This month the cover stars are Pink Floyd, and the story takes place during 1974-5: welcome to The Making Of Wish You Were Here. It’s a gripping yarn, told beautifully by RC writer Stevie Chick. The recording sessions were fraught, the atmosphere charged as the band dealt with a visitation at their studio from their past. But the results were arg…
With his exquisitely creamy croon and sublime vocal elegance, Luther Vandross quickly grew into a colossus of smooth soul music after Never Too Much, his 1981 debut single for Epic Records, topped the US R&B charts and set his career in motion. But for unknown reasons, having found success, Vandross sought to erase an early but significant chap…
Tony Iommi has made no secret of his desire to remix Forbidden, originally produced by Ernie C of Body Count in 1995 and referred to as “crap” (“the production was dreadful”) in his Iron Man autobiography. With Anno Domini he finally realises that ambition. The set rounds up the albums recorded by frontman Tony Martin, although his first re…
Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland were all in their early 20s when they began collaborating at Motown in 1962. While their first fruit, Dearest One, recorded by Lamont and released in June on Motown’s Mel-O-Dy subsidiary, failed to make its mark, by February 1963 they’d had their first hit with The Marvelettes’ Locking Up My Hear…
The final brick in the reissue wall of James Guthrie’s 2018 remix of Animals comes with this gloriously expansive Atmos mix of Pink Floyd’s 1977 prickly masterpiece. The surprises on the 2018 version of Roger Waters’ sardonic take on the divisions in society are polished further, such as David Gilmour’s tom-toms on Dogs and funky bass on Pi…
