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“Yes we’re going to a party party…” I’M happy to welcome you to this very special issue of Uncut. For the last few weeks or so, I’ve been looking back at the magazine since it first went on sale on May 1, 1997. While there have been some changes along the way – cosmetic, mostly – I’m gratified to see that some things remain constant. The emphasis on high-quality longform journalism, the imperative to discover and promote new music and the commitment to unearthing untold stories that are evident in Take 1 all remain a critical part of what we do here, 299 issues later. In Take 300, we’ve chosen to feature some of our bestloved artists – from regular reader Jimmy Page to Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Spiritualized, Wilco,…

HI Keith! Hello darling! Main Offender is a terrific album. You must be very proud of it. I am, actually. The first one [Talk Is Cheap] was such a blast, I really enjoyed myself and I wanted to give it a second go. We were more familiar with each other, knew how to play with each other. It was probably more fun, I guess. And collaborative, too? A lot of it comes from freewheeling in front of a microphone with a riff. But, yeah, it’s the way I’m used to working. I’ll take anybody’s idea. You can call that collaboration, I call it thieving! Writing is a cutthroat business… “I’ll take anybody’s idea. Writing is a cut-throat business…” Steve Jordan was your main foil in the Winos. What does he…

“When things are right at the edge of breaking apart, it can actually be really musical”ALAN SPARHAWK IT’S the day before Low hit the road for their first tour in more than two years, but the duo are feeling unusually calm. “There’s this German word for the anxiety that occurs before a long trip,” says Mimi Parker, on a Zoom call from Duluth. “But since we haven’t toured for so long, I don’t have that anxiety as severe. Maybe I’ve forgotten how bad it is!” Her husband and bandmate Alan Sparhawk is consoling himself with the idea that because audiences have been so starved of live music, they’ll happily forgive any sloppiness. “I went to a show the other day in town,” he reveals. “It was just some friends who…

Daniel Rossen’s finest moments GRIZZLY BEAR Veckatimest WARP, 2009 Grizzly Bear’s third album was their first masterpiece: an elegantly constructed chamber pop set that found the band truly collaborating for the first time, expertly assisted by Nico Muhly and the Brooklyn Youth Choir. The four-part harmonies sound immaculate, particularly on the heavenly doo-wop of “Two Weeks”; meanwhile, Rossen sings lead on “Southern Point” and the ethereal chorale “Dory”. 9/10 DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES In Ear Park 4AD, 2008  Department Of Eagles began when Rossen started making sampleadelic hip-hop with his roommate Fred Nicolaus while studying at NYU. But by In Ear Park, the project had blossomed into something rich, orchestrated and not unlike Grizzy Bear – an impression aided by the presence of bandmates Chris Bear and Chris Taylor. Dedicated to…

Spencer Gets It Lit BRONZERAT 8/10 He’s back! With moody, junked-out grooves. BEFORE there was Jack White, there was Jon Spencer, the original underground white boy rock’n’roll freak force with jet-black hair and an encyclopedic knowledge of the blues. In 1991, after playing in Pussy Galore, he formed The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Judah Bauer, Russell Simins and a theremin. The band blasted a scuzzed-out amalgam of garage rock, punk, blues, R&B and occasionally hip-hop, with no bass guitar, unwitting progenitors to the garage revival of the new millennium and bass-free acts like the White Stripes and The Black Keys. Spencer has always followed his offbeat instincts, seemingly allergic to the requirements of a commercial crossover. His particular aesthetic – monstermovie camp meets a record collector’s studiousness and a…

Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal MATADOR 9/10 WHEN Pavement split after touring their fifth album, it was hardly a surprise. They’d always been a strange entity, not really a band at all in the conventional sense. Formed by Stephen ‘SM’ Malkmus and Scott ‘Spiral Stairs’ Kannberg, two Stockton, California friends into hardcore and the gonzo surrealism of The Fall and Captain Beefheart, they were on shaky foundations from the beginning: after recording their first EP, “Slay Tracks 1933-1969”, Malkmus took off to Europe, leaving Kannberg to release it, and was surprised to find a finished copy in a record store on his travels. After success came, they still took breaks after each album without knowing if they would reconvene. Much of that ambivalence, it seems, stemmed from Malkmus, whose apparent disinterest…

THE MINNEAPOLIS PARTY TAPE When Dylan headed back to Minnesota in May 1961, he was eager to show his old friends how much he’d grown after five months in New York, so he played three loose sets for a small audience, with Tony Glover recording. Compiled into a single bootleg, those tapes sound like a practice run at his debut album, giving a good sense of his early basket-house repertoire. And he made up “Bonnie, Why’d You Cut My Hair?” on the spot, documenting his friend’s ineptitude with shears, and never performed it again. 8/10 THE McKENZIE TAPES Dylan met Eve and Mac McKenzie at Gerde’s Folk City and slept on their couch often. Following Thanksgiving dinner, he recorded a few numbers on a reel-to-reel in their apartment, then added…

JASON PIERCE is weighing up the news that the third Spiritualized album, 1997’s Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, has placed fourth in the list of the greatest albums released in the 25-year life span of Uncut. “It’s nice, and I do like the album,” says Pierce of a record that many regard as his masterpiece. “It was lots of ups and downs, and some things came easier than others. Some of the goal is to make it believable at the end, but the whole thing is a construct. Smoke and mirrors. That’s the joy of recording.” “I Think I’m In Love”, the album’s eight minute opus, is featured on this month’s covermount CD. Although an edited version of the track was later released as the second single…

“THE first time I ever saw Paul was when The Silver Beetles auditioned for Larry Parnes [May 1960 at the Wyvern Social Club, Liverpool], who didn’t think much of them. I was in The Seniors, one of the first rock bands to play at the Cavern. They didn’t have a drummer, so they got Johnny Hutchinson from The Big Three to sit in with them. And dare I say it, he made them sound much better than they were. They were nervous. Billy Fury was sitting there watching as well, with his shirt collar up, doing his best Elvis. “After that, we saw them in Hamburg, where we’d already been playing for a while, and they had improved. They’d been woodshedding, getting it together. It was only a little bar, full…

“A MEMORY from producing 2005’s Chaos And Creation In The Backyard: Paul is standing on a chair behind me in the control room of Ocean Way Studio B, reciting Shakespeare, loudly. His violin bass is slung around his neck. He is smiling. He said he might have been an English teacher if the music thing didn’t work out, but I believe he could have done anything he wanted with his life. He’s very clever – one of the smartest guys I’ve ever met – a polymath. He could have been an intellectual or a scientist or maybe even a prime minister. But we got the musician. “Working together on the record was a healthy push and pull. As with all things worthwhile it was extremely hard at times. He was very…

PERE UBU NUKE THE WHALES 2006-2014 FIRE RECORDS 4 LP BOX SET  Featuring the first vinyl release for ‘Why I LUV Women’ alongside ‘Long Live Père Ubu!’, their exceptional Fire debut ‘Lady From Shanghai’ and ‘Carnival Of Souls’. “Few bands display such dedication to constant self-reinvention as Pere Ubu” The Quietus CROWS BEWARE BELIEVERS BAD VIBRATIONS RECORDS / FUZZ CLUB LP / CD Crows return with second album Beware Believers. Equal parts ferocious and hedonistic, the LP deals in a dark, visceral post-punk that’s been hardened by years of notoriously rowdy live shows. BEIRUT ARTIFACTS  POMPEII RECORDS 2LP / 2CD Artifacts collects the very best of Beirut, from early demos, B-sides & rarities, and traces the evolution of a 14-year old Zach Condon’s first attempts at bringing to life the…

Wet Leg DOMINO 8/10 THE breakthrough British guitar band of last year, Wet Leg created an inescapable earworm with their debut single “Chaise Longue” and its surreal, sunny, self-directed video. After their former folk-tinged project fizzled out in 2019, Isle Of Wight duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers adopted a new name and sound with the intention of making music that was emphatically fun, “goofy and a little bit rude”. Signing to indie hit-maker label Domino, home of Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, they struck a perfect mood-lifting chord for the end of Covid lockdown, selling out their riotous live shows and even making waves in America. But this debut album arrives in darker, more serious times. Their arch, playful, nursery-rhyme punk-pop escapism risks sounding very Last Year. In fairness,…

“The way you flip your hip, it always makes me weak” MAY 2022 TAKE 300 1 PAVEMENT (P42) 2 HAROLD BUDD (P44) 3 HANK WILLIAMS (P45)  4 NORMA TANEGA (P46)  5 FRANK ZAPPA (P49) T.REX 1972 DEMON IN 1972, England found itself staring down a very bleak decade. Inflation continued to soar, and unemployment hit its highest rate since the 1930s, with nearly one out of every four people out of work. Tensions in Ireland escalated, and uncertainty loomed on seemingly every front. Those and other trends would culminate in blackouts and dole queues, and a general sense that the country and its culture were crumbling. But the sprite born Mark Feld existed in direct and ecstatic opposition to such doom and gloom. The country moped, but he rocked. That…

P44 HAROLD BUDD P44 FAMILY P45 HANK WILLIAMS P46 NORMA TANEGA P46 BILLY MACKENZIE P48 BRIAN MAY P48 SONIC YOUTH P49 FRANK ZAPPA AEROSMITH 1971: The Road Starts HearUME 9/10 Awesome, essential archival recording from Toxic Twins and co Though they formed towards the end of 1970, Aerosmith wouldn’t release their self-titled debut album until early 1973. That set kicked off a run of albums, to 1979’s Night In The Ruts, that’s unimpeachable as far as smart-yet-dumb rock’n’roll goes; if you’ve ever wondered what was at the core of Aerosmith’s music, though, The Road Starts Hear is the motherlode. Documenting a rehearsal from 1971, when the band was still playing bars around their hometown of Boston, it’s a thrill to hear their songs so denuded, their playing so rough. There’s…

JIMMY PAGE/ROBERT PLANT WALKING INTO CLARKSDALE ATLANTIC/MERCURY, 1998 Page and Plant’s first studio collection of original material since Led Zeppelin, recorded by Steve Albini and featuring strong material like “Please Read The Letter”, the ragged “Most High” and the wild drone of “Upon A Golden Horse”. JIMMY PAGE & THE BLACK CROWES\ LIVE AT THE GREEK MUSIC MAKER/TVT, 2000 Double album (released in two different versions) of Page’s collaboration with The Black Crowes in 1999, featuring highlights from the Zeppelin catalogue faithfully reinterpreted by the Crowes. A little looser and earthier than the Zep versions, giving JP a chance to blow off steam. JIMMY PAGE LUCIFER RISING AND OTHER SOUNDTRACKS JIMMYPAGE.COM, 2012 Page’s experimental soundtrack for Kenneth Anger’s film was never released at the time, replaced instead by a score…

FOR a number of weeks onstage, Mick Ronson had been throwing in a variety of guitar moves in order to find something of his own. This was proving difficult as it felt like everything had been done already, from Berry’s duck-walk to setting the damn thing on fire. He’d windmilled à la Townshend, played it behind his back like Dave Edmunds in his ‘Love Sculpture’ mode and at present was going through a Hendrix ‘play it with yer teeth’ bit. As we soundchecked in Oxford, it occurred to me that one person gnawing the guitar was one thing, but two people, well, that was two things… probably. I got all excited about this brave new idea and told Mick that, whatever happened tonight, he should just keep going. I don’t…

JANUARY 24, 1961 Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in the dead of winter with his friend Fred Underhill. Their first stop: Café Wha?, where Dylan makes his performing debut. APRIL 11, 1961 Dylan finally gets a gig at Gerde’s Folk City, a two-week opening slot for John Lee Hooker. He nervously plays five songs, including “House Of The Rising Sun” and “Song For Woody”. SEPTEMBER 29, 1961 In addition to getting his first review – a rave by Robert Shelton in The New York Times – Dylan plays his first recording session, blowing harmonica on three songs for Carolyn Hester’s third album. OCTOBER 26, 1961 After meeting John Hammond through Hester, Dylan signs with Columbia Records – a relief after he’d already been rejected by several labels. NOVEMBER…

“WE did a cover of ‘Downbound Train’ for Smoke Ring For My Halo, and that turned out beautiful. You bring it down to your wheelhouse. Then for (watch my moves) we covered ‘Wages Of Sin’. I tried to do it back in 2007 or 8. The earliest Violators, including Adam [Granduciel, below], played on it. It’s been a special song for a long time. It’s a song where you think ‘I don’t want anyone else to do this song anytime soon.’ “We just pulled it off like crazy. I knew it was good when we did it and then I heard it back this Summer. I had so many recordings, so many potentials for this record, and I remember I was feeling kind of psychedelic and I was on the…

We’re not the only ones with something to celebrate… On June 18, PAUL McCARTNEY turns 80. To celebrate this landmark birthday, we’ve asked friends, collaborators and admirers – including DAVID CROSBY, ELVIS COSTELLO, KLAUS VOORMANN, BRIAN WILSON, PATTIE BOYD, PAUL WELLER, ROBERT PLANT, PETE TOWNSHEND, NOEL GALLAGHER, JEFF LYNNE, NIGEL GODRICH, JOHNNY MARR and NILE RODGERS – to share their most memorable Macca encounters with us. Starting out on a number 80 bus in the mid ’50s, we take in a historic meeting at St Peter’s Church Hall, trips to Hamburg and Rishikesh, margaritas at Cavendish Avenue and picnics in Yorkshire before arriving, some seven decades later, at the premiere for Get Back. Along the way, there is a poem from Donovan, a Polaroid from Lulu, a children’s game called…

DONOVAN and McCartney go way back. Having recruited Paul to whoop it up on 1967’s “Mellow Yellow”, Donovan was also part of the Rishikesh gathering that studied under the Maharishi in February 1968. While there, he supposedly taught Lennon and McCartney a finger-picking guitar style gleaned from folk singer Mac MacLeod. Rather than share a favourite Macca tale, Donovan has instead proffered a specially written poem. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PAUL! Who would’ve thought you’d last this longOn a wee veggie burger an’ a popular songYou ‘ave to admit it was tuff a few timesBut you kept yer smile with a few funny rhymesRemember the days you were skifflin’ about?A whole world waitin’ to Twist ‘n’ ShoutEven then you were ‘Bossy Boots’Soon in a band wearin’ Nehru suitsJoking aside we gift…

X OPENS MARCH 18 Cult horror director Ti West (The House Of The Devil, The Innkeepers) recounts a Texas adult movie shoot that goes wrong. The cast includes the reliably weird Mia Goth. EUROPA OPENS MARCH 18 Grittily immersive drama from director Haider Rashid, about a young migrant struggling for survival in a forest on the border of Europe. Adam Ali gives a fearless, athletic performance. CHOPPER OPENS MARCH 25 Re-release for the 2000 Australian drama that launched the directing career of Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James…) and made an international name of Eric Bana, playing real-life criminal celebrity, self-mythologising hard nut Mark “Chopper” Read. MORBIUS OPENS MARCH 31 Long-awaited Marvel vampire spin-off starring Jared Leto as a scientist whose attempt to cure his blood disease goes horribly…

BETTY DAVIS Raw funk innovator (1945)-(2022) BETTY Mabry’s tempestuous marriage to Miles Davis lasted only a year. Creatively, however, it proved mutually beneficial. She introduced him to the music of Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, prompting his shift towards jazz fusion, particularly on 1970’s Bitches Brew. In turn, Miles encouraged her to pursue a stopstart singing career that had until then been secondary to modelling. Betty resumed writing music after their divorce in 1969, eventually leading to a self-titled debut album four years later. Her style was uncompromising and raw, specialising in sensual songs with hard funk-blues backings. “I wrote songs about sex, and that was sort of unheard of then,” she told The Washington Post in 2018. By 1974’s self-produced They Say I’m Different, Davis had become one of…

HOW TO ENTER The letters in the shaded squares form an anagram of a song by Paul McCartney. When you’ve worked out what it is, email your answer to: competitions@uncut.co.uk. The first correct entry picked at random will win a prize. Closing date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022. This competition is only open to European residents. CLUES ACROSS 1 Pink Floyd’s sound is common in every house, and here’s their sound in the House Of Commons (3-8-4) 9 Marching at a military display to the music of a Rory Gallagher album (6) 10+19A “And I’ll show you all the photographs that I ever got took/And I’ll play you old 45s”, 1988 (4-4-3) 11 Poseur upset by Baby D number (2-4) 12 KillingJokesinglethatwasofitsdecade(8) 14 Basic expression includes name of Boo Radleys vocalist…

Whether he’s raising the roof with Alison Krauss, digging deep on his podcast or getting ready to support the Eagles in the summer, there’s always a lot going on with Robert Plant. The latest Ultimate Music Guide covers 40 years (and counting) of his incredible solo career. Every album in depth. Exclusive intro by RP himself. Entertaining archive chats rediscovered. It’s in shops now – way down inside, you need it… Fifty years ago, the UK leg of the Ziggy tour was somewhere en route between Bournemouth and Birmingham. If your appetite for Bowie ’72 has been whetted by our feature on p58, you can still find a copy of our Ziggy Stardust special edition in WHSmith, Rough Trade and at uncut.co.uk/single (with free UK P&P). Let the children boogie……

CHRIS ROBINSON & HOWLIN RAIN “Sucker”/“Death May Be Your Santa Claus” SILVER CURRENT The two straggle-bearded lords of NorCal jam-rock join forces for a pair of Mott The Hoople covers. Good times! GWENNO “An Stevel Nowydh” HEAVENLY The first taster of new album Tresor is a spry yet mysterious psych-pop nugget about getting completely lost – and seeing that not as a disaster but an adventure. MICHAEL HEAD & THE RED ELASTIC BAND Dear Scott MODERN SKY Former Shack and Strands man returns with his first new album in five years, based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood escapades and produced by Bill Ryder-Jones. YAMA WARASHI Crispy Moon PRAH Members of Vanishing Twin and Mermaid Chunky help Warashi to fashion a bewitching album of junkshop pop and small-world music, inspired by…

“Forsaken land/You kept me when I couldn’t face the world” MAY 2022 TAKE 300 1 RY COODER & TAJ MAHAL (P22) 2 FATHER JOHN MISTY (P24) 3 WET LEG (P33) 4 JON SPENCER & THE HITMAKERS (P37) You Belong There WARP YOU Belong There is Daniel Rossen’s first ever full-length solo album. But, as the saying goes, it’s taken him a lifetime to get here. For some 20 years, Rossen has been a member of Grizzly Bear, the orchestral Brooklyn troupe who smartened up the city after The Strokes’ rock’n’roll reign, pioneering a wave of literate, sonically sumptuous indie rock in their wake. Grizzly Bear released five studio albums, won acclaim from the likes of Radiohead – Johnny Greenwood declared them his favourite band – and spawned a side-project of…

P24 P25 P28 P32 P33 P34 P36 P37 P24 FATHER JOHN MISTY P25 CALEXICO P28 FONTAINES DC P32 HANNAH PEEL P33 WET LEG P34 OUMOU SANGARÉ P36 KURT VILE P37 JON SPENCER FEDERICO ALBANESE  Before And Now Seems Infinite MERCURY KX 7/10 Berlin-based Italian composer adds unexpected ingredients Federico Albanese’s fourth album picks up where 2018’s By The Deep Sea left off, its instrumentals built, like Max Richter’s, around simple but sweetly evocative themes, though his arrangements are more delicately skeletal. “The Vine” offers languid piano arpeggios and soothing strings, “Was There A Time” adds atmospheric synths, and “Unicorn” ups the tempo, its plucked strings and slowly swelling instrumentation as close as Albanese gets to urgent. “Summerside”, though, is bolstered by Marika Hackman’s dignified English vocals, and Ghostpoet’s subdued yet…

Three more T.Rex album highlights Electric Warrior FLY, 1971 Following the success of the 1971 single “Hot Love”, T.Rex unleashed their second album, which digs deep into the ebullient rhythms of ’50s rock’n’roll as Bolan pens odes to sex (“Get It On”), fancy cars (“Jeepster”) and life itself (“Life’s A Gas”). It’s the wellspring of T.Rextasy and a founding document in glam rock. 10/10 Tanx EMI, 1973  Ever restless, Boland tinkered with the T.Rex palette, adding R&B horns, gospel backing vocals and even some funk rhythms. It’s audaciously diverse, although it might have performed better had he released any of these songs to radio. Still, his best music from that year was the non-album single, “20th Century Boy”, which he recorded in Japan. 8/10 Dandy In The Underworld EMI, 1977…

HAROLD BUDD & BRIAN ENO WITH DANIEL LANOIS The Pearl EDITIONS EG, 1984 Budd and Eno followed 1980’s Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirrors with an even more exquisite 11-track collection, its liquid piano melodies floating above pillow-y landscapes of synths and ghostly sounds, heard to best effect on the immaculate, and immaculately titled, “A Stream With Bright Fish”. Arguably more cohesive, it’s not only delicately pretty but unusually compelling. 9/10 HAROLD BUDD/RUBEN GARCIA/DANIEL LENTZ Music For Three Pianos ALL SAINTS, 1991 Just 22 minutes long, this collab with American composer Lentz and pianist Garcia is more formal, less dependent on studio effects, and so minimal it seems implausible that three instruments were used. Neither occasional embellishments, like the brief flurries of notes on “La Muchacha De Los Suenos Dorados”,…

PAGE gave his blessing to this documentary by Bernard MacMahon, who made the American Epic series exploring American roots music in the 1920s. Becoming Led Zeppelin focuses on the first two years of the band’s life and was premiered at Venice in 2021, with a cinematic release to follow. “It’s everybody’s story leading up the point where I get together with Robert and start explaining my ideas of what we could do in a band,” says Page. “Without giving too many secrets away, it then shows the meteoric rise in America over that year.” The film spends the first hour filling in Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham’s back stories before showing how they came together in 1968 and exploded in 1969, ending with the release of Led Zeppelin II when…

CONSTANT HITMAKER WOODSIST RECORDS/GULCHER, 2008 “I was working a day job, and I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, and there’s an urgency there that I kind of think is beautiful and is hard to touch again. But I feel like I have it again here now I’m living a normal life, whereas in between I was just going in and out of studios having people record me and it was cool, but I lost something.” B’LIEVE I’M GOIN’ DOWN MATADOR, 2015 “I met Rob Schnapf to help me finish Believe I’m Goin’ Down, I was completely a mess, didn’t know how to finish it, and I was lost. At the exact same time Rob reached out to say he wanted to work with me. I was like, wait……

“I got to know The Beatles when they first came to Hamburg in 1960. I was an artistic type. I came from art school and was an assistant photographer at the time. Me and my friends – Klaus Voormann and Astrid Kirchherr - were the only people in those clubs that looked different. Otherwise, the audience was all wise guys. So The Beatles were very intrigued by us and we befriended them. “John and Paul were always asking me where I got my clothes from. Hamburg was so square, so I’d been going on short shopping trips to Paris for a few years. In the spring of ’61 they came to Hamburg for a second time and I photographed them. John later used one of my photos for the cover…

“PAUL and I met in the ‘70s through Robert Fraser, my art dealer. He actually introduced me to Linda first, who I got on really well with. One day Robert took me along to Air Studios in London, where Paul was recording. We probably smoked a spliff and just got chatting. I explained to Paul about the way you build up a painting, from a drawing through various layers of investigation until you land on something that’s solid, that you can hold onto. Paul used all the words I’d use to describe the creation of a painting, in order to describe how you make music. When I went into Air that day, I met a Beatle. But I left the studio as a friend. We started seeing a lot of each other…

Email letters@uncut.co.uk. Or tweet us at twitter.com/uncutmagazine GET YOURSELF COLLECTED Just a quick line to say thank you for all the doors you opened to me over the years into some amazing music. Latest example The Weather Station album Ignorance, which is rarely off my turntable. First found her via your Uncut special subscribers-only CD, Selected Works. My music collection has evolved around those monthly trips into new music and not forgetting the reissues and features on music from previous decades. As a child of the Woodstock generation, my music of choice was early psychedelic – anything from The Beatles and Stones through to the Grateful Dead, Floyd, Zappa, CSNY and then on into the ’70s with Free, Quintessence, Bob Marley, Roxy Music, etc. Later influences were Springsteen, Joy Division,…

THE BEATLES Revolver PARLOPHONE, 1966 We had all the Beatles cassettes on rotation in the car growing up. I actually taught myself to read from the liner notes – you think about it, “Love Me Do”, they’re all kinda short words! But my Beatles record was Revolver. Still today, every time we record an album I always go back and listen to Revolver because it’s such a study in freedom. “Tomorrow Never Knows” is a pretty wild experimental choice and sometimes people are afraid to make those choices now. I like Revolver for its all-over-the-placeness because you really can hear each band member. My dad used to quiz me in the car on who wrote each song! GLORIA ESTEFAN Mi Tierra EPIC, 1993 This was the record where she got…