Danny O’Keefe – Runaways: The 1970s Anthology
Among the many things I loved about this project (out 25 September) is that I was able to bring in dearest Andrew Batt to do the remastering. Like so many…
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It’s here! Record Collector Presents… Stevie Wonder
The latest in the ongoing RC Presents… series has arrived. These lovely titles use a rotating cast of editors. Last year, I took on RC Presents… Rolling Stones 1970-1979. Rather…
Leon Russell with Mary Russell – The Paradise Years – Liner Notes
As much as I love the work of Leon Russell (and I do), I’m an even bigger fan of the unjustly overlooked singer/songwriter Mary McCreary, who became Mary Russell for…
RC Presents… Stevie Wonder
I’m currently immersed in the editing of this special edition of Record Collector, coming out in May. One of the really fun things about working on an RC Presents title…
Tori Amos Interview Due mid-April 2026
I have a six-page Tori Amos interview due imminently in Record Collector (May 2026 issue). It was done over the telephone, something I’m finding harder and harder (a problem I’m…
Record Collector Presents… The Rolling Stones (1970-1979)
Wonderful to be seeing this out in the wild (or at least at WH Smith and so on – in fact, the Smiths I wandered into appeared to have changed…
Desmond Child & Rouge Interview
Like most followers of the last few decades of popular music, I’m more than a little familiar with the name Desmond Child. I was one of those children who always…
Lotti Golden Interview
Motor-Cycle (1969), Lotti Golden’s first album, made when she was still in her teens, doesn’t sound like anything else. But only the canniest people caught on to it at the…
Linda Waterfall
I was delightedly surprised when I discovered that a Linda Waterfall album was part of the Record Store Day 2025 UK line-up. Delighted, because she was truly brilliant. Surprised because…
Fanny Interview
When did you first hear Fanny? Were you lucky enough to get into their music as it was coming out in the first half of the 1970s? Did you only…