Fondly remembered this month...

In 1966, BOB DYLAN hit his wildest white-hot creative peak yet, recording one of his most iconic albums, Blonde On Blonde , and blazing new ground with his controversial electric tour with The Hawks. As the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa prepares a major new exhibition exploring this tumultuous year, Uncut is offered an exclusive preview of what they have in store. Meanwhile, we go behind the scenes of Blonde On Blonde and reconstruct Tour ’66, as eyewitnesses share new tales of late nights, cold mornings and chance encounters. “It’s Dylan as spectacle, in a very combative way,” learns Damien Love. “This is me – deal with it .”

IN THE MID-EIGHTIES, ZZ Top went from being a group of Texas-bred blues bangers to a chart-topping powerhouse on the strength of albums like 1983’s Eliminator and 1985’s Afterburner. But neither of th

In 2001, the suicide of Big Country ’s Stuart Adamson shocked music fans all over the world. How had the man once lauded by DJ John Peel as ‘Scotland’s answer to Jimi Hendrix’ ended up taking his own life? In an exclusive extract from a new book, we look at the inside story of their debut album The Crossing .

THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF Bob Weir’s death on January 10 sent shock waves of sadness and grief through the Grateful Dead community. Coming just over a year after the passing of bassist Phil Lesh, it seemed

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