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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

1 ONCE UPON A TIME SIMPLE MINDS First released in October 1985, Simple Minds’ Once Upon A Time will be reissued for its 40th anniversary on red vinyl and as a 5CD boxset on 17 October. The limited-edi

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STEVE JONES HAS been on the road with the Sex Pistols. And like his old-guard bandmates, bassist Glen Matlock and drummer Paul Cook, he’s been reinvigorated by their vocalist, who — you might’ve notic