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The Band's Garth Hudson To Play Two Intimate Shows

The Band's Garth Hudson To Play Two Intimate Shows

The admired musician also to appear at the rescehduled Truck Festival

Bo Diddley Is Back In Hospital

Bo Diddley Is Back In Hospital

Rock'n'roll pioneer has had a heart attack

CUT of The Day: Sam Cooke Gangs Up With Muhammed Ali

CUT of The Day: Sam Cooke Gangs Up With Muhammed Ali

BBC TV footage of the pair singing 'The Gang's All Here'

Springsteen Announces US and European Tour

Springsteen Announces US and European Tour

First shows with the E Street Band since 2002 include's London's O2

Carling Weekend: Reading Festival Over For Another Year

Carling Weekend: Reading Festival Over For Another Year

Arcade Fire, Devendra Banhart and Klaxons rock our world by the Thames

Manchester Music Festival Co-Founded By Tony Wilson To Go Ahead

Manchester Music Festival Co-Founded By Tony Wilson To Go Ahead

In The City takes place next month, and there's still time to apply for a gig

Foo Fighters To Play Arena Tour

Foo Fighters To Play Arena Tour

Following V Festival headline, Dave Grohl and co return to UK

Smashing Pumpkins Bring Third Day Of Reading To An Electrifying Close

Smashing Pumpkins Bring Third Day Of Reading To An Electrifying Close

The Hold Steady and Klaxons also pull off thrilling headline sets

Klaxons Chaos Closes Reading NME/Radio 1 Stage

Klaxons Chaos Closes Reading NME/Radio 1 Stage

The New Rave Londoners' headline show proves incredibly popular

The Hold Steady Bring Their Bar Room Party To Reading

The Hold Steady Bring Their Bar Room Party To Reading

Springsteen-esque songs wow devoted crowd despite clashing set time with Smashing Pumpkins and...

Smashing Pumpkins Wow Reading With A Progtastic Set

Smashing Pumpkins Wow Reading With A Progtastic Set

Billy Corgan closes this year's festival with an amazing light show

Devendra Banhart Brings His Rock Set To Reading

Devendra Banhart Brings His Rock Set To Reading

Two lucky audience members also get brought onstage to play

Devendra Banhart Kicks Off Reading Festival Final Day

Devendra Banhart Kicks Off Reading Festival Final Day

Psych-folk figurehead previews new album on sunkissed Thames cruise

RHCP close Reading Saturday Night With Aplomb

RHCP close Reading Saturday Night With Aplomb

California funk brings a night of epic rock to a close

Arcade Fire Stomp Through To Triumph At Reading

Arcade Fire Stomp Through To Triumph At Reading

Win and Regine Butler steal festival's Saturday night

Dinosaur Jr Show Us How Its Done

Dinosaur Jr Show Us How Its Done

The original guitar slackers ramp up Reading

Reading Festival Second Day Heats Up

Reading Festival Second Day Heats Up

Sun is out in force for Eagles of Death Metal and The Shins, ahead of headline sets by RHCP and...

Reading Opening Day Draws To A Close With Razorlight

Reading Opening Day Draws To A Close With Razorlight

Kings Of Leon and The Gossip triumph

Jimmy Eat World Preview New Songs At Carling Weekend

Jimmy Eat World Preview New Songs At Carling Weekend

The rockers to play two sets at each site, they talk us through new album exclusively here

Band Of Horses Complete Second Album

Band Of Horses Complete Second Album

The Seattle indie act

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Bruce Springsteen, Tame Impala, Rodriguez, George Clinton, John Fogerty, Prince and George Jones in new Uncut


I would have bought the issue of Melody Maker in which I first read about Bruce Springsteen on my way into the art school in Newport, where in March 1973 I was in my last term, only a few months away from moving to London and not long after that fetching up on MM as a junior reporter/feature...