Record Collector - Issue 581 Mar 2026

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What’s Inside? 

♦ Squeeze

Singles like Cool For Cats and Up The Junction made them doyens of the new wave; by 1981 and East Side Story, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook were being hailed as Lennon & McCartney-worthy pop craftsmen. In our cover story, they discuss their latest release – an album they made before they were famous. 

♦ Peter Hammill

An album-by-album interview with the Van Der Graaf Generator man. 

♦ Otis Williams

In conversation with the last surviving member of soul giants The Temptations. 

♦ Shoegaze

Wesley Doyle meets the pioneers and latterday prime movers of the experimental noise-pop scene that gave us My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and the rest. 

♦ Edinburgh 45s

Allan Glen picks the best ever singles from Scotland’s capital city, from the Bay City Rollers to Josef K.

♦ Swell Maps

Anarchic, eclectic, quasi-mythic… Chris Wheatley goes in search of the West Midlands post-punk enigmas. 

♦ 10cc/Queen discography

All the vinyl data you need on pop’s premier brainiacs.