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All American Fuckboy
Even the presence of actor LaKeith Stanfield fails to lift this narrative of lust and redemption to the epic proportions of its own ambitions, finds Eden Tizard
Some of those who knew the singer-songwriter and guitarist best, including his widow Andru Chapman and collaborator Thurston Moore, help guide Jonathan Wright through Michael Chapman’s extraordinary catalogue
40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)
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Enter Subscriber Area40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)
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John Higgs, author of books about the KLF, William Blake and James Bond, has now turned his eye to Doctor Who. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers Ben Wheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis...