Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

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Cum on, there’s still time to feel the noize…

Pulp ’s Jarvis Cocker and Nick Banks reflect on the second summer of Britpop and look forward to the new year

Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont

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