Saw the Petty issue Friday.

Stop being so petty.

I can't help it, it's just the way I am.

You won't back down.

There ain’t no easy way out.

You got lucky with that one.

Had off today and picked up the Petty issue.

The girl behind the counter said, "You Got Lucky."

Anyone seen the Bowie issue yet?

Up next, and all I can say is...Yes!



Among the many pleasures of BBC Four’s incisive Tones, Drones And Arpeggios: The Magic Of Minimalism programme over the weekend were interviews with pioneers La Monte Young and Terry Riley. Now in their 80s, these shamanistic heroes were both gloriously wise and articulate as they outlined their wild, conceptual visions. The involvement of Young, filmed in New York dressed in denim biker gear, was a coup for the programme’s presenter, Charles Hazelwood; apparently, the BBC has never broadcast Young before. But personally I thought Riley was the more winning presence. Interviewed at home, a remote log cabin some five miles outside San Francisco, Riley’s serene demeanour – energies centred, lots of smiles – a respite from the atonality of city living. “I do my ragas every morning,” Riley said, allowing Hazelwood’s crew to film him in a moment of spiritual intimacy.

If the guiding principle of minimalism is ‘less is more’, then I guess in prog terms more is more. This, of course, is just an excuse for a shameless segue into introducing our latest Ultimate Music Guide. Allow me – with a suitably portentous introductory passage – to unveil our special edition focussing on one of the world’s most successful rock bands: Yes.

The magazine is on sale from Thursday, but you can buy Yes: Ultimate Music Guide from our online store now now. Here’s John Robinson, who’s edited this UMG, to tell you more about it:

“As the band prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a March UK tour (and another version of the band playing in the summer), this special 124 page prestige magazine will tell the full story of Yes. Featuring in-depth reviews of all of their albums, alongside a trove of archival features, this is the definitive chronicle of this multi-million selling, Hall Of Fame-honoured band.

“It will also feature a new bespoke introduction from Yes guitarist Steve Howe. Here’s a word from Steve:

“’We’ve been lucky to have had so many big buzzes. When we were coming up initially… when The Yes Album was fantastically well received in the UK… when Fragile was racing up the American charts… when Close To The Edge came out…selling out Madison Square Garden more often than Led Zeppelin.

“’We’ve had a lot of difficulties, a lot of sadness, a lot of arguments and a lot of lost money, but we’ve been blessed with a lot of great things in the heritage we’ve helped create. But none of them are any more important than the fact that the band carried on, that there was a determination, a love of the music and a commitment to that standard we created.

“’The group wasn’t just five blokes that go up in their Wellington boots and play. This was a group that had to have high standards, it had to be ground-breaking, it had to be different, it had to have great lights, staging, sound. We saw this as a project that wasn’t just about music.’”


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I just picked up the Bowie about half an hour ago. First time I saw it.

No luck finding the Kate Bush cover for Classic Rock, though.

Got my Bowie mag today also and picked up the new Uncut with Joni Mitchell cover.

I got the Bowie today as well.

I'd expect the Yes to show up in late April/early May.

Looking forward to this Big Time!

Not much to add to this one, but it was a great issue...



The last time Fleetwood Mac toured the UK, in 2015, the message they chose to share with us was togetherness. For a band whose history has been characterized by departures, infidelity and addiction, the return of Christine McVie to the band’s line up after a 16 year-absence felt like a rare harmonizing moment: a lull in the turbulence. As Lindsay Buckingham rather grandly described it on stage during the band’s residency at London’s O2 Arena that summer, “With the return of the beautiful Christine, there is no doubt that we begin a brand new, prolific and profound and beautiful chapter in the story of this band, Fleetwood Mac.”

In fact, McVie’s return to active service was the latest remarkable twist in Fleetwood Mac’s story. The intervening three years have seen the band release expanded editions of albums from their beloved Buckingham/Nicks configuration – Rumours, Fleetwood Mac, Mirage, Tango In The Night – as well a surprising and robust collaborative album from Buckingham McVie. As ever, the 21st century Fleetwood Mac continue to benefit from their most successful and notorious period.

But in many respects, Fleetwood Mac are actually a more interesting proposition away from the Rumours material. The 2013 reissue of the band’s 1969 album, Then Play On was a useful reminder of the magical guitar interplay between Peter Green and Danny Kirwan. While the deluxe treatment of the Buckingham/Nicks era has been splendid, there are some fans – myself among them – who would cherish similarly well-curated archival trawls through the band’s majestic run of ‘transitional’ albums: Kiln House, Future Games, Bare Trees…

Meantime, Mac fans can hopefully be content with a special edition of our own – Fleetwood Mac: The Ultimate Music Guide. This 124-page deluxe edition – on sale from Thursday – features a wealth of archival interviews from Melody Maker and NME, a recent catch up with Buckingham and McVie alongside in-depth reviews of every album.

At the very least, we hope you agree, it’s something to read while we wait for the “brand new, prolific and profound and beautiful chapter” in the story of Fleetwood Mac to unfold.


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Picked up the Yes issue tonight.

There were only two copies left.

I took a quick peek and I'm very disappointing they just lumped all the 90s albums and beyond together, rather than a single entry, but it looks nice anyway.

Sorry to read the lumping together piece, they should at least do a one page per.

Picked this up two weeks back, my favorite yet of all the Bowie magazines I have bought. And this is only Volume One.

DAVID BOWIE The Bowie Years Vol. 1 (2018 UK 130-page magazine dedication to the 'Mod' to 'Stardust' era's of David Bowie's career, featuring the definitive story of Bowie's early life and journey to stardom, complete with a fantastic vintage image of David on the glossy outer cover).

Welcome, then, to the latest edition to the Uncut family. Following on from our survey of Glam – which is still available to buy here – the second instalment of our Ultimate Genre Guide will focus on Britpop. As you’d expect, it mines the capacious archives of Melody Maker and NME – who didn’t stint in their coverage of the subject – for classic interviews alongside brand new essays by Uncut’s crack team of writers. There’s David Cavanagh on the roots of Britpop, Stephen Troussé on Suede, Tom Pinnock on Blur, John Robinson on Oasis and – sorry – me on Elastica and plenty more. It goes on sale this Friday and you can also buy it now from our online store.

Before I hand you over to John Robinson, who edited the Genre Guide, just a gentle reminder that the current issue of Uncut is on sale now and stars the Rolling Stones, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Françoise Hardy, Eric Burdon among many other gems.

Anyway, over to John…

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“Britpop isn’t short on triumphant scenes. Oasis at Knebworth. Blur at the top of the charts. Pulp, taking over from the indisposed Stone Roses and making Glastonbury their own in 1995. The best British music of the time explored some unsavoury places, had some unintentionally comic moments, even some darker interludes. But it seemed there were a lot of occasions which felt like a kind of victory.

“Not everyone felt quite the same (‘Britpop,’ Thom Yorke told Melody Maker in 1997, ‘was a party to which we weren’t invited.’) but it would be crazy to think that guitar bands in the period failed to benefit from the mainstream breakthrough made by previously alternative guitar music. It was certainly the site of Radiohead’s major impact.

“In this new Ultimate Genre Guide you can read deep new appraisals of this excellent music. There’s new thought here on our cover stars Blur and Oasis, of course, but also Elastica, The Verve, Suede, Pulp, the Manics, Radiohead, Supergrass and the Auteurs. Some 25 years on from the genre’s arguable creation moment in Suede’s “The Drowners”, you can also enjoy the thrill of the moment with our selection of rarely-seen archive features.


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So excellent to read this, Thanks Pete! I was BIG fan of this musical period so this will be bought as soon as B&N brings it in!

Oh yeah!

It's funny...I sent Uncut some ideas for Ultimate Music Guides a while ago and they've now done back to back ones I suggested (Yes and now Black Sabbath).



When Black Sabbath closed the final performance from their The End Tour, in Birmingham on February 4 last year, you could be forgiven for wondering whether that was really the last we’d hear of Ozzy Osbourne and his musical cohorts. After all, here was a band who had come back from the brink several times in the past – Ozzy himself had embarked on a solo farewell jaunt in 1992.

But if the peal of a familiar church bell has definitely tolled the end of Black Sabbath – and those monolithic riffs are no more – then at least it is possible to celebrate the masters of metal in all their infinite glory in our latest Ultimate Music Guide – which goes on sale this Thursday, May 10.

As you can imagine, it features classic interviews from the archives of Melody Maker and NME complemented by extensive new reviews of every Sabbath album, every Ozzy solo album, miscellanies and more. You can buy a copy from our online store by clicking here.

Here’s John Robinson, who edited this one, to tell you all about it.

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“’We’re all four together, like brothers’

“Not everyone’s first thought, of course, but the origin story of Black Sabbath is essentially a romantic one. Whereas the beginnings of heavy contemporaries like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple speak of professionalism, of scouting the scene for strong players and likely collaborators, those of Black Sabbath feel endearingly haphazard.

As you will discover as you read through the extraordinary archive interviews and affectionate new critical writing which makes up this new Ultimate Music Guide, the story of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne is a rags to riches yarn. Namely how four pot smokers from an unpromising part of Birmingham turned their obsessions – heavy music; not working; smoking pot – into one of the most influential, charismatic and commercially successful bands of the late 20th century.

“’Usually in bands you get two blokes who stick together and two others, but it’s not like that with us,’ Ozzy Osbourne told NME’s Nick Logan in 1971. ‘We’re all four together, like brothers. And that’s right because you have four people creating the sound.’

“That sound was collaborative, loose and darkly groovy. But as with brothers, there were serious fights along the way as it got made. And yet, as Ozzy’s path diverged from Sabbath’s, the singer trading on his dangerous reputation to become a huge star in the US, guitarist Tony Iommi fought to keep something like his original band intact – a tangled story, with many singers, which sailed close to rock parody. When the original band – or three-quarters of them – reformed in 2013, it brought to this doomy and aggressive band a blessed kind of symmetry.

“What made it all worth it was the extraordinary music made along the way – which we celebrate with in-depth new reviews here. From the dark and frightening intimations of their debut album to the underground vibrations of the follow-up, Paranoid, Sabbath’s sound was a heavy, powerful swing with riffs for every occasion. When Tony Iommi downtuned his guitar for third album Master Of Reality, he set in motion a sound which spawned an entire musical genre.

“This magazine follows the band on every step of their journey, from the debut to 13, and the ongoing career of Ozzy Osbourne, who provides an exclusive introduction to the mag. We hope you enjoy it.

“In fact, as Ozzy himself has said: ‘We love you all! Go crazy!’”


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I sincerely hope they do ALL the albums and don't just go in=depth on the Ozzy and Dio years.

The Gillan, Hughes and especially Martin eras need to be discussed, but seeing as Ozzy's albums are included, I think they will do a lot of cramming things together.

Still, this is a no-brainer for me.

Anyone seen the Fleetwood Mac "remastered" Ultimate Music Guide at their local Barnes & Noble? Thought it would be in before now, but it's not at my local B&N.