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Three Queen albums, Greatest Hits, The Platinum Collection, and the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack, are charting in the U.K., ...
Punk is not dead. And neither is post-punk. Nor any of their many variants. They live on at Forever Now. The festival offers ...
The former Smiths guitarist appeared on a podcast where he discussed the reasons he doesn't want to reform with the ...
Perhaps the last great rock‘n’roll band of the pre-internet era, Oasis lived the lifestyle to the hilt and dared to enjoy it.
‘Bengali in Platforms’, from his 1988 debut solo album Viva Hate, is a classic Morrissey character sketch of a Bengali boy struggling to fit in after immigrating to the UK.
As Morrissey plays two sold out shows in Glasgow, you may be callously judged by your fellow peers for wanting to see the quiffed troubadour in ...
And Salford Lads Club, the home of a youth group, has become a pilgrimage site for fans of The Smiths, who were pictured outside on the front of their 1986 album The Queen Is Dead.
A stop gap single between The Queen Is Dead and the next Smiths album (which wouldn't arrive until a year later), Ask features the late great Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals and is a tribute to ...
And so, this is how it ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. The last song on what would prove to be the last Smiths album. Morrissey wouldn’t have to share his song-writing partner for much longer as ...
Hatful of Hollow is The Smiths’ best album because it’s their most innocent. This may seem an untoward claim for this most knowing and self-aware of bands, with Johnny Marr steeped in music history ...
Morrissey's admiration for playwright Shelagh Delaney means Salford is entwined in the band’s history. The iconic picture of The Smiths was used on the inner sleeve of The Queen Is Dead album.