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When ska-pop contenders The Beat ended in July ’83, bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox were cut adrift. Then they found frontman Roland Gift, lifted a name from a Natalie Wood movie and re-emerged as FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS . 1985 UK hit Johnny Come Home was followed by international mega-smash She Drives Me Crazy in 1989. “We didn’t think it would go that mad,” recall the band of multi-million sales, Hollywood A-list fans and ‘bendy legs’ dancing. “We didn’t know how to manage the energy that we’d created.”

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At a secret location in Cardiff, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS have reconvened for their first interview together in over a decade. The reasons? An upcoming tour and the reissue for one of their most beloved albums, Love Kraft . Cue, then, 30 years’ worth of irrepressible anecdotes, covering “ambient space guitar”, Spanish petrol stations, coconuts in Rio, bankruptcy, sampling Steely Dan, altercations with the E Street Band, Japanese TV shows and more. Their conclusions..? “We couldn’t do formula if we tried,” they tell Tom Pinnock

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With Scorpions’ 60th-anniversary celebrations in full swing, guitarist Rudolph Schenker and vocalist Klaus Meine look back at how the band went from being called ‘the worst German import since the V2 bomb’ in the UK to being their country’s officially lauded rock icons. With