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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music.Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know.You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

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IN THIS ISSUEEditor's Note“Snake it, take it/Panther princess you must stay” ONE of my favourite moments of the new David Bowie boxset, covering the birth of Ziggy Stardust, is the demo of “Soul Love” recorded at Haddon Hall in November 1971. This has evidently been made for Mick Ronson and, after playing the song through, Bowie leaves a message for his co-conspirator. “I think we should work on that as a single, Mick,” he begins, going on to list ideas for arrangements he has in mind for the song, based around a “heavy, warm sax lineup”. Bowie’s ideas are clear, precise and detailed, revealing a lot about his ability to imagine how a finished song might sound. After this, there’s a pause, then Bowie signs off in the kind of cute parentese he…2 min

IN THIS ISSUECamera Police!THIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF UNCUT WITH… Lou Reed | Brett Anderson | Alice Randall | Sex Pistols RADIOHEAD have always been a band apart. When Tom Sheehan first went to take their picture for Melody Maker, before “Creep” became a transatlantic smash, he arranged to meet them at Oxford’s Jericho Tavern. But rather than linger for a pint, they took him straight to the Pitt Rivers Museum. “Ed kindly dropped me back at the station, and he was questioning me about my work. Lovely chaps.” Post-“Creep”, Radiohead got better at pretending to be rockstars. “Thom’s very good in front of the camera, I think he learned a few tips off his mate Stipey, but it’s not his favourite pastime.” Sheehan reckons he only got the picture opposite,…2 min

IN THIS ISSUE“He was like a sun”WHEN Rosanne Cash moved to New York in the early 1990s, it was inevitable that she’d run into Lou Reed. Reed dominated New York much as Cash’s father ruled Nashville, and it wasn’t long before Cash and Reed were performing together at a songwriter showcase at The Bottom Line. The next time they met, backstage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert at Madison Square Garden, Reed asked for her number. “He was angling for a date, but I laughed and told him it wouldn’t be a good idea,” says Cash. “I was very wary because his reputation was brutal, but he was always so kind and respectful to me. We became friends, and when I was editing a book of songwriter prose, I asked him to write a piece based…3 min

IN THIS ISSUEDeath and the Suede man“I HATE jolly music,” says Brett Anderson, an avid plunderer of the pale rider’s record collection. “I find happy music depressing. All the best songs are about the murkier sides of life.” He makes a natural frontman, then, for Death Songbook, an orchestral covers project focusing on the “morbidly beautiful and poignantly sombre”, instigated by renowned conductor Charles Hazlewood. Around the start of lockdown 2020, inspired by his former wife’s Festival Of Death And Dying in Somerset – an arts weekend intended to “up the debate on the last great taboo” – Hazlewood began looking for answers in the great beyond. “For such a universal theme, it’s something we’re so loath to talk about,” he says of death and all its dark tributaries. “We find it deeply uncomfortable, and yet…3 min

IN THIS ISSUERevolution rockMembers of The Clash, Steel Pulse and The Rich Kids protest outside the National Front HQ in Teddington, March 1978 “Rock Against Racism was a reaction to the rise of the National Front. I decided to go and interview their leader, Martin Webster, who named all the musicians he thought should be deported. So I organised for all of us to come the next day with our placards and demonstrate outside his house, the fascist headquarters. It was extraordinary to have this unicultural demonstration, black and white, in the middle of Teddington. We felt we were making a mark in history, that we weren’t going to allow this racism to persist. It’s still going on, but it was a lot worse in the ’70s, and all the people in these…3 min

IN THIS ISSUEBlack country, new roadALICE Randall has some very strict rules for what makes a country song. “Life is hard, that’s the big one,” says the songwriter, who has been penning hits for more than 40 years. “God is real. The road and family are significant compensations for hardship, and the past is better than the present.” That last one requires a caveat: “Of course, for many white country fans, the past is a lost mythological Dixie. For many black country fans, the past is a lost Africa. ”Randall explores the genre’s black foundations and her own experiences with the music in her new book My Black Country. It’s accompanied by a tribute album of the same title, featuring the likes of Rhiannon Giddens, Sunny War, Allison Russell, Rissi Palmer and others covering her…3 min

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