Writer and critic Martin Heatley of Record Collector magazine, has reviewed the third volume of the Island Book of Records 1971-72 and has awarded us with 5 stars.
Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
You’ve perhaps seen the printed magazine on sale in shops, but its worth having a look at their impressive website. it’s for people who have a real passion for music.
https://recordcollectormag.com
An explained from their site – “Record Collector is the UK’s longest-running music monthly of all going for much longer than Mojo, Uncut, Q and Classic Rock, not to mention all the others. It prides itself on the fact that it covers the widest spectrum of musical interest than any of the music monthlies clogging up the shelves. In no other mag will you see a feature on some of the rarest David Bowie records in the world just 15 pages away from an interview with post-punk heroes Joy Division, and right near a Q&A with country music legend Emmylou Harris.
No other monthlies offer 10 pages of For Sale and Wanted listings for rare records every month; and there is definitely no other magazine dedicated to collecting, pricing and documenting the very existence of rare records of every genre. You may get the same old re-hashed stories with other magazines, but with Record Collector you get the fresh information that no one else knows about.
No genre is too obscure, or uncool. Whether its Cortina rock eight-track cassettes, Italian soundtracks or heavy metal, Record Collector realises that passion for music is the very foundation of a collecting obsession, and it wears its passion on its (gatefold) sleeve.
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