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Isaac Hayes and The Platinum Pirates
Report by Roger St. Pierre, Record Collector, January 1972
BOOTLEG RECORDS have become a familiar part of the music scene in the past few years but a far more serious problem for record companies ...
Butthole Surfers: The Butthole Surfers
Guide by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, February 1989
Mark Paytress Unravels the Career of the Cult American Band ...
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, August 1989
MANY OF THE ACTS at Woodstock were already well established names, but if anyone can claim to have been broken by the festival, it must ...
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, 1993
IN COMMON with Brian Wilson, Captain Beefheart and Phil Spector, Syd Barrett is a musician whose work is often overshadowed by the myths that surround ...
John Mayall, Peter Green: Peter Green's Blues
Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, Record Collector, July 1993
THERE ARE many guitarists who produce a sharp intake of breath from their peers and fans, in admiration of their complex technique, speed or innovation. ...
Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green: Peter Green: The End Of The Game
Retrospective by Harry Shapiro, Record Collector, August 1993
PETER GREEN'S decision in June 1967 to quit his role as lead guitarist with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers brought one era of British blues to an ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, March 1994
KIRSTY MACCOLL first came to prominence as a solo artist during the early 80s, scoring Top 20 hits with 'There's a Guy Works Down The ...
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust: The Album That Killed The Sixties
Retrospective by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, June 1998
Bowie's Ziggy Stardust redefined the meaning of rock artistry ...
Del Amitri: The Del Amitri Story
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Record Collector, October 1998
IT'S ALWAYS BEEN something of a thankless task, being a member of Del Amitri. Put bluntly, in spite of launching their prestigious career from the ...
Slayer: All Aboard The Slay Ride
Profile and Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, 1999
Slayer vocalist Tom Araya discusses his band's blood-soaked life and times ...
Motorhead, Lemmy: Mil-Lemmy-Um: The Man from Motörhead
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, 1999
The artist formerly known as Ian Kilminster waxes lyrical on guns, drugs, feminism and ancient rome. Joel McIver meets rock'n'roll's elder statesman, Lemmy. ...
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Creatures, The: The Creatures
Interview by Mark Paytress, Record Collector, August 1999
SIOUXSIE AND THE Banshees have carried the can for all manner of goth-related crimes, from walking-corpse fashions to minor chord musical misanthropy. It's a wonder ...
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Winter 1999
After sixteen years at the forefront of speed metal, Megadeth are releasing a new album, Risk. Joel Mciver finds controversial frontman Dave Mustaine a reformed ...
Ozric Tentacles: Wizards Of Ozric
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, 2000
Hippies and new age chancers the Ozric Tentacles are still tripping the light fantastic after 18 years. ...
Profile and Interview by David Hemingway, Record Collector, July 2000
DESPITE WIELDING an acoustic guitar and piano, Bill Callahan of unrivalled miserabilists Smog happens to be one of America's most relevant music makers. With last ...
Mike Oldfield: Ring Out The Old . . .
Retrospective by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Spring 2000
EVERYONE KNOWS the haunting opening melody of Tubular Bells, but it means different things to different people. If you're in your 40s or over, you ...
Chemical Brothers, The: Right About Now . . . The Funk Soul Brothers!
Retrospective by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Spring 2000
THINK YOU KNOW about dance music? OK then, answer this question: which of the Chemical Brothers is Tom and which is Ed? Despite the fact ...
Crowded House, Neil Finn: Neil Finn
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Spring 2000
New Zealand's Favourite Songwriter Is Releasing A New Album Of Crowded House B-Sides And Rarities. Joel Mciver Quizzes The Kiwi King. ...
Anthrax: The Original Skate-Thrash Nutters Speak
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Spring 2000
IN THE CLICHÉ-RIDDEN world of heavy metal, it's sometimes refreshing to encounter a band that redefines the genre without sticking to the tired old formulas. ...
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2000
FEW BANDS can claim to have started off a whole musical trend; even fewer can claim to have started two. Newcastle band Venom recorded three ...
Review by Colin Harper, Record Collector, February 2001
DAVID GRAY BEGAN playing live around Ireland's small but discerning music pub circuit in 1993, shortly after the release of his debut album A Century ...
Report and Interview by Colin Harper, Record Collector, August 2001
WITH EXPANDED REISSUES of classic albums by himself and his various bands – including Fairport Convention's Leige & Leif and his own Compleat Dancing Master ...
Elvis Presley: Elvis in Hollywood
Retrospective by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, August 2001
"I've had intellectuals tell me that I've got to progress as an actor, explore new horizons, take on new challenges, all that routine. I'd like ...
Slipknot: To Be... Or 'Knot To Be
Profile and Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Spring 2001
TAKE THE INTENSITY of an old-school thrash metal band like Slayer and add the Noughties awareness of a media-straddling figure such as Eminem. Mix in ...
Retrospective and Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
North London ska legends Madness ruled the world for a decade. Now they're back with a new album. Joel Mciver speaks to the original nutty ...
Cult, The: Lil' Devils: The Cult
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
Grunge and alternative rock defeated the Cult in the mid-90s - but now they're back in business. Joel McIver asks how they did it. ...
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
GARY NUMAN is fortunate enough to be among the privileged group of individuals who have spoken to Record Collector not once or twice, but an ...
Interview by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
IF POP'S MOST unpredictable comeback - from has-been oblivion to global success - was made by Blur between Modern Life Is Rubbish and Parklife, then ...
Miles Davis: The Re-Rebirth Of The Cool: Miles Davis at 75
Review by Joel McIver, Record Collector, Summer 2001
As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of Miles Davis' birth, a classic reissue programme has begun in earnest. In the mode: Joel McIver. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, Record Collector, 2002
"HOW CAN WE explain the phenomenon of Julie Felix?" mused Karl Dallas, Melody Maker's titan of folk, in a December 1965 concert review. "Clearly anyone ...
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 2002
In 1985 an album was released that sold little and contributed to the demise of one of the most venerated groups of the 80s. With ...
Who, The: How The Who’s My Generation LP Finally Came Out On CD in the UK
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Record Collector, 2002
STRANGE THOUGH it might seem, it took an ad on eBay offering the master tapes for sale to anyone with half a million dollars to ...
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And the Spiders From Mars: 30th Anniversary Edition
Review and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, July 2002
"I'm really just a Photostat machine. I pour out what has already been fed in. I merely reflect what is going on around me" – ...
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, March 2003
ROCK HISTORIANS HAVE a problem with David Gilmour because he is, well, so very balanced. Displaying little of the madness or angst of Pink Floyds ...
Pink Floyd, David Gilmour: David Gilmour: The Record Collector Interview
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, May 2003
ROCK HISTORIANS have a problem with David Gilmour because he is, well, so very balanced. Displaying little of the madness or angst of Pink Floyd's ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, August 2003
FEW ARTISTS CAPTURED the aspirational glamour of the 70s better than Barry White. ...
Sparks: What A Difference The Days Made: Sparks Look Back
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, Summer 2003
FOR OVER 30 YEARS, Sparks have always been a glorious musical anachronism. To think that their genesis is on the American West Coast at the ...
Lee 'Scratch' Perry: The RC INTERVIEW: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, 2004
LET NO ONE tell you otherwise. An hour with reggae maverick Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is a wondrous thing. His ‘madness’, however stage-managed, is there, almost ...
Duffy Power: People Power: The Remarkable Retrieval of the Duffy Power BBC Sessions
Retrospective by Colin Harper, Record Collector, 2004
Author's Note: the longed-for compilation of Duffy's Parlophone singles mentioned at the end of this piece did indeed (shortly after) come to pass, in the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Harper, Record Collector, 2004
"HARD TIMES IN NEWQUAY, If You've Got Long Hair" was the endearingly absurd refrain performed by that Zelig of British acoustic music, Raymond "Wizz" Jones, ...
Rae & Christian, Aim: Grand Central: Label of Love
Profile by David Hemingway, Record Collector, February 2004
THE UK'S PREMIER soul label, Grand Central, has released music by a hip-hop artiste who cites the Smiths as his greatest influence, a future-funk musician ...
Profile and Interview by Gavin Martin, Record Collector, June 2004
HOWARD TATE is sitting opposite me sipping black coffee in the bar of a West End Hotel and I can hardly believe it. Until recently ...
Julian Cope, XTC: The Old Boy Network
Report by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, June 2004
GETTING DITCHED by a major label is not always the end of the line for the big stars of yesteryear, as Terry Staunton reports ...
Jackie Lomax: Is This What You Want?
Review and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2004
LIVERPOOL singer-songwriter Lomax never enjoyed the widespread acclaim of his Apple contemporaries (Badfinger, Mary Hopkin, and, eventually, James Taylor), but the wealth of big names ...
Carly Simon: Reflections – Carly Simon's Greatest Hits
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2004
THIS IS THE fifth Carly compilation in less than ten years (and, yes, one was imaginatively entitled Nobody Does It Better), during which time she ...
Badfinger: Magic Christian Music/No Dice/Straight Up
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2004
TAKING THEIR NAME from the working title for 'With A Little Help From My Friends', it's ironic that Badfinger's famous pals could also be a ...
Cat Stevens: Majikat: Earth Tour 1976
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2004
FELINE FOLKIE caught live in his prime ...
George Thorogood & The Destroyers: George Thorogood & the Destroyers: Raiders of the Lost Axe
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2004
Bluesman George Thorogood is celebrating 30 years of 12-bar brilliance with a new Best Of… and a global tour. He talks to Terry Staunton. ...
Elvis Costello: Almost Blue/Goodbye Cruel World/Kojak Variety
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2004
AS THE AMBITIOUS Costello reissue programme heads towards completion, the contents of the bonus discs take on a greater significance, bolstering releases that may struggle ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2004
AFTER THE TEPID reception for last year's Nocturama, Cave and the Bad Seeds could have been forgiven for taking time out to lick their wounds. ...
Clash, The: The Clash: London Calling 25th Anniversary
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Record Collector, October 2004
BY EARLY 1979, to the outside world The Clash were coasting. In their three short years of existence they had signed to Sony for a ...
Warren Zevon: Various Artists: Enjoy Every Sandwich - The Songs Of Warren Zevon
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
LONG BEFORE his death last year from inoperable lung cancer, Warren Zevon knew his time was almost up. Undeterred, he carried on making records bulging ...
Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam: Dwight Yoakam: The Very Best Of; Randy Travis: The Very Best Of
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
ROUTE 88 WAS an ambitious cross-label campaign to establish several country stars in the UK, with Yoakam and Travis seen by many as the twin ...
Jim Croce: The Way We Used To Be (Sanctuary)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
KILLED IN A PLANE crash in 1973, just weeks after his first US Number One single, Jim Croce was a master of tender beauty and ...
Sandie Shaw: Nothing Comes Easy (EMI)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
AS STAGE GIMMICKS go, not wearing shoes is a pretty lame one, but it's what the tabloids of the '60s would inevitably focus on when ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
ALTHOUGH OFTEN in the shadow of former hubby George, Gwen McCrae is still a much revered name in deep soul circles almost 30 years after ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
ALREADY FAMILIAR to fans of Lucinda Williams after a lengthy stint as an opening act, Australian-born McCue has effortlessly mastered the bluesy drawl of her ...
John Mellencamp: Words & Music
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
HEARTLAND ROCKERS have been ten-a-penny over the last 20 or 30 years. For every eloquent and poetic Springsteen there is a subs' bench straining under ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
IT HAS BECOME an irritatingly common marketing ploy for any new release by a music veteran to be declared a "return to form". If we ...
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions: Rattlesnakes (Deluxe Edition)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
DISMISSED IN some quarters as a chubby Elvis lookalike with a library card, Lloyd Cole was nonetheless an integral part of any student dorm soundtrack. ...
Ramones, The: Ramones: We're Outta Here!
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
RAMONES GIGS were always exciting rather than accomplished affairs, and if this disc featured only their shambolic 1996 Los Angeles swansong there would be little ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, 2005
A potted history of one of Africa's biggest pop stars ...
Rolling Stones, The: Rolling Stones: Live Licks
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2005
THEIR SEVENTH concert record, if you’re counting ...
Guide by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, January 2005
THEY LIGHT UP the screen with their dramatic talent, but for many fine thespians that's just not enough. Some of them have a few songs ...
Bon Jovi: 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, February 2005
Ooh, they can be, you know ...
Al Kooper: Al’s Big Deal/Unclaimed Freight
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, February 2005
Unsung hero's anthology of solo work and collaborations ...
808 State: Interview with Graham Massey
Interview by David Hemingway, Record Collector, February 2005
THE APHEX TWIN'S Rephlex imprint is to release a duo of 'acid house' remixes of New Order tracks on 13 September. 'Blue Monday (So Hot ...
Ray Charles: O-Genio: Live In Brazil 1963
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, March 2005
AFTER LAST YEAR'S duets album became the best-selling release of his career, coupled with the Oscar buzz surrounding the new biopic, it was inevitable that ...
Bonzo Dog Band, Neil Innes: Neil Innes: Taking Off/The Innes Book Of Records
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, March 2005
A TV SHOW like The Innes Book Of Records would struggle for a terrestrial timeslot these days, but back in the late '70s former Bonzo ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2005
CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING the almost impossible task of filling Freddie Mercury's shoes in a new-look Queen, it's hard to imagine Paul Rodgers landing any further from ...
Fairport Convention: Chronicles
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2005
FAIRPORT'S ANNUAL reunion festival at Cropredy in Oxfordshire celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, long since established as one of the primo dates on the ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, June 2005
FILM DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson used Aimee Mann's music as the starting point and inspiration for his Oscar-nominated Magnolia, about the intertwining, desperate lives of ...
Thievery Corporation: Gentlemen Robbers: Thievery Corporation
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, July 2005
FOUNDED IN 1995, Washington-based dance duo Thievery Corporation is in that select band of acts, that even though they remain elusive to the great majority, ...
Walter Gibbons: Salsoul Records: The Best Disco Label In The World... Ever
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Brewster, Record Collector, July 2005
We present a 30th birthday tribute to Salsoul, the label that changed club culture forever. Bill Brewster talks to the movers and shakers and celebrates ...
Beatles, The: The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, July 2005
The madness and mayhem of the Apple empire ...
Retrospective by Bill Brewster, Record Collector, July 2005
WALTER GIBBONS loved drums. As a young DJ, the beat-heavy records he played defined his sound and as a remixer he had the knack of ...
Boo Radleys, The: Boo Radleys: Find The Way Out
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2005
THE ONLY CREATION act other than Oasis to have a Number One album, the Boos were arguably the label's most eclectic signing. This 35-track anthology ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, September 2005
THERE WAS SOMETHING special about Luther Vandross (who died 1st July). Free of the brashness of the other male soul performers of the 80s; here ...
Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Refrain: Echo and the Bunnymen
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
To mark the release of the first Echo & The Bunnymen album in four years, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant recall the triumphs and pitfalls ...
Turtles, The: The Turtles: Happy Together: The Very Best Of (Shout Factory)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
SPURRED INTO ACTION by Beatlemania and making their chart debut with a Bob Dylan cover, there initially wasn't a huge world of difference between The ...
BMX Bandits: Serious Drugs: The Creation Anthology (Castle)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
SHOULD THE RENOWNED journalist and music archivist Pete Frame ever attempt one of his celebrated Rock Family Trees for the BMX Bandits, he may need ...
Jackie Lomax: Home Is In My Head/Three (Rhino/Warners)
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
FEELING UNDERVALUED and forgotten in the shadow of the Fab Four, two Apple signings jumped ship at the start of the '70s to join Warner ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
WITNESSES TO BIG STAR'S comeback shows in 1993 would often find themselves shoulder-to-shoulder with sundry teary-eyed power poppers whose own bands owed a huge debt ...
Elvis Presley: He Touched Me – The Gospel Music Of Elvis Presley
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
THE ONLY Grammys Presley won in his lifetime were for gospel records, and for a long spell in the '60s his songs of praise were ...
Review and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2005
ANOTHER HIGH quality crop. ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2005
EIGHT YEARS ON from Bridges To Babylon, the longest ever gap between studio releases, one question begs to be asked: Does anybody really need a ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
THE PASSING OF Jeffrey Lee Pierce in 1996 after a brain haemorrhage robbed the music world of a true original. A wildman psychobilly blues howler ...
Dolly Parton: The Essential Dolly Parton
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
DON'T BE FOOLED by the high hair, long nails or curvy torso. Dolly Parton may appear, on the surface, to be a prairie poppet moulded ...
Marvin Gaye: Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye
Book Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY of the Trouble Man ...
Police, The: The Police: Synchronicity Concert
Film/DVD Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2005
SUPERSTAR TRIO on swansong global jaunt. ...
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Record Collector, February 2006
RAY DAVIES, the leader of the Kinks, is back in circulation after an extended layoff, due to getting shot in New Orleans while trying to ...
Al Stewart: A Reticent Recording Artist
Profile and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Record Collector, February 2006
AL STEWART’S four-decade career recently was capsulated by a 5-CD boxed set Just Yesterday from EMI. His first four UK albums on CBS never were ...
Paul McCartney, Beatles, The: Geoff Emerick
Profile and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, June 2006
BESIDES GEORGE Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, Geoff Emerick worked on more Beatles sessions than any other individual. ...
Discography by Bill Brewster, Record Collector, July 2006
RAFAEL CAMERON – 'BOOGIE'S GONNA GET YA' (INSTRUMENTAL) (SALSOUL 12-INCH/SG-362) £15 ...
Top Of The Pops: The Final Countdown
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2006
With the BBC pulling the plug on Top Of The Pops after 42 years, the stars share their memories with TERRY STAUNTON ...
The Final Countdown: Top of the Pops
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, September 2006
With the BBC pulling the plug on Top Of The Pops after 42 years, the stars share their memories. ...
Police, The: Kings of Pain: The Police
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2006
More than 20 years after The Police split, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland have broken lengthy silences about their time in the band.* ...
Wanda Jackson: Hard-Headed Woman
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Record Collector, February 2007
WANDA JACKSON was the original Riot Grrrl. In the late '50s, she shook, rattled and roared next to Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and boyfriend ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Record Collector, August 2007
FUNNY HOW things change. A little over a decade ago, Ike Turner was rock'n'roll's terminal pariah. Damned by 1993's What's Love Got To Do With ...
Judy Dyble, Fairport Convention: Judy Dyble
Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, September 2007
IMAGINE BEING the original woman singer in the most esteemed British folk-rock group of all – only to be replaced, after just one album, by ...
John Fahey: The Legend Of John Fahey & Blind Joe Death
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2007
John Fahey was the maverick genius of the acoustic guitar, but that's only part of it. As another classic reissue appears, Kris Needs tries to ...
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2007
As BILLY BRAGG blows out 50 candles on his birthday cake, TERRY STAUNTON sharpens his pencil for a musical history lesson ...
Four Seasons, The, Frankie Valli: Talk Like a Man: Frankie Valli
Retrospective and Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, April 2008
A FAILED AUDITION for a gig as a lounge singer at a low-rent bowling alley in Union, New Jersey, might be the sort of experience ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, July 2008
EARLY 1965: The Charlatans were about to galvanise California's acid rock revolution at the Red Dog Saloon, Jimi Hendrix was still playing R&B standards on ...
Randy Newman: Harps For Harps' Sake
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, August 2008
The new record is in the shops, but RANDY NEWMAN admits he has no excuses for his "ridiculous" output of three albums in 20 years. ...
Underworld: Celebrating the Underbelly: Underworld
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, September 2008
UNDERWORLD HAVE been at the forefront of electronic music for the past 15 years. The partnership at the group's core, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, ...
Darlene Love: All You Need Is Love
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly, and to dig out a yuletide classic by DARLENE LOVE. Phil Spector's secret weapon gets festive with TERRY STAUNTON ...
Live Review by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, February 2009
THE STEEL CITY TOUR is a thrilling glimpse of the once- future through the lens of the past. What these groups attempted in Sheffield at ...
Captain Beefheart: Low Yo-Yo Stuff
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, February 2009
"It's always irritated me that people labelled him weird. It was a kind of super-reality."– John Peel ...
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Nightmare
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, February 2009
The shocking story behind the making of Beefheart's greatest album ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, September 2009
40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, Summer 2009
HERE'S IRONY for you: there were several things timed for the release of Michael Jackson's London shows that were to provide testimony to the man's ...
Jimi Hendrix: Brother From Another Planet
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, October 2010
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1970: It's all over the evening news that Jimi Hendrix has died at the age of 27. "JIMI HENDRIX DEATH RIDDLE" bellow ...
Steve Mason, Beta Band, The: An Interview with Steve Mason
Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, November 2010
DE: Tell us about your latest projects. ...
Van Dyke Parks: Parks Life: An Interview with Van Dyke Parks
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, May 2011
The next few months will see the release of a series of vinyl singles by celebrated writer, arranger and producer VAN DYKE PARKS, plus the ...
Chic: Raymond Jones, 1958-2011
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, August 2011
ALTHOUGH A NAME that doesn't readily trip off the tongue, most of RC's readers have danced at some point or another to the understated beauty ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, June 2012
WHEN DONNA SUMMER relocated from the US to Germany to star in the Munich production of Hair, she unwittingly set a course that would result ...
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