Record Collector Issue 520 (July 2021)

Record Collector Issue 520 (July 2021) Janis Joplin

Exclusive features include:

• JANIS JOPLIN - Fifty years since she posthumously topped the charts with Pearl, we trace the evolution of one of the great rock'n'soul voices with help from family, friends and contemporaries
• GARY KEMP - The guitarist, songwriter, and actor talks new romanticism, Bowie, Floyd, boy bands and a new solo album
• CAN - As newly released live shows from 1975 emerge, Irmin Schmidt remembers his role in the krautrock revolution
• GORDON LIGHTFOOT - In a rare interview, "Canada's patron saint" tells stories of playing with Dylan, writing Sinatra and getting covered by Elvis
• HEART - On the release of a debut solo LP, Nancy Wilson looks back on nearly half a century of hard rock trailblazing and big hair
• AL STEWART - The success of 1976's Year of the Cat caused a chronic case of "taxi driver syndrome", but there's more to this self-styled "historical folk-rock singer"
• KRISTIN HERSH - An always-fascinating songwriter, she’s just as compelling talking about her third volume of memoirs