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“It’s supposed to be ridiculous. It’s a song about ridiculousness. So I called Jim Steinman”: How a goth legend hooked up with Meat Loaf’s songwriter to create an ’80s rock anthem

“I know the song Bat Out Of Hell,” the singer said, “but I’ve never listened to the album”

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“It all went a bit sour and nasty. Eldritch likes a battle – he thrives on confrontation. Mind you, he told me I was the best guitarist he’d ever worked with”: The difficult birth of The Sisters of Mercy’s trailblazing goth classic

Billy Corgan loved First and Last and Always so much he invited guitarist Wayne Hussey to his home to jam it. Over 40 years on, Hussey and Gary Marx look back on its dark majesty

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"A classic that deserves better treatment": The Sisters Of Mercy's First And Last And Always gets a gimmicky 40th birthday makeover

The Sisters Of Mercy's landmark goth classic First And Last And Always, now a four-disc set on coloured vinyl

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"I've walked past people with tattoos of mine on their arm without a flicker of recognition": How the Sisters Of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch avoids being stopped in public

Andrew Eldritch on the meaning of life, jazz-funk and beetroot

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Gary Marx co-founded the Sister Of Mercy: Now he's released a Slade-worshipping, Bowie-loving glam rock album - and he wears a papier-mâché elephant head

Co-founder of Sisters Of Mercy and Ghost Dance, influential goth guitarist Gary Marx has returned to his glam roots

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The 20 Best Songs by The Sisters of Mercy – as chosen by former members, collaborators & more

Band members past and present, plus collaborators and peers, choose the greatest Sisters of Mercy songs

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“Robert Plant said we captured the spirit of Zeppelin. I think he meant we were as debauched as they were”: The chaotic story of The Mission, the goth band who wanted to be Led Zeppelin

Sex, drugs and hanging out with former members of Led Zeppelin – The Mission proved goth was anything but doom and gloom

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"It's Dante meets David Cassidy!" The Sisters of Mercy, Ghost Dance & the journey from goth to glam rock: Gary Marx’s career in 12 Songs

Gary Marx was a founding member of the Sisters of Mercy and 'goth supergroup' Ghost Dance. As he releases a tribute to glam, he looks back over the songs that have defined his career

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Sisters Of Mercy announce lengthy North American tour

After not touring North America for 15 years, goth legends the Sisters Of Mercy follow 2023's return with another run of dates

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He played for the Psychedelic Furs, hung out with an overdosing Phil Lynott, fingered Andy Warhol’s bullet wounds and once tipped a pint of beer over singer Richard Butler. Duncan Kilburn remembers his years of living dangerously

At the end of last year, a guest saxophonist appeared with the Sisters of Mercy. He was Duncan Kilburn, formerly of the Psychedelic Furs, and a man with an interesting story to tell…

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“I got the call saying there was a band looking for a player. I said yes before even asking which band it was. Then I got told it was Ghost”: Former Nameless Ghoul Chris Catalyst breaks cover about his time in Tobias Forge’s epic metal project

The UK session guitarist went from marathon tours with Sisters of Mercy and Ugly Kid Joe to massive arena shows with Ghost. He reveals what it takes to cut it in one of metal’s biggest bands, why Noel Gallagher has one of his all-time favorite guitar tones, and how a…

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The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch thinks ‘Fear of the Dark’ by Iron Maiden is like a Sisters cover version

As The Sisters Of Mercy embark on their first US tour since 2008, we chat with frontman Andrew Eldritch about Maiden, 'Primark for goths' and how he once offered the makers of Grand Theft Auto a new Sisters album for free

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The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review

"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing

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