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Even Robert Plant’s staunchest fans could not have predicted the commercial and critical success of Raising Sand, the astonishingly adventurous album he recorded last year with bluegrass queen Alison Krauss. Jonathan Wingate meets a man on a mission to embrace the new and discover unchartered musical territory: “I’ve got music running through my veins, so if you really are …

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70 YEARS OF ELECTRIC

70 YEARS OF ELECTRIC

The Riffs – And Records – That Changed The World. Part Two: from the Sabs to the Arctics. By Jono Scott 1970 TONY IOMMI, BLACK SABBATH, Black Sabbath (Vertigo VO 6) (2nd pressing, with gatefold sleeve and Dunbar credit for Warning, swirl label, if laminated) £200 The term “heavy metal” appeared in print for the first time in Mike Saunders’ Humble Pie review for …

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Lost gems of THE SIXTIES

Lost gems of THE SIXTIES

Kingsley Abbot turns up some hidden nuggets from the golden decade The explosion of music that happened in the 60s record industry helped make record collecting a really serious hobby. After the thrills of the first rock’n’roll 50s era, the 60s brought us a mass of collectable genres that catered to every taste: neo doo wop, beat, girl groups, blue beat, surf, harmony, folk rock, …

ARTICLE From Issue 350

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DVD box sets by AC/DC, Megadeth, Rick Wakeman, and Queen.
DVDs from Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix.
The last batch of Genesis catalogue reissues.
Sex Pistols reissued singles.
Upcoming reissues of The Cure and The Smiths.
Dozens of signed rock star radios up for auction.
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Reviews from the current issue

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LIVERPOOL FIVE - The Best Of

Amazing story of Britbeat abroad in the 60s As a hard-working band of Londoners, the Liverpool Five’s youthful imagination is really only hinted at by their chosen moniker. Their particular brand of adventurousness didn’t really translate on to vinyl: they’re super-tight pros, but far from original. It’s the band’s story of roaming the world as missionaries of the …

ALBUM REVIEW From Issue 350

VARIOUS - All You Need Is Love

The best music series ever! Tony Palmer’s monumental BBC Two series covering the whole of popular music was first broadcast in 1976, effectively pre-VHS, making it is unlikely that even the keenest music fan saw every episode. This 5-DVD box set contains all 17 of the 50-minute episodes as originally transmitted (the word “shit” is still suppressed). The episodes …

DVD REVIEW From Issue 350

Drugs, Divorce & A Slipping Image by Doug Sulpy

The Get Back sessions under a microscope Doug Sulpy’s books on unreleased Beatles tracks are excellent resources for collectors or those just curious as to what’s out there, but in Drugs, Divorce & A Slipping Image he really outdid himself. It’s a blow-by-blow account of each day of The Beatles’ January 1969 sessions for the then-titled Get Back, from the …

BOOK REVIEW From Issue 350

PETER HOPE-EVANS/GARY GRAINGER BAND - Twickenham Eel Pie Club (20th February, 2008)

View: middle, at front This was a sell-out gig for a true all-star band, harmonica genius Hope-Evans (Medicine Head) and understated guitarist Grainger (Rod Stewart) uniting for sophisticated blues-rock, along with the elegant keys of Dire Straits’ Guy Fletcher and the snappy rhythms of Elton John percussionist Danny Cummings. The result at its best was awesomely organic, fluid, yet …

LIVE REVIEW From Issue 350

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