Paul Lester
Paul Lester is the editor of Record Collector. He began freelancing for Melody Maker in the late 80s, and was later made Features Editor. He was a member of the team that launched Uncut Magazine, where he became Deputy Editor. In 2006 he went freelance again and has written for The Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, Classic Rock, Q and the Jewish Chronicle. He has also written books on Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Bjork, The Verve, Gang Of Four, Wire, Lady Gaga, Robbie Williams, the Spice Girls, and Pink.
Latest articles by Paul Lester

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Neil Young and Mick Jagger in one body, and a stripper/Princeton lecturer: it's alt.rock’s premier power duo

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Another chance to meet the ‘punk before punk’ rockers

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Post-punk quirk-popster meets science-fiction illustrator

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Studio album number 30 from space-rock pioneers – and the force is still with them

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Not yet ratedThe Finnish soprano wows the crowd in Camden

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Not yet ratedCanadian turntablist collaborates with the other kooky Icelander on sixth album

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Not yet ratedSolo album from Trembling Bells singer/drummer, Alex Rex

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Four-CD box set from the punk also-rans.

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Mike Rutherford talks Genesis, school, guns and women in America, trips of both kinds, and being “from Mars”

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Ninth album from Scottish soul-pop stalwarts

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Not yet ratedThe Kentucky trio wow Camden and pay tribute to Jaki Liebezeit at their London debut

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Blood on the tracks: raw solo debut from the Asking Alexandria frontman

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Ex-Mansun man plans solo dates ahead of debut solo album.

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Follow-up to 2013’s Now What?! from the last original hard rock behemoths standing.

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Even with helping keep the peace in the Eagles and working for hard taskmasters, he’s lived “a charmed life”

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Inspired by everything from Clockwork Orange to drug-fuelled psycho parties, welcome to the wild and wonderful world of The Flaming Lips. Wayne Coyne takes us down into the rabbit hole

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Not yet ratedTim Smith's Spratleys Japs and Guapo team up for a Cardiacs friendly

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Not yet ratedSeventh album from Italian kraut-proggers in operation since the 90s.

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Not yet ratedReturning to the place that’s a “state of mind” as much as a musical concept, this work of quiet intensity mirrors the creator’s personal tumult

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Rick Wakeman on Thatcher, Castro, never taking drugs, being Grandpa Grumpy and still doing what he loves

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Not yet ratedTwo sides of the rock’n’roll coin tossed together: the adventurous and experimental versus the traditional and unreconstructed

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“I’ve seen life’s dark side,” says the polymath as he returns to ’75 album Ommadawn to channel his emotional fallout

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Not yet ratedTwo sets for the price of one from Panic Room in London
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