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They may not match Keats or Heaney for poetic heft, but you’re a hell of a lot more likely to recognise Oasis’s lyrics than anything written by more celebrated wordsmiths. The words penned by the brot

PROLIFIC SONGWRITER BOB Mould is a reluctant generational icon. Sure, he’s proud of his musical accomplishments and realizes he has been a major inspiration for a wide range of mainstream acts, includ

AFTER HOTEL CALIFORNIA, the Eagles’ massive 1976 album, saw them rise from country rockers to just plain rockers, Don Felder and his bandmates should’ve been on top of the world — but all was not well

SEEMINGLY OUT OF nowhere, the Darkness swooped out of Suffolk, England, and onto the international music scene in 2003 with their high-voltage debut, Permission to Land. At a time when hipster bands i

When Alice Cooper ’s album Billion Dollar Babies hit No.1 in the UK and US in 1973, instead of solidifying the band they unravelled. It would be 50 years until the original group recorded another, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper .

Mark King went to see David Gilmour play at London’s Royal Albert Hall recently. Impressed as he was, it brought home to King the varying degrees of busyness in Gilmour’s music and his own with Level