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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

From a home in England’s West Midlands, to Knebworth and Live Aid with Led Zep and back, via fame, fortune, tragedy and musical resurrection – ROBERT PLANT ’ s come full circle. A new album with local heroes Saving Grace exemplifies his hard rock apostasy, the reason he’d rather worship Nora Brown than hang with Axl Rose. And if all else fails? “I’ll just be an Elvis impersonator!” he tells KEITH CAMERON .

Nik Kershaw is never going to write an autobiography. “There are a lot of people I might have to say things about, and I’m not very good at confrontation,” admits the singer, songwriter and multi-inst

At the start of the 1990s, Nick Heyward was at his lowest ebb. His third solo album, I Love You Avenue, had failed to chart in 1988. Warner unsurprisingly let him go. So had Heyward’s manager and his

West London flâneur BAXTER DURY has spent over 20 years grappling with the influence of his Blockhead father Ian. Now, as success brings him back to his father’s old stamping ground, has he finally come to terms with his chaotic boho upbringing? “I’m a mockney nepo Jane Austen in a male form,” he convinces VICTORIA SEGAL.

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