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IT WAS THE summer of 1985, and Johnny Marr was a man out of time. Three years earlier, while still a teenager, the guitarist had co-founded the Smiths in Manchester, England, with vocalist Morrissey (

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After Grace , JEFF BUCKLEY retreated from fame into a bare Memphis shack, chasing darker sounds, deeper truths and a new creative path. As a new documentary confronts the realities of his life, family, friends and collaborators reflect on the restless search and the fragile rebirth. “He was trying to figure out where he fit in the universe spiritually,” they tell Nick Hasted. “He was trying to make his A Love Supreme .”

I’M NOT SURE if it’s the three-inch heels on her Doc Martens, but Emily Green dwarfs me as she strides across the stage. It’s about an hour before her band, Geese, soundchecks for their sold-out show