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My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

74-75: Night Life / Fighting UMR

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

From The Bottom Of An Old Grandfather Clock (reissue, 2004) DEAD OCEANS

From the bayou to Woodstock and back – the easygoing adventures of Bobby Charles. By John Mulvey.