04/09/2025
The recent new album from Jakko Jakszyk on Inside Out Music picks up a 4/5 review in the latest issue of Record Collector Magazine.
Welcome to the October 2025 (BUMPER!) issue of Record Collector (575) - in shops now or available here: shop.recordcollectormag.com
It’s a hefty old issue, is RC 575. Indeed, the cover artist this month is a building site. Wait – what? Yup, it’s an artful illustration of a building site, bolstered by the coverline, “Better Than Bricks And Mortar – The 200 Most Valuable Records In The UK”. The contention offered by the coverline is that collectable vinyl is as safe a bet in financial terms as property, while inside Daryl Easlea – editor of RC’s Rare Record Price Guide 2026 – plusa team of experts list in terms of value the most desirable 200 LPs and singles in the UK, starting with Bowie and Madonna and ending with… well, we wouldn’t want to give the game away, but let’s just say you might need a second mortgage to afford it.
Elsewhere in this issue, we pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and feature an annotated list of Ozzy and Sabbath collectables. We take a look at Chess Records, Noughties vinyl and Berlin 45s. We interview Robert Plant about his new album, Spandau Ballet (Official) about their early 80s phase as white funk aesthetes, Super Furry Animals, SFA' Gruff Rhys is in the RC Interview hot-seat, US cult indie musician and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis tells us about his ‘naked-Dylan’ new LP cover,and we meet one half of 60s pop duo Peter & Gordon, Peter Asher.
There’s more. In News, we hear details of a trove of ultra-rare 45s that has just gone up for auction in the US. RC Investigates features more exotic music-related stamps from around the world. The Collector this month is jazz musician Joe Armon-Jones. Yellow Magic Orchestra. The Cinematics get the Value Added Facts treatment. In Diggin’ For Gold Joe Meek’s band, The Tornados, get a closer examination. In Most Wanted Mark Knopfler’s guitar and Marc Bolan’s notebooks go under the hammer. Our columnist, David Stubbs, spots the differences between two sets of working-class pop acts, the Kemps and the Gallaghers. The Talking Heads this issue include Tift Merritt and The Damned’s Monty Oxymoron. We spend 33 1/3 minutes with Belinda Carlisle, go Under The Radar with The Pearls, welcome back Deep Blue Something, hear about Dr Robert Of The Blow Monkeys’ formative records and pick 10 Of The Best TV soundtracks.
Our reviews section is as comprehensive and authoritative as ever. Archive releases under inspection in From The Vaults include ones by Oasis, David Bowie, John Prine, Terry Hall and Funkadelic, while new albums assessed are, among many others, those by Robert Plant, Cate Le Bon and David Byrne. Books forensically scrutinised are new ones on Manic Street Preachers, Kevin Rowland and Iron Maiden while Genesis P Orridge and The Weeknd have DVDs out. New 45s given an airing in Singles include LCD Soundsystem and The Pets newies while everyone from Diana Ross to Alien Ant Farm gets reviewed in Lives. Our Stockists info also contains our regular overview of the Record Shop Of The Month, we have our unique Classified Listings, there’s our Gig Guide with its attendant Q&A with Graham Nash, and you can win a Lenco turntable and a Marshall speaker in Competitions & Crossword. Finally, we bid a sad farewell to Terry Reid, Bobby Whitlock, John “Poli” Palmer, Cleo Laine and too many more.
We’re already hard at work on RC 576, for which the cover star will be Jarvis Cocker, photographed at home in his lounge, on the back of Pulp’s first new album for 24 years, which recently went to No 1. To celebrate, Jarvis invites RC into his home, specifically to those rooms that house his record collection. He talks us through his favourite vinyl, his first-ever purchases, which records have proven most influential, and which cause the most commotion on the dancefloor in his capacity as DJ. There will also be articles on Terry Reid, Todd Rundgren, The Saints, Ace Records, Maddy Prior and the best-ever singles released by musicians and singers from Brighton and environs.
RC can be purchased from your local newsagent, our loyal army of record shop stockists, or you can start a subscription or buy individual copies from our shop.
Meanwhile, check out our latest Record Collector Presents special editions on Gary Numan and Stones (In The 70s), which are out now, and note that our T-Rex special is on its way in October . The Rare Record Price Guide 2026 is also available.
Keep collecting and many thanks for your continued support of Record Collector.
