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20:23 Thursday, 23 January 2025
Led Zeppelin are the cover stars of the new issue of Britain’s leading vinyl, collectables and memorabilia magazine, Record Collector.
Description: This month, there are two cover stars, and they’re quite unconnected, unless you count the fact that they’re both brilliant: Led Zeppelin and XTC. The Zep feature catches the rock behemoths as they work on their colossal double-LP, Physical Graffiti. Zep author Dave Lewis examines the making of the album and remembers the day he bought it in February 1975. We present a double-page spread of PG memorabilia while Nick Anderson compiles a PG discography and David Stubbs assesses the LP’s sonic impact today.
The XTC feature, meanwhile, finds three members of the band routinely described as The Post-Punk Beatles talking in-depth to RC about their incredible run of albums from 1978’s White Music and Go 2 through Drums And Wires, Black Sea, English Settlement to 1986’s Skylarking and beyond. Elsewhere, we meet Brit-reggae/dub pioneer, Dennis Bovell MBE, and half of 80s baroque pop duo, Shelleyan Orphan, and we run down the 45 best 45s ever made by Sheffield pop groups/singers.
Find out more about the new issue of Record Collector here.
