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• COVER STORY: THE BEATLES
  Fifty years of pleasure from Please Please Me; The Eggman cracks one off over some books
• TING TINGS
  Doing it for the kids
• BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE
  Coincidence and likely stories

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	SIXTH BEATLES AND OTHER TALES Have we heard it all now? What is worth repeating about the Fab Four? Patrick Humphries knows, and he pinpoints the over looked people who were crucial to the band, and recalls meeting members of this little-known quartet from Merseyside. Then turn the pages for Please Please Me decoded, and a review of recent Beatle books. . . It is said that there is a new book on The Beatles … FEATURED ARTICLE From Issue 401
	Purple Phase Deep Purple’s longest-serving axeman, Steve Morse, and former frontman, Joe Lynn Turner, both have fingers in supergroup pies, and not for the first time, as Tim Jones points out While he learned his chops with 70s fusioners Dixie Dregs and honed AOR sensibilities in 80s Kansas (notably on Power), all-American plank-spanker Steve Morse has surpassed Deep Purple talisman Ritchie … ARTICLE From Issue 401
	TALK TING HEADS The Ting Tings burst into the charts in 2008, introducing an innocent younger generation to the joys of vinyl and art-pop, a cunning plan that singer Katie White sketched out for Tim Comprising Nancy Sinatra lookalike Katie White and tub-thumper Jules De Martino, the multi-instrumentalist duo The Ting Tings (who play, between them, guitar, bass and keyboards), have returned with their second … ARTICLE From Issue 401

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JOHN JACOB NILES - The Boone-Tolliver Recordings

Spectral emanations are a boon for folk collectors A photo of Niles in the sleevenotes – at home, seemingly in T-shirt and undercrackers, testing some homemade concoction with a smile at the kitchen table – is so at odds with our image of the man that it might as well be a hoax. We’re more used to seeing him with his iconic dulcimer, dressed to the …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 401

ALTER BRIDGE - Live At Wembley

Rawk at its slickest Documentary makers have to stop randomly asking fans in stadium parking lots what they think of the band they’re queuing up to see. No one cares about their poxy, everyday opinions, and it just reminds us all what a bunch of sheep we are. That bugbear aside, Alter Bridge’s triumphant live souvenir of a Wembley Arena show last year is a pretty …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 401

GHOSTS BEHIND THE SUN: SPLENDOR, ENIGMA & DEATH (MONDO MEMPHIS, VOLUME ONE) by Tav Falco

All the way Memphis masterpiece After over 30 years of mating rock’n’roll’s primal catharsis with enigmatic art-tuned visions as the Panther Burns, a sizzling book debut might be expected from Falco. But, in recounting the history of his beloved Memphis through landmark events, musical peaks and savage criminal lows, while interweaving his own autobiography via his Eugene …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 401

MICHAEL ROTHER - Brisbane Zoo, Australia (15th March, 2012)

View: front, stage-right Three casually dressed men with free bus passes took to the stage, knobs got twizzled, and squinting glances were exchanged before a smattering of weird noises became audible, then the Neu! groove began. Krautrock legends Michael Rother, Deiter Moebuis and Hans Lampe don’t carry themselves as if responsible for influencing so much of the electronic …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 401

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