Please note: some material has previously appeared in older issues of Shindig!, but this special edition also includes newly added content.

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Contents:

OUR TOP 50 ’80s PSYCH CUTS: The team’s sideways look at the effect of psychedelia on the ’80s

THE LONDON PSYCHEDELIC REVIVAL: IAN CANTY and key players examine and reflect on the rise ’n’ fall of the London psych revival

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES: BEN GRAHAM remembers the immense importance of Dan Treacy and his maverick vision

THE JAM: JON ‘MOJO’ MILLS discusses Paul Weller’s 1981 obsessions with psychedelia, post-punk and poetry

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES: KRIS NEEDS’ recalls the influential scene-makers’ colourful first full decade

THE CHURCH: AHSLEY NORRIS traces this Aussie band’s ’60s fascination and their influence on others

THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND: BRIAN GREENE surveys the movers and shakers from this fertile Californian movement

THE PRISONERS: ANDY MORTEN celebrates the Medway quartet’s unique spin on ’60s garage and psych

PLASTICLAND: CHAIM O’BRIEN-BLUMENTAL marvels at this Midwest band’s early appreciation of lysergic sounds

THE TEARDROP EXPLODES: BEN GRAHAM tells the story of the fathers of Scousedelia, and indeed the whole psych revival

THE PLAYN JAYN: PHIL SUGGITT chronicles the short but sweet career of one of London’s most exciting live bands

THE STEPPES: JEREMY GLUCK considers the brilliance of this unique and cosmic American/Irish quartet

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR: MARCOS ROSSI on XTC’s perfect psychedelic pseudonym

SPACEMEN 3: BEN GRAHAM follows Sonic Boom and Jason Pierce’s heady Midlands freak-out

THE TYRNAROUND: RICHARD ALLEN charts the psychedelic influence on young Aussies