A FABULOUS CREATION
How do you follow one of the greatest debuts of all time? Such was the question facing ROXY MUSIC at the dawn of 1973, as they prepared to cut their second classic, For Your Pleasure. With a sumptuous new boxset digging deep into the album and the period, BRYAN FERRY looks back over a time of punishing tours, last-minute writing, countryside exile, new studios, greasy spoons, taking tea with Salvador Dalí… and the departure of Brian Eno. “I thought, ‘This is the masterwork, this is it. What can I do after this?’” he confesses to Damien Love.
“WELL, I LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT…”
Almost 60 years into his career, RICHARD THOMPSON has splashed the cash to make his “last ever album”… although plans may have changed. Full of the joys of London, he invites Uncut into his Hampstead home to discuss burglaries, brass bands and “Indian hemp”, show off a holy relic of folk rock and explain just how he’s kept his integrity. “I’m glad I never succumbed to pressure,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “‘Can’t you make records that sound like the Eagles?’”
AND WE COULD DANCE
The tragedy of Ian Curtis continues to cast a long shadow over JOY DIVISION’s legacy. Yet alongside it lies another story: of a group that was intense, hypnotic, physical and utterly transformative on stage. As a new boxset gathers the best surviving live recordings, we ask band members, confidants and fans to revisit 10 nights that shaped their remarkable rise, painting a shadow history that runs counter to the established myths.
THE SEEKER
Commercially adrift but creatively fearless, VAN MORRISON spent the 1980s pursuing enlightenment through song. Forty years on from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, his closest collaborators look back on a remarkable period of inner searching, mystical inquiry and inspired music-making. “You knew there was something happening,” one collaborator tells Nick Hasted. “If you looked at him you could see this shimmering.”
BLACK MATH
Analogue obsessions. Basement recordings. Sharp left turns. For three decades, JACK WHITE has been finding compelling new ways to expand his musical vision, taking rock and roots traditions and twisting them into new shapes. Now friends, bandmates and co-conspirators trace the stories behind his greatest records, from the primal thump of The White Stripes to the ram-a-lam hard rock of Frozen Charlotte.
MOVE ON UP
In 2018, ALABAMA SHAKES were at the height of their powers – and then they walked away. Now, nearly a decade on, Uncut meets the reunited band in rural Tennessee as they unveil a bold, shape-shifting new album – and navigate a second act rooted in healing, community and creative rebirth. “Band stories don’t have to follow that same old storyline,” hears Stephen Deusner.
CAN’T BE SATISFIED
After the re-energising spark of Hackney Diamonds, what’s next for Dartford’s finest upstarts, THE ROLLING STONES? How about Foreign Tongues – a rough and rowdy record of dystopian dramas, honky-tonk love songs and blues stompers, shot through with the mood of the times. In all-new interviews, MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS and RONNIE WOOD talk antiheroes, alter egos and the strange continuity that still binds the band together.
MIDNIGHT RIDER
From Florida roadhouses to the Fillmore East, the legend of GREGG ALLMAN endures. Now, with a new documentary imminent, friends and collaborators look beyond the trauma, excess and hard-won redemption to reveal the complicated truth about a Southern rock pioneer. “People see Gregg as a super-talented singer and musician,” his former manager tells Rob Hughes. “But I don’t think they realise the depth of who he was.”
A FABULOUS CREATION
How do you follow one of the greatest debuts of all time? Such was the question facing ROXY MUSIC at the dawn of 1973, as they prepared to cut their second classic, For Your Pleasure. With a sumptuous new boxset digging deep into the album and the period, BRYAN FERRY looks back over a time of punishing tours, last-minute writing, countryside exile, new studios, greasy spoons, taking tea with Salvador Dalí… and the departure of Brian Eno. “I thought, ‘This is the masterwork, this is it. What can I do after this?’” he confesses to Damien Love.
“WELL, I LIKE TO BE DIFFERENT…”
Almost 60 years into his career, RICHARD THOMPSON has splashed the cash to make his “last ever album”… although plans may have changed. Full of the joys of London, he invites Uncut into his Hampstead home to discuss burglaries, brass bands and “Indian hemp”, show off a holy relic of folk rock and explain just how he’s kept his integrity. “I’m glad I never succumbed to pressure,” he tells Tom Pinnock. “‘Can’t you make records that sound like the Eagles?’”
AND WE COULD DANCE
The tragedy of Ian Curtis continues to cast a long shadow over JOY DIVISION’s legacy. Yet alongside it lies another story: of a group that was intense, hypnotic, physical and utterly transformative on stage. As a new boxset gathers the best surviving live recordings, we ask band members, confidants and fans to revisit 10 nights that shaped their remarkable rise, painting a shadow history that runs counter to the established myths.
THE SEEKER
Commercially adrift but creatively fearless, VAN MORRISON spent the 1980s pursuing enlightenment through song. Forty years on from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, his closest collaborators look back on a remarkable period of inner searching, mystical inquiry and inspired music-making. “You knew there was something happening,” one collaborator tells Nick Hasted. “If you looked at him you could see this shimmering.”
BLACK MATH
Analogue obsessions. Basement recordings. Sharp left turns. For three decades, JACK WHITE has been finding compelling new ways to expand his musical vision, taking rock and roots traditions and twisting them into new shapes. Now friends, bandmates and co-conspirators trace the stories behind his greatest records, from the primal thump of The White Stripes to the ram-a-lam hard rock of Frozen Charlotte.
MOVE ON UP
In 2018, ALABAMA SHAKES were at the height of their powers – and then they walked away. Now, nearly a decade on, Uncut meets the reunited band in rural Tennessee as they unveil a bold, shape-shifting new album – and navigate a second act rooted in healing, community and creative rebirth. “Band stories don’t have to follow that same old storyline,” hears Stephen Deusner.
CAN’T BE SATISFIED
After the re-energising spark of Hackney Diamonds, what’s next for Dartford’s finest upstarts, THE ROLLING STONES? How about Foreign Tongues – a rough and rowdy record of dystopian dramas, honky-tonk love songs and blues stompers, shot through with the mood of the times. In all-new interviews, MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS and RONNIE WOOD talk antiheroes, alter egos and the strange continuity that still binds the band together.
MIDNIGHT RIDER
From Florida roadhouses to the Fillmore East, the legend of GREGG ALLMAN endures. Now, with a new documentary imminent, friends and collaborators look beyond the trauma, excess and hard-won redemption to reveal the complicated truth about a Southern rock pioneer. “People see Gregg as a super-talented singer and musician,” his former manager tells Rob Hughes. “But I don’t think they realise the depth of who he was.”