Record Collector #562 October 2024

Frisch eingetroffen: Record Collector #562 October 2024

COVER STORY – GENESIS – It’s 1974 and the prog pioneers reconvene at a country house in Oxfordshire to start work on their most ambitious project yet: a double concept album. However, personal problems and musical differences are threatening to spell the end of an era for the band
CHIME A DOZEN – We’re still celebrating our 45th birthday, so here’s the RC staff’s favourite 12 singles from the last 45 years
ALISON MOYET – The formidably voiced Essex chanteuse takes us through the many personal and professional challenges that have brought her to her current career renaissance
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK – Still touring at 88, the Leicester crooner born Arnold Dorsey also still takes pride from keeping The Beatles off the No 1 spot
GENE CLARK – Why the man who played a key role in birthing The Byrds’ inimitable sound is belatedly being recognised for his often outstanding solo work
TALK TALK – Five years since his passing, we present new glimpses of the band’s enigmatic leader Mark Hollis via a series of revealing photos from an acclaimed biography
RASCALS – These New Yorkers found chart success with colourful beat pop but their heart was in more adventurous, progressive material – and that’s where the trouble began…
FROM THE VAULTS – Reissues and box sets from Dylan & The Band, Paul Williams and Johnny Marr dissected and assessed
NEW ALBUMS – Mercury Rev, Ezra Collective and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have new LPs to bend an ear to
BOOKS – Volumes by and about Alan Vega, Wishbone Ash, Robyn Hitchcock and others
SINGLES – including Lone Justice
LIVES – Performances by Foo Fighters, Love and Idles are among those witnessed

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