Issue #357

XMAS 2008

XMAS 2008

ELVIS the comeback
Gary Numan Top 75 rarities,Darlene Love Spector’s greatest diva, PLUS Dave Clark, Guns N’Roses, The Clash Miles Davis, Buzzcocks, Tom Jones

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SHEFFIELD OF DREAMS When punk got usurped... by a bunch of fashionistas with synths
GUNS N’ROSES Axl owns Guns future, but Slash and Duff McKagan take us back to their early hellraising LA past
DAVE CLARK FIVE We give you all the bits’n’pieces you need
GARY NUMAN No replicas in our run-down of some of the hottest Numanoid rarities in existence
DARLENE LOVE The star of Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You gets festive with us
ELVIS PRESLEY It’s the 40th anniversary comeback of Elvis’ career-saving ’68 Comeback Special
60,000,000 Buffalo Nevada Jukebox
Ahmad Jamal Happy Moods
Anne Briggs Anne Briggs
Ash Ash 1977: Collector’s Edition
Bauhaus Mask
Belle & Sebastian The BBC Sessions
Benge Twenty Systems
Clarence Clemons Hero
Cornelius Sensurous & Sensurround
Danielson Trying Hartz
Dave Clarke Back In The Box
Déficit Des Années Antérieures Action & Japanese Demonstration
Echo & The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
Elizete Cardoso Canção Do Amor Demais
Ernest V Stoneman The Unsung Father Of Country Music (1925- 1934)
Fotheringay Fotheringay 2
Gary Farr Take Something With You
Gun Club The Life & Times of Jeffrey Lee Pierce & The Gun Club
Gwen Guthrie Portrait
Hank Williams The Unreleased Recordings
Isolde All Things To Fall Like Marching Men
Jan & Dean The Complete Liberty Singles
Jeff Beck Performing This Week: Live At Ronnie Scott’s
Jeff Simmons Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up
Jellybread The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Joan Osborne Little Wild One
Joe Brown More Of The Truth
Jon Anderson 3 Ships
Julie Felix First Second & Third: The Complete Decca LPs 1964-1966
Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid NYC
Kush Nah, Tellus Wh’t Kush Means Yer Great Sausage
Long Tall Texans Saturnalia!
Magazine The Complete John Peel Sessions
Marillion Early Stages: The Official Bootleg Box Set 1982-87
Mark Olson & Gary Louris Ready For The Flood
Miles Davis Kind Of Blue: 50th Anniversary Legacy Box Set Edition
Muslimgauze Armsbazzar
Nina Simone To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
Pat Kilroy Light of Day
Pat Travers Hot Shot
Paul Weller At The BBC
Peter Green The Anthology
Quatrain Quatrain
Rabbit Dark Saloon/Broken Arrows
Robert Calvert Freq
Ry Cooder The UFO Has Landed: The Ry Cooder Anthology
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals Cardinology
Spencer Davis So Far
Stefan Goldmann The Transitory State/ Voices Of The Dead
Teiji Ito Watermill
The Albion Christmas Band Snow On Snow
The Boys The Punk Rock Anthology
The Corporation Get On Our Swing/ Hassles In My Mind
The Cure 4:13 Dream
The Dave Clark Five The Hits
The Doors Live At The Matrix
The Jesus & Mary Chain The Power Of Negative Thinking: BSides And Rarities
The Kinks Picture Book
The Matthew Herbert Big Band There’s Me & There’s You
The Ministry Of Sound Men From The Ministry/ Midsummer Night’s Dreaming
The Monochrome Set The Lost Weekend
The Peppermint Rainbow Will You Be Staying After Sunday
The Pete Best Band Haymans Green
The Smiths The Sound Of The Smiths
The Web Fully Interlocking
Third Door From The Left Face The Firing Squad
Tom Jones 24 Hours
Top Topham The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Truth Of Them & Other Tales
Various artists 10 Years Of Finger Lickin’
Various artists All New Electric Muse
Various artists Bikes’n’Leather: Rockin’ At The Ace
Various artists Born To The Breed: A Tribute To Judy Collins
Various artists Break-A-Way: The Songs of Jackie DeShannon 1961- 1967
Various artists The Clock Machine Turns You On: Volume 2
Various artists Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Various artists The Golden Age of American Popular Music Vol 2
Various artists Jeepster
Various artists Mighty Superfunk
Various artists The Rapture: Tapes
Various artists Sleepwalk: Mixed By Optimo
Various artists Twisted Nerve Mixed
AC/DC No Bull: The Director’s Cut
The Beach Boys & The Satan
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young CSNY Déjà Vu
Hawkwind Knights Of Space
The Dudley Moore Trio Jazz In Oz
BB King At Sing Sing Prison
The Police Certifiable Live
The Rolling Stones Shine A Light
Various artists Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
Pink Floyd A Technicolor Dream
AC/DC AC/DC: The Encyclopaedia by Malcolm Dome & Jerry Ewing
The Beatles The Beatles Christmas Book by Belmo & Garry Marsh
Marc Bolan Marc Bolan: Born To Boogie by Chris Welch & Simon Napier-Bell
The Byrds So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star: The Byrds Day-By-Day 1965-1973 by Christopher Hjort
Kurt Cobain Cobain Unseen by Charles R Cross
Graham Nash Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography by Dave Zimmer & Henry Diltz
Various artists Merseybeat: A Musical Memoir by Ian McNabb
Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Worldwide II: An Anthology Of Original 7”, 12”, EP & CD Singles Releases 1971- 2008 by Christoph Maus
Steven Tyler Steven Tyler The Biography by Laura Jackson
Various artists I Shot A Man In Reno by Graeme Thomson
Various artists Blue Shots: Photographs By Erik Lindahl by Erik Lindahl
The South Bronx Do Not Give Way To Evil: Photographs Of The South Bronx, 1979-1987 by Lisa Kahane
Various artists The Encyclopaedia Of Swedish Punk 1977- 1987 by Peter Jandreus
Various artists The Essential Northern Soul Price Guide Edition Two by Tim Brown & Martin Koppel
The Clash The Clash by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Topper Headon
Various artists Mellotron: The Machine & Musicians That Revolutionised Rock by Nick Awde
Various artists Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963- 1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz
Various artists Ye Olde Metal Volumes 1-4 (1968-1977) by Martin Popoff
Oasis London Wembley Arena, Camden Roundhouse (17th October, 2008)
John Cale London Royal Festival Hall (11th October, 2008)
Scorpions, Uli Jon Roth London Hammersmith Apollo (18th October, 2008)
Nik Turner & Friends King’s Hall Herne Bay (28th September, 2008)
Elbow Manchester Apollo (23rd October, 2008)
Elbow Truro Hall For Cornwall (8th October, 2008)
Spiritualized Glasgow ABC 1 (8th October, 2008)
Wishbone Ash Truro Hall For Cornwall (11th October, 2008)
Joan Baez (26th September, 2008)
Joan Baez London Royal Albert Hall (2nd October, 2008)
The Monochrome Set London Camden Dingwall’s (8th October, 2008)
Ronnie Spector Southampton Brook (24th September, 2008)
Dave Stewart & His 30-Piece Rock Fabulous Orchestra New York Highline Ballroom (17th September, 2008)
Killing Joke Glasgow ABC 1 (2nd October, 2008)
Goldfrapp New York Radio City Music Hall (12th September, 2008)
Swervedriver Glasgow King Tut’s (18th September, 2008)
Cyndi Lauper London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (14th October, 2008)
The Subways Glasgow ABC 1 (6th October, 2008)
Thievery Corporation London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (16th October, 2008)
1975: Was It Really That Bad? Glenn D Evans
Rush N Roulette Simon Harris
Cryme Watch, Continued Peter Vickers,vickers@hotmail.com
Meek To Inherit The Earth (not) John Beecher
Flirtation T’anks Dean Harrington
Missing Charmers Grim O’Grady
Download Disc-ussion Neil Littman
Canadian Specific Alan Sharpe

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