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SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES: In her first major interview for more than a decade, Siouxsie Sioux joins First Banshee Steven Severin to trace their band’s evolution from abrasive punk outsiders to one of Britain’s most singular and influential groups. Along the way: hidden gems, inner demons and the challenges of starting over. “It’s got that black magic thing.”
DOLLY PARTON: From rural Tennessee to global icon, we celebrate the remarkable story of one of music’s most beloved and enduring figures. Talent, grit, ambition and reinvention: the making of an American original.
ROXY MUSIC: Bryan Ferry revisits For Your Pleasure, the ambitious, glamorous and groundbreaking album that transformed Roxy into one of the defining groups of the 1970s. “We were a strange bunch.”
PEARL JAM: From Seattle to the White House, Pearl Jam’s grunge years in pictures. Bassist Jeff Ament opens up a fascinating personal archive featuring Neil Young, Bill Clinton, Chris Cornell and the rise of one of the ’90s most important bands.
RICHARD THOMPSON: Fresh from a remarkable late-career purple patch, the folk-rock hero reflects on songwriting, mortality, missed opportunities and why he’s never been tempted to follow the crowd. “Can’t you make records that sound like The Eagles?”
TEENAGE FANCLUB: Nearly four decades after they began, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley discuss friendship, perseverance and what keeps one of independent music’s most enduring partnerships together.
AN AUDIENCE WITH… KENNEY JONES: The last Small Face on East End pubs, going “a bit nuts” with The Who, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane and the possibility of long-awaited new Faces music. “I broke all ties with the earth. I was flying.”
ALBUM BY ALBUM WITH HAWKWIND: Dave Brock reflects on psychedelic adventures, free festivals, space-rock and more than half a century aboard the Hawkwind mothership. “We’d play on LSD, and it was often disastrous.”
THE MAKING OF ‘SIR DUKE’ BY STEVIE WONDER: Musicians and collaborators revisit Wonder’s classic celebration of his heroes, created during one of the most astonishing creative runs in music.
MY LIFE IN MUSIC: Neko Case plugs in her personal jukebox, from The Cramps and Pop-Eyes to Bulgarian folk music and Bessie Griffin.
REVIEWED: Neil Young, Julia Jacklin, Soft Cell, Jim Ghedi, Charlie Parr, Sadurn, Johnny Marr, Rubber Soul, Hole, Chamaco Ramirez, Elvis Costello, Tarkovsky, Pulp, Madness, The Shadows and more.
PLUS: Big Thief’s new album; William Orbit, Vicki Wickham and more remembered; inside David Bowie’s record collection; Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich collaborate; the rare jazz albums collectors dream about; Freddie Mercury’s private world revealed… and meet Way Dynamic, the Australian cult favourites championed by Elton John.