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The Rebel Music man: Dave Hendley exhibition opens this week

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I’m really looking forward to visiting the forthcoming exhibition of the photography of Dave Hendley, who died this summer.

//Outer gatefold, Rebel Music, Trojan Records, 1979. Design: Uncredited//

Hendley is best known for the photos he took of the Jamaican music scene in the 70s, but he holds a special place for me as the man responsible for one of my favourite compilations, the double-LP Rebel Music, released by Trojan at the end of that decade.

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‘Don’t look over your shoulder, but the Sex Pistols are coming’: 40th anniversary of their first review

Today is the 40th anniversary of the gig at central London venue The Marquee by the Sex Pistols which generated their first substantial media coverage, a prescient 200-word review by Neil Spencer on page 31 of the February 21, 1976 issue of the New Musical Express.

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