Editor’s Letter
Our cover story on Led Zeppelin IV, by Barney Hoskyns, which anticipates the book Barney
has written on this classic LP, published in September. Zep were in their early pomp when
the album came out in 1971, and for the rest of the decade they were apparently unrivalled
in the scale of everything they did, which of course, made them inevitable targets of punk’s
scorched-earth scorn, not all of it entirely undeserved.
I recall seeing their last ever UK show - at Knebworth in August, 1979. I was standing with
Southside Johnny, anodd addition to the day's bill, as the night sky grew bright with
fireworks and explosions and a light show that in itself made the stage look like a small
city being bombed out of existance, both of us quitespeechless at the spectacle.
Elsewhere in a fairly random look at this month's contents, we're on the roadwith Jack
White's Raconteurs, Peter Hook and Stepen Morris look back on New Order's debut single,
"Ceremony", Billy Bragg talks us through his classic albums and Ian Hunter revisits the
glory days of glam and Mott The Hoople.
As ever, enjoy the issue and keep letting us know what you think about Uncut.
Features
- In his own write - Mike Skinner
- Jon Wilde Interview - James Dean Bradfield
- My life in music - Alison Goldfrapp
- You had to be there - Joe Meek gets his 'collar' felt
- Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes - Ian Broudie
- I thought you were dead - John Walker
- Fight Club - Richard Archer vs Preston
- The stars that fame forgot - Judee Sill
- From the vault - Radiohead from 1997
- The making of... - New Order's "Ceremony