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Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie sells song rights to Hipgnosis
Fleetwood Mac‘s Christine McVie, who wrote iconic hits such as “Little Lies” and “Don’t Stop”, has become the latest artist to sell her back catalogue of hits to Hipgnosis. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie on Peter Green: “Every guitar player adores him” The singer-songwriter sold the copyright of 115 songs to the London firm for an undisclosed fee, which gives investors the chance to take advantage of royalties from a selection of classic hits. Merck Mercuriadis, the founder and chief executive of Hipgnosis,...
Introducing the Ultimate Music Guide to Van Morrison
BUY THE VAN MORRISON ULTIMATE MUSIC GUIDE HERE It’s the burden of a legendary performer to be a figure on whom everyone has an opinion. Some rise above it all, the books, the speculation, because they’re the ones who know the real story and, after all, what’s the harm? Not so Van Morrison. A musician with a particularly acute wish to retain ownership not only of his process, but also of discussion of his process, he is not someone to let it lie. He’s no fan of biographers, being as they often are reliant on the testimony of individuals...
Michael Small The Parallax View: Original Soundtrack
“If the picture works,” director Alan J Pakula said of 1974’s The Parallax View, “the audience will trust the person sitting next to them a little less at the end of the film.” The Parallax View is a key paranoia-conspiracy movie from a decade – the 1970s – that was full of them, from The Conversation to Three Days Of The Condor and Pakula’s next work, All The President’s Men. Adapted from a novel reflecting unease around the disappearance of many individuals connected to the JFK assassination, the film imagines a shady deep state organisation bumping off witnesses to...
Various Artists Fire Over Babylon: Dread, Peace & Conscious Sounds at Studio One
Over the past few decades, Soul Jazz have made a name for themselves with stylish, smartly conceptualised comps. Their curatorial touch is sure but lightly applied, and if they sometimes skirt predictability, there’s something to be said for the reliability of their approach, particularly when taking on a catalogue as deep as the productions made at Clement Dodd’s Studio One, the ‘Motown of Jamaica’. A legendary place, with Dodd a gifted producer, some of reggae’s greatest passed through – Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Bunny Wailer and Johnny Nash all cut sides there, often backed by house band the Skatalites;...
Van Morrison The Ultimate Music Guide
As the man rides a surging wave of creativity, and returns to playing live, we present the deluxe, updated Ultimate Music Guide to Van Morrison. In-depth writing on (and revealing interviews from) all eras of Van’s work: from Them to Latest Record Project, via Astral Weeks, Moondance and Common One. “Let your soul and spirit fly…” Buy a copy here!
Two handwritten Beatles setlists from band’s early days going up for auction
Two handwritten setlists from the early days of The Beatles are officially going under the hammer courtesy of Bonhams auction house. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Beatles Miscellany & Atlas The setlists, among only eight believed to still be in existence, are from gigs the band played in 1960 and 1963. The former, written by Paul McCartney, is from the band’s gig at Liscard’s Grosvenor Ballroom shortly before changing their name from The Silver Beetles to The Beatles. McCartney was the band’s drummer at the time. The latter,...
Black Sabbath announce huge new Technical Ecstasy box set
Black Sabbath will mark 45 years of their seventh album Technical Ecstasy with the release of a huge new box set. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The 1976 album will be repackaged in a five LP or four CD box set, encompassing remastered and alternate mixes of the album from producer Steven Wilson, as well as a host of outtakes and live versions. It will be released on October 1, and priced between £90 and £210. You can take a look at the package, which also includes a booklet, recreated...
Damon Albarn announced for End Of The Road Festival
Damon Albarn is the latest artist announced for this year’s End Of The Road Festival. He joins a line up that also includes Hot Chip, Sleaford Mods, Stereolab, Jonny Greenwood, The Comet Is Coming and Shirley Collins. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut As well as Albarn, other new additions include Crack Cloud, Sipho, Balimaya Project, Loraine James and Anna B Savage. Advertisement Also added to the bill are Kiran Leonard, Wesley Gonzalez, BABii, Gwenifer Raymond, Broadside Hacks, Sam Akpro, The Umlauts, Tiberius b, John Francis Flynn, Michael Clark and Joe...
Charlie Watts to miss the Rolling Stones’ upcoming American tour
Charlie Watts will miss the Rolling Stones‘ upcoming US tour to allow him to recover from an unspecified medical procedure. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The Stones are set to resume their No Filter tour with a show in St Louis on September 26, but a spokesman for the drummer has confirmed that Watts’ place will be filled by Steve Jordan, a long-term collaborator of Keith Richards. Said Watts, “For once my timing has been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today...Recent Posts
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