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.
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The creators and advocates of LSD were an integral influence on the genre of psychedelia, but its history is bound up in espionage and government spooks as much as fun-lovin’ hippies

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Out now: Joe Bonamassa's Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman proves Royal Tea was a good album, even without a real-life audience

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Out now: Wolfgang Van Halen strides out as a one-man band on first album Mammoth WVH

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Gary Moore's How Blue Can You Get is patchy proof that blue is still very much the colour

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Former Saigon Kick guitarist Jason Bieler joins the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra to provide food for future thought on Songs For The Apocalypse

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Led Zeppelin did business like no one before, especially when it came to dealing with their record company. Former Atlantic Records Vice-President Phil Carson explains all

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A look back at the short but stellar career of rock's first supergroup, Cream

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Thanks to the latest digital audio technology, Jimi Hendrix's Live In Maui finally surfaces in full

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You can't fault Orianthi's style on fourth solo album O, but the songs fall short

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Joe Bonamassa's Royal Tea is meaty, beaty, big and bouncy

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Digging Deep: Subterranea is a journey through Robert Plant's solo recordings, from Pictures at Eleven in onwards

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Walter Trout ponders the state of the world on his Ordinary Madness album

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The sons of Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley jam on Allman Betts Band's second album Bless Your Heart

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Ground control to Major Rick, as Rick Wakeman launches himself towards The Red Planet

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Asylums build up a head of steam for third album Genetic Cabaret with producer Steve Albini

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Live Aid in 1985 was perhaps the greatest rock festival of all, and Status Quo were there to open it

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Folk’s music’s not all “hey nonny nonny” y’know. In the 70s, it sneaked its way into the heaviest of rock's repertoire. We look at the groups that spearheaded the genre

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The meaning of prog, from Big Big Train drummer Nick D’Virgilio

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Frank Zappa’s celebrated 1970 Mothers lineup commemorated with unreleased 70-song collection of studio and live recordings

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Owning up and owning it on Asking Alexandria's sixth album Like A House On Fire

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Bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice, one of rock’s mightiest rhythm sections, talk about their days in Vanilla Fudge

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Four Cream concerts brought back to life, warts ‘n’ all, from 1968's Goodbye Tour

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Half a dozen albums that find Glenn Hughes between a rock and a soulful place
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