After an audition at Solid Bond, Tracie became a priority signing for Paul’s Respond record label. Tracie recorded a bedroom version of Shoorah Shoorah on her home tape deck and eventually popped it into the postbox. All you need is a strong voice and good technique. Paul would like to stress that you don’t have to be 60s maniac to qualify. SITUATIONS VACANT – “Paul Weller’s Respond Label are still looking for a female singer to record. We discover that it was the second ad placed in the magazine which read… RC can be purchased from your local newsagent, our loyal army of record shop stockists, or you can start a subscription or buy individual copies from our shop.Our story kicks off with a love of music and records as a kid to 1982, when Tracie answered an advert in Smash Hits magazine that would change her life and land her on Top of The Pops with the biggest band in the country – The Jam – in just a matter of months! There’s a Joe Strummer photo special, a remarkable encounter with Jeff Cotton aka Antennae Jimmy Semens of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, a feature on soul man Johnnie Taylor, film director John Carpenter talks through his soundtrack catalogue, we meet hair metal heroes Skid Row, hairless 90s popsters Right Said Fred, and 60s bubblegum/sunshine pop crew The Cowsills, and a Duran Duran collector shares his wares. The cover story is ABBA, comprising an exclusive interview with Benny Andersson and a list of Top 40 Best ABBA Songs. Talking of the Swede superstars… We’re already hard at work on our Christmas issue, which hits the shops on 1 December.
Finally, you have, in Competitions & Crossword, an opportunity to win KISS Gin and ABBA goodies. Under The Radar this month is Shelagh McDonald, in the Engine Room is Douglas MacIntyre, Betty Boo reveals the records that raised her, and 10 Of The Best features Toto’s David Paich. Make sure you keep reading because at the back of the magazine we have a panoply of Reader Services including subscription special offers, classified listings, a gig guide, and a spotlight on our record shop of the month: Clocktower Music in Bridport. It’s a bumper month for reviews with new releases from Bowie, The Beach Boys and Sandy Denny, First Aid Kit, Arctic Monkeys, and Ezra Collective under inspection, books on Joan Armatrading and Trevor Horn, DVDs of The Damned and Creedence Clearwater Revival, and concerts by everyone from Incubus and UFO to Katy J Pearson. And in Not Forgotten we appreciate Loretta Lynn and other notable lives in music. Gabrielle Aplin, Candy Dulfer, Clark, Tim Cronin and others are among the Talking Heads, we spend 33 1/3 minutes with former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce. Our columnists – Bob Stanley, David Quantick, Ian McCann and Luke Haines – are their usual provocative selves.
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Most Wanted has some Elton and Queen promo displays plus Rod Stewart’s shirt is up for grabs.
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Diggin’ For Gold features disco ice hockey records, Dave Clark Five and a classic TV spot: The Smiths with Sandie Shaw. In Value Added Facts we remember Northampton post-punk band The Russians. In RC Investigates we visit the locations London’s most feted rock flicks. In The Vinylist Karl Wallinger we look at World Party reissues and revisit a vintage Was (Not Was) LP while readers tell of their Top 5 records and first-ever vinyl purchases. In News there is, well, news of a David Bowie box set, as well as stamps featuring the late Thin White Duke. And we forage through two Oasis fanatics’ collections of vinyl and memorabilia.
Theeditor of subversive 70s/80s music bible CREEM picks the magazine’s most resonant front covers. We remember the glory days of the Greatest Hits CD, when the format was more popular than vinyl. Socially conscious reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff looks back in languor over his tumultuous career. He also goes crate-digging with RC at his favourite record shop in west London and compiles, especially for RC readers, a countdown of his favourite “lost tracks” by other artists – his annotated list appears in the magazine.Įlsewhere in this issue, we send not one but two intrepid RC reporters to interview Robert Fripp about his solo recordings and second career, with his wife Toyah, as a YouTube star, plus we feature an extensive Fripp discography. The cover star this month is Paul Weller, who talks in-depth about Will Of The People, the former Jam and Style Council man’s new box set of solo rarities, remixes and B-sides from the last 20 years of his career, and explores the idea that his most representative music are his “deep cuts”.
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