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 artwork for Bon Jovi: The Story - Bryan Reesman

Bon Jovi: The Story by Bryan Reesman review

By Hugh Fielder published

Livin’ on a perm

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Cover Art for Cream - Fresh Cream deluxe edition

Cream - Fresh Cream Deluxe Edition album review

By Hugh Fielder published

First supergroup’s first album, with a plethora of additions both fan-pleasing and pointless

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Redbone album cover

Redbone - Redbone reissue album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Native Americans get lost in the mix

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The Honey Pot Ascending Scales album cover

The Honey Pot - Ascending Scales album review

By Hugh Fielder published

A tapestry of delights

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The Alan Parsons Project Tales Of Mystery And Imagination 40th Anniversary Edition album cover

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination reissue album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Poe-faced prog

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Ritchie Blackmore photograph

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow - Memories In Rock: Live In Germany album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Memories are made of this

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Bebe Buell circa 1980

Bebe Buell on groupies, fake boobs, God and sacrifice

By Hugh Fielder published

Model turned 'band aide' turned singer, Bebe Buell has seen it all. And now she reveals what she's learned

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Jim Phantom A Stray Cat Struts book cover

Slim Jim Phantom - A Stray Cat Struts book review

By Hugh Fielder published

It’s cool for cats

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NEal Morse BAnd cover

The Neal Morse Band – The Similitude Of A Dream album review

By Hugh Fielder published

The Neal Morse Band are going for the one with an ambitious double concept album

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Santana IV Live At The House Of Blues Las Vegas DVD cover

Santana - Santana IV Live At The House Of Blues Las Vegas DVD review

By Hugh Fielder published

Still hallucinatory after all these years

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Cover art for King Crimson's Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind

King Crimson - Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind album review

By Hugh Fielder published

King Crimson unleash some more live majesty

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Uriah Heep band photograph

Uriah Heep - Your Turn To Remember: The Definitive Anthology album review

By Hugh Fielder published

A heap of old Heep that could have been better

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Johnny Winter I’m A Bluesman album cover

Johnny Winter - I’m A Bluesman album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Putting the spring into Winter’s voice.

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Joanne Shaw Taylor Wild album cover

Joanne Shaw Taylor - Wild album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Still taking the scenic route.

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Barclay James Harvest Everyone Is Everybody Else album cover

Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else album review

By Hugh Fielder published

The prog pioneers' classic album is given a good spring clean

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Colosseum Live album cover

Colosseum - Live album review

By Hugh Fielder published

The jazz rockers, live-r than they’ll ever be

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The Screaming Blue Messiahs Vision In Blues album cover

The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Vision In Blues album review

By Hugh Fielder published

The devil-may-care trio's delightfully noisy second coming

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Welcome Back Delta Sucker album cover

Welcome Back Delta - Sucker album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Stoner rockers Welcome Back Delta come straight outta the Cotswolds

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Uriah Heep The Classic Rock Years DVD cover

Uriah Heep - The Classic Rock Years DVD review

By Hugh Fielder published

Live Heep feast.

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Eric Clapton And Guests Crossroads Revisited album cover

Eric Clapton And Guests - Crossroads Revisited album review

By Hugh Fielder published

This 40-track set gives a flavour of the four Crossroads festivals so far - pluck pick, every trip

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Steve Vai Passion And Warfare album cover

Steve Vai - Modern Primitive/Passion And Warfare album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Steve Vai's second and definitive album gets a reissue, along with a bunch of newly updated material

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Seek Irony Tech ‘N’ Roll album cover

Seek Irony - Tech ‘N’ Roll album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Texan/Israeli quintet fuse their instinctive passion for heavy rock with electronica on debut album

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Red Spektor album cover

Red Spektor - Red Spektor album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Fancy a well-oiled threesome?

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The Bar Stool Preachers Blatant Propaganda album cover

The Barstool Preachers - Blatant Propaganda album review

By Hugh Fielder published

A message to you.

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John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers Live In 1967 – Volume Two album review

John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers - Live In 1967 – Volume Two album review

By Hugh Fielder published

Second pickings from the holy grail.

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