
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

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

Redbone - Redbone reissue album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Native Americans get lost in the mix

The Honey Pot - Ascending Scales album review
By Hugh Fielder published
A tapestry of delights

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination reissue album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Poe-faced prog

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow - Memories In Rock: Live In Germany album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Memories are made of this

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

Slim Jim Phantom - A Stray Cat Struts book review
By Hugh Fielder published
It’s cool for cats

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

Santana - Santana IV Live At The House Of Blues Las Vegas DVD review
By Hugh Fielder published
Still hallucinatory after all these years

King Crimson - Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind album review
By Hugh Fielder published
King Crimson unleash some more live majesty

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

Johnny Winter - I’m A Bluesman album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Putting the spring into Winter’s voice.

Joanne Shaw Taylor - Wild album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Still taking the scenic route.

Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else album review
By Hugh Fielder published
The prog pioneers' classic album is given a good spring clean

Colosseum - Live album review
By Hugh Fielder published
The jazz rockers, live-r than they’ll ever be

The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Vision In Blues album review
By Hugh Fielder published
The devil-may-care trio's delightfully noisy second coming

Welcome Back Delta - Sucker album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Stoner rockers Welcome Back Delta come straight outta the Cotswolds

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

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

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

Red Spektor - Red Spektor album review
By Hugh Fielder published
Fancy a well-oiled threesome?
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