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David Gilmour on Wish You Were Here: “Syd was the elephant in the room”
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s monumental Wish You Were Here, here’s David Gilmour reminiscing to Uncut about the making of the album’s emotional opener (and closer), “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”… “It’s the purest Floyd song, the peak of that particular stage in our development. We wrote the song in a dingy rehearsal room near Kings Cross – I have no idea why we were in such a dark, cheap and horrible rehearsal space when we’d just released one of the biggest-selling LPs in history! Ha! Maybe it was tight-arsed management. Advertisement “The song fell out...
Elton John unveils 50th anniversary edition of Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
On October 24, UMR will release a 50th Anniversary Edition of Elton John’s 1975 album Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy in 2-LP, 2-CD and digital formats. This package contains the 2016 remaster of the original album, plus previously unreleased session demos, as well as live performances of songs from the album recorded in 2005 for the album’s 30th anniversary. It also includes a 28-page booklet, containing Elton John’s never-before-seen 1974 diary entries. Advertisement Watch a video of Elton performing the title track in 2005 below: Speaking on the album, Elton John says: “Captain Fantastic And...
Introducing the new Uncut: Pulp, a free Pulp-curated CD, Tom Petty, Genesis, Edwyn Collins and more
2025 has been Pulp’s year At time of writing, Tom Pinnock, Sam Richards and Mark Beaumont have just made it back from this year’s End Of The Road festival, where they’ve been braving the elements to bring you regular reports over on our website. As you might have noticed from the chatter on our socials, Tom hosted our regular Q&As, which this year were with Matt Berninger, Kristin Hersh and Christopher Owens. All in all, a very busy weekend – so huge thanks to all three of them for all their hard work (and to Marc Jones for all...
Send us your questions for Self Esteem!
As we know from the the title of her current hit album, Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem is A Complicated Woman. And right now, she’s also a very busy one: following a triumphant headline set at End Of The Road, Taylor and her amazing bonnet-clad dancers are about to embark on a massive UK tour. Most of the dates are long-since sold out, but an extra show has been added in Gateshead and new seats released for Sheffield, so you might be lucky… Taylor will round off the year by publishing her first ever book, also titled A...
Uncut November 2025
EVERY PRINT EDITION OF OUR NOVEMBER 2025 ISSUE COMES WITH A FREE CD CURATED BY PULP AND FEATURING CLASSICS FROM THE ROUGH TRADE VAULTS BY THE FALL, CABARET VOLTAIRE, ROBERT WYATT, GALAXIE 500, JONATHAN RICHMAN AND MORE! PULP: It’s been a vintage year for Pulp: a No 1 album with More, a triumphant world tour, the deluxe reissue of Different Class, a Mercury Prize nomination… and now their first UNCUT cover story. Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber reflect on the 40 songs that define their extraordinary trajectory from Sheffield outsiders to pop’s most unlikely national...
10 Things We Learnt At The New David Bowie Centre
We went to the press viewing for the new David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse. Here’s 10 things we learned there… warning: contains spoilers! 1 From Apple to the end, Bowie kept everything The archive contains 90,000 objects. These date back to Bowie teens, including his July 1968 rejection letter from Apple, signed by Peter Asher (“As we told you on the phone, Apple is not interested in signing David Bowie… we don’t feel he is what we are looking for at the moment”). A more recent revelation are the copious notes, written on coloured stickies, for...
“So many beautiful songs”: why Elliott Smith remains a key inspiration for Brad Mehldau
“I’ve always been fascinated with the drone of open-string guitars, like in Nick Drake’s music or Neil Young’s or Joni Mitchell’s,” says Brad Mehldau, widely considered one of the greatest living jazz pianists, talking about what first attracted him to the music of Elliott Smith. “But there’s also a very Beatlesy aspect – so many beautiful, finely wrought songs that Elliott wrote on the piano, things like ‘Everything Means Nothing To Me’. He was a very sophisticated harmonist at a time when it wasn’t at the forefront in pop music. There was a lot of cool hip-hop. Grunge was...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s new Bold As Love boxset to include 28 unreleased tracks
On November 7, Experience Hendrix/Legacy Recordings will release a 5-LP/4-CD + Blu-ray boxset containing The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s landmark 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love in stereo, mono and Atmos formats, along with 40 bonus studio and live tracks, 28 of which are previously unreleased. Listen to one of those previously unreleased tracks, “Stone Free / Up From The Skies (Demo)”, below: Advertisement Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, Bold As Love includes stereo and mono mixes of Axis: Bold As Love, remastered from the original mixes created by Hendrix,...
Read the tracklisting for Wings’ new career-spanning anthology
Wings release a new, self-titled anthology on November 7 through Capitol Records / MPL. Personally overseen by Paul McCartney, the compilation is released on 3 x LP Limited Edition Colour Vinyl, 2 x CD edition and 1 x CD and 1 xLP editions. Advertisement All physical formats come with a booklet including an introduction from McCartney. 3 x LP and 2 x CD editions include an expanded 32-page booklet featuring photographs, artwork, paintings and information about the band. The artwork for WINGS was overseen alongside McCartney by Hipgnosis‘ Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, with additional editorial by Uncut contributor Pete Paphides and original artwork by Humphrey Ocean...Recent Posts
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