60.00 (Col. DB 7488) EX 90.00
WHO, A Legal Matter (Brunswick 05956) VG 15.00 INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, I Looked Up (Elektra 2469002) EX/M 40.00 45 ICE, Anniversary Of Love (Decca F12680 Demo) EX 90.00
WHO, Substitute / Instant Party (Reaction 591001) EX 22.00 JACKSON HEIGHTS, King Progress 45 ZOMBIES, Is This A Dream (Decca F12296) EX 30.00
WHO, Substitute / Waltz For A Pig (Reaction 591001) EX 17.50 (Scroll Charisma CAS1018) M/EX 55.00 45 BILLY FURY, Loving You (Parl. R5605) EX 20.00
WHO, I’m A Boy (Reaction 591004) EX 8.50 ELMORE JAMES / JOHN BRIM, Tough (Blue Horizon 7-63204)EX/M 55.00 45 LOVE, Softly To Me (Elektra EKSN 45016) EX 60.00
WHO, Happy Jack (Reaction 591010) EX 8.50 TOMMY JAMES & SHONDELLS, Mony Mony 45 SHE TRINITY, He Fought The Law (Col. DB 7874, Demo) EX 60.00
E. WILLIAM, Lazy Life (Polydor 56181) EX 37.50 (Roulette RRLP1) EX/EX 20.00 45 ACTION, Shadows And Reflections (Parl. R5610) EX 150.00
DANNY WILLIAMS, Forget Her Forget Her (HMV POP1372) M 15.00 JOHNNY JOHNSON & BANDWAGON, Same 45 POOR SOULS, When My Baby Cries (Major Minor MM569) 35.00
WOOLIES, Who Do You Love (RCA 1602) EX 35.00 (Direction 8-63500) EX/M 25.00 45 PINK FLOYD, Point Me At The Sky (Col. DB 8511) EX 150.00
YARDBIRDS, Shapes Of Things (Col. DB7848) EX 5.50 LONNIE JOHNSON, See See Rider (Storyville 616010) EX/M 30.00 45 WOLVES, Journey Into Dreams (Pye 7N 15676) EX 25.00
ZEPHYRS, What’s All That About (Decca F11647, Demo Sticker)EX 30.00 ROBERT JOHNSON, King Of Delta Blues Singers 45 FAIRIES, Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright
ZIPPER, Streak Up & Down (Young Blood YB1070, Demo) M 15.00 (CBS 62456) EX/M 45.00 (Decca Demo F11943) VG 45.00
NEW FORESTERS & LIZARDS, PAUL KENT, Paul Kent (B&C CAS1044) EX/M 40.00 45 IN CROWD, Where Is The World (Deram Demo DM 272) EX 35.00
(Sheffield Students Rag Record) M 25.00 B.B. KING, B.B. King Story Chapter One 45 TUESDAY’S CHILDREN, High On A Hill
EPs (Blue Horizon 7-63216) M/M 40.00 (Col. DB 8018, Demo) EX 30.00
BEACH BOYS, Four By Beach Boys (Capitol EAP-1 5267) EX/EX 17.50 BEN E. KING, Sings For Soulful Lovers (LondonHAK8026) EX/M 40.00 45 MEASLES, Casting My Spell (Col. DB 7531) EX 45.00
BEACH BOYS, God Only Knows (Capitol EAP-6 2458) EX/EX 20.00 KING CRIMSON, In The Wake Of Poseidon 45 KIPPINGTON LODGE, Shy Boy (Parl. R5645) EX 50.00
BEATLES, Beatles Hits (Parl. GEP8880) EX/EX 12.50 (Orig. Pink Is. ILPS9127) EX/EX 125.00 45 BO STREET RUNNERS, Tell Me (Decca F11986) EX 45.00
BEATLES, Twist And Shout (Parl. GEP8882) EX/EX 12.50 J.B. LENOIR, Crusade (Polydor 2482014) M/M 35.00 45 ALAN BOWN SET, Headline News (Pye 7N 17148) EX 45.00
BEATLES, A Hard Day’s Night (Parl. GEP8920) EX/EX 30.00 A.L. LLOYD, Great Australian Legend 45 FIRE, Round The Gumtree (Decca F 12856) EX 50.00
BEATLES, Magical Mystery Tour (Orig. Parl. MMT-1, GF) EX/EX 30.00 (Topic 12TS 203 + Insert) M/M 45.00 45 DOORS, Light My Fire (Elektra EKSN 45014, nol) VG 30.00
RAY BUSH & AVON CITY SKIFFLE (Tempo EXA40), EX/M 20.00 LULU, Something To Shout About (Decca LK4719) EX/EX 35.00 45 UNDERGRADS, Looks Like It’s Gonna Be My Year
CITY RAMBLERS SKIFFLE GROUP, Good Morning Blues MAN, Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics (U. Artists UAG29631, GF) EX/EX 8.50 (Decca Demo F12492) EX 30.00
(Tempo EXA71) EX/EX 15.00 JOHN MAYALL, Looking Back 45 UFO, Come Away Melinda (Beacon BEA 165) EX 30.00
C.M.J. TRIO, C.M.J. Trio (Impression EPIM501) EX/VG 20.00 (Rare Unboxed Decca SKL5010, GF) VG/EX 20.00 45 UFO, Boogie For George (Beacon BEA 172) EX 30.00
MIKE COTTON, The Wild And The Willing (Col. SEG8190) EX/M 30.00 PAUL McCARTNEY, McCartney (Apple PCS7102, GF) M/M 40.00 EP ANIMALS, Animals Are Back (Col. SEG 8452) EX/EX 45.00
MIKE COTTON, Cotton Pickin’ (Col. SAG8144) EX/EX 27.50 RALPH McTELL, Revisited (Trans. TRA227) EX/M 15.00 EP UNIT 4 + 2, Self Titled (Decca DFE 8619) EX/EX 45.00
CRICKETS, The Crickets (Coral FEP2053, noc) EX/EX 9.50 NICE, Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate IMSP020) M/M 27.50 EP MERSEYBEATS, I Think Of You (Font. TE 17423) EX/EX 25.00
CRICKETS, It’s So Easy (Tri-Coral FEP2014, sol) EX/EX 15.00 PENTANGLE, Basket Of Light (Trans. TRA205, GF) EX/M 50.00 EP SUPREMES, Supreme’s Hits (Tamla Mot. TME 2008) VG/EX 20.00
DAKOTAS, Meet The Dakotas (Parl. GEP8888) EX/EX 30.00 PENTANGLE, Cruel Sister (Trans. TRA228, GF) M/M 35.00 EP ELVIS PRESLEY, Love Me Tender (HMV 7EG 8199) EX/EX 40.00
JOHNNY DANKWORTH, Workshop No. 2 (Parl. GEP8697) M/M 9.50 PENTANGLE, Sweet Child (Trans. TRA178, 1st Pressing 2LP) M/M 65.00 EP JOHNNY KIDD, Self Titled (HMV 7EG 8834) EX/EX 55.00
DIAMONDS, Presenting (Mercury MEP9515) EX/EX 12.50 LITTLA ESTHER PHILIPS, Reflections Of C&W Greats EP JOHNNY KIDD, Shakin All Over (HMV 7EG 8628) EX/EX 60.00
FATS DOMINO, Blues For Love, Vol. 2 (Ember CW103) EX/M 40.00 EP PRETTY THINGS, Self Titled (Font. TE 17434) EX/EX 50.00
(Gold London REU1062) EX/EX 20.00 PINK FLOYD, Obscured By Clouds (Har. SHSP4020, EP MERSEYBEATS, On Stage (Font. TE 17422) EX/EX 35.00
DUANE EDDY, The Lonely One (London REW1216) EX/EX 12.50 Rounded Cover) EX/M 55.00 EP DIAMONDS, Presenting The Diamonds
ELVIS PRESLEY, A Date With Elvis (RCA RD27128) EX/EX 15.00 (Mercury MEP 9515) EX/EX 20.00
JACKIE EDWARDS, Sacred Songs (Island IEP701) EX/EX 30.00
ALAN PRICE, A Price On His Head (Decca LK4907) M/M 17.50 EP SOUNDS INCORPORATED, Self Titled (Col. SEG 8360) EX/EX 30.00
FOUR TOPS, Four Top Hits (Tamla TME2018) M/M 30.00
P.J. PROBY, Three Week Hero (Liberty LBS83219E) EX/M 35.00 EP PRETTY THINGS, Rainin’ In The Heart (Font. TE17442) EX/EX 50.00
BOBBY GOLDSBORO, The Talented (U. Artists UEP1016) EX/EX 30.00
REVELLERS, Again (Spin LP1703) M/M 25.00 EP HOLLIES, In The Hollies Style (Parl. GEP 8934) EX/EX 45.00
JET HARRIS, Jet Harris (Decca DFE8502) EX/EX 17.50
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff In Japan (Col. SX6244, Demo Sticker) EX/M 20.00 EP HOLLIES, The Hollies (Parl. GEP 8909) EX/EX 45.00
LES HOBEAUX, Soho Skiffle (HMV 7EG8297) EX/EX 25.00
ROLLING STONES, Rolling Stones EP BUDDY Holly, No. 2 (Brunswick OE 9457) EX/EX 30.00
BUDDY HOLLY, Rave On (Tri-Coral FEP2005) EX/M 30.00
(Unboxed Decca LK4605) EX/EX 95.00 EP EDDIE COCHRAN, Stockin’s ’N’ Shoes
BUDDY HOLLY, Listen To Me (Coral FEP2002) EX/M 30.00
ROLLING STONES, Between The Buttons (Liberty LEP 2180) EX/EX 30.00
BUDDY HOLLY, Buddy Holly (Coral FEP2032) EX/EX 30.00
(Boxed Decca SKL4852) EX/EX 50.00 EP GENE VINCENT, If You Want My Loving
BUDDY HOLLY, Buddy Holly No. 2 (Bruns. OE9457) EX/EX 45.00
ROLLING STONES, Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (Capitol EAPI 20173) EX/EX 35.00
JAY & THE AMERICANS, Livin’ With (U. Artists UEP1017) EX/M 30.00
(Decca SKL5065, Laminated) EX/EX 55.00 EP GENE VINCENT, Race With The Devil (Capitol EAPI 20354)EX/EX 35.00
PROFESSOR JOHNSON, And His Gospel Singers
ANNIE ROSS, Loguerhythms (Trans. TRA107) M/M 50.00 EP DAKOTAS, Meet The Dakotas (Parl. GEP 8888) EX/EX 30.00
(Bruns. OE9352) M/M 12.50
SHERIDAN / RICK PRICE, This Is To Certify That EP PRETTY THINGS, On Film (Font. TE 17472) EX/EX 95.00
MEMPHIS SLIM, Goes To Kansas City (Collector JEN5) M/EX 25.00
(Gemini GME1002) M/EX 30.00 EP CHRIS FARLOWE, In The Midnight Hour
MERSEYBEATS, I Think Of You (Fontana TE17423) EX/EX 20.00
SIMON & GARFUNKEL, Parsley, Sage etc. (Immed. IMEP 001) EX/EX 40.00
ELVIS PRESLEY, Good Rockin’ Tonight (HMV 7EG8256) VG/EX 45.00
(Orig. Stereo CBS62860) M/M 27.50 EP SWINGING BLUE JEANS, Shake (HMV 7EG 8850) EX/EX 35.00
ELVIS PRESLEY, Tickle Me (RCA RCX7173) VG/EX 9.50
PETE STANLEY & ROGER KNOWLES, LP BEATLES, With The Beatles (Parl. Y/B PMC 1206,
ELVIS PRESLEY, Love Me Tender (HMV 7EG8199) EX/M 60.00
Picking & Singing (Xtra 1146) M/M 20.00 nice copy) EX/EX 50.00
ELVIS PRESLEY, Elvis Presley (RCA RCX104) M/EX 27.50
SONNY TERRY, BROWNIE McGHEE & CHRIS BARBER LP CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, Debut
PRETTY THINGS, Pretty Things (Fontana TE17434) EX/EX 45.00
(10” Pye NJT515) EX/M 30.00 (Liberty Blue LBS 83253) EX/EX 50.00
PRETTY THINGS, Raining In My Heart (Fontana TE17442) EX/M 60.00
TROGGS, From Nowhere (Fontana TL5355) VG/EX 35.00 LP WHO, Sellout (Track 612012) EX/EX 75.00
ROLLING STONES, Rolling Stones (Unboxed Decca DFE8560)EX/EX 15.00
TYMES, People (Direction 8-63558) EX/M 17.50 LP GRAHAM BOND ORGANIZATION, Sound Of ‘65
ROLLING STONES, Five By Five (Unboxed Decca DFE8590) EX/M 17.50
URIAH HEEP, Look At Yourself (Bronze ILPS9169, (Col. Blue/Blk 33SX 1711) VG/EX 180.00
ROLLING STONES, Got Live If You Want It
Mirror Cvr + Inner Sleeve) EX/M 150.00 LP EIRE APPARENT, Sunrise (Buddah 203 021) EX/EX 70.00
(Unboxed Decca DFE862) EX/M 17.50
JACKIE WILSON, At The Copa (Stereo Coral SVL9209) EX/M 60.00 LP PRETTY THINGS, Self Titled (Font. TL5329) EX/EX 70.00
SEARCHERS, Bumble Bee (Pye NEP24218) EX/EX 12.50
WISHBONE ASH, Pilgrimage LP HONEYCOMBS, Self Titled (Pye NPL 18097) EX/EX 50.00
SHADOWS, Rhythm & Greens (Col. SEG8362) EX/EX 8.50
(Orig. Dogbone MCA MDKS8004, GF) EX/M 95.00 LP WHO, A Quick One (Reaction 593 002) VG/EX 50.00
SOHO SKIFFLE GROUP, Soho Skiffle Group (Melodisc EPM7-72)M/EX 65.00
VARIOUS, Six-Five Special (10” Decca LF1299) EX/EX 35.00 LP ANIMALS, Animal Tracks (Col. Blue/Black 33SX 1708) EX/EX 40.00
SOUNDS INCORPORATED, Top Gear (Col. SEG8360) EX/EX 17.50
VARIOUS, Skiffle (Inc. L. Donovan, A. Korner) LP CHICKEN SHACK, 40 Blue Fingers (Blue Horiz. 7-63203)EX/EX 60.00
TORNADOS, Sounds Of The Tornados (Decca DFE8510) EX/M 9.50
(Ace Clubs ACL1250) EX/M 20.00 LP TYRANNOSAURUS REX, A Beard Of Stars
2.19 SKIFFLE GROUP, 2.19 Skiffle Group (Esquire EP126) EX/EX 30.00
MORE SINGING AT THE COUNT HOUSE (Regal Zon. SLRZ 1013) VG/VG 30.00
2.19 SKIFFLE GROUP, 2.19 Skiffle Group (Esquire EP196) M/M 50.00
(Private Press. Autographed) EX/M 95.00 LP UFO, UFO (Beacon BEAS 12) VG/EX 70.00
VENTURES, Ventures (London REG1279) EX/EX 12.50
GENE VINCENT, Race With The Devil (Capitol EAP1 20354) EX/EX 55.00 LP PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC, Get It On (B&C CAS 1003) EX/EX 60.00
WARM GOLD, A Taste Of Cornwall (Hurler HURLS008) EX/EX 9.50 SET SALE LP MARVELETTES, The Marvelettes
(Tamla Motown TML 11052) EX/EX 60.00
MUDDY WATERS, With Little Walter (Vogue EPV1046) VG/EX 75.00 Write to: CLIVE AYER, 12 WILTSHIRE RD,
CLARENCE WILLIAMS, Negro Music, Vol. 5 ORPINGTON, KENT. BR6 0EY. LP SIMON DUPREE & THE BIG SOUND,
(Font. TFE17053, GF Cover) M/EX 8.50 Mob: 07796 685881. Email: [email protected] Without Reservations (Parl. Y/B PMC 7029, wobc) VG/VG 35.00
JIMMY WITHERSPOON, At Monterey (Vogue EPV1270) M/M 25.00 AVENGED SEVENFOLD, 2007 UK Promo Poster EX 19.00 LP URIAH HEEP, Demons & Wizards (Bronze ILPS 9193) EX/EX 30.00
JIMMY YANCY, Yancy’s Piano (Vogue EPV1203) EX/EX 12.50 BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, Paul and Jacqui LP KING CRIMSON, In The Wake Of Poseidon
LONDON HITS, (Inc. Nick Todd, Bonnie Guitar) (Lon. RED1130)EX/EX 15.00 signed Manchester Calling C M 29.00 (Island ‘I’ Logo ILPS 9127) EX/EX 70.00
LONDON HIT PARADE, (Tab Hunter, Fontane Sisters BLACK SABBATH, Ozzy 1986 Tour Itinerary EX 110.00 LP TRAFFIC, Mr Fantasy (Island Black Eye Logo ILPS 9061)EX/EX 80.00
(Lon. RED1075) M/M 25.00 BJORK, Swan Dress poster NM 19.00 LP BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND, In My Own Dream
LONDON HIT PARADE, No. 3 (Inc. Gale Storm, Jim Lowe HAWKWIND, Alien UK tour poster 1995 M 20.00 (Elektra EKL 4025) EX/EX 35.00
(Lon. RED1097) EX/EX 15.00 ELTON JOHN D LIPA, Elton signed promo card and CD M 125.00 LP KING CRIMSON, In The Court Of King Crimson
MGM EVERGREENS, (Inc. Sam Taylor, Tommy Edwards LED ZEP, O2 10.12.2007 Very Rare softback programme M 99.00 (Island ‘I’ Logo ILPS 9127) VG/VG 50.00
(MGM EP749) M/M 20.00 MARILLION, Assassing UK poster 1983 EX 99.00 LP HOLLIES, Butterfly (Parl. Y/B PCS 7039) EX/EX 45.00
RHYTHM & BLUES CONCERT, (J.Witherspoon, H. Humes) MONA LISA TWINS, Orange Fully Signed CD UNPLAYED M 45.00 LP WARM DUST, Peace In Our Time (Trend 6480 001) EX/EX 50.00
(Vogue EPV1198) M/M 75.00 MOTORHEAD, Overkill 3d poster 1979 EX 550.00 LP HAWKWIND, Hall Of The Mountain Grill (UA UAG 29672)M/M 20.00
LPs QUEEN, 1979 Crazy Tour programme EX 65.00
ASSOCIATION, Greatest Hits (Warner Bros W1767) EX/EX
BEATLES, A Hard Day’s Night (2nd Issue, Parl. PMC1230) EX/EX
12.50
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SAHB,Unused Untorn full Ticket Manchester 1976
SEX PISTOLS, Repro Seditionary T Shirts
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49.00
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BEATLES, With The Beatles (2nd Issue, Parl. PMC 1206) EX/EX 65.00 SAM RYDER, Signed Space Man card M 27.00 FREE LIST
BEATLES, Help (1st Issue Parl. PMC 1255) EX/EX 35.00 SAM RYDER, Signed Space Man CD M 27.00 Write to: IAN BIRD, 12 CARISBROOKE COURT, NEW MILTON,
BEATLES, Beatles For Sale (1st Issue Parl. PMC1240, GF) EX/EX 60.00 SIGUR ROS, Takk Embossed promo poster EX 19.00 HAMPSHIRE, BH25 5US Tel: 07708 826187 or 01425 618969.
BLODWYN PIG, Getting To This (Orig. Chrysalis ILPS9122, GF)EX/M 45.00 B SPRINGSTEEN 5 album promo poster up to The River 1980 EX 85.00 Postage: LPs £4.50, 7” £1.95. Money back guarantee.
BLOWZABELLA, In Colour (Plant Life PLB051, GF) M/M 22.00 TRAVIS, Everything At Once fully Signed CD SEALED M 65.00 Please contact me for further info on pressings or conditions.
BLOWZABELLA, Vanilla (Special Delivery SPD1028) M/M 30.00 YES, 2018 50th Anniversary fully signed I use + and - for accurate gradings, so buy with confidence.
BOOKER T. & THE MGS, Soul Dressing (Atlantic 587047) EX/M 20.00 programme 6 + R Dean EX 195.00 THIS IS A VERY SMALL SELECTION FROM 1000s AVAILABLE –
M. CARTHY & D. SWARBRICK, But Two Came YES, No Opportunity Necessary AUS 7” owned by PLEASE ASK FOR FREE LIST.
(Fontana STL5477) EX/M 22.00 C Squire UNPLAYED M 180.00 LPs
SHIRLEY COLLINS, A Favourite Garland (Deram SML1117) EX/M 35.00 OTIS REDDING, Soul Ballads (1965 Atlantic) EX/VG+ 16.00
COLOSSEUM, Those Who Are About To Die STAMP SETS from 12.00 PENTANGLE, Basket Of Light (1969 Transatlantic, Slight ‘Wave’)EX/EX20.00
(Orig. Fontana STL5510) EX/EX 95.00 AC/DC,Beatles, Bon Jovi, D. Purple, Doors, L. Zep, Madonna, B. Marley, PETULA CLARK, Down Town (1964 Canadian Warner Bros) EX/EX- 20.00

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P FLOYD, Dark Side Of The Moon (1973 Harvest, 1 Poster)EX+/EX+ 15.00 LP GRACE JONES, Night Clubbing (Island/France ‘81) EX 12.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Swing Low Sweet Chariot (RSO 2090 158)EX 6.00
RAY CHARLES, Modern Sounds In… LP DAVID BOWIE, The World Of David Bowie (Decca ‘72) EX 12.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
(1962 HMV, Rare Stereo) EX+/EX+ 22.00 LP MIKE BERRY, The Sunshine Of Your Smile (Polydor ‘80) VG 15.00 (RSO 2090 166) EX 6.00
R STONES, Aftermath (1960’S ‘Boxed’ Decca) EX+/EX+ 55.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Promises (RSO 21) EX 6.00
LP THE DOORS, The Doors - Vol. 2 (Elektra ‘74) VG 12.00
R STONES, Aftermath (1966 Decca, Unboxed, Mono) EX/EX 90.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Bad Love (Duck W 2644, PS) EX/M 6.00
LP BLACK SABBATH, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (WWA ‘73, GF)VG 15.00
R STONES, Beggars Banquet (1968 Decca, Stereo) EX+/EX 80.00 45 ERIC CLAPTON, Cocaine/Lay Down Sally
LP GOONS, The Best Of The Goon Shows, No. 2
R STONES, Big Hits (High Tide…) (Later Decca Issue) M/EX+ 15.00 (US Polydor 871 834-7) EX 6.00
(Parlophone ‘60) EX 15.00
R STONES, Big Hits (High Tide…) LP ERIC CLAPTON, The Blues World (Decca SPA 387) EX/M 10.00
LP DEEP PURPLE, Machine Head (Purple ‘72, GF) EX 25.00
(1966 Decca + Booklet, Mono) EX+/EX- 60.00 2LP ERIC CLAPTON, History Of (Polydor 2478-027/028) EX/EX 12.00
EP NINA & FREDERIK, Same (Columbia) EX 8.00
R STONES, Get Yer Ya Yas Out (1970 Decca 1st Issue) EX-/VG+ 35.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, 461 Ocean Boulevard (RSO 2479-118, GF)EX/M10.00
EP RAY CONNIFF, ‘S Wonderful (CBS ‘62) EX 7.00
R STONES, Out Of Our Heads (Sealed US Abkco, ri) M/M 15.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, There’s One In Every Crowd
EP PAT BOONE, Pat Boone Hits (DOT ‘58) EX 8.00
ROY HARPER, Flashes From The Archives… (RSO 2479 132 + in.sl) EX/EX 10.00
EP VARIOUS, Jazz Studio Two, Vol. 3 (Brunswick, Tri) EX 10.00
(1974 Harvest, 2LP) EX/EX+/EX+ 30.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, Slowhand (RSO 2479 201) EX/EX 10.00
EP B MICKLEBURGH, Jazz by Jazz Bands – Vol. 10
RUTLES, S/T (1978 Warner Bros + Booklet) EX+/EX+ 18.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, Backless (RSO RSD 5001, GF) EX/M 10.00
(Esquire ‘55) EX 10.00
SHADOWS, S/T (1961 Columbia, Mono) EX/EX- 16.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON/JOHN MAYALL, Steppin’ Out
EP FLANAGAN/ALLEN, Together Again (Columbia) EX 10.00
SHADOWS, Sound Of The Shadows (1965 Columbia) EX+/EX 18.00 (Decca TAB 21) EX/EX 10.00
CD PATSY CLINE, Dreaming (Prism Leisure) EX 10.00
SHADOWS, Dance With The Shadows LP ERIC CLAPTON, Another Ticket (RSO RSD 5008
CD COUNT BASIE, The Complete C B (Roulette Jazz) EX 10.00
(1964 Columbia, Stereo) EX/VG+ 15.00 + inner sleeve) EX/M 10.00
CASS WILLIE NELSON, Somewhere Over The Mountain (DBX) EX 5.00
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON, Down & Out Blues LP ERIC CLAPTON, Time Pieces (RSO RSD 5010) EX/M 10.00
CASS J L LEWIS, Duets (Sun ‘78) EX 10.00
(1966 Pye/ Marble Arch) EX+/EX- 20.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, Behind The Sun (Duck 925 166-1, GF)EX/M 10.00
STATUS QUO, Dog Of Two Head (1971 Pye, 1st Issue) EX/EX 20.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, August (Duck WX 71, GF) EX/EX 10.00
SUPREMES, Meet The Supremes (1964 Stateside) EX/EX 30.00 PUNK / OI! / NEW WAVE LP ERIC CLAPTON, EC Was Here (RSO SPELP 2 1) EX/M 10.00
SUPREMES & FOUR TOPS, Magnificent 7 Write to: ELISTA, 157 COMMON RISE, HITCHIN, SG4 0HS, UK. LP ERIC CLAPTON, The Cream Of (Polydor ECTV 1, GF) EX/M 10.00
(1970 US Motown) EX+/EX+ 15.00 www.elistarec.com Tel: (07802) 956315. LP ERIC CLAPTON, Journeyman (Duck 926 O74-1
THIRD EAR BAND, S/T (1971 EMI Harvest) EX+/EX+ 30.00 Shipping at customer’s risk, insurance extra: + inner sleeve) EX/EX 10.00
TINY TIM, God Bless Tiny Tim (1968 Reprise) EX/EX+ 18.00 7” First 4 LP First 6 2LP ERIC CLAPTON, Early Clapton Collection
TOM RUSH, Circle Game (1968 Elektra, 1st Issue, Mono) EX/EX- 20.00 INLAND £3.50 £5.00 (Castle CCSLP 162) EX/EX 12.00
TONY HANCOCK, Blood Donor / Radio Ham (1961 Pye) EX-/EX 20.00 To pay by card please use the shopping cart on the website, shipping LP ERIC CLAPTON, No Reason To Cry
TONY HANCOCK, This Is Hancock (1960 Pye) EX/EX 25.00 may be slightly different. (Austria RSO 2470 + inn & in. sl) EX/M 10.00
TYMES, People (1969 Direction) EX/EX 20.00 LP CARNAGE, May The Farce Be With You! (1985 album) VG/EX 55.00 LP ERIC CLAPTON, Big Boss Man
U2, Rattle & Hum (1988 Island + Inners, 2LP) EX/EX/EX 15.00 LP CHAINCULT, Shallow Grave (2019 album + pic/lyric inner)NEW 22.00 (Holland Masters MA 12784) EX/M 10.00
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, Pawn Hearts LP CHANNEL 3, Live! Hannover, Feb 1994 45 ALAN CLARE, Screwball (Parlophone R 4938, Promo) M 8.00
(‘71 Charisma, 1st Issue + Ins) EX/EX- 70.00 (Reforce Rec., Clear v.) M/M 10.00 LP KENNY CLARE/RONNIE STEPHENSON,
V/A, Recording The Blues (1970 CBS, 1920s/30s) EX+/EX 20.00 2LP CRASS, Stations Of The Crass (Thick paper foc) VG/EX 22.00 Drum Spectacular (Studio 2 TWO 146) EX/EX 10.00
WHO, Story Of The Who (1976 Polydor, 2LP + Book)EX+/EX+/EX+ 20.00 LP CRO MAGS, In The Beginning (2020 album GF + L/S) NEW 24.00 45 LYNNE CLAREY, Tupelo Tornado (US Babazeba JM-001) M 6.00
WINGS, Band On The Run (1973 Apple, 1st Issue, LP CROCODILE GOD, XIII (2019 album orange v. + L/S) NEW 12.00 45 CLARK SISTERS, Opus 1 (London Tri HLD 8791, wol) VG 6.00
Poster & Inner) EX+/EX 16.00 12” A COUNTRY FIT FOR HEROES LP CLARK SISTERS, Sing, Sing, Sing (London HAD 2128) EX/EX 10.00
WINGS, Venus & Mars (1975 Capitol, (US reissue of 1st No Future Comp) NEW 19.00 LP CLARK SISTERS, Sing Again (London HAD 2177) EX/EX 10.00
+ Sticker & 2 Posters) EX/EX- 20.00 LP CHANNEL 3, Put Em Up (CH3, 2017 album + ins., 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Glad All Over (Columbia DB 7154) EX 6.00
WISHBONE ASH, Argus (1971 MCA, Hexagon Label) EX/EX- 70.00 German iss.) M/M 13.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Bits And Pieces (Columbia DB 7210) M 6.00
YES, Yes Album (1971 Atlantic, 1st Press) EX/EX+ 20.00 2LP CHARTA 77, Krop Gick Skrek 83-85 + ins. 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Can’t You See That She’s Mine
7” SINGLES - ALL WITH CORRECT COVERS (Birds Nest Rec. 1991) VG/VG 10.00 (Columbia DB 7291) VG 6.00
CRYIN’ SHAMES, Please Stay (1966 Decca, 1st Issue EX 20.00 LP CHELSEA, Evacuate (SFLP 7) EX/EX 12.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Thinking Of You Baby
DICK JORDAN, Put Your Head On My Shoulder LP CHELSEA, No Escape (US IRS Rec SP 70010, (Columbia DB 7335) VG 6.00
(1959 Embassy) EX- 14.00 1980 singles comp.) EX/EX 14.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Any Way You Want It
DIXIE CUPS, What Kind Of Fool (1966 HMV Factory Sample) M 35.00 LP THE CHOICE, Sunday Soccer (Helen Of Oi! label / (Columbia DB 7377) EX 7.00
EDGE , I’m Cold / Macho Man (1978 Albion DJ Promo, US Band mult. v) M/M 10.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Reelin’ And Rockin’ (Columbia DB 7503)M 7.00
Switched B-Sides) EX+ 16.00 LP CHOPPER, Last Call For The Dancers (1998 album + L/S)M/M 10.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Come Home (Columbia DB 7580, sol) EX 6.00
HERMANS HERMITS, I’m Into Something Good LP THE CHOSEN, Something For The Weekend 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Catch Us If You Can (Columbia DB 7625)
(1964 Columbia, Signed Barry Whitwam) EX 14.00 (1996 album, Detour Rec.) EX/M 15.00 (Japan/PS/EX/EX/10.00) VG 6.00
HUNTERS, Teen Scene (1960 Fontana) EX- 15.00 MLP CITY KIDS, The Name Of The Game 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Over And Over (Columbia DB 7744) EX 7.00
IVORY JOE HUNTER, Because I Love You (1961 Capitol, (live 6-trk, 1983 no’d sleeve) VG/EX 18.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Nineteen Days (Columbia DB 8028) EX 7.00
Factory Sample) EX+ 25.00 LP COMBAT 84 / LAST RESORT, Death Or Glory 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, You Got What It Takes
JAN & DEAN, Heart & Soul (1961 London) EX+ 18.00 (LINK LP 017) VG/EX 25.00 (Columbia DB 8152) VG 6.00
JOHN BROMLEY, And The Feelin Goes (1968 Polydor) EX+ 18.00 12” CORTEGE, Pleurer les Anges (French 6-track + insert) M/M 10.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Everybody Knows (Columbia DB 8286)EX 6.00
LULU, Here Comes The Night (1964 Decca, Demo) EX+ 30.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, No One Can Break A Heart Like You
MLP COSA NOSTRA, Under Ytan (+ L/S, Rosa Hohnung label,
NIRVANA, Pentecost Hotel (1967 Island) EX- 15.00 (Columbia DB 8342) VG 6.00
1993 9-trk) VG/M 12.00
PINK FLOYD, See Emily Play (1967 Columbia) EX- 45.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Live In The Sky (Columbia DB 8505) VG 6.00
7” COURT MARTIAL, No Solution (RIOT 11, 1982 3-trk) VG/EX 20.00
RALPH KING & LINCOLNS, Hey Little Girl (1962 Planetone) EX+ 35.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Put A Little Love In Your Heart
LP CRAVATS, Dustbin Of Sound (2017 album + L/S +CD) NEW 10.00
REPARATA & DELRONS, I Can Hear The Rain (Columbia DB 8624) VG 6.00
LP CUSTODY, II (2020 album, Orange v.
(1968 Irish RCA Victor) EX+ 28.00 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Everybody Get Together
+ pic/lyric insert + d/load) NEW 15.00
RONETTES, Be My Baby (1963 US Philles) EX+ 25.00 (Columbia DB 8660) VG 6.00
SANFORD CLARK, Son Of A Gun (1959 London) EX 18.00
EPs SAM HOBDEN RECS. (Est. 1984) 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Here Comes Summer
(Columbia DB 8689) EX 7.00
BEATLES, Magical Mystery Tour (1967 Parlophone) EX/VG+/EX- 25.00 Write to: SAM HOBDEN, CHURCH FARM, COWBEECH, HAILSHAM, 45 DAVE CLARK & FRIENDS, Draggin’ The Line
JET HARRIS, S/T (1962 Decca, PS) EX+/EX 18.00 EAST SUSSEX, BN27 4JH. Tel / Fax: Herstmonceux (01323) (Columbia DB 8834) VG 6.00
JOHN BARRY SEVEN, Theme Successes 832595. No quibble money back guarantee. Covers graded first 45 DAVE CLARK FIVE, Dave Clark Five All Time Greats
(1963 Columbia, PS) EX+/EX- 16.00 where applicable. All UK originals unless stated. P&P extra (at (Columbia DB 8963) VG 6.00
MERSEYBEATS, On Stage (1964 Fontana, PS) EX/VG+ 28.00 cost) 45s/EPs: £2.00. LPs: £4.00. Three or more records P&P 45 DAVE CLARK & FRIENDS, Sweet City Woman (EMI 2013) EX 6.00
NINA HAGEN BAND, TV Glotzer (1980 US Columbia 10” EP) EX/M 15.00 free of charge UK and Europe. EP DAVE CLARK FIVE, The Dave Clark Five
ROLLING STONES, S/T (1964 Decca, PS) EX+/VG 25.00 LP CHURCH CHOIR, ORGAN & CONGREGATION, (Columbia SEG 8289) EX/VG 7.00
SHADOWS, Spotlight On Shadows Christmas Eve (RCA RD 27083, wobc) EX/EX 10.00 LP DAVE CLARK FIVE, Session With (Columbia 33SX 1598)EX/VG 10.00
(1961 ‘Indian’ Columbia, PS) EX+/EX 13.00 LP WINSTON CHURCHILL, The Voice Of (Decca LXT 6200)EX/EX 10.00 LP DAVE CLARK FIVE, The Best Of (Starline SRS 5037) EX/EX 10.00
LP SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, State Funeral (Decca WCF 101)EX/M10.00 LP DAVE CLARK FIVE, Play Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll
SET SALE LP SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, State Funeral
(HMV ALP 2081, GF) EX/M 10.00
(Starline SRS 5090)
LP DAVE CLARK FIVE, 25 Thumping Great Hits
EX/EX 10.00
Write to: R BLAKE, SOUTHACRE, TUNSTEAD ROAD, HOVETON,
NORWICH, NR12 8QN. TEL: 01603 783218. POSTAGE 45s, CDs & LP WINSTON CHURCHILL, I Can Hear It Now (Philips SPL 100)EX/M 10.00 (Polydor POL TV 7 + in. sl) EX/EX 10.00
Cassettes £2.00. LPs and 12” £4.00. 45 CHYLDS, Psychedelic Soul (US W. Bros. 7095, wol) EX 8.00 LP DAVE CLARK FIVE, Having A Wild Weekend
Email: [email protected] EP CINDERELLA, Walt Disney (Disneyland WDE 1005) EX/EX 7.00 (US Epic LN 24162, wobc) EX/VG 10.00
45 KIM FOLEY, The Trig (Island ‘77, PS) EX 20.00 LP CINDERELLA, Walt Disney (US Disney 3908, GF) 45 DEE CLARK, Just Keep It Up (London Tri HL 8915) VG 7.00
45 SUPREMES, Where Did Our Love Go (Stateside ‘64) EX 12.00 (Pic Disc 3107/EX/M/10.00) EX/M 10.00 45 DEE CLARK, Hey Little Girl (Top Rank JAR 196, wol) VG 7.00
45 EDEN KANE, I Don’t Know Why (Decca ‘62) EX 6.00 45 GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI, Non Ho L’ eta’ Per Amarti 45 DEE CLARK, Raindrops (Top Rank JAR 570) EX 12.00
45 TEMPERANCE, Seven Pasadena (Parlophone ‘61) VG 5.00 (Decca F 21882) VG 6.00 45 DEE CLARK, Don’t Walk Away From Me (Columbia DB 4768)EX 35.00
45 FOUR PREPS, Calcutta (Capitol ‘61) EX 6.00 EP GIGLIOLA CINQUETTI, Canta En Espanol 45 DEE CLARK, Ride A Wild Horse (Chelsea 2005 037) EX 6.00
45 MARSHA HUNT, Keep The Customer Satisfied (Track ‘70, noc) EX (Spain Hispa Vox HG 77~30, mol) EX/EX 8.00 LP DEE CLARK, How About That (Top Rank BUY/O44) EX/EX 30.00
10.00 LP CIRCLES OF SOUND (VA), Norrie, Kurt etc. LP DEE CLARK, You’re Looking Good (Germany Line LLP 5189)EX/M10.00
45 SCRITTI POLITTI, Hypnotize (Virgin ‘84, PS) EX 5.00 (Polydor 2483 017) EX/M 10.00 2LP DICK CLARK 20 YEARS R ‘n’ R (VA)(Carl, Cash, JLL etc.
45 EYDIE GORME, You Need Hands (HMV ‘57) EX 6.00 45 CIRRUS, Rollin On (Jet S JET 123, PS, Brown Vinyl) EX/EX 6.00 (US Buddah 5133) EX/EX 12.00
45 CHRIS BARBER, The Mountains Of Mourne (Columbia ‘60)EX 5.00 45 CITY BOY, 5.7.0.5. (Vertigo 6059 207) EX 6.00 LP GUY CLARK, Guy Clark (US W. Bros 3241, Promo,
45 DENNY SEYTON, The Way You Look Tonight (Mercury ‘64) EX 25.00 45 CITY BOY, What A Night (Vertigo 6059 211) EX 6.00 Autographed + in. sl) EX/M 10.00
45 GOONS, A Russian Love Song (Decca ‘57, Tri) EX 10.00 LP CITY BOY, City Boy (Vertigo 6360 126 + in. sl, pub shts, 2 8”x10” 45 LOUIS CLARK, Hooked On Classics (RCA 109) EX 6.00
45 ERASURE, Sometimes (Mute ‘88, PS) EX 7.00 photos) EX/M 10.00 LP LOUIS CLARK, Hooked On Classics 2
45 STEVIE WONDER, Love Light In Flight (Motown ‘84, PS) EX 6.00 LP CITY BOY, Dinner At The Ritz (Vertigo 6360 136 (K-Tel ONE 1173 + inner sl) EX/EX 10.00
45 JIMMY CLIFF, Wild World (Island ‘70) EX 5.00 + inner sleeve) EX/M 10.00 45 NOBBY CLARK (Bay City) Steady Love
45 ARROWS, Touch Too Much (RAK ‘74) VG 4.00 LP CITY BOY, Book Early (Vertigo 9102 028) EX/M 10.00 (Germany Mercury 6005008, PS) EX/M 8.00
45 HOT CHOCOLATE, I Gave My Heart To You (RAK ‘84) EX 4.00 45 CITY LIGHTS, Don’t It Feel Good (Miami MIA 406) M 6.00 45 ROY CLARK, In The Mood (Capitol CL 15288, mol)
45 FUREYS/D ARTHUR, When You Were Sweet 16 (Ritz) EX 8.00 EP CITY RAMBLERS SKIFFLE GROUP, Same (VG/Promo/6.00) VG 6.00
45 DESMOND DEKKER, Israelites (Pyramid ‘68) EX 7.00 (Tempo Tri EXA 59) VG/VG 10.00 45 ROY CLARK, Come Live With Me (US Dot DOA-17449, wol)EX 6.00
45 BILL HALEY/COMETS, Candy Kisses (Warner Bros ‘60) EX 10.00 EP CITY RAMBLERS SKIFFLE GROUP, Good Morning Blues LP ROY CLARK, I Never Picked Cotton (Dot SLPD 540) EX/M 10.00
45 PINK, Cocan’t You See (Parlophone ‘84) EX 5.00 (Tempo Tri EXA 71, tape edges) EX/EX 20.00 LP ROY CLARK, I’ll Paint You A Song (Ember NR 5079) EX/M 10.00
45 QUEEN, Crazy Little Thing Called Love (EMI ‘79) EX 5.00 45 CIVVY STREET, S.W.A.L.K. (DJM DJS 10861) M 6.00 LP ROY CLARK, 20 Golden Pieces (Bulldog BDL 2038L) EX/M 10.00
45 THE WHO, Squeeze Box (Polydor ‘75) EX 10.00 45 C.J. & CO, Devil’s Gun (Atlantic K 10956) M 6.00 LP ROY CLARK Super Picker (Canada Dot 9310-26008) EX/EX 10.00
45 JACKSON 5, I Want You Back (Tamla Motown ‘69) EX 5.00 45 CLANCY, Back On Love (W.Bros. K 16491) EX 6.00 LP ROY CLARK, The Entertainer (US Dot DOS 1-2001) EX/EX 10.00
45 WAITRESSES, Christmas Wrapping (Zl ‘81, PS) EX 15.00 LP CLANCY BROTHERS/T. MAKEM, Hearty & Hellish LP ROY CLARK, Family & Friends (US ABC DOSD 2005) EX/M 10.00
45 JANIS IAN, Fly Too High (CBS ‘79 Promo) VG 10.00 (CBS BPG 62020) EX/EX 10.00 45 SANFORD CLARK, Son-Of-A-Gun (London HLW 9026) EX 15.00
45 AC/DC, Jailbreak (Reissue Atlantic ‘80) EX 15.00 LP CLANCY BROTHERS/T. MAKEM, Boys Won’t Leave Girls 45 SANFORD CLARK, Go On Home (London HLW 9095, wol) VG 10.00
45 HEATWAVE, Boogie Night (GTO ‘78) EX 8.00 (CBS BPG 62164) EX/EX 10.00 45 ALLAN CLARKE, The Only Ones (Aura AUS 121) M 6.00
45 BRUCE FORSYTH, I’m In Charge (Parlophone ‘58) EX 6.00 45 CLANNAD, Theme From Harry’s Game (RCA 292, PS) EX/M 6.00 LP ALLAN CLARKE, My Real Name Is ‘Arold
45 CLIFF RICHARD, Living In Harmony (Columbia ‘72) EX 6.00 45 CLANNAD, In A Lifetime (RCA PB 40535, PS) EX/M 6.00 (RCA SF 8283 + insert) EX/VG 10.00
45 BLUE ZOO, Chameleon Waves (Magnet ‘81) VG 5.00 LP CLANNAD, Magical Ring (RCA RCALP 6072) EX/EX 10.00 LP ALLAN CLARKE, I Wasn’t Born Yesterday (Aura AUL 704)EX/M 12.00
45 STATUS QUO, Don’t Drive My Car (Vertigo ‘80, noc) EX 6.00 LP CLANNAD, Legend (RCA PL 70188 + inner sleeve) EX/M 10.00 LP ALLAN CLARKE, Legendary Heroes
45 CHOSEN FEW, Thank You (Polydor ‘77) EX 10.00 LP CLANNAD, Macalla (RCA PL 70894 + insert, Promo) EX/M 10.00 (US Elektra 6E-267 + inner slv) EX/EX 10.00
45 DESMOND DEKKER, It Miek (Pyramid ‘69, noc) EX 8.00 LP CLANNAD, Pastpresent (RCA PL 74074 + inner sleeve)EX/EX 10.00 LP KENNY CLARKE/FRANCY BOLAND, All Smiles
45 10cc, Good Morning Judge (Mercury ‘77) VG 4.00 45 JIMMY CLANTON, Another Sleepless Night (Polydor 583 727) EX/M 15.00
45 BLACKBYRDS, Don’t Know What To Say (Fantasy ‘76) EX 8.00 (Top Rank JAR 382) (US/PS/EX/EX/8.00) EX 10.00 LP KENNY CLARKE/FRANCY BOLAND, More Smiles
45 C W McCALL, Convoy (MGM ‘75) EX 4.00 45 JIMMY CLANTON, Venus In Blue Jeans (Stateside SS 120)VG 6.00 (BASF 15 29746) EX/M 12.00
45 SUZI QUATRO, Tear Me Apart (RAK ‘76) EX 5.00 45 JIMMY CLANTON, Darkest Street In Town LP KENNY CLARKE/FRANCY BOLAND, All Blues
45 PERRY COMO, Just Out Of Reach (RCA ‘75) EX 5.00 (Stateside SS 159) VG 6.00 (BASF BMP 29747-0) EX/EX 12.00
45 FOX, Only You Can (GTO ‘74) EX 6.00 45 JIMMY CLANTON, I Just Wanna Make Love 45 STANLEY CLARKE, Hot Fun (Nemperor K 10889) M 6.00
45 UB 40, Please Don’t Make Me Cry (DEP ‘83) EX 5.00 (US Ace 622, PS) EX/EX 8.00 45 STANLEY CLARKE, More Hot Fun
LP ASWAD, Not Satisfied (CBS ‘82) EX 10.00 45 JIMMY CLANTON, Lucky In Love With You (US Ace 634, PS)EX/M 8.00 (Epic S EPC 6353, Promo) EX 6.00
LP VARIOUS, Motown Memories (Tamla Motown ‘70) EX 15.00 LP JIMMY CLANTON, Just A Dream (Ace CH 93, toc) EX/M 10.00 LP STANLEY CLARKE, Rocks, Pebbles
LP AL MARTINO, The Best Of Al Martino (Capitol) EX 15.00 45 CLAPPERS, Limbo Rock (Sonet SON 2086) M 6.00 (Epic S EPC 84342 + 12” single) EX/EX 10.00

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LP STANLEY CLARKE, Journey To Love (Epic S EPC 32093)EX/EX 10.00 45 ROSEMARY CLOONEY, For You (MGM 1062) VG 6.00 LP COCONUT ALLSORTS (VA), Who, Jimi, Move etc.
LP STANLEY CLARKE, School Days (Epic S EPC 32094) EX/EX 10.00 45 ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Come On-A My House (Track 2409 207) EX/EX 10.00
45 VINCE CLARKE & PAUL QUINN, One Day (Mute 7 TAG 1, PS)EX/M 6.00 (US Columbia 4-39467) VG 6.00 45 COCONUTS, Did You Have To Love Me Like You Did
45 CLASH, Rock The Casbah (Columbia 656814 7, PS, RI)EX/EX 6.00 EP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Rosemary Clooney (EMI America EA 156, PS) EX/M 6.00
45 CLASSIC LOVE SONGS (VA), 10CC, M. Berry etc. (Philips BBE 12004) EX/EX 7.00 45 COCTEAU TWINS, Pearly-Dewdrops Drops (4AD AD 405, PS)EX/EX6.00
(Littlewood Stores 001, PS) EX/M 6.00 EP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Sings Songs For The Young At Heart 45 RON CODEN, Gotta Travel On (US King 6309, sol) EX 6.00
45 CLASSICS, Life Is But A Dream Sweetheart (Philips BBE 12051) EX/EX 7.00 45 DAVID ALLAN COE, Longhaired Redneck (CBS 4194) M 6.00
(Mercury AMT 1152, Promo) M 70.00 EP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Swing Around Rosie, Vol. 1 LP DAVID ALLAN COE, D.A.C. (CBS 85880 + insert) EX/EX 10.00
45 CLASSICS IV, Soul Train (US Imperial 66293) EX 6.00 (Coral FEP 2045) EX/M 7.00 LP DAVID ALLAN COE, Castles In The Sand
45 CLASSICS IV, Stormy (US Imperial 66328) VG 6.00 10” LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, The Voice Of Your Choice (CBS 25346, Promo) EX/M 10.00
45 CLASSICODISCO ORCHESTRA, For Elise (Philips BBR 8047) EX/EX 12.00 LP DAVID ALLAN COE, Texas Moon (Charly CRL 5006) EX/EX 10.00
(Transatlantic BIG 552) EX 6.00 10” LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, London Palladium LP DAVID ALLAN COE, Darlin’, Darlin’
45 CLASSIX NOUVEAUX, Tokyo (Liberty BP 397, PS) EX/M 6.00 (Philips BBR 8073, Autographed) VG/EX 15.00 (Canada Columbia FC 39617) EX/EX 10.00
45 CLASSIX NOUVEAUX, Inside Outside (Liberty BP 403, PS)EX/M 6.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Clap Hands Here Comes Rosie 45 JAMIE COE, The Fool (London HLX 9713) VG 10.00
45 CLASSIX NOUVEAUX, Is It A Dream (Liberty BP 409, PS)EX/EX 6.00 (RCA RD 27189) (EX/EX/St./10.00) EX/EX 10.00 EP COFFEE BAR SKIFFLERS, Skiffle Session
45 CLASSIX NOUVEAUX, For Ever And A Day LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Solves The Swingin’ Riddle (Embassy WEP 1008) EX/EX 7.00
(Liberty BP 419, PS) EX/EX 6.00 (RCA RD 27218) EX/EX 10.00 LP COFFEE SET, If We Could Choose (Mercury LPS 16500)EX/M 12.00
LP CLASSIX NOUVEAUX, La Verite (Liberty LBG 30346) EX/M 10.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Love (Reprise R 6088) EX/M 10.00 45 SHAYE COGAN, Billy Be Sure (US Roulette R-4027) EX 6.00
45 CLASSMATES, In Morocco (Decca F 11806) EX 6.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Greatest Hits 45 IZHAR COHEN, A-Ba-Ni-Bi (Polydor 2001 781) EX 6.00
45 JOHN E CLAY, The Ballad Of Dick Turpin (CBS Embassy EMB 31389) EX/EX 10.00 LP LEONARD COHEN, Songs Of Leonard Cohen
(Pye 7N.15862, Promo) EX 6.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY & DICK HAYMES, Same (CBS SBPG 63241) EX/EX 15.00
45 JUDY CLAY & WILLIAM BELL, Private Number (US Exact EX 232) EX/M 10.00 LP LEONARD COHEN, Live Songs (CBS S 65224) EX/EX 12.00
(Stax 101, wol) EX 6.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, With Love LP LEONARD COHEN, Greatest Hits (CBS 32644 + insert)EX/EX 10.00
45 RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, Ballade Pour Adeline (US Concord Jazz CJ-144) EX/M 10.00 LP LEONARD COHEN, Death Of A Ladies Man
(Safari SAFE 5) M 6.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Sings Cole Porter (CBS 86042, Promo, GF) EX/M 15.00
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, Richard Clayderman (US Concord Jazz CJ-185) EX/M 10.00 LP LEONARD COHEN, Songs From A Room
(Decca SKL 5329) EX/M 10.00 LP ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Sings Jimmy Van Heusen (Portugal CBS 63587) (US/EX/EX/10.00) EX/EX 10.00
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, The Music Of (Decca SKL 5333)EX/M 10.00 (US Concord Jazz CJ-308) EX/M 10.00 LP LINDA COHEN, Leda (US Poppy PYS-5702, Promo) EX/M 10.00
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, The Music Of Love 45 CLOSE, Everytime I Try To Say Goodbye (MCA 1351, PS)EX/M 6.00 LP MICHAEL COHEN, What Did You Expect
(Decca SKL 5340) EX/EX 10.00 LP CLOUD, The Resting Place (Dove 62 + insert) EX/EX 15.00 (US Folkways 8582 + insert) EX/EX 10.00
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, The Classic Touch LP CLOUD 9, Disco Strings (Studio 2 TWO 370) EX/M 10.00 45 COINS, Love Power (Toast TT 513, tol) VG 6.00
(Decca SKL 5343 + in slv) EX/EX 10.00 45 CLOUT, Substitute (Carrere EMI 2788) M 6.00 LP COLD COMFORT, In The Can (Jet JETLP 211
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, Songs Of Love (Decca SKL 5345)EX/M 10.00 45 CLOVER, Chicken Funk (Vertigo 6059 157, PS) EX/EX 6.00 + inner sleeve) EX/M 10.00
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, From The Heart LP CLOVER, Unavailable (Vertigo 6360 145) EX/M 10.00 45 COLDCUT, People Hold On (Big Life CCUT 5, PS) EX/EX 6.00
(Pickwick CN 2093) EX/M 10.00 LP CLOVER, Love On The Wire (Vertigo 6360 155) EX/M 10.00 45 COLDCUT & LISA STANSFIELD, People Hold On
LP RICHARD CLAYDERMAN, A Romantic Christmas LP CLUB FOLK, 2 (VA), Carthy, Cattouse, Mike Hart etc. (Big Life CCUT 5, PS) EX/M 6.00
(US Columbia PC 40190) EX/M 10.00 (Peg PS 3) EX/M 10.00 45 COLDCUT & YAZZ, Doctorin’ The House
LP CLAYHANGER, TV Series (Bradleys BRADS 8001, GF) EX/M 10.00 45 CLUB HOUSE, Do It Again (IsIand IS 132, wol) M 6.00 (Ahead Of Our Times CCUT 27) EX 6.00
EP BUCK CLAYTON & MAE BARNES, Buck & Mae, Vol. 1 45 CLUB NOUVEAU, Lean On Me (W. Bros W8430, PS) EX/M 6.00 45 COLDCUT, Dreamer (Arista 74321 156647, PS) EX/M 6.00
(Top Rank JKR 8004) EX/M 7.00 45 CLUB QUINTET, Bluer Than Blue (Top Rank JAR 362) EX 6.00 LP COLDCUT, What’s That Noise (CCUT LP 1) EX/M 10.00
10” LP BUCK CLAYTON & GENE SEDRIC GROUP, Same 45 CLYDE POP ORCHESTRA, From Scotland With Love Please send your wants lists. 78s, 45s, EPs, LPs. 1950-2000.
(Vogue LDE 102) EX/M 10.00 (Power Exchange PX 219) M 6.00 Or if you prefer, [email protected]. Stock in excess of
LP BUCK CLAYTON, Jam Session (Philips BBL 7032) EX/EX 10.00 LP CLYDE POP ORCHESTRA, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 125,000.
LP BUCK CLAYTON & WOODY HERMAN, How Hi The Fi (Power Exchange PXL 005) EX/M 10.00
(Philips BBL 7040) EX/M
LP BUCK CLAYTON, All The Cats Join In (Philips BBL 7129)EX/M
10.00
10.00
45 CLYDE VALLEY STOMPERS, Peter And The Wolf
(Parlophone R 4928, wol) EX 6.00
SAM HOBDEN RECS. (Est. 1984)
Write to: SAM HOBDEN, CHURCH FARM, COWBEECH, HAILSHAM,
2LP BUCK CLAYTON, Jam Session (Vogue VJD 520) EX/M 12.00 45 CLYDE VALLEY STOMPERS, Istanbul
LP BUCK CLAYTON/HUMPH LYTTLETON, Le Vrai, Vol. 2
EAST SUSSEX, BN27 4JH. Tel / Fax: Herstmonceux (01323)
(Parlophone R 5043, Promo) VG 6.00
(77 LEU 12/18) EX/EX 10.00 832595. No quibble money back guarantee. Covers graded first
45 COACHMEN, Those Brown Eyes (US Orbit R 544) EX 6.00
45 KENNY CLAYTON, Teneriffe (HMV POP 907, Promo) EX 6.00 where applicable. All UK originals unless stated. P&P extra (at
LP COALMINER’S DAUGHTER, Film (MCA MCF 3068) EX/EX 10.00
LP KENNY CLAYTON TRIO, Nice ‘n’ Easy (Windmill WMD 242)EX/EX 10.00 cost) 45s/EPs: £2.00. LPs: £4.00. Three or more records P&P
45 COASTERS, Yakety Yak! (London Tri HLE 8665) EX 10.00
45 LEE CLAYTON, Silver Stallion (Capitol CL 15982, Promo) M 6.00 45 COASTERS, Charlie Brown (London Tri HLE 8819) VG 6.00
free of charge UK and Europe.
45 OBIE CLAYTON, Bad Loser (DJM DJS 378) M 6.00 PETULA CLARK. PETULA CLARK. PETULA CLARK. PETULA CLARK
45 COASTERS, Poison Ivy (London HLE 8938) EX 10.00
45 OBIE CLAYTON, Say You’re Sorry (DJM DJS 611) M 6.00 45 Alone (Pye Nixa 7N.15112) EX 8.00
45 COASTERS, Searchin’ (US Atco 6087) VG 6.00
45 PAUL CLAYTON, Wings Of A Dove (London HLU 9285) M 6.00 45 Devotion (Pye Nixa 7N.15152) EX 8.00
LP COASTERS, The Early Years (Atlantic K 30031) EX/EX 10.00
45 DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS, Professor Longhair (RCA 2421)VG 6.00 45 Watch Your Step (Pye Nixa 7N.15191) EX 8.00
LP COASTERS, 20 Great Originals
LP DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS, David Clayton-Thomas 45 Dear Daddy (Pye Nixa 7N.15230) EX 8.00
(Germany Atlantic K 30057) EX/M 10.00
(RCA SF 8381, GF) EX/VG 10.00 45 Cinderella Jones (Pye 7N.15281) EX 8.00
45 COAST TO COAST, (Do) The Hucklebuck
LP DOCTOR CLAYTON & BUDDY, Pearl Harbour Blues 45 Sailor (Pye 7N.15324) EX 6.00
(Polydor POSP 214) M 6.00
(Camden INTS 1176) EX/VG 10.00 45 Something Missing (Pye 7N.15337) M 7.00
45 COAST TO COAST, Let’s Jump The Broomstick
45 CLEAN LIVING, In Heaven There Is No Beer 45 Welcome Home (Pye 7N.15355) EX 7.00
(Polydor POSP 249) EX/EX 6.00
(Vanguard VRS 35162) EX 6.00 45 Romeo (Pye 7N.15361) M 6.00
45 ODIA COATES & PAUL ANKA, Make It Up To Me In Love,
45 CLEBANOFF STRINGS, Green Leaves Summer 45 My Friend The Sea (Pye 7N.15389) M 6.00
Baby (Epic EPC 4830) EX 6.00
(Mercury AMT 1115) (EX/Promo/6.00) EX 6.00 45 I’m Counting On You (Pye 7N.15407) M 7.00
45 KIMBALL COBURN, Spring Rain (US Philips 40191,
45 Whistlin’ For The Moon (Pye 7N.1S437) M 7.00
45 JOHNNY CLEGG & SAVUKA, I Call Your Name Promo, wol) EX 6.00
45 Ya Ya Twist (Pye 7N.15448) M 7.00
(EMI EM 56, PS, Promo) EX/M 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Summertime Blues
45 Jumble Sale (Pye 7N.15456, wol) EX 6.00
45 JACK CLEMENT, Ten Years (London Tri HLS 8691) VG 80.00 (London Tri HLU 8702, wol) VG 10.00
45 The Road (Pye 7N.15478) EX 7.00
LP JOHN CLEMENTS, Souvenir Australia (VA) 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, C’mon Everybody (London Tri HLU 8792)M 25.00
45 Valentino (Pye 7N.11517) EX 6.00
(Australia HMV OELP 9387) EX/M 10.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Somethin’ Else (London HLU 8944) VG 10.00
45 Chariot (Pye 7N.15522) M 6.00
LP CLEOPATRA, Film (Stateside SL 10044) EX/M 10.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Hallelujah, I Love Her So
45 Baby It’s Me (Pye 7N.15573) EX 6.00
45 CLEVELANDS, Big Town (Philips BF 1315) VG 6.00 (London HLW 9022) VG 8.00
45 Thank You (Pye 7N.15606) EX 6.00
45 CLEVELANDS, Little Girl In Calico (Philips BF 1342) VG 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Three Steps To Heaven
45 Downtown (Pye 7N.15722) M 6.00
45 CLEVES SCHOOL CHOIR, Children Of The World Unite (London HLG 9115) M 10.00
45 I Know A Place (Pye 7N.15772, wol) EX 6.00
(Bell 1271) EX 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Weekend (London HLG 9362) M 20.00
45 My Love (Pye 7N.17038) M 6.00
45 PAUL CLICK, Slew Foot (US Brokun 4023 26) EX 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Pretty Girl (London HLG 9464, sol) VG 15.00
45 I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love (Pye 7N.17133) M 6.00
45 JIMMY CLIFF, Wild World (Island Pink WIP 6087) VG 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, My Way (Liberty LIB 10088) EX 15.00
45 Who Am I (Pye 7N.17187) EX 6.00
45 JIMMY CLIFF, Synthetic World (Island WIP 6097) VG 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Summertime Blues (Liberty LBF 15071)EX 10.00
45 This I s My Song (Pye 7N.17258) M 6.00
45 JIMMY CLIFF, Reggae Night (CBS 3849, sol) M 6.00 45 EDDIE COCHRAN, Skinny Jim (Rock Star RSR-SP 3002) EX 6.00
45 The Cat In The Window (The Bird In The Sky)
LP JIMMY CLIFF, Jimmy CIiff (Trojan TRLS 16, RI) EX/M 10.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, Memorial Album (Liberty LBY 1127) EX/EX 10.00
(Pye 7N.17377) EX 7.00
45 JIMMY CLIFF, Jimmy Cliff (Island ILPS 9414) EX/M 10.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, Cherished Memories
45 The Other Man’s Grass (Is Always Greener) (Pye 7N.17416)EX 6.00
45 BUZZ CLIFFORD, Baby Sittin’ Boogie (Fontana H 297) (Sunset SLS 50289, wobc) EX/EX 10.00
45 Kiss Me Goodbye (Pye 7N.17466) EX 6.00
(US/PS/EX/EX/8.00) EX 6.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, A Legend In Our Time 45 Happy Heart (Pye 7N.17733, Promo) EX 8.00
45 LINDA CLIFFORD, Bridge Over Troubled Water (RSO 30) M 6.00 (Union Pacific UP 001) EX/EX 10.00 45 No One Better Than You (Pye 7N.17840) EX 7.00
45 MIKE CLIFFORD, Close To Cathy (U. Artists UP 1006) VG 6.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, Singles Album (U. Artists UAK 30244)EX/EX 10.00 45 The Song Of My Life (Pye 7N.45026) EX 6.00
45 MIKE CLIFFORD, What To Do With Laurie LP EDDIE COCHRAN, My Way (France Liberty LBYF 1205)EX/EX 10.00 45 The World Song (Pye 7N.45091) (M/Promo/8.00) M 7.00
(U. Artists UP 1014, Promo) M 6.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, 10th Anniversary Album 45 I Don’t Know How To Love Him (Pye 7N.45112)
45 BILL CLIFTON, Beatle Crazy (Decca F 11793) EX 6.00 (Germany Liberty LBS 833371) EX/EX 10.00 (M/Promo/8.00) EX 6.00
LP BILL CLIFTON, Happy Days (Golden Guinea GSGL 10476)EX/EX 10.00 LP EDDIE COCHRAN, A Legend In Our Time 45 Wedding Song (Polydor 2058-295) EX 6.00
LP BILL CLIFTON, Blue Ridge Mountain Bluegrass (Holland Surprise JTU AL 75) EX/EX 10.00 45 What I Did For Love (Pye 7N.45506) EX 7.00
(Westwood WRS 047) EX/M 10.00 LP BRENDA COCHRANE, In Dreams (Polydor 849 034-1) EX/M 10.00 45 Natural Love (Scotti Brothers SCT 1645) EX 6.00
45 CLIMAX BLUES BAND, Couldn’t Get It Right (BTM SBT 105)EX 6.00 45 PEGGY COCHRANE, The Pajama Game 45 Edelweiss (Scotti Brothers SB 081) M 6.00
45 CLIMAX BLUES BAND, When Talking Is Too Much Trouble (Decca Tri F 10658) M 6.00 45 Downtown ‘88 (PRT PYS 19, PS) EX/EX 6.00
(W. Bros. 17134, PS) EX/M 6.00 45 PEGGY COCHRANE, Plain And Fancy (Decca Tri F 10704) M 6.00 45 Monsieur/Kapitan Kapitan
LP CLIMAX BLUES BAND, Stamp Album 45 PEGGY COCHRANE, Souvenir From “The King And I” (Denmark Vogue STU 42123) EX/EX 10.00
(RCA BTM 1004, wobc) EX/EX 15.00 (Decca Tri F 10802) M 6.00 45 Casanova Baciami/Ich Suche Einen Mann
LP CLIMAX BLUES BAND, Gold Plated (BTM 1009, GF) EX/M 15.00 LP BRUCE COCKBURN, Big Circumstance (Denmark Vogue STU 42134, PS) EX/EX 10.00
LP CLIMAX BLUES BAND, 1969-1972 (FM REVLP 122, GF) EX/VG 10.00 45 My Love/Where Am I Going
(Harvest Heritage SHSM 2003) EX/M 10.00 45 JOE COCKER, With A Little Help From My Friends (Denmark Vogue STU 42234, PS) EX/EX 10.00
45 CLINCH, Sweethearts (Jigsaw JIG 4) M 6.00 (RZ 3013) (VG/Promo/10.00) VG 6.00 45 Monsieur/Kapitan Kapitan (France Vogue Dv 14006, PS)EX/EX 10.00
45 PATSY CLINE, Crazy (Brunswick 05861) VG 7.00 45 JOE COCKER, The Letter 45 Downtown/Don’t Sleep In The Subway
45 PATSY CLINE, She’s Got You (Brunswick 05866) EX 10.00 (Regal Zonophone RZ 3027, sol) VG 6.00 (France Vogue 101298, PS) EX/EX 10.00
45 PATSY CLINE, So Wrong (Brunswick 05874) EX 8.00 45 JOE COCKER, Cry Me A River (Fly BUG 3, PS) EX/EX 6.00 45 Ya Ya Twist/Ich Suche Einen Mann
45 PATSY CLINE, Heartaches (Brunswick 05878) M 7.00 45 JOE COCKER, Pardon Me Sir (Cube BUG 28) M 6.00 (France Vogue PV 15146, PS) EX/EX 10.00
45 PATSY CLINE, Crazy Arms (US Decca 25747) EX 6.00 45 JOE COCKER, I Broke Down (A&M AMS 7257) M 6.00 45 I Don’t Know How To Love Him/Maybe
LP PATSY CLINE, Showcase (Brunswick LAT 8394) EX/M 15.00 45 JOE COCKER, Fun Time (Asylum K 13138) M 6.00 (France Vogue 1818, PS) EX/EX 10.00
LP PATSY CLINE, Patsy Cline (Allegro ALL 822) EX/M 10.00 45 JOE COCKER/JENNIFER WARNES, 45 La Train Du Retour/Il N’est Jamais Trop Tard
LP PATSY CLINE, Never To Be Forgotten Up Where We Belong (Island WIP 6830, PS) EX/EX 6.00 (France Vogue V 4008, PS) EX/EX 10.00
(Allegro SALL 839, St.) EX/M 10.00 45 JOE COCKER, When The Night Comes 45 Romeo/Baby Lover (France Vogue V 12091, PS) EX/EX 10.00
LP PATSY CLINE, The Country Hall Of Fame (Capitol CL 674, PS) EX/M 6.00 45 Kann Ich Dir Vertrauen/Es Steht In Den Sternen
(MCA CDLM 8077) EX/EM 10.00 LP JOE COCKER, Cocker Happy (Fly HIFLY 3) EX/M 15.00 (Germany Vogue 14459, PS) EX/EX 10.00
LP PATSY CLINE, 20 Original Hits LP JOE COCKER, Something To Say (Cube HIFLY 13) EX/EX 10.00 45 Verzeih’ Die Dummen Tranen/Deine Libe lst Wunderbar
(Germany Grand Canyon 35006) EX/EX 10.00 LP JOE COCKER, Sheffield Steel (Island ILPS 9700) EX/M 10.00 (Germany Vogue14489, PS) EX/EX 10.00
45 TAMMY CLINE, Love Is A Puzzle (CBS 2076) M 6.00 LP JOE COCKER, With A Little Help From My Friends 45 I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love/Your Way Of Life
45 TAMMY CLINE, I Wish I’d Wrote That Song (MFP 5275) EX/EX 10.00 (Germany Vogue 14552, PS) EX/EX 10.00
(President PT 519) M 6.00 LP JOE COCKER, Luxury You Can Afford 45 So Wunderbar Verliebt Zu Sein/Wunderschon Wie Heut
45 BUDDY CLINTON, Across The Street From Your House (US Asylum 6E 145 + in. slv) EX/EX 10.00 (Germany Vogue 14561, PS) EX/M 10.00
(Top Rank JAR 287) M 15.00 LP COCKEREL CHORUS, Nice One Cyril 45 Who Am I/Love Is A Long Journey
45 CLIQUE, Sugar On Sunday (US White Whale WW 323) EX 7.00 (Young Blood SSYB 3004) EX/M 10.00 (Germany Vogue DV 14580, PS) EX/EX 10.00
LP CLOCKNORK ORANGE, Film (CBS 73059) EX/EX 10.00 45 COCKNEY REBEL, Judy Teen (EMI 2128) EX 6.00 45 Es Kann Kein Wunder Grosser Sein/Komm,
45 ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Diga Me (Deega May, Tell Me) 45 COCKNEY REBEL, Mr. Soft (EMI 2191) M 6.00 Tanz Mit Mir (Germany Vogue 14596, PS) EX/EX 10.00
(Coral Tri Q 72357) EX 7.00 LP COCKTAIL, Film (VA) (Elektra EKT 54) EX/EX 10.00 45 Alle Leute Wollen In Den Himmel/Schade
45 ROSEMARY CLOONEY, Love Eyes (MGM 1010, wol) EX 6.00 LP COCO, Bad Old Days (Ariola AHAL 8005) EX/EX 10.00 (Germany Vogue DV 14642, PS) EX/EX 10.00

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45 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina/A Carousel MOTORHEAD, Over Kill (Bronze) EX 9.00 LP SISTERS OF MERCY, Lucretia My Refection – Long Train (Merciful
(Germany CBS 5084, PS) EX/EX 10.00 JONI MITCHELL, Clouds (1st Steamboat with Insert, Reprise) EX 18.00 Release MR 457, WEA 1994) M 20.00
45 Don’t Sleep In The Subway/Here Comes The Morning NIRVANA, All Of Us (Pink Island) EX 150.00 LP SISTERS OF MERCY, Dominion / Untitled / Sandstorm / Emma (WEA
(Holland Vogue 2095, PS) EX/EX 10.00 THE TURTLES, Present The Battle Of The Bands (London) EX 14.00 1998 Merciful Release MR 437) M 20.00
45 Kiss Me Goodbye/If You Ever Go Away URIAH HEAP, Demons Wizards (Gatefold, Bronze) EX 9.00 LP SISTERS OF MERCY, The Corrosion / Torch / Colours
(Holland CNR 145 EX/M 10.00 URIAH HEAP, Very ‘eavy (Bronze) EX 12.00 (WEA MR 39T) M 20.00
45 Cara Felicita/Cosa Cerchi Nel Mondo THE ZODIACS, Cosmic Sounds (Orig. Orange, Elektra) EX 25.00 ALSO AVAILABLE
(Italy Vogue J 35129, PS) EX/EX 10.00 DEEP PURPLE, Who Do Think We Are (Gatefold Purple) EX 12.00 LP1 Walk Away / Poison Door
45 Hit Parade Three (Pye Nixa NEP 25080) EX/EX 10.00 CIRCUS, Circus (Prog/Rock, Transatlan. TRA 207) NM 175.00 LP2 No Time To Cry / Blood Money / Bury Me Deep
EP Pet-Ooh-La-La (Pye NEP 24157) EX/EX 8.00 MIXED LPs LP3 Temple Of Love (Ex version) / Heartglow / Gimme Shelter
EP Encore En Francais (Pye NEP 24189) EX/EX 8.00 GERRY & PACEMAKERS, Ferry Across The Mersey (Columbia) EX 15.00 LP4 Body And Soul / Body Electric / Train / Afterhours
EP Sings Hello Dolly In French (Pye NEP 24194, mol, wobc) EX/EX 7.00 KATHE GREEN, Run Length Of Your Wildness (Deram) EX 14.00 LP5 Kiss / Lights / Valentine / Fix / Burn
EP The International Hits (Pye NPL 18123) EX/M 10.00 NOEL HARRISON, Great Electric Experiment Is Over (Reprise) EX 12.00 LP6 Alive / Floorshow / Phantom / 1969 / Sisters Of Mercy
LP My Love (Pye NPL 18141) EX/EX 10.00 THE SHADOWS, Out Of The Shadows (10” French, Columbia) NM 40.00 ALL AT £20.00 each. Mint. SISTERS OF MERCY
LP I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love (Pye NPL 18148) EX/EX 10.00 THE TYMES, So Much In Love (Cam. Park.) EX 40.00 LP SISTERS OF MERCY, Enter The Sisters (Black Swan BSR 2001,
LP Hit Parade (Pye NPL 18159) (NSPL18159/EX/EX/10.00) EX/M 10.00 JACKIE WILSON, Spotlight On Jackie Wilson (Coral) EX 35.00 10trks, Jagger / Richards Gimme Shelter) M 35.00
LP Colour My World (Pye NPL 18171) EX/M 10.00 CHIP FISHER, Chipper At The Sugar Bowl (Starclub) M 9.00 LP THE CLASH, The Clash (CBS 8206, 1977) EX 25.00
LP These Are My Songs (Pye NPL 18197) (NSPL18197/ TAB HUNTER, King Of Young Love (Starclub) M 9.00 LP SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Join Hands (Polydor Deluxe 5024, 1979
EX/EX/10.00) EX/EX 10.00 THE IMPALAS, Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) (Starclub) M 9.00 GF, Lyr Inner) EX 23.00
LP The Other Man’s Grass Is Always Greener (Pye NPL 18211) EDEN KANE, It’s Eden (Starclub) M 9.00 LP SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Candyman / Lullaby / Umbrella /
(NSPL18211/EX/EX/10.00) EX/EX 10.00 DO NOT SEND PAYMENT BEFORE ORDER CONFIRMED Wonderland (S1-1, 1986) EX 15.00
LP Petula (Pye NSPL 18235) EX/EX 10.00 Email: [email protected] / WEBSITE: www: jivedive.net LP DEVO, We Are Devo – Q Are We Not Men? (Virgin V216,
LP Portait Of Petula (Pye NSPL 18292) EX/EX 10.00 TEL: 01202 822044 or 07511 257899. 1978 Blue vinyl w Lyr Inner) EX 29.00
LP Just Pet (Pye NSPL 18325) EX/EX 10.00 WANTS LISTS WELCOME… CALLERS BY APPOINTMENT FRIDAY. LP THE VIBRATORS, V2 (Epic SEPC-84295, 1978 w Lyr inner)EX 20.00
LP The Song Of My Life (Pye NSPL 18363) EX/EX 10.00 LP TOM ROBINSON BAND, Power In The Darkness
LP
LP
Petula ‘71 (Pye NSPL 18370)
Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Pye NSPL 18391)
EX/M
EX/EX
10.00
10.00
GRANITE CITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (EMI EMC 3266 w Inner & Stencil 1978)
LP BOOMTOWN RATS, A Tonic For The Troops (Ensign 1978) EX
EX 20.00
16.00
LP The Petula Clark Album (Pye PET 1) EX/M 10.00
RARE DEMOS & WHITE LABEL PROMOS LP 999, Nine Nine Nine The Biggest Prize Is Sport
LP The Petula Clark Story, Vol. 1 (Golden Hour OH 539) EX/M 10.00 Write to: ANDREW KENNEDY, 79 YORK STREET, PETERHEAD, (Polydor Super 1013, 1980) EX 18.00
LP Now (Polydor 2383 170) EX/M 10.00 ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, AB42 1SP. Tel: 07713 352991.
Est. 1971.
LP
LP
Live In London (Polydor 2383 303)
I’m The Woman You Need (Polydor 2383 324)
EX/EX
EX/M
10.00
10.00 P&P: LPs £4.50. Singles / CDs £2.50. UK 1st class. GRANITE CITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
LP Destiny (CBS 82608) (EX/EX/Promo/10.00) EX/M 10.00 7” DAVID BOWIE, Press Conference, Tivoli Club, Sydney, 27/10/87
(White lbl promo, Blue vinyl w info note) M 15.00
ZOMBIES
Write to: ANDREW KENNEDY, 79 YORK STREET, PETERHEAD,
7” DAVID BOWIE, Press Conference, Tivoli Club, Sydney,
The JIVE DIVE RECORDS 27/10/87 (Ltd. Ed. Of 1000, Yellow vinyl) M 13.00
ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, AB42 1SP. Tel: 07713 352991.
Est. 1971.
Est. 48 years 7” DAVID BOWIE, Rebel Rebel / Queen Bitch (RCA Victor Stereo LPB
Write to: SHIRLEY & KEN, 69 OWLS ROAD, VERWOOD, 05009, 1973-1971, nc, new, unplayed, for US export) EX 12.00 Email: [email protected]
DORSET, BH31 6HH, UK. LP VELVET UNDERGROUND, Waiting For The Man / Pale Blue Eyes / White THE ZOMBIES
Tel: 01202 822044 or 07511 257899. Email: [email protected] Light White Heat / Sweet Jane (Rare Promo, 4 trk 12” LP, LP THE ZOMBIES, Begin Here (Decca 1965, LK 4679,
Web: www.jivedive.net PAYMENT: PayPal/Debit Card/Cheque. Polydor Vupro ‘93, 45rpm) M 42.00 Mono, Laminated Sleeve, Mega Rare LP) EX/EX 1190.00
45 SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, Overground / Voices LP THE ZOMBIES, Odessey And Oracle (CBS 1968,
POST & PACKING EXTRA - ADVISED. DO NOT SEND PAYMENT
(Promo, Wonderland SHED J) 15.00 BPG 63280, Mega Rare LP) EX/EX 990.00
BEFORE ORDER CONFIRMED.
MIXED 45rpms CD SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, The Killing Jar / Something Wicked
LITTLE RICHARD, Jenny Jenny/Miss Ann (Specialty)
LITTLE RICHARD, Shake A Hand/All Night Long (Specialty)
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6.00
(This Way Comes) / Are You Still Dying Darling? / Killing Jar
(Lepidop. mix) (Polydor ‘88) 11.00
GRANITE CITY ROCK “N” ROLL
Write to: ANDREW KENNEDY, 79 YORK STREET, PETERHEAD,
LITTLE RICHARD, Good Golly Miss Molly/Hey Hey (Specialty) M 6.00 12” THE CURE, Love Song / No 2-Late (7” Promo, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, AB42 1SP. Tel: 07713 352991.
LITTLE RICHARD, Keep A Knockin’/Wanna Leave (Specialty) M 6.00 Fiction 30 White label) M 15.00 Est. 1971. P&P: Singles £2.50. LPs £4.50 1st class.
LITTLE RICHARD, She’s Got It/Heeby Jeebies (Specialty) M 6.00 12” DEPECHE MODE, It’s Called A Heart (ext.) / Fly On The Windscreen / EP PALLAS, Reds Under The Bed / Thought Police / C.U.U.K. / Wilmot
LITTLE RICHARD, Oooh! My Soul/True Fine Mama (Specialty) M 6.00 I Called A Heart (slow mix) Fly On... (Death mix) (Ltd. Ed. Twin Set, Dovehouse MP (Sue-i-cide PAL 101 MCPS 1978) EX 35.00
LITTLE RICHARD, Rip It Up/Ready Teddy (Specialty) M 6.00 Mute Records) M 20.00 EP FAMILY, The Weavers Answer / Strange Band / Hung Up Down
LLOYD PRICE, Chee-Koo Baby (Specialty) M 6.00 7” STYLE COUNCIL, A Solid Bond In Your Heart / It Just Comes (PS, Reprise RS27009) EX 15.00
LLOYD PRICE, Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance (Specialty) M 6.00 To Pieces In My Hands / A Solid Bond (Instr.) (GF PS, 1983)M 12.00 LP FAMILY, My Friend The Sun / Glove (Reprise R14298, 1972)EX 10.00
LLOYD PRICE, Frog Legs (Specialty) M 6.00 EP ROBERT PLANT, Little By Little (remix) / Doo Doo Do Do / Easily Lead, 45 KITES, Like The Sun Like The Fire / Simon Dupree
LLOYD PRICE, Oooh-Oooh-Oooh (Specialty) M 6.00 Live / Rockin At Midnight Live (Robert Plant & Honeydrippers & The Big Sound (Parlophone R5646, 1967, PS) EX 10.00
LLOYD PRICE, Forgive Me, Clawdy (Specialty) M 6.00 Live Dallas ‘83, GF PS) M 8.00 45 YES, America / Total Mass Retain (Atlantic 45.2899,
LLOYD PRICE, Little Volcano (Turntable) M 6.00 12” ROGER DALTREY, After The Fire / Love Me Like You Do / nc, 1972) EX 15.00
LLOYD PRICE, Don’t Cry (Monument) VG 4.00 It Don’t Satisfy Me (Pic disc, Ten Records TEN Y6912) M 10.00 45 YES, Roundabout / Long Distance Runaround
LLOYD PRICE, Stagger Lee (HMV) EX 8.00 45 GILLAN, Trouble / Your Sister’s On My List (Virgin VS 377, (Atlantic 45.2245, nc, 1972) EX 15.00
LLOYD PRICE, Where You (On Wedding Day) (HMV) EX 5.00 1982, Pic slv) M 8.00 45 LOU REED, Walk On The Wild Side / Perfect Day
LLOYD PRICE, Personality (HMV) EX 8.00 7” DAVID BOWIE, Press Conference, 007 Club, NY, 18/3/87 (RCA 2303, 1972) EX 15.00
DION & BELMONTS, The Wanderer (HMV, nc) EX 4.00 (Ltd. Ed. Of 100 in clear vinyl w Photo / insert) M 15.00 45 GENESIS, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) /
DION & BELMONTS, Runaround Sue (Top Rank) EX 5.00 Twilight Ale House (Charisma CB 224, 1973) EX 10.00
DION & BELMONTS, When You Wish Upon A Star (Top Rank)
DION & BELMONTS, Ruby Baby (CBS UK)
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EX
8.00
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GRANITE CITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL EP THE FACES, Fly In The Ointment / My Fault / Borstal Boys /
Silicone Groan / Oo-La-La (W.B. Selections from the
Write to: ANDREW KENNEDY, 79 YORK STREET, PETERHEAD,
DION & BELMONTS, This Little Girl (CBS UK) EX 5.00 forthcoming album out soon, NME Flexi 1972) EX 15.00
DION & BELMONTS, Little Diane (Stateside) EX 5.00
ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, AB42 1SP. Tel: 07713 352991.
Est. 1971. LP STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL, Timeless Flight
DION & BELMONTS, Little Girl (Stateside) EX 5.00 (EMI EMA 775, GF, ‘76, S/S) EX 15.00
DION & BELMONTS, A Teenager In Love (London) VG 8.00 Email: [email protected]
LP BEATLES, With The Beatles (Parl. PMC 1206, Mono, LP ED SHEERAN, Loose Change (Atlantic 2010, Sealed) M 30.00
DION & BELMONTS, Can’t Go On (Rosalie) (London, Tri) EX 25.00 LP THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PUBLIC LIBRARY, Ex Libris
DION & BELMONTS, Wonder Where Bound 1963, Belinda LDN credit) EX/EX 85.00
LP BEATLES, Revolver (EMI Parl. PCS 7009, Stereo, 1966)EX/EX 75.00 Vinyl Factory S/S) M 30.00
(US Demo, Columbia) EX 5.00 3LP KT TUNSTALL, Live 2016 O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
DION & BELMONTS, Tag Along (Mohawk US EX 6.00 LP BEE GEES, The Bee Gees 1st (Polydor 582012, Mono,
1967, the only Mono version UK) EX/EX OFFS (LHND11LP Live Here Now, yellow v. w inners, unplayed) M 39.00
DION & BELMONTS, Written On Subway Wall (P/C EP, Arista) EX 5.00 LP JAKE BUGG (Mercury Records 2012 - 3717304, S/S) M 30.00
THE BELMONTS, Walk On By/Let’s Call A Day (Orig. Sabina) EX 6.00 LP JEFF BECK, Truth (EMI Columbia SCX 1967, Fab) EX/EX 110.00
LP LIGHTHOUSE, One Fine Morning (Vertigo 6342010, LP ED SHEERAN, Songs I Wrote With Amy (Atlantic 2010, S/S)M 32.00
THE BELMONTS, Come On Little Angel (Sabina) EX 6.00 LP ED SHEERAN, No. 5 Collaborations Project
THE BELMONTS, Searching For A New Love (Sabina) VG 5.00 large swirl, Stereo GF w Inner) EX/EX+ 240.00
LP STEPHEN STILLS, 2 (Atlantic K40249, Stereo 1971, (Atlantic 2010, S/S) M 33.00
EDDIE BOND, Rockin’ Daddy (US Mercury) VG 70.00 LP STYLE COUNCIL, Our Favourite Shop (Polydor TSCLP 2, S/S)M 30.00
RUSTY DRAPER, Buzz Buzz Buzz (US Mercury) EX 8.00 GF w Inner) EX/EX 20.00
LP WISHBONE ASH (MCA MKPS 2014, Dogbone label, LP GUILLEMOTS, Red (Polydor Ltd. UK 2008, S/S) M 35.00
JIMMY EDWARDS, Love Bug Crawl (US Mercury) EX 50.00 LP JEFF BECK, Truth (EMI Columbia SLX 1967,
GEORGE JONES, Who Shot Sam (US (Mercury) EX 15.00 1970, GF Stereo) EX/EX 50.00
LP RORY GALLAGHER, Debut (Polydor 2383-044, The Best, Fab) EX/EX 110.00
DEL VIKINGS, Jitterbug Mary (US Mercury) EX 18.00 Tel ANDREW KENNEDY: 07713 352991.
THE SHUT DOWNS, Four In The Floor/Beach Buggy 1971 Stereo) EX/EX 45.00
(Good Double Sider, Colpix) EX 35.00 LP RORY GALLAGHER, Deuce (Polydor 2383-076,
IKE & TINA TURNER, Finger Poppin’ (Warner Bros., nc) EX 8.00
EP
Stereo 1971, Super)
BEATLES, Twist And Shout (Parl. GEP 8882, yellow lbl,
EX/EX 50.00 TERRY ROUND: ALPHABET ‘G’
NELSON KEENE, Teenage Troubles (HMV) EX 12.00 Write or telephone: TERRY ROUND, 31 SEVERN WAY, BEWDLEY,
LOVE SCULPTURE, Seagull (Parlophone) EX 14.00 ‘63 Mono, Twists & Shout / Taste Of Honey / Do You WORCS., DY12 2JG. Tel: 01299 211384. P&P: £2.00 first item,
THE MUGWAMPS, Searchin’ (Garage, US W.B.) EX 9.00 Want To Know A Secret / There’s A Place, Pic Slv) EX/EX 25.00 £1.00 each thereafter. Large stock. ‘Wants’ lists welcomed.
MIXED 45rpms LP ALBERT KING, Live With Blues Power (Stax SXATS1002, ALPHABET G
THE REGENTS, Barbara Ann (Gee) EX 9.00 Stereo ‘68) EX/EX 30.00 45 BOBBY G, Big Deal (PS, BBC RESL 151) EX 4.00
TOMMY STEELE, Teenage Party (Orig. London) EX 9.00 LP MARY HOPKIN, Postcard (Apcor-Apple 1969, Mono) EX/EX 20.00 45 GABLE HALL SCHOOL CHOIR, Reggae Christmas
BRITISH WALKERS, Shake (Garage, US Cameo) M 9.00 LP COMMANDER CODY & HIS LOST PLANET AIRMEN (Trojan 7881) EX 4.00
KEN COLYER, Streamline Train (London) EX 8.00 (W.B. BS 2847, 1975 Stereo) EX/EX 15.00 45 B.B. GABOR, Metropolitan Life (Blueprint BLU 2012) EX 4.00
THE EXCITERS, He’s Got The Power (U.A.) EX 9.00 LP JOHN MAYALL’S BLUESBREAKERS, Bare Wires 45 PETER GABRIEL, Solsbury Hill (Charisma CB 301) M 4.00
THE GANTS, Road Runner (Liberty) EX 9.00 (Decca SKL 4945, 1963, GF) EX/EX 40.00 45 PETER GABRIEL, Games Without Frontiers
BOPPER JIVER R&B 45s LP JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, Smash Hits (Charisma CB 354) M 4.00
AUBREY CAGLE, Come Along Little Girl (Starlite) EX 9.00 (Track 1967, Stereo) EX/EX 45.00 45 PETER GABRIEL, No Self Control (Charisma CB 360) EX 4.00
AL HENDRIX, Young And Wild (Lagree) EX 8.00 LP MIKE BLOOMFIELD / AL KOOPER / STEPHEN STILLS, Super 45 PETER GABRIEL, I Don’t remember (PS, Charisma GAB 1) M 5.00
GENE La MARR, Crazy Little House On The Hill (Spry) EX 8.00 Sessions (Embassy S-EMBS 31029, Stereo) EX/EX 35.00 45 PETER GABRIEL, Don’t Give Up (PS, w KATE BUSH,
SAMMY MASTERS, Pink Cadillac (4Star) EX 9.00 LP BOB DYLAN, Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (CBS OP-833407, Charisma PGS 2) EX 4.00
EMERY BLADES, Rock And Roll Carpenter (Ruby) M 9.00 monaural with rare Milton Glaser Poster 1967) EX/EX/EX 820.00 45 GAP BAND, Burn Rubber On Me (PS, Mercury MER 52) M 4.00
DANNY DELL, Froggy (Rockin) M 9.00 45 GAP BAND, Yearning For Your Love (PS, Mercury MER 73) M 4.00
RODNEY SCOTT, Granny Went Rockin’ (Cannon)
AL SWEATT, Paint The Town Red (Boogie Boy)
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9.00
9.00
GRANITE CITY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL 45 GAP BAND, Humpin’ (PS, Mercury MER 63)
45 SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE BIRKIN, Je T’Aime
M 4.00

GROOVE JOE POOVEY, Ten Long Fingers (Dixie) M 12.00 PUNK / NEW WAVE / GOTH (Antic K11511) EX 4.00
EPs with Picture Covers Write to: ANDREW KENNEDY, 79 YORK STREET, PETERHEAD, 45 GALAXY, Book Of Rules (Sidewalk SID 103) M 4.00
THE TORNADOS, Telstar (Decca) EX 12.00 ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, AB42 1SP. Tel: 07713 352991. 45 SUNNY GALE DIXIELAND BAND, B’Ham Rag
MARTY WILDE, More Of Marty (Philips) NM 30.00 Est. 1971. P&P: £4.50 1st class. Reg. 1st class £1.00 extra. (Thimble TS 009) EX 5.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff Sings No.3 String Along + (Columbia) EX 15.00 Payment Cheques or PayPal. 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Comfort And Joy (Capitol CL 15710) EX 4.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff’s Hits (Columbia) EX 8.00 2LP SEX PISTOLS, Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle – Who Killed Bambi (Virgin Ltd. 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Shine A Light (A&M AMS 7087) EX 4.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff’s Silver Discs (Columbia) EX 8.00 VD2510, 1979 Film S/T feat. 21 new trks, GF) EX/EX 30.00 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, I Wanna Stay With You
CLIFF RICHARD, Summer Holiday (Columbia) EX 8.00 LP SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES, A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (A&M AMS 7211) M 3.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Cliff No.1 (Columbia) EX 8.00 (Ppolydor 2383/648 w Lyric / Pic sleeve w Fanclub file cards, 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Heart On My Sleeve (A&M AMS 7227)M 4.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Expresso Bongo (Columbia) EX 6.00 Aug. 1982) EX 25.00 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Breakaway (A&M AMS 7245) EX 3.00
CLIFF RICHARD, Congratulations 6 Songs Europe (EMI) EX 11.00 LP THE MISSION, Serpent’s Kiss – Wake 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Every Little Teardrop (A&M AMS 7274)M 3.00
MIXED POP / PROG LPs RSV, Naked & Savage CHOP 6) EX-M 23.00 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, I Had To Fall In Love (A&M AMS 7300)M 3.00
BAD COMPANY, Straight Shooter (Island) M 7.00 LP BAUHAUS, The Singles 1981-83 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Showdown (A&M AMS 7332) M 3.00
BAD COMPANY, Bad Co (Gatefold, Island) M 7.00 (Beggars Banquet BEG 100, 1981) EX-M 28.00 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, You’re The One (A&M AMS 7356) EX 3.00
THE DOORS, Waiting For The Sun (Orig. Elektra) EX 60.00 2LP FIELDS OF NEPHILIM, Earth Inferno 45 GALLAGHER & LYLE, Living On The Breadline
THE DOORS, Strange Days (Elektra) VG 15.00 (Beggars Banquet BEGA 120 w inners, 1991) EX-M 35.00 (PS, Mercury MER 33) M 5.00
FLEETWOOD MAC, Tusk (2LP, W.B.) EX 12.00 LP FIELDS OF NEPHILIM, Laura (Conte 196, 45 GALAXIES, The Big Triangle (Capitol CL 15158) M 10.00
LEE HAZLEWOOD, Requiem For A Lady (Reprise) EX 15.00 ‘85 clear vinyl, nude LP slv) EX-M 26.00 45 PATSY GALLANT, From New York To L.A. (EMI 2620) EX 4.00
MAN, Be Good To Yourself Once A Day (U.A.) EX 25.00 LP THE SISTERHOOD, Gift (Merciful Release SIS 020, 1986)EX-M 25.00 45 PATSY GALLANT, Are You Ready For Love (PS, EMI 2714) EX 4.00

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45 PATSY GALLANT, Sugar Daddy (EMI 2741, Demo) EX 5.00 45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, I Like It (Columbia DB 7041)EX 3.00 45 GO-GO’s, Automatic (IRS A&M GON 101, Promo) M 6.00
45 JAMES GALWAY, Annie’s Song (RCA RB 5085) M 3.00 45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, You’ll Never Walk Alone 45 GO-GO’s, Our Lips Are Sealed
45 GAMMA, Dirty City (Elektra K12517, Promo) M 8.00 (Columbia DB 7126) EX 3.00 (PS, IRS A&M GON 102, Promo) M 6.00
45 GAMMA, Thunder And Lightning (PS, Elektra K12459) M 7.00 45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, I’m The One 45 GO-GO’s, We Got The Beat (PS, IRS A&M PFP 1010) EX 5.00
45 GANG SHOW, “The Band” (HMV POP 1361, Demo) M 8.00 (Columbia DB 7189) EX 3.00 45 GOLD, “Lord Of The Flies” (Sky-Hi SKY 779) EX 4.00
45 GANGSTA, Acupuncture (The Flying Medallions J12 D4, 45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, Ferry Cross The Mersey 45 ANDREW GOLD, Lonely Boy (Asylum K13076) M 3.00
Ltd. Ed. Col. vinyl) M 7.00 (Columbia DB 7437) EX 3.00 45 ANDREW GOLD, Never Let Her Slip Away (Asylum K13112)M 4.00
45 GANGSTERS, Rudi The Red Nosed Reindeer 45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, I’ll Be There 45 ANDREW GOLD, How Can This Be Love (Asylum K13126) M 3.00
(Big Bear BB25) M 5.00 (Columbia DB 7504) VG 3.00 45 ANGIE GOLD, Who Am I Kidding
45 MICK GANNON, Lady Diana (PS, Smile SR 030) EX 4.00 45 GERMLEY UNION, The Baby Photographer (PS, Kaleidoscope KRLA 2323, Demo) M 5.00
45 GANYMED, It Takes Me Higher (Creole CR 167) EX 4.00 (Risque 106, adults only) EX 20.00 45 GOLDEN EARRING, Radar Love (Track 2094.116) EX 3.00
45 GARBO’S CELLULOID HEROES, Only Death Is Fatal 45 RENEE GEYER, Say I Love You (Portrait PRT A20562) M 5.00 45 GOLDEN EARRING, Sleep Walkin’ (Polydor 2001.626) EX 3.00
(PS, Big Bear BB 13, Promo) M 10.00 45 GHOSTS, Stay The Night (PS, Coloured vinyl) M 5.00 45 GOLDEN FIDDLE ORCHESTRA,
45 GARDENING BY MOONLIGHT, Whistling In The Dark 45 ANDY GIBB, I Just Wanna Be Your Everything The Golden Fiddle March (Mountain TOP 13) M 4.00
(PS, Interdisc IN6) M 8.00 (RSO 2090.237) EX 3.00 45 GOLDIE, Making Up Again (Bronze BRO 50) M 4.00
45 PAUL GARDINER, Venus In Furs (PS, Numa NU 1) EX 6.00 45 ANDY GIBB, (Love Is) Thicker Than Water (RSO 2090.268)EX 3.00 45 BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Honey (United Artists UP 2215) M 4.00
45 GARDEZ-DARKZ, Heartbeat (PS, New Bristol NBR 02) M 6.00 45 ANDY GIBB, Shadow Dancing (RSO 001) M 4.00 45 BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Autumn Of My Life
45 REGINALD GARDINER, Trains (Decca F5278) M 6.00 45 ANDY GIBB, An Everlasting Love (RSO 015) M 3.00 (United Artists UP 2223) EX 5.00
45 ART GARFUNKEL, Bright Eyes (CBS 6947) EX 3.00 45 ANDY GIBB, Time Is Time (RSO 73) M 3.00 45 BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Summer (The First Time)
45 ART GARFUNKEL, Travelling Boy (CBS 2318) EX 3.00 45 ROBIN GIBB, Saved By The Bell (Polydor 56337) M 4.00 (United Artists UP 35558) EX 3.00
45 ART GARFUNKEL, Since I Don’t Have You 45 ROBIN GIBB, August, October (Polydor 56371) EX 4.00 45 BOBBY GOLDSBORO, Hello Summertime
(CBS 7371, Demo) M 5.00 45 STEVE GIBBONS BAND, Tulane (Polydor 2058.889) M 4.00 (United Artists UP 35705) M 3.00
45 ART GARFUNKEL, A Heart In New York (PS, CBS A1495) M 4.00 45 GEORGIA GIBBS, The Hula Hoop Song 45 BOBBY GOLDSBORO, A Butterfly For Bucky
45 ERROLL GARNER, Mack The Knife (Phillips BF 1268) M 6.00 (Columbia DB 46201) EX 5.00 (United Artists UP 36127) EX 4.00
45 ERROLL GARNER, It Ain’t Necessarily So 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Electric Youth 45 GONZALEZ, Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) (EMI 2521) M 5.00
(PS, MGM K13677, US issue) M 6.00 (Poster PS, Warners A8919W) M 5.00 45 GONZALEZ, Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet
45 LEE GARRETT, You’re My Everything (Chrysalis CHS 2087)EX 4.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Staying Together (PS, Warners A9020) EX 3.00 (Sidewalk SID 102) M 4.00
45 LEE GARRETT, Heart Be Still (Chrysalis CHS 2101) M 4.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Foolish Beat (PS, Warners A9059) EX 3.00 45 GONZALEZ, Ain’t No Way To Treat A Lady
45 LEIF GARRETT, I Was Made For Dancin’ (Scotti K11202) M 4.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Lost In Your Eyes (PS, Warners A8970) EX 3.00 (Sidewalk SID 111) M 4.00
45 REX GARVIN, Sock It To ‘Em J.B. (Atlantic K10105) EX 5.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Out Of The Blue (PS, Warners A9091) M 3.00 45 GONZALEZ, Digital Love Affair (EMI 5097) M 4.00
45 GARY & DAVE, It Might As Well Rain Until September 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, We Could Be Together 45 HOWARD GOODALL, I Hate The French
(London 45.207, US DJ copy) EX 5.00 (PS, Warners A8896) EX 3.00 (Columbia DB 9087, Demo) M 4.00
45 GARY’S GANG, Keep On Dancin’ (CBS 7100) M 3.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Shake Your Love (PS, Warners A9187) M 3.00 45 GOOD FOOT, Toes In The Water (Polydor 2058.373) M 4.00
45 TERRY GARTHWAITE, Slender Thread (Arista 41, Demo) EX 6.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, Only In My Dreams (PS, Warners A9322)M 3.00 45 PHILLIP GOODHAND-TAIT, Almost Killed A Man
45 DAVID GATES, Sail Around The World (Elektra K12126) EX 4.00 45 DEBBIE GIBSON, One Step Ahead (PS, Warners A7677) M 3.00 (DJM DJS 295) M 4.00
45 DAVID GATES, Suite: Clouds, Rain (Elektra K12162) EX 4.00 45 GHOSTBUSTERS, Film Soundtrack (PS, Arista ARIST 580) M 4.00 45 PHILLIP GOODHAND-TAIT, Jewel (Chrysalis CHS 2134) M 4.00
45 DAVID GATES, Took The Last Train (Elektra K12307) EX 4.00 45 GHOSTBUSTERS II, Film Soundtrack (PS, MCA 1350) EX 4.00 45 GOODIES, Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me
45 CRYSTAL GALE, You Never Miss A Real Good Thing 45 GIBSON BROTHERS, Ooh! What A Life (Island WIP 6503) EX 4.00 (Bradleys BRAD 7421) M 3.00
(United Artists XW 883, US Promo) VG 4.00 45 GIBSON BROTHERS, Que Sera Mi Vida (Island WIP 6525) EX 3.00 45 GOODIES, The Funky Gibbon (Bradleys BRAD 7504) M 3.00
45 CRYSTAL GALE, River Road (United Artists UP 36284) EX 4.00 45 GIBSON BROTHERS, Cuba (Island WIP 6561) EX 3.00 45 GOODIES, Black Pudding Bertha (Bradleys BRAD 7517) EX 3.00
45 CRYSTAL GALE, Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue 45 GIBSON BROTHERS, Mariana (Island WIP 6617) EX 4.00 45 GOOD LOOKS, Jim’ll Fix It (Radioactive RAD 501) M 5.00
(United Artists UP 36307) M 4.00 45 DON GIBSON, Give Myself A Party (RCA 1098) EX 8.00 45 STEVE GOODMAN, Death Of A Salesman (Asylum K13055)EX 4.00
45 CRYSTAL GALE, Talking In Your Sleep 45 DON GIBSON, A Stranger To Me (RCA 1110) EX 5.00 45 C.L. GOODSON, 18 Yellow Roses (Island IS 030, US Promo)EX 6.00
(United Artists UP 36422) M 4.00 45 DON GIBSON, Don’t Tell Me Your Troubles (RCA 1150) VG 4.00 45 KEN GOODWIN, Settle Down (Pye 7N 45198) EX 4.00
45 CRYSTAL GALE, Why Have You Left The One 45 DON GIBSON, Just One Time (RCA 1183) EX 4.00 45 KEN GOODWIN, So Lucky (Pye 7N 45305) EX 4.00
(United Artists UP 36494) EX 4.00 45 DON GIBSON, Sea Of Heartbreak (RCA 1243) M 4.00 45 RON GOODWIN ORCH., Elizabethan Serenade
45 CRYSTAL GALE, Half The Way (CBS A1024, Demo) M 5.00 45 DON GIBSON, Lonesome Number One (RCA 1272) EX 5.00 (Parlophone R 4272, Purple) EX 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Honeybee (CBS 1835) EX 5.00 45 JODY GIBSON, If You Don’t Know (Parlophone R4645) F 3.00 45 RON GOODWIN ORCH., Colonel Bogey (Parlophone R 4391)EX 5.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Never Can Say Goodbye 45 LORNE GIBSON, Little Black Book (Decca F11519) EX 4.00 45 RON GOODWIN ORCH., Love Theme “Ben Hur”
(MGM 2006.465) EX 4.00 45 LORNE GIBSON, Some Do, Some Don’t (Decca F11684) EX 4.00 (Parlophone R 4663) EX 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Reach Out, I’ll Be There (MGM 2006.459)EX 4.00 45 LORNE GIBSON, Red Roses For A Blue Lady 45 RON GOODWIN ORCH., 633 Squadron (Parlophone R 5146)EX 5.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, All I Need Is Your Sweet Lovin’ (Decca F12102) EX 3.00 45 GOOMBAY DANCE BAND, Seven Tears (PS, Epic A 1242) M 4.00
(MGM 2006.531) M 4.00 45 GIDEA PARK, Beach Boy Gold (Stone SON 2162) M 4.00 45 GOOMBAY DANCE BAND, Sun Of Jamaica
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Most Of All (Polydor 2066.804) EX 4.00 45 GIGGETTY, The Heathen’s Song (PS, Bridge AVR 1937) EX 5.00 (PS, Epic A 1273, Demo) M 5.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, I Will Survive (Polydor 2095.017) EX 4.00 45 GIGGETTY, The Costa Del Tipton (PS, Bridge GE 112) M 5.00 45 GOONS, Ying Tong Song (Decca F13414) M 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Substitute (Polydor PD 14508, US issue)EX 4.00 45 GIGGETTY, Black Country Christmas (Pye 7N 46136) EX 4.00 45 PETER GORDENO, My Girl Maria (MCA MU 1058) M 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, Let Me Know (I Have A Right) 45 GIGI, Are You Ready To Love Me (Sky 1009) EX 4.00 45 PETER GORDENO, Man And Wife Time (Decca F12947) EX 3.00
(Polydor PD 2021, US issue) EX 4.00 45 NICK GILDER, Hot Child In The City (Chrysalis CHS 2226) M 4.00 45 JOE GORDON FOLK FOUR, Scooter Crazy (HMV POP 836) EX 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, I Am What I Am (PS, Chrysalis CHS 2765)M 4.00 45 NICK GILDER, (You Really) Rock Me 45 NOELE GORDON, After All These Years (EMI 5218) EX 4.00
45 GLORIA GAYNOR, How High The Moon (MGM 2006.558) EX 4.00 (PS, Chrysalis CHS 2332) EX 4.00 45 ROBERT GORDON, Red Hot (Private Stock PVT 94) M 5.00
45 MITZI GAYNOR, Happy Anniversary (Top Rank JAR 258) M 4.00 45 GILL & TERRY, The Ballad Of Thunder Road 45 LESLEY GORE, It’s My Party (Mercury AMT 1205) EX 4.00
45 GAZZA & LINDISFARNE, Fog On The Tyne (Phillips PB 1239) M 5.00 45 LESLEY GORE, Take Good Care (Mercury 72892, US issue)EX 5.00
(PS, Best ZB 44083) EX 4.00 45 GILLA, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Ariola AHAP 544) M 4.00 45 LESLEY GORE, She’s A Fool (Mercury AMT 1213) EX 5.00
45 G. BAND, Tuna Biscuit (Bell 1481) M 6.00 45 STUART GILLIES, For My Love (Phillips 6006.190) EX 3.00 45 LESLEY GORE, Immortality (A&M AMS 7184) M 5.00
45 G. BAND, Lay Your Love On Me (CBS 4710) M 4.00 45 STUART GILLIES, Amanda (Phillips 6006.293) M 5.00 45 EYDIE GORME, Yes My Darling Daughter (CBS AAG 105) EX 3.00
45 G. BAND, Look What You’ve Been Missing 45 STUART GILLIES, Now That Summer’s Gone (EMI 2249) M 3.00 45 EYDIE GORME, Blame It On The Bossa Nova
(CBS 4974, Promo) M 4.00 45 JAMES GILREATH, Little Band Of Gold (Pye 7N 25190) EX 4.00 (CBS AAG 131) EX 3.00
45 G-CLEFS, I Understand (London 9433) M 4.00 45 GORDON GILTRAP, Heartsong (Electic WOT 19) EX 4.00 45 EYDIE GORME, Everybody Go Home (CBS AAG 170) EX 3.00
45 J. GEILS BAND, Gettin’ Out (Atlantic K10550) EX 4.00 45 GORDON GILTRAP, Oh-Well (PS, Electic WOT 21) M 4.00 45 VERN GOSDIN, Hangin’ On (Elektra E.45353) EX 5.00
45 J. GEILS BAND, One Last Kiss (EMI America AM 507) EX 4.00 45 JIM GILSTRAP, Swing Your Daddy (Chelsea 2005.021) M 3.00 45 KEVIN GOULD, Let’s Join Together (Polydor 2058.393) EX 5.00
45 J. GEILS BAND, Centerfold (PS, EMI America EA 135) EX 4.00 45 GINGER, Blind Date (PS, Eagle ERS 001) M 4.00 45 GRAHAM GOULDMAN, Sunburn (PS, Mercury SUNNY 1) EX 5.00
45 J. GEILS BAND, Love Stinks (PS, EMI America EA 141) M 4.00 45 GINGER, Something Wasn’t Quite Right 45 GO WEST, We Close Our Eyes (PS, Chrysalis 2850, Pic Disc)M 6.00
45 J. GEILS BAND, Angel In Blue (PS, EMI America EA 138) M 4.00 (PS, Eagle ERS 003) EX 5.00 45 GO WEST, True Colours (PS, Chrysalis GOW 4) M 4.00
45 BOB GELDOF, This Is The World Calling 45 GIORGIO, Nights In White Satin (GTO GT 73) EX 4.00 45 GQ, Disco Nights (Rock Freak) (Arista ARIST 245) M 4.00
(PS, Phono BOB 101) M 4.00 45 GIORGIO, From Here To Eternity (OASIS 1) EX 3.00 45 BRENDAN GRACE, The Dublin Victory Song (Solo 130) EX 5.00
45 BOB GELDOF, Love Like A Rocket (PS, Phono BOB 102, 45 GIRL, “The Single” (PS, Jet 169) EX 5.00 45 GRADUATE, Elvis Should Play Ska! (Precision PAR 100, PS)M 4.00
Photo Pack) M 4.00 45 GIRLS, Clap Clap (Aura AUS 118) EX 4.00 45 BOBBIE GRAHAM, Skin Deep (Fontana TF 521) VG 5.00
45 BOB GELDOF, I Cry Too (PS, Phono BOB 103) M 4.00 45 JACKIE GLEASON, What Is A Girl 45 GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION, Feel The Need In Me
45 BOB GELDOF, The Great Song Of Indifference (Brunswick 04775, one-sided Demo) M 5.00 (Warners K16506) M 4.00
(PS, Phono BOB 104) M 4.00 45 HOWDY GLEN, I Can Almost See Houston 45 EVE GRAHAM & THE NEW SEEKERS, Nevertheless
45 BOB GELDOF, Love Or Something (PS, Phono BOB 105) M 4.00 (Cream CR 7603, US issue) EX 4.00 (Polydor 2058.340) M 4.00
45 BOB GELDOF, Room 19 (PS, Phono BOB 107) M 5.00 45 STEVE GLEN, Hungry For Love 45 GRAHAMOPHONES, Chinese Laundry Blues
45 GENESIS, Your Own Special Way (Atco 7076, US issue) M 5.00 (Private Stock PVT 110, Promo) M 8.00 (President PT 563) M 5.00
45 GENESIS, Follow You, Follow Me (Charisma CB 309, Purple)EX 3.00 45 ANDY GLENMARK, One Night Stand (Epic EPC 5357, Demo)M 6.00 45 RON GRAINER ORCH., The Maigret Theme (Warners WB 24)M 4.00
45 GENESIS, Duchess (PS, Charisma CB 363) EX 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Rock And Roll Part 1 (Bell 1216) EX 4.00 45 RON GRAINER ORCH., Tales Of The Unexpected (RK 1018)M 5.00
45 GENESIS, Misunderstanding (PS, Charisma CB 369) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, I Didn’t Know I Loved You (Till) (Bell 1259)EX 4.00 45 LOU GRAHAM, Midnight Blue (PS, WEA A9304) M 4.00
45 GENESIS, Abacab (PS, Charisma CB 388) EX 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Do You Wanna Touch Me (PS, Bell 1280) EX 5.00 45 BILLY GRAMMER, Gotta Travel On
45 GENESIS, Spot The Pigeon (PS, Charisma GEN 001) M 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Hello Hello! I’m Back Again (Bell 1299) EX 4.00 (London HLU 8752, Tri-centre) EX 5.00
45 GENESIS, 3 x 3 (PS, Charisma GEN 1) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, I’m The Leader Of The Gang (I Am) 45 BILLY GRAMMER, Bonaparte’s Retreat
45 GENESIS, Invisible Touch (PS, Charisma GENS 1) EX 3.00 (Bell 1321) EX 4.00 (Felsted AF 121, Tri-centre) EX 5.00
45 GENESIS, In Too Deep (PS, Charisma GENS 2) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, I Love You Love Me Love (Bell 1337) EX 4.00 45 GRAMMOPHONE REVIVAL, Disco Carmen (RSO 2090.225)M 4.00
45 GENESIS, Land Of Confusion (PS, Charisma GENS 3) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Angel Face (Bell 1348) EX 4.00 45 GRAND CANYON HOPI INDIAN DANCERS,
45 GENESIS, Tonight Tonight Tonight (PS, Charisma GENS 4) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Remember Me This Way (Bell 1349) EX 4.00 Hopi Buffalo Dance (Hiway 8503, US issue) M 6.00
45 GENESIS, Throwing It All Away (PS, Charisma GENS 5) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Always Yours (Bell 1359) EX 4.00 45 GRAND FUNK, The Locomotion (Capitol CL 15780) EX 3.00
45 GENESIS, I Can’t Dance (PS, Charisma GENS 7) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Just For You (Bell 1368) EX 4.00 45 GRAND HOTEL, (Double Vision) (Split Decision) (CBS 7023)M 4.00
45 GENESIS, Hold On My Heart (PS, Charisma GENS 8) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Oh Yes! You’re Beautiful (Bell 1391) EX 4.00 45 GRAND MASTER FLASH, “The Message”
45 GENESIS, Invisible Touch (PS, Charisma GENS S.10) M 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, The Tears I Cried (Bell 1416) M 4.00 (Sugar Hill SH 117) EX 4.00
45 GENESIS, That’s All (PS, Charisma TATA 1) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Love Like You And Me (Bell 1423) M 4.00 45 GRAND THEFT, Body Talk (EMI INT 566, Demo) EX 5.00
45 GENESIS, Mama (PS, Charisma MAMA 1) M 3.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Doing Alright With The Boys (Bell 1429) M 4.00 45 GRANGE HILL CAST, “Just Say No” (PS, BBC RESL 183) M 4.00
45 GENESIS, Illegal Aliens (PS, Charisma AL 1) M 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Love In The Sun (Bell 1437) M 4.00 45 AMY GRANT, Baby Baby (PS, A&M AM 727) M 4.00
45 GENGHIS KHAN, Genghis Khan (CBS 7317, Demo) M 5.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Papa Oom Mow Mow (Bell 1451) M 4.00 45 EARL GRANT, The End (Brunswick 05762, Tri-centre) EX 5.00
45 GEORDIE, Can You Do It (EMI 2031) M 5.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Alone Again (Bell 1463, Demo) VG 4.00 45 EARL GRANT, Swingin’ Gently (Brunswick 05870) EX 5.00
45 GEORDIE, All Because Of You (EMI 2008) EX 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, People Like You And People Like Me 45 EARL GRANT, Without A Song (Decca 25721, US issue) EX 4.00
45 GEORDIE, Electric Lady (EMI 2048) EX 4.00 (Bell 1471) EX 4.00 45 EARL GRANT, Little Girl Lost (Prince PR 1201, US issue) EX 4.00
45 GEORGIA SATELLITES, Battleship Chains 45 GARY GLITTER, A Little Boogie Woogie (Arista 112) M 4.00 45 EDDY GRANT, Living On The Frontline (Ensign ENY 26) M 3.00
(PS, Elektra EKR 50) EX 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, It Takes All Night Long (Arista 85) EX 4.00 45 EDDY GRANT, Do You Feel My Love (Ensign ENY 45) M 3.00
45 GERALDINE, Casablanca (Coma CUT 002) EX 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Another Rock And Roll Christmas 45 EDDY GRANT, Can’t Get Enough Of You (Ensign ENY 207) M 3.00
45 DANYEL GERARD, Butterfly (CBS 7453) M 4.00 (PS, Arista 592) EX 4.00 45 EDDY GRANT, Walking On Sunshine (Virgin ‘Ice’ GUY 27) M 4.00
45 DONNY GERARD, Baby Don’t Let It Mess Your Mind 45 GARY GLITTER, What Your Mama Don’t See (Eagle EPG 004) EX 45 EDDY GRANT, Time To Let Go (Virgin ‘Ice’ ICE 52) M 3.00
(Rocket PIG 17) M 4.00 3.00 45 EDDY GRANT, Baby Come Back (PS, Virgin ‘Ice’ ICE 63) M 4.00
45 DONNY GERARD, Words (Greedy Records G101 AS) M 5.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Gary Glitter EP (PS, GTO GT 282) M 5.00 45 EDDY GRANT, I Don’t Wanna Dance (PS, Virgin ‘Ice’ ICE 56)M 3.00
45 MIKE GERARD, The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow 45 GARY GLITTER, Gary Glitter’s Gang Show 45 EDDY GRANT, Electric Avenue (PS, Virgin ‘Ice’ ICE 57) M 4.00
(PS, WG Records WG 001) EX 4.00 (PS, Castle GARY 001) M 5.00 45 GOGI GRANT, Wayward Wind (London HLB 8282, Tri-centre)EX 8.00
45 GENEVA B.R.A., No No No No (Mercury 6007.206) M 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Gary’s Gang (CBS 7109) EX 4.00 45 JULIE GRANT, Up On The Roof (Pye 7N 15483) EX 4.00
45 JOHNNY GENTLE, Wendy (Phillips PB 908) VG 4.00 45 GARY GLITTER, Glitter Band (PS, Flexi, Lyntone LYN 3146) M 5.00 45 JULIE GRANT, Count On Me (Pye 7N 15508) EX 4.00
45 BOBBIE GENTRY, All I Have To Do Is Dream 45 GLOBETROTTERS, Gravy (RCA 2017) EX 5.00 45 NORMAN GRANT, Miss World (PS, Virgin VS 345) EX 5.00
(Capitol CL 15619) EX 3.00 45 GLORIA, “One Day At A Time” (Picture Sleeve, 45 GRAPEFRUIT, Dear Delilah (RCA 1656) M 8.00
45 GENTRYS, Brown Paper Sack (MGM K13432, US issue) EX 8.00 Release RL 873) EX 4.00 45 GRAPEFRUIT, C’mon Marianne (RCA 1716) EX 5.00
45 GENTS, New Direction (PS, LTTS GN8) M 5.00 45 GODIEGO, TV Theme “Monkey” (BBC RESL 66) M 4.00 45 GRAPEFRUIT, Deep Water (RCA 1855) M 6.00
45 GEORDIE, Don’t Do That (Regal Zonophone RZ 3067) EX 5.00 45 GODLEY & CREME, Under Your Thumb (Polydor POSP 322)M 4.00 45 GRAPEFRUIT, Lady Godiva (RCA 1907, Demo) G 4.00
45 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS, How Do You Do It 45 GODLEY & CREME, Wedding Bells (Polydor POSP 369) M 4.00 45 GRAPEFRUIT, Elevator (Equinox 45.70005, US issue) G 4.00
(Columbia DB 4987) EX 4.00 45 GODLEY & CREME, Cry (PS, Polydor POSP 732) EX 4.00 45 GRASS ROOTS, Baby Hold On (Dunhill 4237, US issue) EX 4.00

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45 CRYSTAL GRASS, Crystal World (Phillips 6009.633) EX 4.00 45 CRAIG DOUGLAS, Go Chase A Moonbeam (Decca F11075)G 5.00 45 DICK ROMAN, Breaking Up And Making Up
45 GRASSHOPPERS, Tear Drops Fall Like Rain 45 EAGLES (US), Outlaw Man (Asylum AYM 523) EX 6.00 (President PT 112) EX 10.00
(Polydor POSP 278) EX 5.00 45 J. VINCENT EDWARD, Thanks (CBS 4579) EX 4.00 45 JIMMY RUFFIN, Mother’s Love (Mojo 2092.060) EX 7.00
45 CARL GRAVES, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 45 EQUALS, Stand Up And Be Counted (CBS S.7874) M 10.00 45 BARRY RYAN, Do That (Dawn DNS 1109) EX 10.00
(A&M 1757, US issue) EX 4.00 45 ESSEX, Easier Said Than Done (Columbia DB 7077) EX 8.00 45 SAND PEBBLES, Love Power (Track 604028) EX 8.00
45 BARRY GRAY, “Fireball” (Melodisc MEL 45/1591) EX 20.00 45 FAIRFIELD PARLOUR, Bordeaux Rose 45 TOMMY SANDS, Only Cause I’m Lonely (HMV POP 1247) EX 5.00
45 BARRY GRAY, Thunderbirds (Pye 7N 17016) F 4.00 (Vertigo 6059.003, Swirl label) EX 15.00 45 KENNY SAUL GROUP, The Only One For Me
45 DORIAN GRAY, I’ve Got You On My Mind 45 FAMOUS MUSIC BAND, Nine By Nine (City Music, Rare) F OFFS
Parlophone R5667) VG 4.00 (Phillips 6006.111) EX 5.00 45 SHANGRI-LAS, Out In The Streets (Collectables COL 1378)M 8.00
45 LES GRAY, A Groovy Kind Of Love (Warners K16883) VG 3.00 45 FANCY, Wild Thing (Atlantic K10383) M 5.00 45 SHANGRI-LAS, Give Him A Great Big Kiss
45 ‘GREASE’, “Film Soundtrack” (PS, RSO 006) EX 4.00 45 DONNA FARGO, Funny Face (Dot 144) M 10.00 (Buddah Maxi 2011.164) M 20.00
45 GREAT EXPECTATIONS, I’m So Glad I’ve Gotcha 45 CHARLIE FEATHERS, Today & Tomorrow (Memphis 103) EX 20.00 45 SANDY SHAW, How Can You Tell (Pye 7N 15987) M 8.00
(Polydor 2058.241) VG 4.00 45 JOSE FELICIANO, HI Heel Sneakers (RCA Victor 1769) M 5.00 45 TONY SHEVETON, A Million Drums (Oriole CB 1895) M 12.00
45 R.B. GREAVES, Who’s Watching The Baby 45 FIFTH FORM, Back At School (Dawn DNS 1079) EX 8.00 45 TROY SHONDELL, This Time (London HLG 9432) EX 6.00
(Ember EMBS 352) EX 4.00 45 MICKEY FINN & THE BLUE MEN, 45 SILVERHEAD, Ace Supreme (Purple PUR 104,
45 GREEDIES, A Merry Jingle (PS, Vertigo GREED 1) EX 4.00 Reelin’ & A Rockin’ (Oriole CB 1940) EX 35.00 Original Sleeve) EX 10.00
45 JESSE GREEN, Hurricane Woman (Ember EMBS 349) EX 4.00 45 ELLA FITZGERALD, How High The Moon (HMV POP 782) EX 4.00 45 SUSAN SINGER, I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More) VG 6.00
45 NORMAN GREENBAUM, Spirit In The Sky 45 FLIRTATIONS, What’s Good About Goodbye My Love 45 SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS, Quick Joey Small
(Reprise RS 20885) EX 3.00 (Deram DM 252) EX 8.00 (Decca F13758) EX 15.00
45 ARLAN GREENE, We’ve Got To Split Up (Arista 75) EX 4.00 45 FLOWERPOT MEN, A Walk In The Sky (Deram DM 160) M 6.00 45 SOCRATES, Eating Momma’s Cookin’ (Deram DM 362) M 10.00
45 ARLAN GREENE, Carrie (Arista 90, Demo) M 5.00 45 FLUDD, Turn 21 (Warners K16133) EX 4.00 45 SPOTNICKS, Valentina (Oriole CB 1844) VG 4.00
45 LORNE GREENE, Ringo (RCA 1428) EX 4.00 45 BRUCE FORSYTH, I’m In Charge (Parlophone R4535) EX 6.00 45 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, I Will Come To You (Phillips BF 1706)EX 10.00
45 GREENGAGE, I Believe In Music (RCA 2295, Demo) VG 4.00 45 4 KINSMEN, It Looks Like The Daybreak 45 DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, Son Of A Preacher Man
45 JOHN GREER, Streets Of Baltimore (Outlet OUT 045) EX 4.00 (Decca F22671, no middle Demo) EX 8.00 (Phillips BF 1730) VG 4.00
45 MAX GREGER ORCH., World Cup Fanfare 45 4 SEASONS, Ronnie (Phillips BF 1334) EX 7.00 45 STAMPEDERS, Monday Morning Choo Choo
(Polydor 2041.548) EX 4.00 45 4 SEASONS, Save It For Me (Phillips BF 1364) EX 7.00 (Stateside SS2202) EX 5.00
45 GREGG DIAMOND BIONIC BOOGIE, “Cream” 45 4 SEASONS, Tell It To The Rain (Phillips BF 1538) EX 10.00 45 STATUS QUO, Paper Plane (Vertigo 6059.071, Swirl label)EX 5.00
(Polydor POSP 18) EX 4.00 45 FOUR TOPS, Walk With Me, Talk With Me, Darling 45 STEEL MILL, Green Eyes God (Penny Farthing PEN 770) EX 8.00
45 JOHNNY GREGORY, Bonanza (Fontana H286) EX 4.00 (Tamla TMG 823) EX 10.00 45 STEELY DAN, Do It Again (Probe PRO 577) EX 5.00
45 JOHNNY GREGORY, Route 66 (Fontana H341) EX 5.00 45 FRIDA, Here We’ll Stay Strangers (PS, RCA Victor 104122)M 7.00 45 SWINGING BLUE JEANS, Don’t Go Out Into The Rain
45 JOHNNY GREGORY, Here And Now (Fontana H356) M 4.00 45 BILLY FURY, Give Me Your Word (Decca F12459) EX 15.00 (HMV POP 1605) EX 10.00
45 IAIN GREGORY, Can’t You Hear The Beat... (Pye 7N 15397)VG 5.00 45 BOB GALLION, Thank The Devil For Hideaways 45 SYMBOLS, (The Best Part Of) Breaking Up
45 JOYCE GRENFELL, ‘At Home’ (PS, HMV 7EG 8787, EP) M 5.00 (Hickory 1300, Demo) EX 8.00 (President PT 173) EX 7.00
45 GREY AND HANKS, You Fooled Me (RCA PB 1346, Demo)EX 4.00 45 GENTLEFOLK, That’s My Song (Pye 7N 15859) EX 8.00 45 TAMS, Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
45 SYLVIA GRIFFIN, Love’s A State Of Mind (Rocket BLAST 7)EX 5.00 45 ROGER GLOVER, Love Is All (Purple PUR 125) M 8.00 (Stateside SS2123, Nr M) EX 12.00
45 JOE GRIFFITHS, Theme From ‘Breakaway’ (BBC RESL 74) EX 4.00 45 PANCHO GONZALES, Puppet On A String 45 TAMS, Don’t You Just Know It (Probe PRO 588) EX 6.00
45 ROB GRILL, Rock Sugar (PS, Mercury 6167.836) M 5.00 (Page One POF 058) EX 10.00 45 TERMITES, Tell Me (Oriole CB 1989) VG 15.00
45 MONIKA GRIMM, “The Singing Shell” (Concord CON 001) M 5.00 45 GOOD RATS, The Hobo (London HLR 10237) EX 8.00 45 JOE TEX, You Said A Bad Word (Mercury 6052.156) M 7.00
45 GROOVE, Soothe Me (Columbia DO-5059, Aussie issue) VG 5.00 45 PAUL HANFORD, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie 45 ROBERT THOMPSON, I Look At The Sun (Pinnacle P8408)EX 7.00
45 GROUCHO, The Old Days (Charly CS 1018) EX 4.00 Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (Parl. R4680) EX 5.00 45 TIN MACHINE (DAVID BOWIE), Under The God
45 GROUNDHOGS, Sad Go Round (WWA WNS 006) VG 4.00 45 RICHIE HAVENS, What About Me (Polydor 2121.098) EX 10.00 (PS, EMI PRP 1385, Japanese issue) M 25.00
45 GROUP X, There Are 8 Million Cossack Melodies 45 JIMI HENDRIX, All Along The Watchtower (Track 604025) EX 6.00 45 TRAVIS, Selfish Gene Pt. 1 (GF PS, ISOM 12351) EX 6.00
(Fontana 267274TF) EX .00 45 HERMITS, Ginny Go Softly (Private Stock PVT 19) EX 5.00 45 TRAVIS, Selfish Gene Pt. 2 (GF PS, ISOM 12352) EX 6.00
45 GRUMBLEWEEDS, Bread Shop (PS, MFP FP 901) M 4.00 45 HONEYCOMBS, Is It Because? (Pye 7N 15705) EX 6.00 45 TRUSSEL, Love Injection (Elektra K12412) M 5.00
45 GRUPPO SPORTIVO, PS 78 (Epic EPC 6981, Demo) M 5.00 45 INCOGNITO, “Parisienne Girl” (Ensign ENY 44) EX 6.00 45 UNICORN, Easy (Harvest HAR 5105, Demo) M 5.00
45 GTOs, She Rides With Me (Polydor 56721, Rare) VG 20.00 45 INTRUDERS, I Wanna Know Your Name 45 UNION GAP, Woman Woman (CBS 3110) EX 4.00
45 GUESS WHO, Seems Like I Can’t Live With You… (Philadelphia PIR 1899) EX 5.00 45 UNION GAP, Over You (CBS 3714) EX 5.00
(RCA PB 10075) EX 5.00 45 IRON MAIDEN, 2 Minutes To Midnight (PS, EMI 5489) EX 6.00 45 DICKIE VALENTINE, Free Me (Phillips BF 1307) VG 3.00
45 REG GUEST SYNDICATE, Underworld 45 IRON MAIDEN, Strangers In A Strange Land 45 DAVE VENTURA, I Forgot What It Was Like
(Mercury MF 927, reissue) M 12.00 (Poster PS, EMI 5589) EX 8.00 (Mercury MF 827) EX 6.00
45 GUMBO, Power Failure (Bulldog BD8) M 5.00 45 KARRIER, Poor Little Rich Girl (Status JEMS 101, 45 VIGRASS & OSBORNE, Virginia (Uni UN 550) EX 5.00
45 GUN, Race With The Devil (CBS 3764) VG 3.00 Rare Promo) M 30.00 45 WHALES, Tell It To The Rain (CBS 4126, Demo) EX 10.00
45 GUN, Steal Your Fire (PS, A&M AM 851) EX 4.00 45 BARBARA KAY, Chips With Everything (Pye 7N 15997) EX 6.00
45 WHICHWHAT, Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’ (Beacon BEA 127) EX
45 GUNS N’ ROSES, Yesterdays (PS, Geffen GFS 27) M 6.00 45 RAMONA KING, You Say Pretty Words
15.00
45 GURU JOSH, Infinity (RCA PB 43475) M 5.00 (Warners 5432, US issue) EX 5.00
45 WASP, The Idol (PS, Parlophone RS 6314, orange vinyl) M 8.00
45 ADRIAN GURVITZ, The Way I Feel (Jet 140, Demo) G 4.00 45 GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS, Just Walk In My Shoes
45 WHITE STRIPES, Rag And Bone / Icky Thump
45 ADRIAN GURVITZ, Classic (RAK 339) M 4.00 (Tamla TMG 813) EX 8.00
(PS, XL, Sealed) M 20.00
45 ADRIAN GURVITZ, Your Dream (PS, RAK 343) EX 4.00 45 JOHN KONGOS, 1 No. 7 (Only Want To Get To Heaven)
45 DAVID WHITFIELD, My Son John (Decca F10769) M 5.00
45 ADRIAN GURVITZ, Clown (PS, RAK 347) M 4.00 (A&M AMS 7215) M 6.00
45 XTC, Sgt. Rock (PS, Virgin VS 384) EX 4.00
45 ARLO GUTHRIE, The Motorcycle Song (Reprise RS 20644)VG 4.00 45 STEVEN LANCASTER, San Francisco Street (Polydor 56215)VG 6.00
45 BRETT YOUNG, Guess What (Pye 7N 15578) VG 5.00
45 GWEN GUTHRIE, Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent 45 BARRY LEE & THE BARRY LEE SHOW, I Won’t Cry Anymore
45 YOUNG RASCALS, Groovin’ (Atlantic 584111) EX 6.00
(PS, Polydor POSP 807) EX 3.00 (Columbia DB 8350, Demo) EX 8.00
45 GUYS AND DOLLS, There’s A Whole Lot Of Loving 45 DAVID H. LEE, Heaven With No Angel
(Magnet MAG 20) M 4.00 (Pye 7N 15809, Demo) EX 8.00 GREATS AND GENERAL
45 G VS B, Sexy Sam (PS, Touch & Go Ltd. Ed. Green vinyl) EX 5.00 45 DICKIE LEE, Laurie / Party Doll (Stateside SS 433) EX 8.00 Write to: MR RODNEY TIGHE, 72 ORIEL ROAD, DAVENTRY,
LATE ADDITIONS 45 LAURA LEE, Wedlock Is A Padlock (Hot Wax HWX 118, NORTHANTS., NN11 4SP. Tel: 07960 219456. P&P included.
45 ALLEY, Singing In Poverty (JayBoy BOY 82) EX 5.00 Original Sleeve) M 8.00 7” KATE BUSH, Them Heavy People (PS, Very Rare Japanese)M/M 25.00
45 ED AMES, Who Will Answer? (RCA 1657, Demo) VG 4.00 45 LEGS, So Many Faces (Warners K16317) M 8.00 7” KATE BUSH, Moving / Wuthering Heights
45 ANTIQUE, Last Tango In Paris (Polydor 2001.454) M 4.00 45 KETTY LESTER, But Not For Me (London HLN 9574) EX 4.00
(PS, Very Rare Japanese) M/M 25.00
45 TERRY ANTON, Leave A Little Love (Pye 7N 15857, Demo)EX 10.00 45 JERRY LEE LEWIS, “Big Legged Woman” (Sun SI-1119) EX 8.00
45 MARK ASHTON, Get Up And Groove 7” KATE BUSH, Breathing (PS, Very Rare Japanese) M/M 25.00
45 RAMSEY LEWIS, The “In” Crowd (Chess 6145.013) EX 8.00
(United Artists UP 35390) M 12.00 45 LIGHT FANTASTIC, Love Is Everything (MAM R 105) M 7.00 7” KATE BUSH, King Of The Mountain (Pic Disc, Ltd. Ed.) M/M 15.00
45 BENJAMIN AUGUSTINE, Diana (Penny Farthing PEN 785) VG 4.00 45 DAVID MACBETH, Mr. Blue (Pye 7N 15231) EX 5.00 7” DAVID BOWIE, TVC15 (RSD 40th Anniv. Pic Disc) M/M 12.00
45 BANNED FROM U.N.C.L.E., 45 ALISON MACCALLUM, Superman (RCA 2201) M 5.00 7” DAVID BOWIE, Rebel Rebel (40th Anniv. Pic Disc) M/M 15.00
Clockwork Orange (PS, AMF 002) EX 6.00 45 MADONNA, Vogue (Sire W9851P, Pic Disc) M 20.00 7” DAVID BOWIE, Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
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Ash at one of their
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song set featuring hits, Girl catharsis via their catchy, Genre-/gender-bending in Lust For Life Band sizzling brass. She lit up the
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so popular. All at Waterloo in rapture. Paul Dominy Trade East Glen provided a rousing and piano maestro, James
23/2/24 Pretty Vacant, and Kevin Pearson. They rounded

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precious in the creative
process and also to
Pete Paphides hosted a fine
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Stooges’ classic, Search
off with Get Your Kicks
On Route 66.
Duncan Eaton
Paul experiment. If we’re cajoled a cautious Scott And Destroy, closed the
Dominy not collectively happy with into revealing its backstory, proceedings. Tim Keppie Say She She
(second- the output, we don’t release praising Karl Wallinger’s London Camden Koko
left) backstage with Ash’s it. When the goal is the same, musical contribution to Pip Blom 7/3/24
Mark Hamilton (second-right) that binds us together. demos and half-baked Bristol Beacon Say She She embody the
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played SXSW? shows indicate any a steady river than an The Amsterdam indie trio forces; smart, educated,
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who’d just exploded. promoting new albums. They’re insights. Paul Davies fashion. Emerging to the Cunningham, Nya Gazelle
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you over the years? enjoy them. There are no plans Lucinda Williams they kicked off with Is This about choreographed and in
It’s always chaos! There’s a lot to do an acoustic album, but London Greenwich Love?, before Pip rattled harmony enough, they’re
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and fun impromptu party Are there any festivals that 29/2/24 studio albums, occasionally of Orgone, the show was
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hands dirty, forget it. If you like done, and we’ve got a few in LA Edwards set up high antics. Where’d You Get My verge of something big,
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What’s the secret of your Why is the new album called disappoint. No surprise, while Darek Mercks’ heavy they did Talking Heads’
Photo: (Ash) Paul Dominy

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17/3/24 bookending with Pearl Jam’s A Day In The Life, bookended could’ve been from Deceptive Openers Uriah Heep’s 30
An impressive set by the Elderly Woman and Porch. everything from 10cc’s Wall Bends. Donna was refitted minutes zipped by but gave
upcoming Americana/blues The revelation was Robert Street Shuffle, to superb as a cappella doo wop, while them time to air a couple
talent, Taylor McCall, whose Plant and an incredible four- guitarist Al Steele singing Del Dreadlock Holiday took the from their latest, Chaos And
remarkable voice on Mellow piece playing old Americana Shannon’s Runaway. Plenty roof off. Special mentions Colour (Save Me Tonight,
War songs belies his age, was with banjo and accordion, of Korgis klassics, too: If I Had for Rick Fenn’s guitar solos, Hurricane), as well as old
the perfect appetiser for Plant while Led Zeppelin’s Friends You, the punky Dumb Waiters, Keith Hayman’s surround faves, with Gypsy and Easy
and co. A captivating set of provided a clever transition Everybody’s Gotta Learn sound keyboards, and Livin’ concluding. Saxon may
folk-infused tunes included to modern rock. Finally, Sometime, Kartoon World – drummer Paul Burgess’ tight, be revitalised with Diamond
some old – Friends, Four Roger Daltrey finished with and new gems from UN sharp rhythms. A party to Head guitarist, Brian Tatler,
Sticks, The Rain Song (with Squeezebox and Baba United Nations, notably Good remember. Simon Jones but, as always, co-founder
beautiful accordion by Suzi O’Riley, closing 20 years Old Days Of The Cold War, Bournemouth Pavilion Biff Byford was the focal
Dian), Gallows Pole – of amazing charity work. with Putin dancing on-screen. 21/3/24 point, leading his troops
borrowed – Let The Four Gary Oliver Much more, and all surreal, 10cc are really a prog through a set of classics
Winds Blow, Everybody’s 18,20/3/24 sensational fun. Nick Dalton band in popsters’ clothing. (Wheels Of Steel, Princess
Song, It Don’t Bother Me, Squeeze delivered a solid Gouldman and crew hit the Of The Night) and four new
Angel Dance – and new – hour, from the opening Take Liam Gallagher stage all guitars blazing, cuts from Hell, Fire And
Is That You. There were trad Me I’m Yours to closing Cool & John Squire Rick Fenn’s fiery riffing Damnation. But the night
takes on Gospel Plow and The For Cats. Everything revolved Glasgow Barrowlands a feature of opener, Second belonged to the headliners.
Cuckoo, in which Plant and around Chris Difford and 13/3/24 Sitting For The Last Supper, Justifiably proud of the 50
Dian gracefully harmonised, Glenn Tilbrook, from the The duo’s debut show soon rivalled by the kooky years that separate their
and original material is countryish Labelled With Love featured the righteous, Clockwork Creep. A double debut, Rocka Rolla, and
hopefully due. Paul Davies and delicate Tempted, to the youthful fire of Gallagher’s whammy of early hits – latest, Invincible Shield, Rob
faux-Motown Another Nail In mellowed vocal, making an a cappella Donna and Halford and co revamped
Stiff Little Fingers My Heart. Monday saw The the pair’s poppiest Squire- Rubber Bullets – brought their set for a few surprises
Bristol O2 Academy Who open with a crisp I Can’t penned songs (Just Another the audience to their feet, (Rapid Fire, Saints In Hell),
13/3/24 Explain, while both nights Rainbow, Mars To Liverpool, and a smattering of solo while the recent Panic
The annual March tour was enjoyed a lengthy selection Raise Your Hands) sound bass, ex-member Kevin Attack kicked things off with
badged Hate Has No Home from Tommy, with orchestra, like a more charismatic Godley’s video cameo, and a blast. A crowd-pleasing
Here, borrowed from a new, early highlights being Pete Seahorses. Amid an hour- much instrument-swapping, encore of Electric Eye, Hell
unreleased song, in a set Townshend and his brother, long set of their shuffled evidenced a band enjoying Bent For Leather and Living
dominated by the first three Simon, on Pinball Wizard, and eponymous album, and themselves. Michael Heatley After Midnight sent all home
studio albums. Ever the a moving Daltrey vocal on See a closing Jumpin’ Jack Flash, happy. John Tucker
firebrand, Jake Burns wasted Me, Feel Me. Substitute and there was the 60s beat-pop Oisin Leech London Wembley
no time berating the Tories The Kids Are Alright were shine of Make It Up As You London Notting Hill OVO Arena
and, with energy and passion, tight, and a selection from Go Along, and punk sneer of Rough Trade West 21/3/24
they played most fan faves, Quadrophenia featured the I’m So Bored. But the still- 17/3/24 After 48 years, Uriah Heep
plus obscurities: Empty Sky powerful The Rock. On dextrous guitarist was most An atmospheric, up-close gig returned to Wembley with
and Last Train From The Wednesday, Eddie Vedder comfortable with the slow- showcased some of the songs a succinct set, while Saxon
Wasteland. The set was helped deliver The Punk And striding blues of I’m A Wheel from Leech’s superb Cold made their debut, roaring with
bookended with Suspect The Godfather, Billy Nichols and You’re Not The Only Sea. From the delicate heavy metal thunder. Judas
Device and Alternative Ulster. provided vocal support, and One. In 1996, this encounter opening chords of October Priest’s first London show in
Job done. Ian Templeton keyboardist Loren Gold would have caused dial- Sun onwards, this memorable nine years was a molten
produced the synthetic pulse shifting excitement. Here, performance saw him on fine performance, Andy Sneap
Two Views of Won’t Get Fooled Again it was a pleasing sign of life form, his exceptional voice playing up front in a deadly
The Who and romantic piano on Love, in the old(ish) dogs. and guitar-playing backed duo axe attack with Richie
London Royal Albert Hall Reign O’er Me. The closing David Pollock by fluent double-bass from Faulkner, while Rob Halford
Photo: (Judas Priest) Johh Tucker

18,24/3/24 Baba O’Riley ended with Graham Heaney. The poetic remains the ultimate metal
The opening night of the a merry dance led by violinist Two Views elegance of One Hill Further icon, his voice in fine fettle.
annual Teenage Cancer Trust Katie Jacoby. Simon Wright 10cc and Malin Gales were Parkinson’s sufferer, Glenn
concerts offered a big double- Manchester tremendous, as was the Tipton, kept defending the
bill, with Squeeze opening for The Korgis Bridgewater Hall expressive power of Empire. faith, coming on for encores
an hour, their greatest hits London Camden Forge 19/3/24 With shining interplay, the of Metal Gods and Living After
just perfect. Every tune was 21/3/24 A triumphal celebration saw evocative Trawbreaga Bay Midnight. An Invincible Shield,
catchy and memorable, Chris The 80s hitmakers presented 10cc return home, with was beautifully delivered and no less. Mark Taylor

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Gig Guide we switch out for each other.

Are there any venues that
you’re particularly looking
forward to?
Arab Strap May (20) Carlisle The Feeling May (3) Leeds Brudenell.
Brickyard (21) Sunderland Fire Nottingham Rock City (4) Will there be any
Station (22) Birmingham Castle Birmingham O2 Institute (5) Cardiff unusual merchandise?
& Falcon (23) Bristol Lantern Tramshed (7) Liverpool Eventim A tour-specific goodie that we’ll
(24) London Camden Koko (25) Olympia (9) Glasgow Barrowlands help create, and at least one
Manchester Gorilla (26) Leeds (10) Newcastle NX (11) Manchester tour-specific release. We have
Brudenell September (21) Albert Hall (13) Sheffield Foundry several coming out this year,
Glasgow Barrowlands (14) Cambridge Junction (16) some of it new material.
Brighton Concorde 2 (17) Will you be recording any
Busted May (17) Marlow Pub In London Camden Koko (18) shows for CD or DVD?
The Park (26) Brighton East Brighton Southampton Engine Rooms Possibly.
Park June (29) London Chiswick TOUR DU JOUR Do you collect live albums
Pub In The Park July (11) Leeds Focus May (2) Sunderland Fire or bootlegs yourself?
Spotlighting an upcoming road trip
Millennium Square (13) Sunderland Station August (14) Guildford The new guy, Derek See,
Kubix Festival (19) Newmarket Boileroom November (5) Blackpool This month: MATT PIUCCI is a serious collector.
Racecourse (20) Haydock Waterloo Music Bar (7) Glasgow OF RAIN PARADE Have any gigs stood out lately?
Racecourse August (18) Trentham Oran Mor (13) Bristol Fleece Dean & Britta were fabulous, as
Live (23) Margate Dreamland (25) How have you prepared were The Moore Brothers, Eyelids
Port Eliot Tunes In The Park (26) Gordon Giltrap & John for the tour? and Triptides.
Taunton Live At Somerset (29) Etheridge May (2) Shoreham- Playing shows in California over the Do you have an amusing
Hitchin Priory (31) Scarborough By-Sea Ropetackle Arts Centre (5) last 10 years, and the US West road story?
Open Air Theatre Shrewsbury Theatre Severn (10) Coast in January/February. The funniest thing for us is
Settle Victoria Hall (14) Henley- Do you have any pre-/ when someone comes up to us
The Black Crowes May (14) On-Thames Crooked Billet (16) post-show routines? and swears that they saw us
Manchester O2 Apollo (15) London Selby Town Hall (17) Liverpool We warm up on vocals together, somewhere that we’ve never
Hammersmith Eventim Apollo Philharmonic Hall (23) Bury Met and try to be by ourselves for played. And we were great!
(17) Newcastle O2 City Hall (18) (25) London Chelsea Pheasantry 30 minutes before the show.
Wolverhampton Civic Halls June (1) Evesham Henrician After it, we try to talk to fans. Rain Parade play in June
November (1) Leamington Will you be playing any songs at (14) Bristol Strange Brew
Billy Bragg May (8) Sheffield Spa Temperance that you rarely perform? (15) Leeds Brudenell (16)
Network (9) London Islington Probably, but I’m not sure which. Manchester Night & Day
Assembly Hall (10) Margate Girls Aloud May (20) Belfast Will the set-list change much? (18) Nottingham Metronome
Dreamland Hall By The Sea SSE Arena (23-24) Manchester AO We have a core of songs that (19) London 229 Club.
Arena (27) Cardiff Utilita Arena (31-
Blancmange May (16) June 1) Newcastle Utilita Arena (4)
Newcastle Wylam Brewery Aberdeen P&J Live (8) Glasgow OVO (22) Sunderland Stadium Of Light Dionne Warwick May (5)
(17) Glasgow St Luke’s (18) Hydro (12) Nottingham Motorpoint July (25) London Wembley Stadium Gateshead Glasshouse (7) Edinburgh
Birmingham O2 Institute (23) Arena (15) Leeds First Direct Arena Usher Hall (9) Glasgow RCH (11)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (24) (18) Birmingham Resorts World Shalamar May (19) Liverpool Birmingham Symphony Hall (12)
Leeds Brudenell (25) Manchester Arena (22-23) London Greenwich Arena (24) Bournemouth Pavilion Salford Lowry (14) London Theatre
Academy 2 (26) Colchester Arts O2 (29) Liverpool M&S Bank Arena (31) Stoke Victoria Hall June (1) Royal (16) Bristol Beacon (19)
Centre (31) Bristol Trinity June Brighton Centre (2) Manchester Southend Cliffs Pavilion
(1) London Islington Assembly Inspiral Carpets May (23) Bridgewater Hall (4) Halifax Victoria
Hall (2) Brighton Old Market Bury St Edmunds Apex (25) Chester Theatre (6) Cardiff New Theatre (7) Yes May (23) Manchester
(3) Southampton 1865 Live Rooms July (18) Holmfirth Derby Arena (9) London Dominion Bridgewater Hall (24) Glasgow RCH
Picturedrome (20) Hope Valley (12) Portsmouth King’s Theatre (26) Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Elvis Costello May (5) Peak Cavern (13) St Albans Alban Arena (14) (28) York Barbican (29) Southend
Glasgow Theatre Royal (7) Birmingham Symphony Hall (15) Cliffs Pavilion (31) Bristol Beacon
Gateshead Glasshouse (8) Jane’s Addiction May (23- Bristol Beacon (16) Southend Cliffs June (1) Birmingham Symphony
Manchester Opera House (11) 26) Catton Hall Bearded Theory Pavilion (27) Dartford Orchard West Hall (2) Gateshead Glasshouse (4)
Liverpool Eventim Olympia (14) Festival (27, 29) London Camden (29) Edinburgh Usher Hall London Royal Albert Hall
Cardiff New Theatre (15) Oxford Roundhouse (31) Glasgow
New Theatre (17) Bristol Beacon Barrowlands June (2) Manchester Tool May (30) Birmingham The Zombies May (21)
(18) Poole Lighthouse (21) London O2 Apollo Resorts World Arena June (1) Poole Lighthouse (22) Exeter
Palladium (24) Ipswich Regent Manchester AO Arena (3) London Corn Exchange (24) Buxton
(25) Wolverhampton Civic Halls Nicki Minaj May (25) Greenwich O2 Opera House (26) Manchester
Manchester Co-op Live Arena (26) RNCM (27) Leeds City Varieties (28)
Bruce Dickinson May (16) Birmingham Resorts World Arena Robin Trower May (27) Birmingham Town Hall (30) Whitley
Wolverhampton Halls (18) Glasgow (28) London Greenwich O2 Southampton Brook (28) London Bay Playhouse June (1) Edinburgh
Barrowlands (19) Manchester O2 Islington Assembly Hall (30) Queen’s Hall (4) Bristol St George’s
Academy (21) Swansea Arena (23) Gary Numan May (19) Norwich Gateshead Glasshouse (31) (7) London Barbican Centre (14)
Nottingham Rock City (24) London LCR (20) Sheffield Leadmill (21) Holmfirth Picturedrome Kendal Brewery Arts Centre
Kentish Town O2 Forum Glasgow SWG3 (23) Newcastle
NX (24) Manchester O2 Ritz (25)
Elbow May (7) Brighton Centre London Camden Roundhouse (27) TOUR NEWS
(9) London Greenwich O2 (10) Bristol O2 Academy (28) Cardiff
Birmingham Resorts World Arena Tramshed (30) Bournemouth O2 London: AC/DC, Wembley Stadium, 3,7 July. „ Ex-All Saints’ Shaznay Lewis,
(11) Glasgow OVO Hydro (12) Academy (31) Birmingham O2 Camden Jazz Café, 14 May. „ The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Hackney Omeara,
Leeds First Direct Arena (14) Institute June (1) Nottingham 26 May. „ Greta Van Fleet, Royal Albert Hall, 14 July. „ Usher, 1-2,5 April
Manchester Co Op Live (15) Rock City 2025, Greenwich O2. „ Karl Bartos, 22 June, ANOHNI & The Johnsons, 1-2
Nottingham Motorpoint Arena July, Barbican. „ Ian Prowse, Camden Jazz Café, 17 October. „ Hoobastank,
Kacey Musgraves May Islington O2 Academy, 17 June. „ Curved Air, 100 Club, 15 August.
Echobelly May (15) (9) Glasgow O2 Academy (11) Also: Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters, Hollywood Bowl, 14 August.
Kidderminster Live45 (16) Manchester O2 Apollo (13) „ Orchestral shows in September by (12) Jamie Cullum (13) David Gray
Manchester Gorilla (17) Newcastle Wolverhampton Civic Hall (14) (14) Katie Melua, Manchester Opera House. „ Bear McCreary plays The
Cluny (20) Leeds Wardrobe (23) London Camden Roundhouse Singularity, Los Angeles Fonda Theatre, 12 May. „ Pussycat Dolls’ Carmit
Bristol Fleece (27) Southend Bachar leads The Broadway Theatre Project’s Shaping The Artist workshops
Chinnery’s (30) Portsmouth Bruce Springsteen May at South Florida College Of The Arts, Tampa, 19-29 June.
Wedgewood Rooms (31) London (5) Cardiff Principality Stadium (9)
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7) Come _ (7) 1) Spotted at 53rd & 3rd (7) 7 8

8) Can’t Help _ In Love (7) 2) The Who’s old neighbourhood (5)

9
10) _ City Madness (5) 3) The Living _ (3)
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12) AKA Terrance Charles White (5) 5) So _ (5) 13 14

15) The _ They Couldn’t Hang (3) 6) By-Tor & The _ (7)
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17) Iggy _ (3) 13) Do The Funky _ (7)

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20) ‘Glowing’ Soft Cell single (5) 14) Underneath The _ Go (7)
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35) When I _ _ You (5,2) 33) _ Henley (3)

33 34
36) To Hell With _ _ (3,4) 34) Say She _ (3)
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UNDER THE
RADAR
Artists, bands, and labels meriting more attention

This month: Heidi Berry

“It’s the work of someone who knows what found it needed to be 3/4 and not 4/4 time. I
they are doing, who found a way to realise had no language to articulate these things
their vision.” So said Heidi Berry to RC then, but I learned very, very quickly.”
about one of her musical heroes, Bridget St The exquisite, pealing piano on Houses
John. It’s an observation which could very Made Of Wood was provided by Martin
easily apply to her own music. Duffy, a connection provided by another of
Born in 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts, her early supporters, Lawrence (Hayward) and Scott Walker’s Climate Of Hunter) and
into a creative, musical family with Canadian from Felt. “Lawrence was incredibly her brother Christopher on Love (1991)
roots (and as a distant relation of Jack supportive of me, offering me support slots at delivered a particular beauty with its slow
Kerouac), her early years were divided Felt gigs,” she says. “They were my first live funk-folk tug and pulse on Washington
between bucolic New Hampshire and the shows. I asked if I could have Martin, who Square and a sublime cover of Bob Mould’s
fertile atmospheres of New York’s Greenwich was so young, but so talented. They used to Up In The Air.
Village. The family relocated to London in call him ‘Professor Shorthair’!” Berry worked with Hugh Jones on her
1973. Those domestic musical skills meant Being part of the Creation ‘family’ 1993 eponymous album, which saw a deeper
she “wouldn’t have dared” pick up a guitar at introduced her to many of that scene’s dive into acoustic textures, altered: check
home but, despite this, she began to write her luminaries. “Pete and I lived near the studio Follow/Ariel and marvel. The Appalachian
own songs, composing lyrics and melodies, Creation used so people were always swing of 1996’s Miracle emerged just before
stored in notebooks and in her head. dropping by: Lawrence, Bobby Gillespie, 4AD was recalibrated by US parent Warners;
Determining that “if I couldn’t make a noise, Kevin Shields, Pat Fish [The Jazz Butcher]; it this saw Cocteau Twins signing to a major,
I’d make a mess” she attended art college, was a very friendly scene, we were all young and other acts being set aside, Berry among
studying at Chelsea, Hornsey (where Gina and supportive of each other.” them. An album recorded in 1999 with
Birch of The Raincoats was a classmate) and Patrick Fitzgerald (of Kitchens Of
Goldsmiths. “It was a very friendly Distinction) under the name The Lost
While at college she met Pete Astor, Girls went unissued until 2014; their lone
whose bands The Loft and The Weather
scene, we were young and single, Needle’s Eye, would surface on her
Prophets had already recorded for Alan supportive of each other” final 4AD release, a CD-only best of,
McGee’s fledgling Creation Records. On Pomegranate (2001).
learning that she wrote her own songs he She decided the second album would be Some hard times followed, with attempts
asked to hear them and, with some more firmly under her control, the better to to record a new album stymied by personal
reluctance, Berry sang them for him. “He realise her musical vision. Below The Waves difficulties. She survived, and found great
found a little book and said, ‘What’s this?’ so (1988) was indeed a leap forward in terms of success in professional music teaching,
I had to confess, and Pete said, ‘Sing me all performance, arrangement and vocal delivery. mentoring many young musicians, satisfying
your songs’ and I was so nervous about it. I She recalls it being created “one musician at a work which continues to this day. She is
spent a whole afternoon in his shared house time and built up layer by layer, very currently embarking on a fresh creative
in Crouch End singing all the songs and he methodical”. The atmospheric video for phase, with a new album recorded and plans
said, ‘You know, these are really good.’ It was Northshore Train has been remastered and to design the artwork herself.
the first time anyone had said anything like can be seen online. Both albums speak of a But first, the Creation albums are being
that to me.” great emerging talent, subtly blending folk reissued by Glass Modern. How did she feel
Shortly afterwards, a Weather Prophets and indie sensibilities, crowned with a serene, about revisiting her back pages? “A few years
studio session finished a day early, leaving a expressive vocal style. ago, I might not have been able to return to
free, paid studio day. Astor called Berry and Deciding against a third Creation album, the Creation stuff, as I kept seeing what I
told her to get down to the studio. That day 4AD beckoned: “Ivo Watts-Russell had seen didn’t achieve with it, rather than what I did
The Weather Prophets backed her on a demo me supporting Felt in Camden, and he achieve,” she admits. “Now I appreciate what
of Nobody Tells You caught on four-track invited me to 4AD’s offices for a discussion – we did, what is actually down on there.”
tape: this remains unissued but, she says, “I he was so English and circumspect that he Her early recordings did indeed achieve
still have it on a reel-to-reel; I daren’t touch was talking for 45 minutes before I realised much, and her new songs promise more. Her
it, it’s so fragile”. Berry wanted it kept dark he was trying to offer me a record deal.” fine melodic touch and lyrical deftness
but the studio engineer took it to Alan Watts-Russell initially invited her to sing delight, while the voice is like aural
McGee; delighted, he was straight on the on the final This Mortal Coil album, Blood moonlight, sometimes warm and harvest-
phone offering her the chance to make a (1991), on a spectrally disembodied version hued, sometimes winter-night clear,
record. The result was the six-track mini- of Rodney Crowell’s ’Til I Gain Control inhabiting a space where June Tabor, Nico
album, Firefly (1987), reissued on last year’s Again. Afforded creative freedom, and game- and Sandy Denny meet.
Record Store Day. “I was a novice, learning as changing vocal tuition from Tona De Brett,
we went,” she recalls. “For example, I knew her 4AD albums are distinctive, immaculate Words: Pete Mills
Houses Made Of Wood didn’t sound how I and sensual. Working with Peter Walsh (who Firefly and Below The Waves have been
was hearing it in my head, and eventually we produced Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream reissued on coloured vinyl by Glass Modern.
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ENGINE
ROOM
The unsung heroes who
helped forge modern music

This month: Sandy Posey

As one of the many individually talented Written by Bobby Buie and JR Cobb, I
female singers of the 60s, Sandy Posey stood Take It Back was her final hit; a song displaying
out from the crowd by being one of the best more country leanings than previous singles, it
interpreters of countrified pop shot through also highlighted her liking for The Shirelles and She continued to do session work, and
with a splash of Memphis soul. Back then, The Shangri-Las. Posey was no slouch herself in was as in-demand as ever, providing backing
you couldn’t go to a birthday party, Saturday the songwriting stakes: Blue Is My Best Color, vocals for everyone from Tommy Roe to Joe
night dance or school disco without hearing A You Got To Have Love To Be Happy, I Can Tex and Bobby Goldsboro. She also backed
Single Girl, a moody lament that says so much Show You How To Live and All Hung Up In Percy Sledge on his southern soul classic,
about teenage anguish and unrequited lust. Your Green Eyes offer another perspective When A Man Loves A Woman, and worked
Born in Jasper, Alabama, in 1944, Posey among her many talents. with Elvis on Kentucky Rain, The Wonder
was the youngest of five children raised on Posey frequently described her brand of Of You, Suspicious Minds and In The
gospel music and deep south hospitality. She music as “pop-country” and acknowledged her Ghetto, as well as many of his gospel
began performing in public at an early age and love of The Beach Boys’ close harmonies and recordings.
after graduating from high school she found the sounds emanating from England via The Having always admired Hank Williams,
work as a receptionist with several recording Beatles and the British Invasion. Her musical Posey decided to pursue her interest in
studios ending up at Chips Moman’s tastes were remarkably diverse, ranging from country music and relocated to Nashville in
American Sound Studio in Memphis. traditional rhythm and blues to contemporary the 70s where she found regular session
During this time, Posey worked as a writers such as P. F. Sloan and Joe South. work with producer Billy Sherrill, now best
session singer, attending sessions for Sam remembered for co-writing Stand By Your
Phillips at Sun Records, while also working Shy and retiring by Man with Tammy Wynette. Under
with the Hurshel Wiginton Singers who were Sherrill’s guidance Posey supported many
in constant demand, adding their backing
nature, she never much Nashville legends including Waylon
vocals to hundreds of recordings. Posey also cared for touring Jennings, Charlie Rich and George Jones,
recorded solo under various pseudonyms, and also enjoyed a Top 20 country chart
though these made little impression either Aiming to furnish Posey with another hit, hit of her own with Bring Him Home
locally or nationally. Sharp wrote the reflective Ways Of The Safely To Me.
Just as it seemed that her musical World. It was a truly creative collaboration Nowadays, she continues to work as a
ambitions would come to nothing, she was that underscored their individual credentials backing singer for her husband Wade
invited by a song plugger named Gary Walker and should have consolidated their musical Cummins, better known as Elvis Wade,
to cut a demo at Muscle Shoals called Born A partnership, yet for some inexplicable reason it often touted as the best Elvis impersonator
Woman, written by the equally unknown failed. A few months earlier Sharp had penned in the world. This is hard to deny bearing in
Martha Marion Sharp. Come Back When You Grow Up for Bobby mind that the King himself endorsed his act
Moman was so taken by the demo that he Vee; a contentious song that turned out to be by inviting Wade to join him in concert at
re-recorded the song at his own studio and the last major hit for both Vee and Sharp, Las Vegas in 1969, an honour Presley never
leased it through MGM who instantly signed though Sharp would later secure a more extended to any other impersonator. It has
up Posey. Though the song blatantly dependable income when appointed Vice been further compounded by the willingness
subjugates women (fuel to the fire for President of Warner Records. of The Jordanaires (a harmony group who
feminists), it went on to sell over a million Unfortunately for Posey, by the end of ’68 worked with Presley) to add their vocal
copies, and Posey’s reading suggests how the her career was beginning to fade. Over two support to Wade’s live shows over the years.
‘victim’ was able to manipulate a situation to short years she had released nine singles and Wade and Posey married in 1993 and
her advantage. four studio albums. Shy and retiring by have been performing together ever since,
It was the pensive follow-up, Single Girl – nature, she never much cared for touring, and and as born-again Christians they are not
also penned by Sharp – that gave Posey her doing the publicity rounds and conducting averse to promoting their evangelical beliefs
greatest international hit; a song that interviews was never her forte. onstage. For Posey, the journey from
encapsulates the sound of mid-60s America in To be fair to Posey, the rise of Tamla Memphis belle to Countrypolitan pioneer to
much the same way as Daydream by The Motown, Stax and Atlantic Records, coupled sacred crusader has proven to be a long and
Lovin’ Spoonful or Spooky by the Classics IV. with the folk-rock movement promoted by winding road to salvation.
Her third single, What A Woman In Love Elektra/Asylum, did much to sideline the
Won’t Do, by musical polymath John D fortunes of many female country singers. Words: Lin Bensley
Loudermilk, gave Posey a minor hit on both The careers of Bobbie Gentry, Nancy Sinatra Sandy Posey Born A Woman – The
sides of the Atlantic, though she admitted she and Jeannie C Riley all suffered a similar Complete MGM Recordings 1966-1968 is
never much liked the song, perhaps because of fate, though Posey appeared to take it all in on Strawberry Records.
the subservient role of the song’s protagonist. her stride.
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BIRTH! SCHOOL!
WORK! DEATH!
Drum legend Chester Thompson… on the soundtrack to his life

Buddy Rich & Max Roach Rich Versus Roach Elvin Jones Merry Go Round
(Mercury MMC 14031, LP, UK, 1959) £15 (Blue Note BST-84414, LP, US, 1972) £10

I started playing in seventh grade [age 12]. My I saw Elvin Jones live before I heard this album. I
brother’s friend found out I was learning drums and started playing the [Baltimore] clubs when I was 13; by
offered to give me lessons. He would put an album on the time I was 15, I was in a couple of jazz groups, but
and teach me how to play along with it. This was one of them. They were I was never a purist. I would go to these jam sessions and learn the jazz
polar opposites: Buddy Rich was bombastic; everything is chops and repertoire and there were never less than two a week in Baltimore. Really
going for it, while Max Roach is much more rhythm, a bit tastier in my good players would come out and I got to learn. I was pretty young: I was
opinion. He left space where Buddy Rich didn’t leave any. the kid who got the chance to meet his heroes.

Ahmad Jamal Trio Poinciana from But Not For Mahavishnu Orchestra Inner Mounting Flame
Me: Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing (London Records (CBS S 64717, LP, insert, UK, 1972) £15
LTZ-M 15162, LP, UK, 1959) £20
This was my first real introduction to Billy Cobham.
This was the first album that really grabbed me. My He’d played on several other recordings, but when I
oldest brother was a real jazz fan. I heard Poinciana by heard Mahavishnu, I was wrecked. For a drummer, it
Ahmad Jamal and just fell in love with it. I was 13 at the time. Even now, was mind-blowing. I saw them play live from the side of the stage, on tour
it’s still one of my very favourites. It’s so perfectly executed; it builds in a way with Zappa. I had to keep walking away, it was so intense. I’d never seen
that totally makes sense. At that age, it wasn’t that easy to play, to actually anyone play like Billy before. He’s built like an American football player
show off. I never got see [drummer] Vernell Fournier, and I wish I was more and I fully expected the toms to go down through the floor as he was
familiar with the other things he did, but man, he was brilliant on that. hitting them so hard.

Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro Frank Zappa Apostrophe (’) (DiscReet K 59201,
(CBS S 63551, LP, UK, 1969) £50 LP, UK, 1974) £20

This album is out there for a lot of people, but it was I was going to go back to music school to go deeper
my first time checking out and really getting Tony into what I was doing. Before that happened, I got the
Williams. Tony never played the obvious. He never call to audition for Frank. I thought, this is what I’m
went where everybody else went. I ran into Tony in Paris, and he invited going to be going to school for! I heard Apostrophe (’) and had to learn a
us down to see the show that night. Miles had passed, but they kept that lot of it. The whole band scared me half to death. Frank was a brilliant
band and called it VSOP. One of my favourite places to play is Paris teacher; he just knew how to take you to that next level.
because they might be the most educated audience there is. We were
playing Cinema Show on that Genesis tour, and the audience was Wayne Shorter Native Dancer
clapping along in seven. We saw Tony that night and it was unbelievable. (CBS 80721, LP, UK, 1975) £20
He commands a whole different level of response.
I’m new in Weather Report and we’d been rehearsing
Sly & The Family Stone Stand! a few weeks when Wayne Shorter had a listening party
(CBS 63655, LP, UK, Direction label, 1969) £20 at Joe Zawinul’s house. He had this phenomenal
sound system. I was captured. It’s supposed to be a co-album between him
This was the freshest thing ever when it came out. I’d and Milton Nascimento, the premier Brazilian composer. It goes back and
never heard anything quite like it. Its grooves were just forth with their compositions. The atmosphere that it set and the sound of
unreal, and it was such an eclectic bunch of people. it . . . I’d never heard anything quite like it.
I grew up on the east coast, so the whole California thing was pretty new
to me. Soon I ended up in Frank Zappa’s band. My first impression was Stevie Wonder Songs In The Key Of Life
that I was in a room full of hippies, yet they were all just amazing (Tamla Motown TMSP 6002, 2LP/7”, booklet,
musicians. Sly was just so fresh. I got to meet Greg Errico [drums] but gatefold, UK, 1976) £30
never got to hear him play live. He was in Weather Report for a bit. They
tried him because they loved what he did. Between Weather Report and Genesis, I ended up
doing The Wiz. During that period, Songs In The Key
Photo: (Chester Thompson) GianRock Photography

Thelma Houston Sunshower Of Life was my soundtrack. It was always on in my car or in my

(Stateside SSL 5010, LP, UK, 1969) £20 apartment. It amazed me. Stevie came to Nashville about four years ago
and did the entire Songs In The Key Of Life. Unbelievable. He did a four-
Sunshower? That’s a two-part thing. Thelma hour concert. Afterwards, we had backstage passes. He came back and did
Houston’s singing just grabbed me; and that it was another three songs in the backstage. I was like, “Are you kidding me?
arranged and produced by Jimmy Webb. And what This guy is unstoppable!”
arrangements! Again, it was the freshness. I thought her handling of it all
was amazing. She ended up going to Motown after that, and they really Words: Daryl Easlea
put her in a pretty tight R&B box. I felt like they had no clue what this Chester Thompson’s new album, Wake-Up Call, is available at
woman was capable of. essentials.progrock.com/shop
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OF THE BEST
This month: Bruce Hornsby on his collaborations

Don Henley The End Of The Innocence Mavis Staples Celestial Railroad (from Bruce
(Geffen GEF 57, 7”, UK, 1989) £3 Hornsby & The Noisemakers Rehab Reunion, 429
Records FTN 16141, CD, UK, 2016) £5
I received a call out of the blue from Don asking
to write a song together, so I recorded a musical I originally wrote this for The Staples Singers in 1994.
idea I had that hadn’t been fully realised. Don When I supported Bonnie Raitt later that year, Mavis
came to my house, I played it for him, and he later called me from came up to me, singing Celestial Railroad, so I instantly loved her. She
his car – he had one of the giant early cellphones. He exclaimed that told me: “We worked on that song, but Pop never felt like he was getting
he seemed to be writing half the song in his car on the drive back it.” Years later, making my dulcimer record Rehab Reunion, I figured it was
from my house. In general, I find it fascinating to step into other a simple enough song even I could play on dulcimer. I flew to where
people’s worlds and seeing if I can enhance it. Mavis lives in Chicago, and it was joyful. She’s one of the most lovable,
endearing people I’ve met in my entire life.
Bob Dylan T.V. Talkin’ Song (from Under
The Red Sky, CBS 467 188-1, LP, UK, 1990) Bon Iver U (Man Like) (from i ,i, Jagjaguwar JAG
£10 350, LP, UK, 2019) £25

A classic example of the spontaneity that can I don’t hear much from Justin Vernon lately. He’s
happen on a Dylan record. We’d recorded Born deep into his own zen mode, which I respect
In Time then, after a break, Kenny Aronoff started playing a beat. completely. But on a spiritual, creative, sympatico
Me, Robben Ford and Randy Jackson were jamming on it when level, it’d be natural for us to make an album together. We have a few
Bob walks in, with a bunch of lyrics. He spread them out on the other songs lying around that are semi-notable and could be developed,
table, listens to us for a minute, looks around at the lyrics, picks one but I’m not calling Justin going: “Hey, man, how about it?” When Justin
up and starts singing: “One time in London, I’d gone out for a got back with DeYarmond Edison in Raleigh to play the wedding of the
walk…” He did it straight away, from top to bottom, and that was chef Ashley Christensen, I joined in. I was on tour nearby and I’m an easy
it, that’s T.V. Talkin’ Song. mark for Justin because I always have a great time with him.

Jerry Garcia Barren Ground (from Bruce Danielle Haim Days Ahead (from Bruce Hornsby
Hornsby & The Range A Night On The Town, ’Flicted, Zappo ZAPPO 0031, LP, US, 2022) £25
RCA PL 82041, LP, UK, 1990) £8
I love Haim and thought Danielle would crush this
I was never intimidated working with Bob Dylan song. She did, and her part encompasses possibly two-
or Jerry Garcia, maybe through the false plus octaves. When I was coming up, I was suddenly
confidence of the young. By this time, I’d opened for the Grateful working with my heroes, like writing Go Back To Your Woods with
Dead for four years and Jerry had become a friend. Barren Ground Robbie Robertson, who was a semi-deity to me. Now I’m the elder, it’s
is the first song of mine Jerry played on, which was recorded at Dave the greatest gift that younger musicians are interested in what I do. It
Stewart’s house in Encino. Jerry’s playing made the track sing, and it started with Justin Vernon shouting my name out. That opened the door
remains a favourite solo on my records, along with his work on to a room where I’ve found many other young musicians waiting.
Across The River on the same album.
Ezra Koenig Sidelines (from Bruce Hornsby ‘Flicted, Zappo ZAPPO
Bonnie Raitt I Can’t Make You Love Me 0031, LP, US, 2022) £25 (see sleeve above)
(Capitol CL 639, 7”, UK, 1991) £5
Ezra reached out to be a guest on his podcast, Time Crisis. I kept doing it
Bonnie is my musical big sister: she gets what I’m and we became friends. Whenever I went to LA, I’d hang out with Ezra
going for. We met at a party Elton John threw in and his friend, the producer Ariel Rechtshaid, who worked on Sidelines
Bel Air and hung out most of the night. Nobody and Days Ahead for me. I heard Ezra’s voice in my head for Sidelines and
knows what will be a hit, so all I can say is that this session was short I love what he does on this semi-obtuse song about the Covid shutdown.
and effortless. Bonnie sings it beautifully, but then she could sing the He even created his own Beach Boys-esque a cappella section, which is so
phone book beautifully, too. It’s a classic, timeless ballad, but did you strong and creative. I owe him a writing credit for it.
hear anything like it on the radio? No. It’s kind of like The Way It
Is: it’s its own thing, nothing like the standard hit mode of the day. yMusic Platypus Wow (from BrhyM Deep Sea
Vents, Zappo ZPP 51, LP, US, 2024) £25
Chris Whitley Radar (from Rocket House,
ATO UTLP 040, 2LP, Germany, 2001) £60 I met yMusic when we both played at Bon Iver’s
festival, Eau Claire. Rob Moose asked if I’d like to
Chris is an unsung great; every singer-songwriter write a song with them, which became Deep Sea Vents’
I know adores him. When Here Come The title track. Our collaboration then hit warp speed during lockdown.
Noisemakers was out, Chris called me at 1am to Around November 2020, when everyone was reeling, they started sending
say: “The Valley Road makes me cry.” We laughed about that, then me tracks. Their instrumental for this was titled Duck Soup, whose
Chris told me he’d just finished an album, he wished I could play on beginning had a certain quack factor. I thought: “What’s an interesting
it. I said: “Send me the mastered version and I’ll piss all over it.” I mammal in that mode?” and began singing about a platypus.
sent Chris a bunch of Wurlitzer and piano ideas, and he used one
on Radar’s outro. I literally got in under the wire to work with such As told to: John Earls
an original, hugely missed talent. Deep Sea Vents is on Zappo. Hornsby’s Meltdown show is 18 June.
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