Legendary songwriter Gerry Goffin, who co-wrote a string of chart-topping hits including "The Locomotion", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", has died aged 75 in Los Angeles.
Edwyn Collins has just performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London as part of this year’s Meltdown festival – here, in a fascinating feature from Uncut’s April 2010 issue (Take 155), the tale of Collins’ Orange Juice is told by the man himself alongside the group’s other members. Get ready for a tale of wilful perversity, vicious in-fighting, pant-wetting on TV and how Edwyn Collins “traded in all our equity for a funny bassline”… Words: Alastair McKay___________________
I suspect I wasn’t the only one who, last night, came out of the World Cup rabbit hole to discover that Gerry Goffin had died. As has become a slightly weird but nonetheless heartfelt tradition – a public display of mourning and taste, I suppose – I posted a favourite song onto Twitter: the Byrds’ version of “Goin’ Back”.
More rare Aphex Twin vinyl has surfaced on eBay, just a week after fans who had signed up for a Kickstarter campaign received digital copies of a previously unreleased album, Caustic Window.
