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John Lennon, Blondie, Steve Marriott, Love, Linda Thompson, Joanna Newsom, Irma Thomas, Sebadoh, The Last Poets, Rich Ruth, Mike Campbell, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Pearl Jam, Sebadoh, Drive-By Truckers, Sex Pistols, Stax, Lambchop and more all feature in Uncut‘s August 2024 issue, in UK shops from June 21 or available to buy online now.

All print copies come with a free, ultra-collectable John Lennon CD – featuring nine tracks from the upcoming deluxe Mind Games box set – plus an Ultimate Music Guide sampler to all John Lennon’s solo albums

INSIDE THIS MONTH’S UNCUT:

JOHN LENNON: Amid the turbulence of 1973, the troubled ex-Beatle found creative sustenance in Mind Games – an album steeped in cosmic benevolence, emotional heft, introspection and love. “Its my dad getting back on track,” Sean Ono Lennon tells us

BLONDIE: In an exclusive extract from his memoir Under A Rock, Chris Stein remembers a high life and hard times in NYC: 1974

LOVE: Talismanic guitarist Johnny Echols and more explore the rich legacy of America’s most mercurial band

LINDA THOMPSON: The British folk siren finds new outlets for her creative spirit

IRMA THOMAS: The Soul Queen of New Orleans sets the record straight on the Stones, Otis Redding and Hurricane Katrina

RICH RUTH: The sonic pathfinder blasting cosmic jazz-rock into the future

AN AUDIENCE WITH… MIKE CAMPBELL: On Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and touring Britain in a bread van

THE MAKING OF “WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES” BY THE LAST POETS: How a radical call to arms became one of the earliest influences on hip hop

ALBUM BY ALBUM WITH LOU BARLOW: From Dinosaur Jr to ‘folkcore’!

MY LIFE IN MUSIC WITH JEFF AMENT: The Pearl Jam bassman on the records that really matter to him

REVIEWED: Jake Xerxes Fussell, Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Shellac, Deep Purple, Beak>, American Aquarium, Liana Flores, Mabe Fratti, Red Kross, Suss, Drive-By Truckers, Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Louis Armstrong, Wayne Shorter, Stax, Joanna Newsom, Lambchop and more

PLUS: The Sex Pistols go back to Bollocks, Steve Marriott vs AI, Bob Dylan’s unseen 1964, The Cimarons, Chrystabell and… introducing Jacken Elswyth

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