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TO CELEBRATE THE 70th anniversary of the Fender Strat, we’ve put together a special “Strat only” edition of Cover Models. For those who don’t know, Cover Models is a recurring one-page feature (usuall

lthough Marc Almond and Dave Ball grew up in Southport and Blackpool respectively before meeting at Leeds Polytechnic in 1977, Soft Cell are arguably a London band: both men moved to the capital as so

A kick up the 90s? Neo-prog torchbearers’ standout album from the genre’s anni horribiles gets a welcome reissue.

Way back in 1970, during a long night ...

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Recorded with “just what I had lying around”, Born In the U.S.A. remains Bruce Springsteen’s best-known and most commercially successful album. Forty years on, we look at the making of the record that elevated him from star to global superstar.