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BILL WYMAN “I’M THE OLDEST ROCK STAR ON THE PLANET!”

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DANNY THOMPSON MONOCHROME SET HAPPY MONDAYS VIRGIN PRUNES AL JARDINE 80s DISCO EATER

GET HAPPY!! 1980

CELEBRATE A BRILLIANT POP YEAR WITH: THE SPECIALS • JOY DIVISION • OMD TALKING HEADS • DEXYS • IRON MAIDEN BOW WOW WOW • COCKNEY REJECTS DIANA ROSS • YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

FROM THE VAULTS

Clarence Daniels Orchestra & Obie Jessie Got A Good Thing Going On b/w Hard Working Girl CITY 104 The classic ‘Hard Working Girl’ featuring Obie Jessie on vocals is paired here with another great track from the same session. Pat Livingston/ We’ve...

TOP 200

In association with RC’S Rare Record Price Guide, and after painstaking recalibration of asking prices for the most sought-after albums, singles, white labels, acetates and picture discs in the history of popular music, we can reveal the most valuable...

BRYAN ADAMS CANADA WRY

MARTIN CARTHY

This leading light of the 60s scene became the patriarch of UK folk’s first family. He looks back at a long career and encounters with Dylan, Simon et al

REVIEWED!

BETA BAND NEIL YOUNG NICK DRAKE PALE FOUNTAINS MARIANNE FAITHFULL PETER BUCK & LUKE HAINES

HOW PETER MURPHY BUILT A GOTH EMPIRE WITH bauhaus ... AND SURVIVED

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW + DISCOGRAPHY

SMOKEY ROBINSON

He was one of 60s soul’s great voices of heartbreak before a 70s reinvention and an 80s commercial resurgence. Most recently, the octogenarian released an album themed around orgasms. Lots to discuss, then, in our RC Interview

BOB DYLAN

FULL STORY + 1965 DISCOGRAPHY

JOHN LYDON

At the height of the Sex Pistols’ notoriety, amid a punk scene ruled by a draconian taste police, the artist then known as Johnny Rotten stunned listeners with an eclectic choice of favourite records on a Capital Radio show. Now living in LA minus his...

New Releases

American Baroque: Chamber Pop And Beyond 1967-1971 / Various CDTOP 1657 XXQLP2 146 2LP Cellos, flutes, harpsichords, and a deeply wooded feel are the core of American baroque. Its summer-into-autumn melancholy was quite new to rock in the late 60s....

THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE. STILL

Goldwax Records Memphis Soul Rarities 1964-1969

LTDBOX 022 (7x7” Box) Goldwax was the ultimate southern soul label. Here are some of the finest discoveries from their vaults, on the 7” vinyl they were intended for.

U2

DISMANTLE THEIR ALBUM OF THE CENTURY! INCLUDES BONO’S “UNRELIABLE RECOLLECTIONS” + PERSONAL LETTER TO RC

MC5#THE SMILE FRANK ZAPPA LAURA MARLING LIGHTNING SEEDS

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...

The Best of Ace Rockabilly Hand Selected by Keb Darge

CHD 1637 LP Keb Darge, fell under the spell of this music when his Japanese girlfriend forced him to go down to a ‘Rockabilly’ night back in 1989. Although it has taken an age to persuade him, Keb has now applied his perfectionist compiling skills to...

TAYLOR SWIFT

The pop phenomenon who seemed to eat the zeitgeist whole in 2024 is anything but an overnight sensation, having been hoovering up Grammys for the best part of 20 years. We dig deeper into the secrets of her extraordinary success and highlight the...