Issue 157 

Features:

Small Faces: Our heroes follow up a #1 album with quirky and divisive single ‘The Universal’.

UFO: How Gerry & Sylvia Anderson beamed psychedelia into our front rooms.

20 Questions: Peter Perrett. Teenage mod, new-wave square peg, battle-scarred survivor. He’s still the only one.

Colemine Records: The dream that became a manifesto for 21st century soul and funk.

Tina Turner  Tina turns the corner into a shape-shifting, Ike-less ’70s.

Paul Williams Love songs, phantoms and Burt Reynolds. The second part of our in-depth story.

Primal Scream The chameleons of indie-rock turn 40 with a new album. Bobby Gillespie takes us right back to where it all started

Regulars

Thoughts & Words: Your letters, tweets and emails.

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable.

Subscribers’ Prize Draw: Subscribe now, and you could win a copy of Kevin Ayers’ All This Crazy Gift Of Time box set.

It’s A Happening Thing: Bananagun, Luther Russell, The Violet Mindfield, Trust Fund, Tomo Katsurada, Stefan Gnyś, Alexa Dark, Margo Guryan tribute, The Innocence Mission, The Junipers, Daryl Johns.

Family Album: The Twilights’ 1968 opus Once Upon A Twilight.

Deep Cuts: Super-cool, short-lived jazz label Skye Records.

Reviews: The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.

Prize Crossword: Win UFO and Space: 1999 novellas.

Vinyl Art: Lindisfarne take Dingly Dell to the States.

Vinyl Clicks: Pascal Duffard’s Dieue Est Fou.