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Shel Talmy
18th November 2024
SHEL TALMY, the man behind ‘You Really Got Me’, ‘My Generation’, ‘Friday On My Mind’ and countless other touchstone records of the 1960s, the American whose impact upon British rock can never be discounted, has left the building. His friend Alec Palao offers final thoughts on the late, great producer.
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Terry Callier Remembered
29th October 2012
On my first day at work in July 1990, the very first record that I worked on was the Acid Jazz reissue of Terry Callier's 'I Don't Want To See Myself'. This record had been championed on the modern soul scene by Dr Bob Jones, and Eddie Piller had tracked down Terry to his home in Chicago to license the record. Terry had retired from the music industry about eight years previously and retrained as a computer programmer so that he could be at home to look after his daughter Sundiata.
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Ace Singles Club
30th October 2012
This month we're proud to announce two more releases in the ‘Ace Singles Club’, a series of vinyl 7’s that will be pressed in highly limited quantities and that will only ever be available directly from our site. These fine looking and fine sounding forty fives are manufactured to look like The Real Thing – that’s to say, we’re using the original label designs that these singles would have had, if they had originally been released as singles…
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Bobby Freeman
13th February 2017
Bobby Freeman, the San Francisco Bay Area’s first bona fide rock’n’roll star, died 23 January 2017 of natural causes. Ace’s Alec Palao remembers the hitmaker famous for ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ and ‘C’mon & Swim’ as one of rock’s true gentlemen.