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Power To The People UNIVERSAL

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

It’s 16 January 1980 and, mere days into the new decade, Paul McCartney’s fortunes are about to take a sharp turn for the worse. This will have nothing to do with McCartney II, still not a pipedream,

The curious tale of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour

IN THEIR 1980 SONG OF THE SAME NAME, THE J. Geils Band sang, “Love stinks,” and boy, they weren’t kidding. In love, there are no guarantees. Infidelity, free-floating resentment, mutual loathing, gard

HAVING LIVED WITH TOURETTE’S SINCE HIS TEENS, LATER BECOMING A CAMPAIGNER, JOHN DAVIDSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN UNRESTRAINED FORCE. ACCORDINGLY, THE I SWEAR TEAM PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS…