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Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks
Nick Reed returns to Genesis' hefty 1974 double album opus, and finds, in-between the near-incomprehensible narrative and patchy second disc, a record that offers many fine moments and stakes a good claim to being the pinnacle of prog excess
Thirty years on from its release – and with the band’s popularity in question more than ever – Wyndham Wallace returns to The Unforgettable Fire, U2’s incendiary denial of expectations and their first encounter with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois
On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip-hop luminary
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