Audience

He's the star of a future Uncut, Audience With feature

The extravagant 6 hour concert at Wembley is watched by 130 million globally

Our all-star 10th anniversary issue is nearly here, happy birthday Uncut!

One of the first festivals I covered not long after joining Melody Maker in 1974 was in Buxton, a bleak outpost on the Yorkshire Moors, headlined by Rod Stewart and The Faces, as they were increasingly billed after the departure of Ronnie Lane and not long before Rod himself legged it to LA and a subsequent solo career of great success if variable artistic merit.

I’ve mentioned here previously the time in 1979 I went to see Lou Reed at what was then still known as the Hammersmith Odeon when he reacted testily to requests from the crowd to play their favourite numbers by announcing that he would under no circumstances be playing anything else that night apart from his new album, The Bells, so there would, he repeated emphatically, no “Heroin”, “Sweet Jane”, “Walk On The Wild Side” or any of the other numbers so many people had obviously come to hear him perform.

They chat in the new all-singing Uncut tenth birthday issue

R.E.M. are onboard to help celebrate Uncut's tenth birthday next week

The former Beatles' audience includes bandmate Ringo Starr

Aw boo, it's over for another year, but hey wasn't it great mud-sliding fun! The Who closed the world's biggest music festival with a resounding greatest hits set, as the rain pounded down for one final time, it certainly didnt dampen Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey's spirits.

As the sun sinks slowly into the west, we bid you a fond farewell from Knowsley Hall.