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Japan: Rising Sons

Between 1978’s ‘Obscure Alternatives’ and 1979’s groundbreaking ‘Quiet Life’, pure magic was afoot. Featuring brand-new interviews with all four surviving members, Japan reveal how and why they made the shift from guitar band to embrace the unstoppable synth revolution…
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Richard Norris

The Grid and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve’s Richard Norris explains how forests, psychedelia and John Waters films inspired his mind-expanding visions
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Dave Ball

Perry Como, Ken Dodd, Status Quo. Not names you’d expect to see on the same page, or come to that, on these pages at all. Soft Cell’s Dave Ball reveals the early influences that shaped him.
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Sparks: Heaven Sent

As Sparks mark the 40th anniversary of their disco opus ‘No 1 In Heaven’, Ron and Russell Mael wonder if it’s a disco record at all, explain how they bluffed their way to getting Giorgio Moroder on board, and reveal their Donna Summer epiphany
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The Cinematic Orchestra: The Big Picture

The Cinematic Orchestra’s ‘To Believe’ is a love letter to the power of the album. We meet Jason Swinscoe and Dominic Smith to find out why the long-player still matters in an age of streaming and short attention spans...
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Clark

Computer games, classical, crunchy techno and… Lucian Freud. Clark shares the influences that have contributed to his bristly electronic beats
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Berlin After Bowie: Gudrun Gut

Gudrun Gut moved to West Berlin in 1975 and she’s been there ever since. Initially enticed by the smell of kebabs wafting through the air, which represented freedom to her, Gudrun Bredemann hunkered down in the political enclave and artistic demi-monde, gradually becoming punk’s answer to Marlene Dietrich.