Shindig! Issue 138

Features

The King’s Road.  The birth of Swinging London’s epicentre

The Heavy Metal Kids.  The pre-punk, glam-adjacent rockers who almost made it.

The Masters Apprentices.  Part One of our in-depth appreciation of the influential, shape-shifting Aussies.

The Byrds.  Country rock, soundtrack infamy, megalomania and awkward reunions. Inside their tumultuous final years.

The Lemon Twigs. The preternaturally talented duo of the present

Regulars

Thoughts & Words Your letters, tweets and emails.

Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! Turntable.

Subscribers’ Prize Draw  Subscribe now, and you could win a copy of Hawkwind’s 10-disc Days Of The Underground box set

It’s A Happening Thing  Emma Tricca, Blood Ceremony, Susan James,

Lael Neale, The Ironsides, Daydream Review, Desert Ships,

Wendy Martinez, Vox Teen Beat, Record Store Day, Tom Cox

Family Album Pete Dello & Friends’ 1971 folk-pop gem Into Your Ear

Deep Cuts The Sly & The Family Stone songbook covered

Eddie Piller  A young mod’s unforgotten story

20 Questions Engineer, producer, writer and arranger Alan Parsons

Reviews The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows.

Prize Crossword Win, a copy of Too Much Sun, Will Burn: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967 Volume 2

Vinyl Clicks Anna Själv Tredje’s Tussilago Fanfara

Vinyl Art Pete Bardens’ The Answer and the Annie Walker model agency