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FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE 271
26 Features
The Doors 24 The Ones To Watch
Our top tips for the coming year (and indeed the decade).
“Jim’s attitude was always: ‘Look out, 26 The Doors
man, I’m hell-bent on destruction.’” With their frontman on a downward spiral, and threatening to
take the rest of the band with him, it was decided that the best
thing to do was get back in the studio. Against the odds, they
came out with one of their greatest albums: Morrison Hotel.
38 Classic Albums That
Almost Never Were
It was the dawn of the 70s, a period that delivered some now
iconic albums. So why were they dismissed at the time?
40 Alice Cooper
How a garage band from Phoenix with stars in their eyes
moved to LA, and the story of their album Easy Action.
44 Corky Laing
Like most young budding rock musicians, he had a dream.
Unlike most, his came true, as he steadily scaled the rock’n’roll
mountain and made it to the very top.
52 Band Of Gypsys
In January 1970, Jimi Hendrix pulled the plug on stardom to
chase a funkier, freer direction. His short-lived new trio also
helped redefine the nature of the rock gig.
56 The Flying
Burrito Brothers
How these psychedelic outlaws mixed rock with country and
in the process paved the way for the Eagles and more.
58 Suzi Quatro
She could have ended up a classical pianist, but then one day
she picked up a bass guitar, and found herself on the road
that would lead to her becoming a glam-rock icon. Suzi talks
about this and much more in the Classic Rock Interview.
66 Glorious Sons
These blue-collar poets and shitkicking rockers for the new
age are on anthemic form with their brilliant new album.
68 Goth: An Oral History
As punk’s light faded, something new began to stir in the
darkness. After goth’s early days as a look/fashion/scene
rather than a music genre came some of the greatest music
of the 80s. This is its story.
82 No-Man
Tim Bowness takes us inside the surprising world of the
masters of ambient, melancholic alt.rock .
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