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Belinda Carlisle came of age in the vibrant Los Angeles punk scene of the late 70s. She briefly drummed for The Germs; bassist Lorna Doom was a high school friend who was into artists like Roxy Music,

Belinda Carlisle’s 1987 single Heaven Is A Place On Earth is so thoroughly woven into the fabric of modern life, it’s hard to imagine a time when it didn’t exist. Ubiquitous and comfortingly familiar,

Forty years ago this September, Kate Bush released Hounds Of Love . Her fifth studio record reinstated her position as one of the most innovative and creative artists of all time and yielded the (future) chart-topper Running Up That Hill . But its creation wasn’t always smooth. Here’s the story behind one of Bush’s best-loved albums.

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The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

WE WERE THE first band of our generation that started to grow up,” Billy Corgan says, reflecting on the making of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 grand opus, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. “The b