Ronnie Wood will be paying tribute to one of his musical heroes in a new live album titled Mr. Luck – A Tribute To Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. It’s due out on September 3. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut The album features an array of special guests, including former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor whom Wood replaced back in 1974, along with Bobby Womack, Mick Hucknall and Paul Weller. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on 1 November 2013, Wood and his band performed 18...
As they approached the making of Revolver, The Beatles couldn’t have known that they’d just enjoyed their last carefree year. In 1965, they had made Help!, played Shea Stadium and visited Elvis and the Queen. Just before Christmas, as was now their habit, their second album of the year had been released. Rubber Soul still sounds like the perfectly balanced expression of a pop band with artistic ambitions, expanding their creative range without jeopardising the relationship with their vast and adoring public. ORDER NOW: Read the full story in the September 2021 issue of Uncut The following year would...
Lindsey Buckingham has shared a brand new single called “On The Wrong Side” – you can listen to it below. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Lindsey Buckingham: “We slapped everyone across the face going from Rumours to Tusk!” It’s the latest track to be taken from the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist’s upcoming self-titled solo album – his first since 2011’s Seeds We Sow – and follows last month’s “I Don’t Mind”. “On The Wrong Side” is musically and lyrically inspired by Fleetwood Mac, with some of the lyrics...
Yoko Ono has reacted to her and John Lennon’s classic, “Imagine”, being used during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut SHOP NOW: The Beatles Miscellany & Atlas The ceremony, which was held last Friday (23 July), marked the official opening of Tokyo 2020, a year later than planned, after it was postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Held at Tokyo’s new Olympic Stadium, socially distanced and masked athletes walked out and waved to empty stands – something acknowledged by Thomas Bach, president...
“Bought fertiliser and brake fluid/Who in the hell am I supposed to trust?” John Murry’s new album opens with a song about a man building a bomb that somehow introduces Oscar Wilde into a narrative about American unrest. Domestic terrorism, the Oklahoma bombing, gas chambers, low-flying police helicopters, natty Oscar playing bridge. Longstanding fans will take these uneasy juxtapositions in their stride. Nearly everything Murry’s released to date has sounded like a dispatch from one war zone or another – both his previous solo albums tackle the issue of trauma. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the...
The recent popularity of Alice Coltrane’s music among a new generation of listeners can be a puzzle to longtime admirers of her late husband’s work. A distinguished John Coltrane scholar who teaches at an American university told me earlier this year that, while his students are extremely enthusiastic about Alice, they listen to John and don’t understand what the fuss was about. And one of the less ecstatic reviews of the recent Floating Points/Pharoah Sanders album observed that the music seemed to be doing little more than trying to replicate the mood of Alice’s recordings at their most trance-like...
By any yardstick, Chris Barber was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century British popular music. His death in March, just before his 91st birthday, inspired tributes to a man whose instincts and enthusiasms helped lay the foundations for just about everything that happened in the 1960s and beyond. This set of four CDs, meticulously compiled and copiously annotated by Alyn Shipton, handsomely illustrated and limited to 1,000 copies, presents an unanswerable and probably definitive case for his significance. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut Barber played trombone, but that...
Paul McCartney has shared a trippy new video for his latest single, “Find My Way”, featuring Beck. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Paul McCartney – McCartney III review Taken from the Beatles legend’s most recent album, McCartney III: Imagined – a reworking of last year’s McCartney III – the “Find My Way” visuals sees a digitally de-aged McCartney dance the halls of a hotel before being transported to various other locations. The colourful, disco-inspired video – which has a big reveal at the end – was directed by Andrew...
Another unreleased track from Prince’s forthcoming ‘lost’ album Welcome 2 America has been shared – listen to “Hot Summer” below. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut READ MORE: Inside the vault: Prince’s legendary lost albums Recorded in 2010, the album was due to be released the following year alongside the legend’s US tour of the same name, which went ahead even without the album. After sitting in a vault for a decade, Welcome 2 America is now set to finally be released on July 30 via Legacy Recordings. Advertisement So far,...
The latest instalment in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series is released on September 17. Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) focusses on Dylan’s albums Shot Of Love, Infidels and Empire Burlesque and will come complete with previously unreleased outtakes, alternate takes, rehearsal recordings, live performances and more. ORDER NOW: The Beatles are on the cover of the September 2021 issue of Uncut You can hear “Too Late (Band Version)”, an outtake from the Infidels sessions, below: Advertisement Uncut has written extensively about this period in Dylan’s career before – click here to read Part One and Part...
