Cherry Red’s long-running RPM imprint announced earlier this year that 2020 would be its final year of operations – but that hasn’t kept RPM from going out with a bang. One of the final titles to arrive from the imprint, Right Back Where We Started From, is a joyous 3-CD celebration of Female Pop and Soul in Seventies Britain. The title is drawn from Maxine Nightingale’s irresistibly bouncy 1975 single, a top ten entry in the United Kingdom and a top five in the States. Not every track on this 77-song collection…
RPM Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Dave Miller Set, The Deejays, and Elton’s Friends Birds of a Feather
Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up, exploring another three titles from the Cherry Red retro imprint! If you missed Part One, just click here! The first release heads down under, collecting The Dave Miller Set‘s recordings for Australia’s Spin label in the late 1960s. Mr. Guy Fawkes: The Complete Spin Recordings and More (1967-1970) has 19 tracks, including one previously unreleased, from the New Zealand-born frontman and his musical collaborators. The compilation takes its title from the band’s 1969 psychedelic nugget, voted Song of the Year by Go-Set magazine…
