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KATE BUSH: After the imperial success of Hounds Of Love, Kate Bush travelled into bolder, stranger territory, where she began to reimagine not just her music but her life – a journey that would bring both creative freedom and personal upheaval. “My desire wasn’t to be famous, it was to do something interesting from a music point of view.”
CREAM: As a newly-discovered trove of tapes shine a light on the supergroup’s masterpiece Wheels Of Fire, collaborators and eyewitnesses revisit a band pushing at the outer edges of volume, improvisation and control. “It’s like a firework…”
THE SPECIALS: ‘Gentleman’ Horace Panter and Lynval Golding take us round Coventry’s hot spots. “If you go downtown on a Friday night and come home on Saturday morning, you gotta expect a black eye…”
R.E.M.: In 1986, Michael Stipe and co rolled into Oregon for two shows on their Pageantry Tour. These intimate, previously unpublished photos from the soundcheck capture the band up close and on the rise.
ROBERT FRIPP: As prog’s nabob turns 80, we’re invited to his home to examine his past… and future. To be discussed: rabbits, sessions with Bowie, misunderstandings in Italian hospitals and “the so-called ‘Crimson’s new album’…”
TYLER BALLGAME: From his bruising false start in Rhode Island to a last-ditch reinvention in LA, the new-school old-school crooner explains how he found redemption through music. “It feels holy, you know?”
AN AUDIENCE WITH… PETER HAMMILL: The Van Der Graff general on Italian riots, Shirley Bassey and out-punking The Stranglers. “I like trying to be better, just for my own sake.”
THE MAKING OF “SHIPBUILDING” BY ELVIS COSTELLO: Adding Sinatra strings and a Chet Baker trumpet, Costello still sees his own recording as a “cover” of Robert Wyatt’s mournfui masterpiece
ALBUM BY ALBUM WITH JIM O’ROURKE: The post-rock polymath surveys three decades of restlessness and brilliance.
MY LIFE IN MUSIC: The Hollywood star turned jazz showman Jeff Goldblum on the records that made him fly.
REVIEWED: Boards Of Canada, Paul McCartney, Tucker Zimmerman, Horse Lords, The Coral, Bob Wagner, Beth Orton, Brown Wimpenny, This Heat, Brown Spirits, Neil Ardley, Geraint Jarman, Big Thief, Kilkenny Roots Festival, Leonard Cohen, Clem Burke and more
PLUS: Ian Curtis exhibition, Dave Mason and Beverley Martyn RIP, Graham Coxon, Deep Purple, Greensleeves label art, Stones’ collectibles and introducing skronking saxophonist turned raw confessional songwriter, Zoh Amba