Record Collector #476

Main Features: RC INVESTIGATES: The UK National Sound Archive, and pressing plants VALUE ADDED FACTS: Pet Shop Boys, and The Most DAVID QUANTICK: Escape To LA, and other sound tracks LUKE HAINES: Who’s a rock snob? Come to that, who isn’t? MAC ON BLACK: Standing up for the right to jazz BOB STANLEY: Femmes fatales de France... THE COLLECTOR: David Best’s, er, best buys COVER STORY: BLONDIE: The inside story of the New York sextet’s fractious metamorphosis, from CBGB punks to chart-topping, disco-filling pop titans. And how they survived the mania and the madness... DEEP PURPLE: The untold story behind their landmark Made In Japan SIDNEY BARNES: The soul man who played with just about everyone YO LA TENGO: Turning it up to 11, then down to 0.0000001 SOVIET COLLECTABLES: After the gold Russian: we head back to the CCCP BIG’ PETE DEUCHAR: Stalwart of the 50s/60s UK jazz scene, and bars THE FEELIES: Getting in touch with the motherlode of US indie