‘Young Americans’: Florence Welch’s favourite David Bowie song
“Joyful but has a bite”.
Music Archives: 02/2025
In his veins: How Tony Wilson devoted himself to Joy Division
Mr Manchester, the music industry anarchist.
The Unforgettable Fire’: the U2 album Bono thought was “beautifully out-of-focus”
The beauty between the cracks.
“Every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable”: Jerry Lee Lewis’ marriage to his underage cousin
Married at 13, a mother at 14.
How ‘Born Under Punches’ became Talking Heads most complex piece of music: “A whole new thing”
It didn’t take long for life in the Talking Heads to start being a slog for everyone not named David Byrne. Even for Chris Frantz…
The strange case of John Cage’s mushroom foraging obsession: “Much more than a hobby”
Way more than a hobby.
‘My Lives’: The album Billy Joel said “should never have been heard”
“You’re not supposed to smoke that shit”