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FIFTY years on, where do you start with Let It

“He was a true believer”

DICK TAYLOR: “I metPhil at Sidcup Art School in 1961

Return to cinder

“THE word ‘reunion’ makes me cringe,” says Eleanor Friedberger. want

“Music saved my butt - again!”

HE’S 78 now, but David Crosby is still achieving career

A QUICK ONE

His new album On Sunset is in the shops -

Strange days

RICHARD Strange has a curious knack for being in the

Ohmme

WE call it ‘secret prog’,” says Macie Stewart, with a

UNCUT PLAYLIST

Best and freakiest album yet from the revitalised Afro-jazz ensemble,

Got A Feeling

Nicholas Van Bakel’s Melbourne crew start us off this month

“Everything just came together - magic!”

HANK Marvin doesn’t have many regrets, but there is one

KHRUANGBIN

FROM the myth of the Titan Atlas onwards, carrying the

A COMPLICATED MAN

IN his 2016 Nobel Prize lecture - which he did

G’DAY SUNSHINE!

DARWIN is a frontier town. Located so far north it

LONG AND WINDING ROAD

IT BEGINS with a close-up of a bass drum head,

Laura Marling

A FOLLOW-UP to this spring’s Song For Our Daughter may

“ One musician speaking in a number of dialects”

MOST mornings, you’ll find Robert Fripp in his garden. “Every

Our Lips Are Sealed by the Go-Go’s

IN June 1980, an unsigned all-female American pop-punk group supported

STUBBORN GLORY

“I’M not really a great joiner,” John Martyn told this

A-WOP-BOP A-LOO-BOP A-WOP-BAM BOOM!

“TUTTI FRUTTI”1985 His first single on Specialty Records boasts one

Inside The Happy House

To all intents and purposes, 1979 was not a particularly

DAMON ALBARN

ON Albarn to new May be opus, performing 17, was

SHARON VAN ETTEN

"I’M nervous and emotional,” admits Sharon Van Etten, “but I’m

BOOKS

FURLOUGHED in 1981 while frontman David Byrne made a solo

FILMS

DA 5 BLOODS There could hardly be a more signi.cant

CARMINE STREET GUITARS

IN a film where understatement is everything, it wouldn’t do

Not Fade Away

Betty Wright was born a star. She was recording with

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My Life In Music Phoebe Bridgers

The first song I remember being really emo and walking