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Godfather of Pop interview: Dr Robert
Bruce Robert Howard was nicknamed Dr Robert, after the Beatles song of that title, while he was still at school in King‘s Lynn. After emigrating to Australia with his family…
Godfather of Pop interview: Junior Giscombe
Junior Giscombe cut his teeth as a backing vocalist with Linx before enjoying success as a solo artist with Mama Used To Say, a 1982 hit on both sides of…
Reissue Review: Stevie Nicks – Stand Back 1981-2017
THINK THAT STEVIE NICKS IS ALL ABOUT FLOWING SKIRTS AND ETHEREAL VOCALS? THINK AGAIN… She was the all-American middle-class girl who became a watchword for narcotic hedonism and rock’n’roll excess;…
Reissue review: Stephen Duffy – I Love My Friends
THE FORMER DURAN DURAN VOCALIST’S MUCH UNDERRATED 1996 ALBUM DEBUTS ON VINYL. YOU NEED TO OWN THIS. Named after a 1996 single by Stephen Duffy, Needle Mythology is a brand…
New album review: Howard Jones – Transform
THE KEYBOARD WIZARD’S 11TH ALBUM MAY NOT CONVERT SCEPTICS, BUT LONG-TERM FANS WILL DEFINITELY FIND THAT THINGS JUST GOT BETTER… Back in 1984, Howard Jones told us he’d like to…
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Reissue review: Prince – Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Credited with piloting the success of Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston, legendary US label head Clive Davis also reignited the career of Santana in 1999 when he persuaded the fading…
Reissue review: Kate Bush – The Other Sides
After the fanfare of the reissue of two CD and four vinyl Kate Bush Remastered boxsets last November, as well as separate remastered versions of every album, Kate Bush now…
Reissue review: New Order – Movement (Definitive Edition)
It’s oddly moving to see a slick, ‘definitive’ version of an album that was so raw, so ragged and unready. When Movement was released in November 1981 it was greeted…