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RIDING THE WAVES

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

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST RECORD COLLECTION?

BOB GEORGE aims to collect two copies of every vinyl album ever made. He’s well on the way to doing it. Stephen Nessen reports from New York On weekends Bob George goes to yard-sales in upstate New York. He buys small pocket-knives that cost less than two dollars, tiki mugs, and colorful plastic tomahawks. “You have to put some restrictions on yourself,” he said. He also buys …

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Unseen Queen

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

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Reviews from the current issue

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

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Lost Highways American Road Songs 1920s-1950s

Drive time radio hour The road trip has long been a staple of American art. Jack Kerouac wrote about it, Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda filmed it, and Edward Hopper painted it; but it’s music that really brought the metaphors to life. Whether Faustian deals at crossroads, cross-country searches for the “real America” or the rite de passage of adolescence, the …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 365

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Glastonbury Fayre

Archives of Avalon Of his classic coming of age film Walkabout, director Nic Roeg once reflected how he’d “just came across things by chance… filming whatever [I] found”. He clearly found the same technique just as appropriate for his next film, a documentary of the 1971 Glastonbury Festival. The then recent relaxation of censorship in filmmaking gave Roeg the opportunity …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 365

Nine Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert

Not quite putting a spell on us Simone’s tale is so complex and fraught with inconsistencies in both character and recollections that the rise and fall of North Carolina-born Eunice Waymon is a mammoth task for any biographer, let alone one with a habit of undercutting himself. Acknowledging the faults with Simone’s own autobiography, Brun-Lambert often returns to it for quotes from …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 365

JULIETTE LEWIS - Southampton Talking Heads (19th May, 2009)

View: behind tall bloke, as usual Five dates into a year-long tour and Lewis is already looking the worse for wear, not to mention scary. The disappointing truth is that she doesn’t sing well. The last person to perform so consistently flat was Louise Wener of Sleeper, although Louise wouldn’t have attempted Juliette’s Janis Joplin-style blueswailing on Hard …

LIVE REVIEW From Issue 365