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UNCOVERED: Andrew wood | History Defined

The What Hi-Fi? readers have spoken and the age of streaming is not a golden one for home cinema – all hail the Blu-ray

Forget 4K – when you "shuffled into town to hire or buy a video" was the real golden age of home cinema

What Hi-Fi?

Tower Hamlets bridge outrage: Council spends £2.3million consulting on new dock crossing that may be scrapped

The dock crossing was meant to be completed in 2024 but building costs have now ballooned to £25 million

Evening Standard

Revisiting the seven weeks in 1991 that changed music history forever

The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)

Louder

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The Soundgarden memoir that fans needed

Rich with perspective, the band's lead guitarist revisits Seattle's music scene and the loss of Chris Cornell

Salon

Should We Sell Our Arizona Rental to Fund Retirement — or Keep It? Wealth Wise Advises

An out-of-state property is a great inflation hedge, but the hidden tax hits and landlord headaches might not be worth it. Our retirement advice column answers your questions.

Kiplinger

How to Retire at 62 and Build a Financial Bridge to a Maxed-Out Social Security Check at 70

Delaying your claim until age 70 locks in a permanent, lifelong pay raise. Here is your blueprint to construct an income bridge that safely funds your retirement gap years.

Kiplinger

Pioneering brain aneurysm surgery performed through patient’s eye socket

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Grandfather, 61, receives pioneering UK-first operation to treat brain aneurysm

Andrew Wood had his aneurysm treated via a new technique – keyhole surgery through his eye socket

The Independent UK

Grandfather receives pioneering UK-first operation to treat brain issue

Andrew Wood said he was ‘shocked’ when he discovered that he had a brain aneurysm.

Evening Standard

How an electoral fraudster became mayor of Tower Hamlets (again)

Lutfur Rahman was removed as mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2015 after being found guilty of vote-rigging and bribery — now he has just won his third term

Evening Standard

"It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

Louder

More than 900 student flats in east London get green light

The flats are planned for three tower blocks, two of 28 storeys and one 14 storeys high

Evening Standard

“My tech said, ‘This bass looks tiny on you.’ I lowered the strap so it would look cooler. You have to throw your whole body into it”: Bought from grunge icons and stolen before Soundgarden reunited – the story of Ben Shepherd’s 1972 Fender Jazz Bass

Shepherd was robbed of all his music gear in 2008 just as he was about to mix his first solo album

Guitar World

"Bully was chaotic from the day I started until the day it shipped": Inside the making of Rockstar's 'GTA in boarding school'

Interview | How PS2 classic Bully managed to bring the open-world craze to an unexpected setting

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“What came out of a tragedy gave birth to something that was hugely positive in my life.” How the legendary Chris Cornell channelled his grief over a dear friend's death into making one of the 90s' most underrated classics

Members of Soundgarden and a fledgling Pearl Jam came together in 1990 to record a tribute to their late friend and emerged with a grunge classic

The Independent UK

Tributes paid to creator of beloved game show following death at age 91

Andrew Wood, the co-creator of the iconic British game show Bullseye, has died at the age of 91. He developed the format for the popular programme in 1980, which initially ran for 15 years and was hosted by Jim Bowen. His daughter, Laura, announced his passing on LinkedIn, writing: “I’m…

GamesRadar

A mandate came in from the Rockstar head office," Bully artist recalls, and "the art team pretty much purged itself from the studio" – which ended up giving the cult classic "its own identity"

"The game was pitched to me as an Americana piece. The goal was to have it look and feel more akin to a Norman Rockwell painting"

GamesRadar

Rockstar used GTA: Vice City's code to craft cult classic open-world game Bully, but immediately found the choreography "hard" because "you're getting into fistfights with other kids"

"If you took it too far, it would immediately get too violent and inappropriate"

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Rockstar "laughed at all the controversy" surrounding Bully's name before the cult classic open-world game launched: "They were freaking out over something they didn't really know anything about"

"They all made a big deal out of the name 'Bully,' but they didn't know that ultimately, the game was an anti-bullying statement"

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"A couple of people had mental breakdowns": Forget GTA 6, Bully's "brutal" 120-hour development weeks might be Rockstar's worst-ever crunch - "the office started to feel like a prison"

Bully was a lot more stressful to make than it was for anyone to play

GamesRadar

Former GTA boss and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser's "own childhood" shaped "a lot" of Rockstar's cult classic open-world game Bully, former dev says, but it also "touched on all our childhood memories"

We all knew a Jimmy Hopkins or two

Metal Hammer

Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope

Audioslave successfully separated the four members from the shadows of their former bands, but for Chris Cornell it was far more important than that

The National (Scotland)

Seven Scottish Tory councillors quit party as group 'collapses'

Seven Scottish Tory councillors have quit the party in a row over the administration's direction

Louder

“If we weren’t tied to the whims of another band, things would be different. There’s been a lot of bumps in the road”: The story of Brad, the greatest Seattle band no one ever talks about

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard’s other band Brad should have been as big as Pearl Jam themselves

Louder

"Chris Cornell shows why he was one of the premier vocalists of his era": Temple Of The Dog's eulogy for a fallen friend still shines

Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music

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