Black And Blue UMC/POLYDOR

This month…

It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.

For a band who’ve spent the last months playing to thousands in North American venues, it could have felt uneasily sobering to pull up outside Berlin’s Columbia Theater. Just a couple of years short o

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

Early Steps RHINO/WARNER BROS.