Written on the wind

Recorded in a whirlwind 24 hours at Memphis’s fabled Stax studio, Otis Blue was a landmark record – making a star out of OTIS REDDING and rewriting the rulebook for rhythm & blues. In its 60th anniversary year, collaborators and eyewitnesses look back at the soul giant’s blistering, urgent and emotional masterpiece. “He was a great performer, a wonderful man,” Smokey Robinson tells Stephen Deusner

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A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

Singer/guitarist Devon Allman on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

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