Hugh Fielder
Hugh Fielder has been writing about music for 50 years. Actually 61 if you include the essay he wrote about the Rolling Stones in exchange for taking time off school to see them at the Ipswich Gaumont in 1964. He was news editor of Sounds magazine from 1975 to 1992 and editor of Tower Records Top magazine from 1992 to 2001. Since then he has been freelance. He has interviewed the great, the good and the not so good and written books about some of them. His favourite possession is a piece of columnar basalt he brought back from Iceland.
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Let’s do the timewarp again

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Forever big in Japan

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Eavesdropping the blues as two greats join forces for 1983 TV special

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Ukulele blues from Fleetwood Mac founder and Hawaiin YouTube sensation

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Taking the pyramid to pieces

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Despite a string of hits including Matthew & Son, I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun and Wild World, Cat Stevens was always a reluctant star. These are his best albums

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Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is one of the great 70s concept albums – and the album that saw Peter Gabriel bid farewell to the band

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Aqualung is regarded by most as the classic, definitive Jethro Tull album, but Ian Anderson is reluctant to admit it's his favourite

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Old Dutch masters Focus return

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Jethro Tull's 1978 live double album, newly pumped up

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British guitar hero Robin Trower’s finest hour, expanded

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Billy Morrison gets his mates in

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The first standalone album on the Chrysalis label, A Space In Time contained Ten Years After's only transatlantic hit, I’d Love To Change The World

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Buying guide One of the greatest blues-rock/fusion guitarists ever, Jeff Beck's solo career spanned six decades. These are his best albums

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Riff monster Kris Barras plays it heavy but clever on album number five, Halo Effect

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An Anglo-Italian job as English proggers Big Big Train release their first album with new frontman Alberto Bravin

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Claude Nobs was the man who co-founded the Montreux Jazz Festival – and crossed paths with Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa and Deep Purple

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Huey Lewis & The News were the ultimate bar-room rockers made good – all it took was a little nudge from Mutt Lange and Michael J Fox

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The producers of BBC1's Happening For Lulu wanted Jimi Hendrix to play Hey Joe. Instead, viewers were treated to a tribute to Cream and controlled chaos

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Buying guide Procol Harum might still be best known for 60s mega-hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale, but there was much more to Gary Brooker and co. than that

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Jefferson Starship rose from the ashes of San Francisco’s late 60s hippie movement, but they swapped peace and love for booze, bickering and chaos

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AC/DC's Journey through the 1980s could have been very different if Brian Johnson had had his way

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Ian Anderson had an album’s worth of material left over from War Child and he splattered them across various compilations. Now they're collected on vinyl for the first time
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