Uncut UK Magazine - January 2020

In this issue

David Bowie - As the Conversation Piece boxset arrives, long-serving producer Tony Visconti relives the highs and lows of the Dame's breakthrough years.

The Archive - Including: The Go-Betweens, Robert Plant, The Chemical Brothers, Tim Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Ronson and more...

Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance

The poet’s intimate musical postscript.

5 mins

The Go-Betweens - G Stands For Go-Betweens: Volume 2 – 1985–1989 Domino

Australian indie ambassadors’ golden age showcased in opulent style.

5 mins

Robert Plant - Digging Deep

ESPARANZA 7/10 Percy on 45! A boxset of 7”s traces Plant’s post-Zep progress. By Michael Bonner

5 mins

'I'll Tell You The Full Story…'

During the past 12 months, a series of lavish boxsets have tracked DAVID BOWIE’s early development throughout 1968 and 1969. As this comprehensive archeological survey concludes with Conversation Piece, long-serving producer TONY VISCONTI relives the highs and lows of Bowie’s breakthrough. There are ham sandwiches, Marc Bolan impressions, the peerless “Space Oddity”, and tearful studio interludes… but, most importantly, we learn how the music made during this brief but pivotal period critically influenced one superstar in the making: David Bowie himself…

10+ mins

'A Bit Of Civic Pride'

2019 has been a landmark for THE SPECIALS. A No 1 album, a massive world tour and the declaration of The Specials Day in Los Angeles. For their singer, TERRY HALL, the year has also meant a more personal milestone: collecting his bus pass. Here, Hall – along with bandmates HORACE PANTER and LYNVAL GOLDING – reflects on the triumphs of the past 12 months. But as John Lewis discovers, just don’t ask Hall what he’s planning to call his autobiography…

10+ mins

'I Was Very Into Solitude' - An Audience With Bill Callahan

At the end of his most successful year to date, the one-time Smog loner talks children’s choirs, Scorsese films, tabloid nudity and why he’d rather be a horse than a bird

7 mins

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Published by Time Inc (UK). Uncut is the essential magazine about rock music, written by people who love that music as much as you do. Every month, it features the most comprehensive and trustworthy album reviews section in the world. There are in-depth interviews with the finest musicians of the past five decades, and with the exciting new artists who are following in their great tradition. Insightful, informative, passionate about extraordinary music – that’s Uncut.