McCartney:
Part two of a series. To recap, I have a friend who has never heard any of Paul McCartney’s solo and Wings LPs, except for, as he put it, the Frog Song, the one about no man’s land at Christmas,… Read More ›
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Sir Paul McCartney at Eighty: Were Wings Really The Band The Beatles Could Have Been?
“It is hard to understand quite how it happened, but there are millions of teenagers running around now who don’t know who U2 are.” I was talking to my friend Steve the other day after reading this comment online where… Read More ›
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The Story of Pulp’s Different Class
Pulp’s defining album, “Different Class” reached the top of the charts in 1995 nearly thirty years ago, in a move designed solely to make us all feel rather old. In a year when the rest of Britain was deciding whether… Read More ›
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ABBA – Voyage – “Live” Review from a London’s ABBA Arena
You only had to be at the Genesis farewell concerts earlier this year to wonder about the future of rock music. The O2 Arena looked on as Phil Collins, stymied by age and illness, gamely sung their greatest hits sitting… Read More ›
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The Long and Winding Road: How Cher Found Her Mojo On Jackson Highway
How Cher found success despite a disastrous performance in front of Princess Margaret, going to school with rubber bands on her shoes and working for Phil Spector…
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The Story Of Clube da Esquina – One of Brazil’s Greatest Treasures
Clube da Esquina by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges was one of only five Brazilian albums to be featured in the book “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”.
If you have yet to hear this fusion of Brazilian music and Beatles-inflected pop, this may whet your appetite… -
Should You Buy Nineties Vinyl?
…and a discussion of Record Collector’s Logic. Also: The Great R.E.M. CD / Vinyl Hunt… Have we reached peak vinyl? Should we all pile in to CDs now the price is a tiny fraction of the cost of vinyl? Is… Read More ›
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Format Wars: CDs Versus Vinyl – Which Is The Least Rubbish?
The Great R.E.M. CD Hunt (Part 2) In the last article we asked some of the fundamental questions of the universe. For example: With the re-release of Paul Weller’s Stanley Road for no less than £32.99, have we reached Peak… Read More ›
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Peak Vinyl? Is It Time To Start Buying CDs Again?
The Great R.E.M. CD Hunt (Part 1) As with many bad ideas, this one started in a pub. History is littered with Bad Ideas That Started In Pubs. The Pet Rock was an idea that began in a pub, naturally…. Read More ›
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Records to buy on Record Store Day (that aren’t RSD releases)
April 23rd 2022 marks the UK’s fifteenth Record Store Day, a day set aside to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store, and to hopefully keep them in business. It is still the busiest day of the year… Read More ›
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The Search for Kraftwerk’s Ralf and Florian
It’s 1971, and Kraftwerk are playing on German TV show The Beatclub following the release of their debut album, Kraftwerk 1. The trio feature the hirsute rock god Michael Rother on gold Les Paul guitar, Klaus Dinger in white, angel-winged… Read More ›
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A Hendrix Discogswhack
Ever buy an album variant that wasn’t already on Discogs?
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A Farewell to Genesis
Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks – Genesis to you and me – played their last ever concerts at The O2 Arena this weekend. I last saw Genesis play live in 1987, at Wembley Stadium on the Invisible Touch… Read More ›
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WH Lung: Live at the Scala
With everyone having been stuck indoors for a year and a half, might WH Lung just be the band we need right now as we emerge, blinking, into civilisation once again…? Naming your band after a Chinese supermarket; Featuring a… Read More ›
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World Records: A New Book about Record Collectors
In 2008 New York photographer Eilon Paz was shown a photo of a man, Frank Goessner, a German, who lived around the corner from Paz in Brooklyn. Goessner was wearing combat gear, holding an AK-47, surrounded by a mass of… Read More ›
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