Hugh Fielder

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

Cover art for Flock Truth – Columbia Recordings 1969-70 album
Flock Truth – Columbia Recordings 1969-70 album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Giving a flying Flock

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Cover art for Orestea - Elements album
Orestea - Elements album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Taking the emo way out

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Cover art for Bigfoot - Bigfoot album
Bigfoot - Bigfoot album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Hard rockers pumped up and primed

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Cover art for Steve Hill - Solo Recordings Volume 3 album
Steve Hill - Solo Recordings Volume 3 album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Roll over, Don Partridge

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Cover art for Some Weird Sin – On Tour With Iggy Pop by Alvin Gibbs
Some Weird Sin – On Tour With Iggy Pop by Alvin Gibbs review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Instinctively Iggy

Concerts & Shows
Cover art for Feeder - The Best Of Feeder album
Feeder - The Best Of Feeder album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

More than just a look back

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Cover art for Chris Rea - Road Songs For Lovers album
Chris Rea - Road Songs For Lovers album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Back behind the wheel

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Cover art for Memory Of A Free Festival by Sam Knee
Memory Of A Free Festival by Sam Knee review

By Hugh Fielder Published

By the time we got to Stonehenge…

Music Festivals
Cover art for Lee Brilleaux - Rock ’N’ Roll Gentleman album
Lee Brilleaux - Rock ’N’ Roll Gentleman album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Brilleaux padding

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Cover art for Paul Kantner & The Windowpane Collective - Venusian Love Songs album
Paul Kantner & The Windowpane Collective - Venusian Love Songs album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

You can take the hippie out of folk…

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Cover art for Shaman’s Harvest - Red Hands Black Deeds album
Shaman’s Harvest - Red Hands Black Deeds album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Reaping their own harvest

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Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson - the man who knew too much

By Hugh Fielder Published

Robbie Robertson on being Bob Dylan’s right-hand man, Eric Clapton’s inspiration and Martin Scorsese’s favourite songwriter

Interviews
Cover art for Somebody To Love: The Life, Death And Legacy Of Freddie Mercury
Somebody To Love: The Life, Death And Legacy Of Freddie Mercury review

By Hugh Fielder Published

The same questions asked, and nothing new revealed

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1987
1987: The year hard rock struck back

By Brian Boyd, Malcolm Dome, Dave Everley, Ian Fortnam, Polly Glass, Rob Hughes, Hugh Fielder, Dave Ling, Sian Llewellyn, Luke Morton, Paul Rees, Mick Wall, Henry Yates Published

1987 saw classic album releases from Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, U2, Whitesnake, Anthrax, Heart, Motley Crue, Marillion, The Replacements and more...

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Cover art for Gov’t Mule - Revolution Come… Revolution Go album
Gov’t Mule - Revolution Come… Revolution Go album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Vive la révolution: Warren Haynes’s jam band get political to brilliant effect

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Cover art for Joe Bonamassa - Live At Carnegie Hall – An Acoustic Evening album review
Joe Bonamassa - Live At Carnegie Hall – An Acoustic Evening album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Hot blues beats cold venue

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A press shot of Gary Brooker
Gary Brooker on 50 years of Procol Harum

By Hugh Fielder Published

The Procol Harum singer/pianist on lyricists, banging his head and losing his hearing, and falling off logs in Finland

Bands & Artists
Cover art for Fandango - The Complete RCA Albums album
Fandango - The Complete RCA Albums album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Joe Lynn Turner’s band who tripped too light: Fandango

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Cover art for Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood – 40th Anniversary Edition album
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood – 40th Anniversary Edition album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

The album that took Tull out of the woods

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Cover art for Flogging Molly - Life Is Good album
Flogging Molly - Life Is Good album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Irish folk punk, California-style

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Cover art for Patto - Patto/Hold Your Fire album
Patto - Patto/Hold Your Fire album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Double trouble from the 70s under achievers

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Cover art for Hunter & The Bear - Paper Heart album
Hunter & The Bear - Paper Heart album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Days of future passed

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Cover art for Lonely Robot - The Big Dream album
Lonely Robot - The Big Dream album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

The spaceman who fell to Earth

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Cover art for Fish On Friday - Quiet Life album
Fish On Friday - Quiet Life album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Belgian prog rockers step on the (classical) gas

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Cover art for Rex Smith - Rock And Roll Dream 1976-1983 album
Rex Smith - Rock And Roll Dream 1976-1983 album review

By Hugh Fielder Published

Sweet dreams are made of this

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