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How Paul Cook broke into Hammersmith Odeon to see the Who, Slade, Queen & Alex Harvey

Paul Cook’s post-Pistols band the Professionals were once, rather surprisingly, on the cover of...

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Sharleen Spiteri saw Joe Strummer onstage and thought “that’s what I want to be”

exas are touring in the autumn and she talks to us here about what’s required to make it all look...

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Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune

The all-seeing telescope of truth scanned this week’s rock and roll heavens and noticed a few...

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Phil Manzanera Part 2: an insider’s guide to Roxy Music (and a great Bob Dylan story)

Phil Manzanera – who thought “every day in the band felt like Christmas” – has just published his...

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Phil Manzanera’s enviable life in Roxy Music and beyond

Phil Manzanera – whose relatives include a Colombian pirate, a spy and an Italian opera musician...

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Fish is bowing out to become a Hebridean shepherd. What’s he learnt in 45 years onstage?

Fish has announced a Farewell Tour in 2025. “I’ve been there, done that and sold the t-shirt.”...

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The extraordinary story of Steve Harley’s greatest hit

Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) was a slow-paced, vicious dirge about the band members who...

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Great divorce albums, Powerpop snobs and dark tales of 1999

Various items set off the alarm in the rock and roll bag-check this week and were hauled back for...

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Stephen Fall’s reviewed 3,333 of his albums. Buy the book!

Stephen Fall wrote reviews of his records, one a day, to make him a better listener. A decade...

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It’s Arthur Brown, the god of hellfire … paging Health & Safety!

Arthur Brown – enduring psychedelic godfather – is out on tour again 57 years after first...

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Suzi Ronson - Bowie’s stylist - knows why rock and roll is all about hair

Suzi Ronson was working in a hairdressers in Beckenham in 1970 when a Mrs Jones dropped in for a...

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How the Beatles invented pop video and acts we love who always sound the same

Nutritious items on the rock and roll tasting menu this week include …   … the curious life of...

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Is social media killing pop music? And where have all the bands gone?

Caught in the piercing super-trouper of perusal this week …   ... the BRITS 2024, a howling...

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For Henry Normal comedy is like “sugar and salt”

Henry Normal set up Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan, co-wrote the Royle Family, Coogan’s...

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Steve Howe of Yes tells a few tales from topographic oceans

Steve Howe talks to us from the old house and studio in Devon where they rehearsed ‘The Yes...

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The evergreen record that’s 50 years old & Jeremy Thorpe at a hippie commune

As this week’s rock and roll steeplechase thunders out over the jumps, the following runners and...

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Richard Coles has faced every audience imaginable, one armed with pea-shooters

The Reverend Richard Coles is back on tour with his ‘Borderline National Trinket’ show and talks...

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For Jah Wobble driving tube trains was even more thrilling than playing Glastonbury

Jah Wobble - aka John Wardle - wrote ‘Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer’ in 2009. It’s just...

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Steve Wright and other great radioheads, McCartney’s bass & the non-profits of Python

Pausing occasionally to spark a Senior Service and sink a milk stout, we kick cans down this...

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Max Décharné reboots the golden age of the Teddy Boys

If a film director wanted to flag up incoming violence in the late ‘50s, the camera would fall...

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