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The new issue is hitting the shops just about… now. It features Ray Davies of The Kinks talking in incredible detail about the band’s career. If you want to know what they did, where they did it and why, this is the story for you – and it’s just part one of our massive Kinks retrospective. The same issue includes a fulsome tribute to the great Jon Lord, written with heartfelt passion by Chris Welch, a man who knew Mr Lord for decades, plus Rick Wakeman offers his feelings about the brilliant Purple organist. We find out about the agony of XTC in creating the superb English Settlement album; we chat to Kiss; take our orders from the mighty Bunny Lee, the big boss of reggae; say goodbye to The Dells, our favourite soul group; hear mid-60s music biz madness from The Merseys, and seek answers from Renaissance, Jane Birkin and Greg Lake. And there’s even our latest rare vinyl offer featuring Wellington, a band with a touch of acid-folk genius. Ooh, I don’t know how we fit it all in… missus.
Lots of amusement lately about the ‘Northern soul’ edition of the BBC’s Inspector George Gently, which has also drawn a few letters from readers. Seem to remember a snippet of What’s Going On used as incidental music during a bit of hanky panky too, which is intriguing from an episode set in 1968. What’s more, the following week’s show, also set in 1968, had Jethro Tull’s Living In The Past playing. Must have been a (very) advanced promotional copy… shame really, as I do like the programme a lot and its heart is clearly in the right place. Next week on ITV, Poirot shakes his moustache at a Barclay James Harvest gig in 1947.
Not sure what the famous Belgian detective would think about Trojan records’ new online Deezer radio channel, but the second we heard Iggy Iggy, the 1971 Augustus Pablo/Lord Comic record that came on when we tuned in, RC’s reggae-loving crew (all two of us) was hooked. Of course, we already own Iggy Iggy on a Scorpio-label 45 (just as we’ve got Iggy Pop’s Augustus Augustus – and I apologise to Nick Lowe for stealing his concept), but that’s hardly the point. Playing the station has got us through a long hard day of cleaning old vinyl with vodka at our desks – drinking the vodka once it’s become too filthy for cleaning – and there’s loads of other good-for-the-ears channels on the same site. Legal note: RC in no way supports polishing vinyl with vodka, or binge cleaning.
Thank you for reading, and for supporting RC.
Ian McCann, Record Collector Editor
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