The current issue of The Word features Rob Fitzpatrick in conversation with Richard Thompson. Plus the Rollings Stones first picture shoot, Laura Marling, Twilight, Jimi Hendrix, Ben Folds & Nick Hornby, the Best & Worst doctors in entertainment, Judee Sill, Tom Ravenscroft, Lee Perry, Tim Robbins, Ray Manzarak, Martina Topley-Bird, Ian Rankin, Annie Nightingale, Peter Sellers, Latitude Festival pictoral, Robert Sandall, Mexico's drug wars, the live music boom, Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew, and Mark Hodkinson.

Also in this issue: columnists Andrew Collins, David Hepworth and Andrew Harrison, plus our regular round-up of the very best in new music, books, film and DVD.

And that's not all: our free, 15-track CD featuring the best new music of September 2010, including tracks from Los Lobos, Richard Ashcroft, Chris Difford, Eels, Josh Ritter, Bull Kirchen feat. Elvis Costello, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, and many more...

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