THIS MONTH'S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE...

Lucy O’Brien

Lucy was a teenage punk when she saw Kate Bush’s Tour Of Life in 1979, and was so inspired that she co-founded a girl band. She writes about Kate on page 67, and also in her book She Bop: The Definitive History Of Women In Popular Music, which has recently been re-published in a 25th anniversary edition.

Mike McCartney

Brother of that Paul, Mike scored ’60s hits of his own as a third of Scaffold. This month, from page 30, he contributes photographs and memories from the dawn of The Beatles. They’re drawn from Mike McCartney’s Early Liverpool, a lavish new Genesis Books tome. Copies can be purchased from: www.mikemccartneybook.com

Alison Fensterstock

Alison has written about music, books and eccentrics for NPR Music, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, MOJO and more. She lives in New Orleans – where she interviewed Rickie Lee Jones for this issue – with Siberian husky Ziggy (after Beefheart’s Zig Zag Wanderer, not you know who).