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I’ve just completed a reorganisation of my cellar, wherein lies my trove of musical treasure on vinyl and CD and a stack of Uncuts going back to February 1999.

As I was restacking the shelves I chanced upon Uncut Take 175 from December 2011. Tom Waits is on the cover. Also trailed on the cover is, Bob Dylan – Rolling Thunder Unseen! and Robert Smith Speaks.

Wind forward to Take 271, December 2019. On the cover? Dylan and Robert Smith.

I have been a loyal subscriber for years, but the repetition of the same, small stable of classic rock acts as cover stories is getting extremely tiresome. Let’s have

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