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Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks
In the three decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has repeatedly been hailed as the band's crowning achievement, and regularly features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. Lifelong Smiths fan Simon Price, however, is not so sure
Thirty-five years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low, Wyndham Wallace talks to the band about their life as young, starving artists, Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’, understanding three dimensional space, and the quest for the perfect ‘Take On Me’…