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25 Years Later...
TV’s best music show celebrates its quarter-century, with Weller, Dizzee and Van! Plus, Jools talks eternal verities.
November 1971...The Shaft OST Tops The US Album Charts
NOVEMBER 20 Staff at Stax Records’ headquarters, at 926 East McLemore Avenue in South Memphis, were elated. Released on Stax’s Enterprise subsidiary, Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to the movie Shaft had become their fastest-selling album, topping the US pop album charts. Additionally, the long-player spawned a massive selling hit single whose exaltation of “the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks” would enter the vernacular of pop.
Snapped Ankles
Border-crashing bog devils press the electric rock accelerator to blast into glorious confusion.
Paul Draper And Mansun
Odd fish in the Britpop surge, they began with a lucky break. But the end was dark, mad and terrifying.
Harvey Mandel
The travelled guitar spellcaster talks blues, magic and the Stones.
Aldous Harding
New Zealand folk-modernist haunts, startles and demands to be heard.
Lloyd Price
“I would dream of being Louis Jordan and dream of being Nat ‘King’ Cole or Joe Louis,” remembers the 84-year-old country boy from Kenner, Louisiana.
Colter Wall
From the Canadian prairie, the Steve Earle endorsed new voice of outlaw country.
High And Sly
Redoubtable photographer Neal Preston recalls rock’s wildest years in new book Exhilarated And Exhausted.
Mojo Rising: Sumie
The written word – including wartime letters – inspires Swedish singer-songwriter.
Thomas Dolby
The tech-headsynth-waver in his own words and by his own hand.
1948-2017: Going Through Changes
Charles Bradley, The Screaming Eagle of Soul, died on September 23.
Orbital
Cerebral rave siblings prepare to mix folk moods, social rage and an army of synths.