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Interview

Unedited Klaus Dinger

March 2020

Read a transcript of an interview conducted by Biba Kopf as part of an article on Neu! in The Wire 208, June 2001

Essay

McCoy Tyner 1938–2020

March 2020

Pat Thomas relays how great African traditions shaped Tyner’s musical education in the face of racist music journalism and white supremacy

Book Extract

Read an extract from A New Day Yesterday by Mike Barnes

January 2020

The longtime Wire contributor has penned a major study of UK progressive rock in the 1970s. Based on his own extensive research and interviews with musicians, journalists and insiders, it amounts to 608 pages long. In this extract, Barnes offers an account of an early King Crimson set that took place one sunny afternoon in 1969 at London's Hyde Park

Essay

Simon Morris: tour guide

January 2020

Alan Courtis recalls an unforgettable night in Blackpool with the beaming Ceramic Hobs mastermind who died last month