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NICK Cave was so profoundly moved when he first heard ill-starred ’60s troubadour Karen Dalton’s extraordinary “Something On My Mind” on a cassette in his car that he pulled over at the side of the road and wept. “It wasn’t that it was sad, it was because it was perfect,” he says in Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz’s new documentary Karen Dalton: In My Own Time. “The Bad Seeds have been attempting to write that song for years now.” Set for a full release later this year after successful festival showings, the film finds plenty of perfect moments amid the darkness of Dalton’s messy life. Featuring Dalton’s daughter Abbe Baird as well as the singer’s ex-partners and musical collaborators, In My Own Time has Californian avant-indie voyager Julia Holter providing…

1 Pay Your Way In Pain 2 Down And Out Downtown 3 Daddy’s Home 4 Live In The Dream 5 The Melting Of The Sun 6 The Laughing Man 7 Down 8 Somebody Like Me 9 My Baby Wants A Baby 10 ... At The Holiday Party 11 Candy Darling 12New York Produced by: Annie Clark and Jack Antonoff Recorded at: Electric Lady Studios, New York; Rough Customer Studios, Brooklyn; Conway Recording Studios, Los Angeles Personnel: Annie Clark (vocals, guitar, lap steel, sitar, modular synth), Jack Antonoff (drums, percussion, bass, synths, Mellotron, Wurlitzer, guitar, background vocals), Thomas Bartlett (piano, Wurlitzer), Cian Riordan (drums), Lynne Fiddmont, Kenya Hathaway (background vocals), Evan Smith (saxophones, clarinet, flute, guitar, synths), Sam KS (drums, congas), Patrick Kelly (bass), Greg Leisz (pedal steel), Daniel Hart (violin),…

Dan Auerbach: “He was just so fucking cool” What was your first exposure to Tony Joe White’s music? It would have been in my early twenties probably. The first time I heard “Rainy Night In Georgia”, I instantly loved it. It sounded strange to me, like it was chopped and screwed. I met him one time, at a festival in Australia. He let me play his Strat and we talked about Lightnin’ Hopkins. At what point did you come aboard this project? I’ve known his son Jody White for over 10 years now, and we’ve talked about me doing a record with his dad for that long. It just never worked out. After he passed away, Jody found these reel-to-reel tapes, and he sent me a few songs at a…

1 Field Negus (feat. JoshuaIdehen) 2 Pick Up Your BurningCross (feat. Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid) 3 Think Of Home 4 Hustle feat. (KojeyRadical) 5 For The Culture (feat. D Double E) 6 To Never Forget The Source 7InRemembrance Of Those Fallen 8 Let The Circle BeUnbroken 9EnvisionYourself Levitating 10Throughout TheMadness, StayStrong 11 Black (feat. JoshuaIdehen) Produced by: Shabaka Hutchingsand DilipHarris Recordedat: LivingstonStudio 1, Hornsey, London Personnel: Shabaka Hutchings(tenor sax, woodwinds), TheonCross (tuba), Edward Wakili-Hick (percussion), TomSkinner (percussion), SteveWilliamson (tenor sax), JoshuaIdehen (vocals), Angel Bat Dawid, Moor Mother, D Double E, Kojey Radical, Lianne La Havas (vocals)…

Dorothea Paas: “I gave each song its own unique treatment” How does it feel to be releasing your first studio album a decade intoyour career? It feels amazing! I have always had at least one part-time job while I’ve been writing, performing and recording, which has necessitated a slow process. I’m glad that it hasn’t felt urgent; there has been so much joy in playing intimate shows, building relationships, patiently writing a few songs per year, self-releasing tapes and building a stable foundation for what feels like a big debut, even though I’ve been at it so long. You’ve playedthese songs live for a while and in different sonic forms. Did that make the recording process easieror moredifficult? I set out with the plan to give each song its own…

STEPHEN STILLS Stephen Stills ATLANTIC, 1970 Recorded in London and LA almost simultaneously with Déjà Vu , Stills’ debut sold big thanks to outstanding single “Love The One You’re With”. He had tons of material for this superb collection – an early take of “Church (Part Of Someone)” features in the Déjà Vu extras – and brought in guests including Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Jimi Hendrix for tracks like “Old Times Good Times” and “Go Back Home”. 9/10 DAVID CROSBY If I Could Only Remember My Name ATLANTIC, 1971 Crosby’s girlfriend died during the recording of Déjà Vu , and his solo debut spins that grief into a shimmering masterpiece. Two of its best tracks – “Laughing” and “Song With No Words” – feature in these out-takes, but others…

6CD+2BLU-RAY BOX CD1: The Ultimate Mixes CD2: The Ultimate Mixes/Outtakes CD3: The Elements Mixes CD4: The Raw Studio Mixes 1 Mother/Take 64 2 Hold On/Take 32 3 I Found Out/Take 3 Extended 4 Working Class Hero/ Take 9 5 Isolation/Take 29 6 Remember/Take 13 7 Love/Take 37 8 Well Well Well/ Take 4 Extended 9 Look At Me/Take 9 10 God/Take 42 11 My Mummy’s Dead/Take 1 12 Give Peace A Chance/Take 4 Extended 13 Cold Turkey/Take 2 14 Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)/Take 10 15 Mother/Take 91 16 I Found Out/Take 7 17 God/Take 1 CD5: The Evolution Doc CD6: The Jams & The Demos 1-22 jams 23 Mother (Home Demo) 24 Hold On (Studio Demo) 25 I Found Out (Home Demo) 26 Working Class Hero (Studio Demo)…

TOUCHING on fragile mental health and the need for compassion, communication and communion, “Sit Down” was a No 2 hit in 1991 and yet seems custom-built for current times. Coldplay performed it after the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing and it has even been adopted by Liverpool fans as an anthem for Mo Salah. Yet James treat the song sparingly, wary of cheapening it or letting it define them. “‘Sit Down’ is the biggest hit in Britain, but it isn’t worldwide,” says Booth. “We play it when we can play it with passion, because for us the whole gig is more important than one song. Having said that, I know it has been a really important song for people in lockdown. It comforts people, so I could see us entering a…

ELSTON GUNNN TEENAGE piano pounder Robert Zimmerman gave this as his name to Bobby Vee when he joined the pop star’s live band in 1959. BLIND BOY GRUNT Contributed several tracks to Broadside Ballads , a 1963 album celebrating Broadside magazine, the folk-scene Bible. TED HAM PORTERHOUSE A mysterious figure playing harp on Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s 1964 LP, Jack Elliott . BOB LANDY This unbreakable anagram hid the identity of a piano player on 1964’s The Blues Project album. WILLIAM W KASONAVARICH Dylan’s answer to a journalist who asked why he changed his name. “Wouldn’t you if you had a name like William W Kasonavarich?” EGGO’SCHMILLSON Co-conspirator on a planned 1971 LP with Allen Ginsberg for Apple. It was never released, but tapes appeared on 1994’s Ginsberg comp Holy Soul…

MADHOUSE ON CASTLE STREET, 1963 PHILIP Saville, director of this experimental absurdist BBC play, had seen the almost-unknown Dylan performing in New York and brought him to London to co-star. Playing a Greek chorus figure, Dylan punctuated the drama with four songs, including the as-yet-unrecorded “Blowin’ In The Wind”. The BBC destroyed this historic footage in 1968. LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, 1984 Dylan hadn’t toured since 1981 when he played live on Letterman’s talk show. Ostensibly there to promote the recent Infidels album, he delivered something else: backed by three-piece punk outfit The Plugz, clad in regulation new wave skinny-tie-and-drainpipes, his three-song stand was a one-off garage riot that ranks among his most memorable performances. OMNIBUS: GETTING TO DYLAN, 1987 Arguably the best thing to come out of the…

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY EASE DOWN THE ROAD PALACE/DOMINO, 2001 The subdued follow-up to I See A Darkness also featured Matt Sweeney on guitar, banjo and vocals, plus a guest turn from Harmony Korine, who designed the cover of Superwolves . 8/10 BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY SINGS GREATEST PALACE MUSIC DRAG CITY/DOMINO, 2004 Sweeney is also on hand for this reimagining of Oldham’s wonkier early work, alongside a host of hardy Nashville country sessioneers. 7/10 MATT SWEENEY & BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY SUPERWOLF DRAG CITY/DOMINO, 2005 Their first full collaboration, entirely captivating from the ragged blues of opener “My Home Is The Sea” to the despairing electric lament “I Gave You”. 8/10 BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY SUMMER IN THE SOUTHEAST SEA NOTE, 2005 Oldham’s grainy first live album, with Matt Sweeney on guitar. Naturally,…

TAKEN FROM NME, JUNE 9, 2001 THE first punch is thrown 30 seconds into The Strokes’ first NME photo session. Their five skinny, leather-clad frames are milling about on a street corner in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, when someone yells out, “Hey motherfuckers –you’re blocking the whole sidewalk.” Everyone turns round. There are three kids in hoods, obviously wired up on something, facing the band. A few seconds earlier, they randomly tried to attack a school bus driving down the street. Now they’re staring at us, so guitarist Nick Valensi opts for a spot of diplomacy. He flicks his middle finger and mutters, “Fuck you, man.” Everything happens at once. A fist swings through the air and catches him on the chest. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and singer…

“It’s cool to see the pictures where the fans are freaking out”SCOTT DEVENDORF BACK in 2001, The National were just a bunch of gawky Cincinnati transplants trying to get a foothold in New York’s resurgent indie-rock scene. Nervous in front of the camera, they asked a trusted friend – Scottish photographer Graham MacIndoe, who’d worked on design projects with bassist Scott Devendorf – to take their first professional press shots in his living room. “We were pretty awkward but we were super-excited that Graham was doing it,” says Devendorf today. “I really liked his style of portraiture – it had a very honest focus to it. He made us look cool in an unstylised way. We used the heck out of it.” But as The National’s star finally began to…

MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER Lost Futures THRILL JOCKEY Fresh from his appearance on our Ambient Americana CD, Tyler teams with another  leading avant-folk guitarist for an album of exquisite environmental anxiety. LAMBCHOP Showtunes CITY SLANG Deconstructed Broadway balladry and the occasional zinger – one song’s called “Papa Was A Rolling Stone Journalist” – on Kurt Wagner and co’s glorious 15th. BEAK> “Oh Know” INVADA Not a single, just a trademark dank groove to let you know they’re still alive. Comes with a brilliantly weird video featuring a man in a white balaclava having a breakdown. SVEN WUNDER Natura Morta PIANO PIANO Even better than the real thing? After tackling Anatolian psych and oriental moods, the master of mimicry turns his attention  to late-’60s Italian soundtracks. DAVID JOHN MORRIS Monastic…

1 CosmicFringes 2 True 3 Fat Pop 4 ShadesOfBlue 5 GladTimes 6 Cobweb / Connections 7 Testify 8 ThatPleasure 9 Failed 10 MovingCanvas 11 In Better Times 12 StillGlides The Stream Produced by: Paul Weller, Jan“Stan” Kybert;additional production by Charles Rees Recorded at:Black Barn Studios, Surrey Personnel includes: Paul Weller(vocals, backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion), Steve Cradock (guitar), Ben Gordelier (drums, percussion), Steve Pilgrim (drums, percussion), Andy Crofts (bass), Hannah Peel(string arrangements), Andy Fairweather-Low (vocals, guitar on “Testify”), Lia Metcalfe(vocalson “True”), Leah Weller (backing vocals on “Shades Of Blue”)…

Mdou Moctar: “I’m always curious to try new things” Do you feel a kinship with Tinariwen and Imarhan et al? Yes, of course – we are all Tuareg. Tuaregs are a tight community and I love all their music. Musically, though, we are different. Sometimes the guitar-playing is similar but other times I play rock music, which is not always what the other groups play. Which guitarists most inspired you, early on? AbdallahOumbadougouwas the first guitarist I saw – he is from my village. I remember seeing him perform and saying, “I want to be like that guy!” I really like Jimi Hendrix because of the way that he dances on stage; Eddie Van Halen has the tapping style that is so important to me – it’s similar to the…

Shabaka Hutchings on flutes, flow and swing What is the tuk band? When Sons Of Kemet started, I used to play the group street bands from Barbados. They are kinda based on military drummers, with syncopated snare drums, and flutes over the top. That was the original impetus for Kemet. It was partly me trying to bring a broader attention to this music from Barbados, but I also thought it was a music that could be expanded upon, to provide the basis for improvisation. Have you got into flute playing here? I have a collection of tin whistles, recorders and bamboo flutes, which I spend a bit of time playing. There’s quite a lot of them on this album, although there are places where it’s blending in with free-jazz freak…

1 Lanquidity 2 Where Pathways Meet 3 That’s How I Feel 4 Twin Stars Of Thence 5 There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of) Produced By: Sun Ra Recorded At: Blank Tapes, New York Personnel: Sun Ra (Arp, Fender Rhodes, Yamaha organ, Hammond B3 organ, Minimoog, acoustic piano, orchestral bells, Crumar electric keyboard, voice), June Tyson (voice), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Marshall Allen (alto sax, oboe, flute), Danny Ray Thompson (baritone sax, flute), Julian Pressley (baritone sax), Michael Ray (trumpet), Eddie Gale (trumpet), James Jacson (bassoon, flute, oboe, voice), Eloe Omoe (bass clarinet, flute), Dale Williams (guitar), Disco Kid (guitar), Richard Williams (bass), Luqman Ali (percussion), Atakatune (congo drums, tympani), Michael Anderson (percussion), Eddie Tahmas (voice)…

TIM Booth reverses the camera on his computer to show me the view from his balcony. He points out an iguana crouching a few feet away, a blur of luminous lime scratching at the base of a fruit tree. “They fight and fuck on the tin roof above us,” he says happily. “Then you hear this noise, like something falling 30 feet.” Sex and death in close proximity. Quintessential James. In the background the Costa Rican countryside stretches out beneath a big sky, blue on green on brown. Looking radiant in a robe, Booth turns the camera back around and smiles. “It’s a long way from Manchester.” For the past 13 years the James vocalist has lived with his wife, dance maestra Kate Shela, and their teenage son, Luca, in…

TARANTULA 1971 Dylan’s first book lay unpublished for a few years – but was written during the enormous outpouring that produced his 1965-66 albums. A speeding, absurdist anti-novel of prose-poems and cut-up-consciousness, it similarly blends the blues with the Beats. WRITINGS AND DRAWINGS 1973 Covering his output up to 1971, Dylan’s first lyrics collection also featured liner notes and poems, and line drawings in the style of his first great role model, Woody Guthrie. CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE 2004 Supposedly the first of three volumes, Dylan’s spellbinding memoir shuffles three time frames: New York in 1961; the period around 1970’s New Morning ; and making 1989’s Oh Mercy . Simultaneously revelatory and elusive, it displays evidence of the same cut-up-and-collage approach of recent albums. THE NOBEL LECTURE 2017 A pocket-sized volume…

“BEING asked to cover a Dylan song is quite difficult,” admits Richard Thompson. “You think, ‘How do you do that?’ After all, his personality is so interwoven into the songs.” Despite the difficulties in reinterpreting Dylan – and the restrictions of various lockdowns around the globe – Thompson and 13 more of our favourite artists have unpicked some of Dylan’s finest songs to help Uncut celebrate his 80th birthday. There are radical reimaginings from Thurston Moore and Fatoumata Diawara, textured soundscapes from Low and Weyes Blood, epic grandeur from Cowboy Junkies and Frazey Ford, and much more. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also proud to unveil a previously unreleased song performed by Dylan himself. “Something about the odd mixture of paranoia, fervour, desire, faith and darkness feels strangely relevant…

“I MET Will when we had English together at school, and I got to know him better after I became friends with his older  brother, Ned, when I was in seventh grade. When I first encountered him outside school, Will seemed independent, iconoclastic and even contrarian. In retrospect, it seems there was some rivalry – Ned made a punk rock/hardcore fanzine called Little Friend , Will later made his own called Big Enemy . Being himself, Will became more and more intriguing until we all started hanging out with him. He and I began sharing common interests, much of them around music, and became close rather quickly. He’d pick me up on his way to school in his Chevrolet Citation and we’d play four square every morning – he was…

ROCKPALAST 1970 The longest continuous Can footage (85 minutes) is also the earliest. Amazing black-and-white show in a tent; newly recruited Suzuki is edgy and manic, and the band is firing on all its avant-garage cylinders. CAN FREE CONCERT 1972 Peter Przygodda’s document of Can’s triumphal 1972 Cologne extravaganza is intercut with atmospheric Inner Space studio footage. Rockumentary meets avant-garde cinema. BATACLAN, PARIS (POP2) 1973 The handheld cameras take you right on stage during this 21-minute French television slot, as if you’re an extra member of the band. Can at their most mystic, monotonous and mindblowing. THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST 1975 From the same year as Live In Stuttgart , the four-piece Can deliver a frenetic “Vernal Equinox” for Bob Harris and the BBC cameras. MUSIK EXTRA 3 1977…

BLACK BEAR Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott Streaming from April 23 Cert To be confirmed 6/10 CREATION STORIES Directed by Nick Moran Starring Ewen Bremner, Suki Waterhouse Streaming from March 29 Cert 18 5/10 SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS Directed by Liza Rovner Streaming from April 23 Cert To be confirmed 8/10 APPLES Directed by Christos Nikou Starring Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili Streaming from May 7 Cert To be confirmed 7/10 TRUMAN & TENNESSEE: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION Directed by LisaImmordino Vreeland Streaming from April 30 Cert To be confirmed 7/10…

PAUL JACKSON Headhunters bassist (1947-2021) HERBIE Hancock’s immersion in jazz-funk fusion, first heard on 1973’s Head Hunters, was partly reliant on the spontaneity and deep grooves of electric bassist Paul Jackson. The first jazz album to sell more than a million copies, its lead-off trackwas“Chameleon”, co-writtenby Jackson and featuring an infectious Afro-Cuban vamp. The song has since become a jazz standard. Jackson was a founder member of Hancock’s Headhunters band, alongside saxophonist/clarinet player Bennie Maupin, drummer Harvey Mason and percussionist Bill Summers. The ensemble, with Jackson’s good friend Mike Clark replacing Mason, proceeded to make three more albums with Hancock in the mid-’70s: Thrust (including “Spank-A-Lee”, another Jackson co-creation), Man-Child and the live Flood. Jackson’s restless style was a perfect fit for Hancock’s intuitive approach. “Paul Jackson was…

THE BEATLES MEET THE BEATLES! CAPITOL, 1964 The music that first inspired me to play was all coming from England. They were taking the music that Americans paid no attention to and feeding it back to my generation – and this album was the one that got the ball rolling for me. I remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan on February 9, 1964, when the shit hit the fan for every kid everywhere. I mean, we all had short hair, but whatever little bit we had we all tried to brush it down and have a Beatle haircut the next day at school. We were putting together imaginary bands – none of us played, but we sure did not long after that. THE ROLLING STONES ENGLAND’S NEWEST HIT MAKERS…

IN 1987, Manchester band Magic Roundabout looked set to take the indie world by storm. They sported leather jackets and bowl cuts, hitting a musical sweet spot somewhere between C86 and White Light/White Heat. “A great band,” remembers Graham Lambert of Inspiral Carpets, who played with them several times. “They had a cacophony of sounds and a lightshow straight from a ’60s psychedelic meltdown film. They could do one song for 20 minutes but they never compromised and I liked that.” However, with all seemingly to play for, Magic Roundabout never got around to releasing anything… until now. A mere 34 years after its recording, debut single “Sneaky Feelin’” is finally surfacing on Jack White’s Third Man Records, on appropriate rainbow-splatter vinyl. Its belated appearance owes much to the persistence…

Like a hurricane! The new UltimateMusic Guide is a deluxe and fully updated edition of our definitive guide to the work of NeilYoung. Over 148 pages we dive fearlessly into the ditch and rummage deep in the rust bucket to bring you the full story of Neil’s career – including searching new words on his most recent work and the monster that is Archives Vol II … Anyone unable to find a copy of our Ultimate MusicGuide to The Fall in the shops will be relieved to learn we have restocked our online store at Uncut. co.uk/single … Uncut’s founding art editor NormanMcLoed tragically died of a brain tumour in 2016, aged just 49. His brother Colin – and partner in Manchester’s Moolah Rouge studios – has just released a tribute…

“There was talk a while back of sending me up on the Virgin rocket” IT transpires that Jason Pierce may be rock’s most knowledgeable authority on the coronavirus pandemic. “I’ve had double pneumonia,” he explains. “Most of my tour reading is on science, so I knew a little bit what we were in store for. I sat back in horror watching people ignore it all and question whether it’s real or fake… I know what it’s like not to be able to breathe – it’s not something you’d wish on anybody.” Despite claiming he’d “feel guilty” if he’d had a productive lockdown year, Pierce’s work has carried on as usual: a Spiritualized reissue campaign is set to begin with their debut, 1992’s Lazer Guided Melodies, he’s been picking up rare…

BOBBY WOMACK The Bravest Man In The Universe XL, 2012 There are certainly accidental yet notable parallels between much of Fat Pop (Volume 1) and Womack’s Damon Albarn-helmed swansong: a classic soul album that references the past without ever seeking to recreate it. 9/10 GALLIANO The Plot Thickens TALKIN’ LOUD, 1994 As an honorary member of the Acid Jazz gang, the Modfather will no doubt remember Galliano, featuring ex-Councillor Mick Talbot, whose outward facing cosmic funk presaged the cosmic equanimity detectable on many Weller albums, including this one. 7/10 TUNNG Songs You Make At Night FULLTIME HOBBY, 2018 The sense that between a studio and the imaginations of its owners, anything is achievable is common in post- 22 Dreams Weller, and it’s abundant in the most recent…

St Vincent: “No matter what hardships come, you just have to keep humming” This albumis closely connectedto your relationship with your father. Could you say a little about that? My father, like most Irish Catholic men of a certain generation, wasn’t effusive with affection or praise. The way he showed his affection was by either toughening us up – exercise and sports – or showing us films, books, music he loved. And I don’t know if it is nature or nurture, but I have a similar love of humour, ideas, arts. These songsbegan with your father’s record collection. Are any recordstethered to particular moments? Every Steely Dan record. I remember driving to Corpus Christi, Texas, on a beach vacation. Eating fried clams while looking at an amateur version of Botticelli’s…

1 Smoke From The Chimney 2 Boot Money 3 Del Rio, You’re Making Me Cry 4 Listen To Your Song 5 Over You 6 Scary Stories 7 Bubba Jones 8 Someone Is Crying 9 Billy Produced by: Dan Auerbach Recorded at: Easy Eye Sound, Nashville Personnel: Tony Joe White (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Dan Auerbach (drums, percussion, gtr, bass, keyboards, chimes), Nick Movshon (bass), Ray Jacildo (keys), Billy Sanford (gtr), Roy Agee (trombone), Tyler Summers (baritone sax), Evan Cobb (alto sax ), Mireya Ramos (backing vocals, fiddle), Shae Fiol (bk vcl), Sam Bacco (drums, perc), Dave Roe (bass), Billy Sanford (gtr, tik-tak), Bobby Wood (keys), Mike Rojas (keys, celeste), Paul Franklin (steel gtr), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Jimmy Quine, Pat McLaughlin (bk vcl), Matt Combs (strings), Eric Deaton (bass), Gene Chrisman (drums),…

CD 1: Original Album CD 2: Demos  1 Our House – Graham Nash * 2 4 + 20 – Stephen Stills * 3 Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) – David Crosby & Graham Nash 4 Birds – Neil Young & Graham Nash * 5 So Begins The Task/Hold On Tight – Stephen Stills * 6 Right Between The Eyes – Graham Nash 7 Almost Cut My Hair – David Crosby * 8 Teach Your Children – Nash & Crosby 9 How Have You Been – Crosby, Stills & Nash 10 Triad – David Crosby 11 Horses Through A Rainstorm – Graham Nash 12 Know You Got To Run – Stephen Stills * 13 Question Why – Graham Nash * 14 Laughing – David Crosby * 15 She…

MY BLOODY VALENTINE Isn’t Anything/Loveless/ m b v/EPs ’88–’91 (reissues, 1988, 1991, 2013, 2012) DOMINO 10/10,10/10,9/10,8/10 The full-spectrum wonder of My Bloody Valentine, remastered and reissued for the final time. By Stephen Troussé “MAGIC isn’t about pulling rabbits out of hats,” says Ewen Bremner as Alan McGee, fancying himself the dark lysergic mage of EC1, midway through the recent, regrettable Creation Stories biopic. “But it is about making something materialise.” As if on cue, like the shopkeeper in Mr Benn, Aleister Crowley appears in the loo of a south London squat to inform him that “ideas are everywhere – you only have to reach out and grab one”. Sure enough, downstairs My Bloody Valentine are about to conjure the tremolo vortex sutra of “You Made Me Realise” and secure his…

NORMA JEAN Norma Jean BEARSVILLE, 1978 Just as Chic were hitting the big time, they found time to oversee a solo debut from their singer Norma Jean Wright. Bubbling Bernard Edwards basslines and silky sequenced strings instantly mark it out as a Chic joint, and they hit rich grooves on shoulda-beenhits “Sorceror” and “Saturday Night” (the latter a creamier overhaul of the track on Robert Cotter’s album). 7/10 SHEILA & B DEVOTION King Of The World CARRERE, 1980 French former ye-ye chanteuse Sheila pulled off a major coup when she hired The Chic Organisation to write and produce a disco-oriented album aimed at the international market. Space-pop curio and global hit “Spacer” retains a cherished place in the Chic Org canon, but the title track, europop earworm “Don’t Go” and…

JAMES worked with Brian Eno on five albums, beginning with Laid in 1993 and ending with Pleased To Meet You in 2001. “We’d been trying to work with Brian from the first album,” says Booth. “It was constant. He was massive for us, more important than fame. Before Eno, I used to shoulder a lot of the burden of production. I’m an ignorant non-musician, but I know what I like and I push people. Musicians don’t like being told by singers what to do and I took on that burden. It isolated me from the band sometimes. Then Brian walked in and took that off me. I knew the captain of the ship was so beyond my abilities, I could let go and focus on more of my own bits.…

ON a health kick while filming 1973’s Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid in Mexico, Dylan ruined a scene for Sam Peckinpah by jogging across the background with Harry Dean Stanton. ● In 1974, Peter Grant introduced himself to Bob saying, “I’m Peter Grant, I manage Led Zeppelin.” Dylan replied, “Do I come to you with my problems?” ● In the mid-1980s, a woman in London’s Crouch End answered her doorbell to find Dylan on the step. He asked, “Is Dave in?” Her husband, Dave, a plumber, was out on a job, but she invited Dylan in to wait and he sat drinking tea until Dave arrived home – at which point Dylan realised this wasn’t Eurythmic Dave Stewart’s house. ● In her memoir Wishful Drinking , Carrie Fisher recounts…

AMON DÜÜL II LIVE IN LONDON UNITED ARTISTS, 1973 Recorded December 16, 1972 at Croydon Greyhound and released as a budget album, Live In London captures the Munich anarcho collective in remarkably clear stereo. This is peak Düül, rocking tight and hard on “Archangels Thunderbird” and “Soap Shop Rock”; advancing some choice Germano-wiggery on Falk-U Rogner’s synth-heavy “Improvisation” and the prog suite “Syntelman’s March Of The Roaring Seventies”. The sheer heaviness of “Eye Shaking King” and “Race From Here To Your Ears” bridges the hard rock of the Stooges and Black Sabbath with the Ramonesy punk future that still lay over the horizon. HARMONIA LIVE 1974 GRÖNLAND, 2007 Like Can, Harmonia (Moebius, Roedelius and Michael Rother) retreated from the city to a studio-playground in rural Germany. This rare live tape…