This month’s contributors

Henry yates

Henry Yates has written for music titles including Classic Rock, Guitarist, Total Guitar and NME, and is the co-author of Walter Trout’s official biography. This month he revisits the tumultuous early history of Fleetwood Mac, and enjoys a plain-spoken encounter with the unsinkable Chris Rea. More at www.yates creativecopywriting.com

Mike Chipperfield

Mike is one half of Brighton design studio Magictorch who’ve been chipping in with

CR covers for years now. “I thoroughly enjoyed this one,” he says. “We were channelling

Tango In the Night as there’s a bit more visual inspiration in the source material than their other covers. I know it’s cooler to prefer the Peter Green years but I’ve always had a soft spot for Rumours!”

dave everley

Blimey. We didn’t half keep ‘Diamond’ Dave Everley busy this issue. Among other things, he unravelled the last 20 years of the Fleetwood Mac saga (p48), spent some time in church repenting his sins – and hanging out with Dan Reed (p114), interrogated Bruce Dickinson (p72) and also found the time to get the lowdown on hotshot Tyler Bryant (p76). Phew!