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Profile: Robert Wyatt
With 'His Greatest Misses' a new compilation of his work out, Jon Rogers reflects upon the idiosyncratic solo career of musicians' musician and former Soft Machine member, Robert Wyatt
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Frank Sidebottom aka Chris Sievey: 1955-2010
Spencer Robertshaw was at one of the last shows of comedian/musician Frank Sidebottom in Leeds in May. He pays tribute to him and his alter ego, Chris Sievey, who died on the 21st June after complications arising from his treatment for cancer
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Profile: Peter Daltrey
Andrew Carver reflects on 'Heroine' and 'Tattoo', two solo albums from the last decade from Peter Daltrey, the frontman with 60s psychedelic act Kaleidoscope, which have just been reissued in one package on the Rocket Girl label
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Profile: Typewriter
Malcolm Carter examines Typewriter, the experimental solo project of former Lucy Show songwriter and musician Mark Bandola
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DVD-Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
‘Rush – Beyond the Lighted Stage’ is an award winning music documentary about the Canadian stadium act, Rush. Spencer Robertshaw finds it compelling and fascinating
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Profile: Frank Sinatra in the Fifties
Jon Rogers reflects upon the musical career and comeback of Frank Sinatra in the Fifties
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Comment: Rockabilly - So What's This Then?
Adrian Huggins writes of his discovery, after getting lost on the way to a stag night, of the thriving current Rockabilly and Psychobilly movements
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DVD-Renaissance: Kings and Queens
Classic rock group Renaissance went through various line-ups, including in its original incarnation former Yardbirds members Keith Relf and Jim McCarty. Carol Bookstein examines new DVD 'Kings and Queens', which captures live and video footage, much previously believed lost, of the group
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DVD: Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Anthony Strutt examines 1971 Italian horror film, 'Lizard in a Woman's Skin', which has just been restored on DVD, and features a psychedelic soundtrack from Ennio Morricone
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Profile: Janis Ian
American folk singer-songwriter Janis Ian has just been the subject across two new reissues of three of her albums and a concert performance on 'The Old Grey Whistle Test' from the mid 1970's. Lisa Torem assesses her career at the time and both reissues
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DVD-Suicidal Tendencies: Live at the Olympic Auditorium
American punk band Suicidal Tendencies' new DVD is a concert film shot at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles shortly before the venue's closure. r. fisher discovers that, while having much to recommend it, it has many of the flaws of other live performance films
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DVD-: You Really Got Me: The Story of the Kinks
New Kinks DVD chronicles their history from their beginnings in the early 1960s until their break-up in the mid 1990s. While often flawed, Tony Gaughan nevertheless finds it to be often compulsive viewing
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DVD-Yes: Rock of the 70s
Lisa Torem is fascinated 'Rock of the 70s', a little seen, but pionerring collection of videos from one of the early line-ups of prog rockers Yes at the time of 'Time and a Word', their breakthrough second album
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Profile: Galaxie 500
Jon Rogers examines the short, but influential career of late 80's/early 90's American indie rock trio Galaxie 500, whose three albums have just been reissued
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Profile: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Anthony Middleton looks at the mid 80's and early 90's history of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who in the second instalment of an extensive reissue campaign have just had three albums from that era, 'Tender Prey', 'Henry's Dreaam' and 'The Good Son',all re-released
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