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Emerging from a period of intense upheaval, uncertainty, addiction and recovery, A GHOST IS BORN was a Grammy-winning artistic triumph, driven by WILCO’s increasingly adventurous sonic shape-shifting and the daunting tribulations of the band’s chief architect, JEFF TWEEDY. As an expanded reissue shines new light on their creative processes, Uncut travels to Wilco HQ in Chicago to unearth the album’s secret history – via outtakes, alternate versions and abandoned recordings. “If you don’t have any kind of struggle in your life, how do you learn anything?” Tweedy aks Stephen Deusner
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
THE BEATLES arrived in the USA in February 1964 – the tip of the spear in a transatlantic musical revolution. By 1966 they had retreated from the madness into the recording studio – but not before the Stones, Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Herman’s Hermits, The Zombies and more had blown American minds during the British Invasion. With a new boxset collecting the Fabs’ ’64 US LPs, eyewitnesses and contemporaries relive the mania. “In music, there is The Beatles and then there is everybody else,” learns Peter Watts
KEEPING THE FAITH
Sixteen years on from their last album, THE CURE return with a powerful and emotional new record that stands squarely alongside the band’s best work. But as ROBERT SMITH explains, Songs Of A Lost World is only half the story. To be discussed: love, loss and ageing, the Moon landings, abandoned projects, War And Peace, nearly splitting up, The Cure’s 50th anniversary and ambitious plans for another two new Cure albums. If they get that far, that is. “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality,” he says. “But as you get older, it becomes more real.”
A to Z
This month…
Decibels Per Minute
Emerging from a period of intense upheaval, uncertainty, addiction and recovery, A GHOST IS BORN was a Grammy-winning artistic triumph, driven by WILCO’s increasingly adventurous sonic shape-shifting and the daunting tribulations of the band’s chief architect, JEFF TWEEDY. As an expanded reissue shines new light on their creative processes, Uncut travels to Wilco HQ in Chicago to unearth the album’s secret history – via outtakes, alternate versions and abandoned recordings. “If you don’t have any kind of struggle in your life, how do you learn anything?” Tweedy aks Stephen Deusner
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
THE BEATLES arrived in the USA in February 1964 – the tip of the spear in a transatlantic musical revolution. By 1966 they had retreated from the madness into the recording studio – but not before the Stones, Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Herman’s Hermits, The Zombies and more had blown American minds during the British Invasion. With a new boxset collecting the Fabs’ ’64 US LPs, eyewitnesses and contemporaries relive the mania. “In music, there is The Beatles and then there is everybody else,” learns Peter Watts
KEEPING THE FAITH
Sixteen years on from their last album, THE CURE return with a powerful and emotional new record that stands squarely alongside the band’s best work. But as ROBERT SMITH explains, Songs Of A Lost World is only half the story. To be discussed: love, loss and ageing, the Moon landings, abandoned projects, War And Peace, nearly splitting up, The Cure’s 50th anniversary and ambitious plans for another two new Cure albums. If they get that far, that is. “Our songs have always had a fear of mortality,” he says. “But as you get older, it becomes more real.”