The jesus and mary chain

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

As a teenager my life was pretty tumultuous. At 16, I had fallen madly in love with a boy my parents deeply disapproved of, and it was a real tussle for freedom and control. I’d started being naughty

It’s easy to forget just how big the Fine Young Cannibals were, peaking with two US No.1 singles and a No.1 album with The Raw & The Cooked in 1989. Good things appeared to lay in store for the Birmin

Paul Weller’s career is a rare phenomenon in British music. Six decades in, he’s still making records that matter, still selling out tours, still chasing the next thing. What makes Weller endure? Afte

As THE WHO hit the road, perhaps for the last time, after another drummer-oriented crisis, they reboot Who Are You – KEITH MOON' s arduous yet fascinating swan song. With punks at the gate, scraps in the studio and Townshend's demons flaring, it was already hard going. Then came their drummer's tragic implosion. "We all were traumatised," discovers TOM DOYLE .