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Got back! • Paul McCartney delivers a jubilant, hit-packed show on his return to the British stage

Pop hits in heaven • Giving you The Chills: the singular legacy of NZ indie legend Martin Phillipps

“It’s just songs I like to sing” • Southern soul star Candi Staton on country music, champagne and covering The Rolling Stones

A Quick One

Just a shutter way • New photos emerge from the archive of Rolling Stones fixer, Spanish Tony

Ticket to Ryde • Meet Echolalia: the new Nashville supergroup getting it together on the Isle Of Wight

Greg Mendez • Philly’s fertile lo-fi scene spawns another astute songwriter

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Take A Load Off 15 tracks of the month’s best music

AN AUDIENCE WITH… GARY • The Spandau Ballet songwriter turned Saucerful Of Secrets frontman talks Soho, Black Midi, Ronnie Kray and kilts

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CHRIS ECKMAN • Former Walkabouts leader digs deep to create a career high delving into loss, forgiveness and rebuilding a life from ruin.

ESSENTIAL ECKMAN

Q&A • Chris Eckman: “A sense of place has always been part of my songwriting”

BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY • Effortless charm on his long-time-coming “Nashville record”.

AtoZ • This month…

YAZZ AHMED • Kaleidoscopic jazz imbued with Bahraini folklore, poetry and an oceanic spirit.

JIM GHEDI • The South Yorkshire songwriter on loss, home and healing

JIM WHITE & TREY BLAKE

SONGHOY BLUES • Mali’s exhilarating desert-blues exiles find an acoustic home.

THE DELINES • Willy and Amy let a little light into the darkness on their finest album yet.

KEVIN FIGES & JULIE TIPPETTS • A cross-generational collaboration bears exotic fruit.

JEAN CLAUDE VANNIER • Jean Claude Vannier: “Each instrument has its own identity”

LOTTI GOLDEN • An extraordinary song suite provoked by a teenager’s six months immersed in New York’s late-’60s underground.

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES • Dan Treacy and friends’ selected adventures on the airwaves tell a tale of rare genius and sad decline.

AtoZ • This month…

BRIDES OF FUNKENSTEIN

DOUG SAHM & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET • The early trajectory of a Texas tornado.

VERONIQUE CHALOT

Chords of pure delight • After a rollercoaster decade, the stars finally seem to have aligned for New Zealand singer-songwriter NADIA REID. As she prepares to release her fourth album, Enter Now Brightness, she explains how magic, motherhood and Manchester have fed into her boldest work yet. “The whole thing’s been mad,” she tells Stephen Troussé

SEND IT DOWN THE LINE • The road to Enter...