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THE CLAPTON CHRONICLES

To celebrate Eric Clapton’s current return to the world’s stages, we present a classic interview in which he talks to Pierre Perrone about the blues, BB King, Pete Townshend and Jeff Beck “I don’t like doing interviews or rather I don’t like to see myself in the papers. I prefer the quiet life,” Eric Clapton told me when I interviewed him about Riding With …

FEATURED ARTICLE From Issue 378

GORILLAZ CAMPAIGN

Jake Kennedy dons his two-dimensional WW2 military fatigues and baseball cap to chart the history of the world’s most successful cartoon band It’s 1998. Not many people feel like partying. British music – mainstream British music at least – has been beleaguered for too long by vacuous pop and TV crossovers. A rock star and a cartoonist, slouched on their sofa in …

ARTICLE From Issue 378

20 UNDISCOVERED RARITIES

Worth hundreds of pounds today, these albums appeared on major labels but slipped through the cracks to become some of today’s ultra-rarities. Compiled by Richard Morton Jack In the last decade, the period between 1965 and 1973 has become unquestionably the most collectible. Mint albums by household names such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd routinely sell for enormous sums …

ARTICLE From Issue 378

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A taster of the biggest and best music news pages from Record Collector

Metal coloured vinyl bonanza

Spiritualized art exhibition

Queen vinyl reissues

Freehold memorabilia sale

Syd Barrett exhibition and reel-to-reel tape

Delaney & Bonnie, Sandy Denny box sets

UK's biggest counterfeit ring smashed - exclusive report

Q&As: Kula Shaker 

Kate Nash 

Foghat

Jeff Berlin 

Triumph 

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

DAVE SWARBRICK - Raison D’Etre 

A culmination of eight years’ work During the last decade, Dave Swarbrick has been lauded in virtually every possible way a folk musician can be for his solo work and his historical collaborations with Fairport Convention and Martin Carthy. His fans will rejoice to engage with this, an album that the man has been assembling over the 10 years. If you’re expecting a …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 378

CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR - Live At The Troubadour

Old stagers reunited, prejudices be damned… Carole King and James Taylor represent a certain sector of the early 70s rock elite that sentimental, middle-class babyboomers love. As a result, this King/Taylor reunion act, recorded at the legendary Troubadour venue in 2007, is a tad syrupy at times: the couple exchange flowers on stage and shake hands with the crowd before the …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 378

Signed, Sealed & Delivered: The Soulful Journey Of Stevie Wonder by Mark Ribowsky

He’s misstra show-and-tellit- all Born premature and left blind from over-oxygenation in an incubation tank, the odds were against Steveland Morris from the start. As Ribowsky himself notes, Steveland’s mother’s hometown was Hurtsboro, Alabama – it might as well have been Hardtime, Mississippi. The young boy quickly found an aptitude for music, though, whipping …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 378

CHIC - Dublin Live Tripod (29th May, 2010)

View: centre, by mixing desk Nile Rodger’s Chic Organisation loved the adulation of this keen crowd and their set-list was an unadulterated celebration of his and Bernard Edwards’ skills as songwriters and producers. Their main strengths lay in disco, which made up the bulk of the set, though not exclusively: It included hits upon which Rodgers played or …

LIVE REVIEW From Issue 378

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