Steve Burgess

Steve Burgess was the editor of Dark Star which was a music magazine published for 26 issues between 1975 and 1981. It featured record reviews and music news mostly from the American music scene. He also ran English Weather, a record store at 12 Park Road out in Crouch End.

"English Weather was also the name of a record shop I loved when I first moved to London, out in Crouch End which, back in the mid-80s, was deep bedsitter land. The shop was run by Dark Star magazine's Steve Burgess - a major influence on my tastes and my writing, Steve put me onto records such as Mellow Candle's "Swaddling Songs", Fairfield Parlour's "From Home To Home" and the now-venerated Spring album: "It may look like prog", he said of Spring, sensing my scepticism at the peak of prog’s unfashionability, "but it's beautiful". He was right. I hope he'd have liked this selection." Bob Stanley

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