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The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

1 ONCE UPON A TIME SIMPLE MINDS First released in October 1985, Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time will be reissued for its 40th anniversary on red vinyl and as a 5CD boxset on 17 October. The limited-edi

Podcasts: from Alan Partridge to Gary Oldman

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