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The album that TOM PETTY considered to be his career peak arrived during the most traumatic period of his life – as self-doubt, a broken marriage and record company wrangles threatened to engulf him. As a sumptuous new book illuminates Petty’s creative processes, former bandmates and collaborators hail his creative rebirth with Wildflowers. “It’s such a personal record,” one eyewitness tells Rob Hughes. “Brutal at times, but kind, deliberate and honest.”

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IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

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A boy reaches breaking point at reform school; teenage road trippers head to Syria; Tap return for one last gig; and more…

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.