Hugh Fielder
Hugh Fielder has been writing about music for 50 years. Actually 61 if you include the essay he wrote about the Rolling Stones in exchange for taking time off school to see them at the Ipswich Gaumont in 1964. He was news editor of Sounds magazine from 1975 to 1992 and editor of Tower Records Top magazine from 1992 to 2001. Since then he has been freelance. He has interviewed the great, the good and the not so good and written books about some of them. His favourite possession is a piece of columnar basalt he brought back from Iceland.
Latest articles by Hugh Fielder

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The cover of Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was very much of its time. Hugh Fielder talks to sleeve photographer Vic Singh about prisms, George Harrison and not getting paid

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Proof that pigs can fly again, as the 2018 remix of Pink Floyd's Animals finally emerges from beneath the bickering

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Wet Willie singer and harmonica man Jimmy Hall returns under the patronage of blues superstar Joe Bonamassa

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A 50th anniversary combined deluxe re-issue of two classic Kinks albums, Muswell Hillbillies and Everybody’s In Show-Biz

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Iris hitmakers Goo Goo Dolls are still dizzying up the girl on Chaos In Bloom

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A concept album about social media, cancel culture, and growing toxic intolerance? Step right this way!

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California countrification on hold for Orange County punks on seventh album Tastes Like Gold

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James LaBrie delves into the complexities of human relationships on fifth solo album Beautiful Shade Of Grey

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No longer obscured by clouds, Pure Reason Revolution pull their music into sharp focus on Above Cirrus

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A 40 year journey through prog, jazz and improv starring former Yes, King Crimson and Genesis drummer Bill Bruford

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Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, Derek Truck and more line up to pay tribute to Johnny Winter

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Stars including Robby Krieger, Steve Morse, Yngwie Malmsteen and Slash make the album the late Leslie West wanted to make

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Anthems? Big riffs? Belligerence and fist pumping? It's all here on the Kris Barras Band's Death Valley Paradise

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Cream's albums showcased three mercurial talents who blew the stuffy, traditional British blues scene apart and exported the results back to America

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Donald Trump. 9/11. The Bible. These are just some of the ingredients that make up The Zealot Gene, Jethro Tull's first album of new material since 2003

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A then-unusual gritty piece of social commentary, The Kinks' Dead End Street was a Top 10 hit despite the ‘offensive’ promo video being banned by the BBC

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1969 heralded the end of the 60s and the birth of real rock. Here we look at some of the gilt-edged albums from a pivotal year in rock history

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Eric Clapton swaps the Royal Albert Hall for an audience of one on Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions

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Jethro Tull’s third album Benefit was the bridge between their R&B beginnings and the style that would define them

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Joe Bonamassa ponders the passing of time but doesn’t let getting older slow him down for a second

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer wave their prog willies with completist-friendly box set Out Of This World Live 1970-1997

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They wowed Woodstock, got attacked at Altamont and blew minds at Monterey. The rest of the time they made era-defining records, fried their brains on acid, and shagged each other

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Heroine finds Inglorious paying tribute to Heart, Halestorm, Houston and more
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