Completely agree. I saw it advertised and pre ordered my copy so as not to miss it. Apart from (possibly not deliberately) of reinforcing a stereotype, to me it was something that could have easily been fixed by adding “of the 1960s and 1970s” as a subtitle. I doubt that would have impacted sales. Even an explanation in the editorial about what the focus was would have at least clarified. I’m not a massive fan of “list” articles / magazines - they always feel a bit like page fillers to me. But these magazines clearly have an audience and they aren’t cheap!

By contrast the next day, my subscriber copy of Prog Magazine arrived and made up for the disappointment. Jerry and the team have consistently delivered a magazine which strikes the right balance between old and new / stuff you’ve heard of and stuff you haven’t. Plus Jerry has always been very open about the challenges of publishing the magazine - for example you can’t just put anyone on the cover! Uncut clearly realise that with the classic era Gabriel photo, and Prog recognise that having Kate Bush on the cover of a magazine most likely to appear on shop shelves in the UK and Europe will draw a crowd (some great articles on her too who is, let’s face it, an artist who would not typically end up in prog rock best album lists).

As for the Uncut one… well there’s plenty of 1970s music in there I’m not familiar with. So I think I’ll gather a playlist of stuff that I don’t know at all and might discover something I wouldn’t have before, and redeem the whole experience.