Lost classics: buzzcocks

From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .

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SLASH WAS THERE when, in the aftermath of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, the band suddenly exploded onto a chaotic arc from Sunset Strip hopefuls to one of the biggest, mos

AFTER SLASH AND Duff McKagan exited Guns N’ Roses in the mid-Nineties, things went kinda sideways for a bit. The band kept rolling, but it was host to a cavalcade of guitar players, from Buckethead to

Martin Newell is Britain’s most published poet, has been writing lo-fi pop songs for almost 50 years and can include Oasis legend Noel Gallagher among his fans. Yet you may not have heard of him. That

What’s the best way to deal with middle-aged menopausal rage? Form a punk band, says Sally Wainwright