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The Bends? Grant Gee On The Day Thom Yorke Nearly Drowned For Art
By 1998 Radiohead had already built a reputation for releasing interesting and experiment...
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How Air's Moon Safari Made The World Take French Pop Seriously
On Talkie Walkie, Air’s third album proper, there’s an instrumental track called ‘Mike Mi...
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25 Years On: Nirvana's Incesticide Revisited
On January 23 1988, Michael Jackson climbed to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the ninth t...
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Dre Ain't Shit: 25 Years On And The Chronic Still Stinks
In the six-and-a-bit years I've been writing these anniversary pieces, a working pattern ...
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Fuck Posterity: Serge Gainsbourg, Hip Hop & His Swan Song, You're Under Arrest
“If I make another album, it will be to prove that I am the best, writing in words of fire in w...
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Radical Chic: A Velvet Insurrection
Whether anyone saw it that way in 1977, I can’t say. But to me, the cover of Chic’s first...
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20 Years On: Endless Nameless By The Wildhearts Revisited
Near self-destruction was synonymous with The Wildhearts from the precise moment of their...
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Waiting In The Wings: On Jacques Brel, David Bowie And Death
Jacques Brel’s rise to legendary status in the English speaking world was achieved posthu...
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They Meant It, Man: Never Mind The Bollocks, 40 Years On
There is only one punk rock album. This is it. I don’t intend that as a challenge to com...
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Diamond D, Pete Rock, CL Smooth & The Birth Of The Rapper Producer
It's tempting for us old farts, as we dodder ever deeper into our dotage, to turn into th...
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