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DARK SECRETS: Lemonheads - The Real Truth

"We were seen as a band that wouldn't last, so I think they wanted to milk us for everything we were worth." How an off-the-cuff cover of a 60s song became an era-defining hit and an albatross around the neck of the band that recorded it

Recorded and mixed in just three hours, one of grunge's biggest songs was hated by the man who wrote it

Louder

What’s cooler than sex, drugs and pashing models? I found out from 3 rock memoirs

At the height of his success, Evan Dando was notorious for his good looks, heavy drug use and flaky personality. As his memoir, Rumours of My Demise, effectively attests, the Lemonheads frontman was also a shameless rock’n’roll caricature whose addictions and puerile hedonism repeatedly sabotaged his friendships and relationships, along…

The Conversation

“My mom said, ‘What are you doing? Your kind of music has gotten popular. Why are you changing it?’ I thought it was a good idea – just like Mrs. Robinson was a bad idea”: The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando on the art of cover versions

The Lemonheads mastermind discusses the value of being lectured by your heroes, rolling between grunge and metal, his favorite Gibson, and that time he played a Minor Threat song in front of Ian MacKaye… drunk

Guitar World

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"You should have seen us in '93, we were so much worse": The Lemonheads are back and Evan Dando says he's straight and "in heaven"

After almost two decades, The Lemonheads have returned with a new album, Love Chant

Louder

"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best

The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains

Louder

Rumours of My Demise by Evan Dando review – eye-popping tales of drugs and unpredictability

An indie-pop darling details his rise to fame and subsequent public humiliations with appealing frankness

The Guardian - UK

A Night At The Opera: 50 years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen's operatic masterpiece - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Heart, Scorpions, Eric Gales, Creeper, Tom Petty, UFO, David Bowie, Zakk Wylde, Devon Allman, Counting Crows and more

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The Lemonheads’ Evan Dando: ‘Some people were supposed to take drugs – and one of them was me’

He was the darling of early-90s alt rock, but success came with the kind of rock’n’roll excess that many of his peers did not survive. Now, having finally quit heroin, he’s back with a new album, a memoir – and no regrets

The Guardian - UK

"They should’ve been honoured. It would have sounded better than any rubbish song they wrote": The unbelievable story of Aphex Twin's laziest remix

"I just sped the whole song up so it was like a half-second long, which took ages, but I made it into one sound: a snare drum"

MusicRadar

“I thought, I gotta have some real track marks before I quit heroin.” The Lemonheads' frontman Evan Dando knows that he's lucky to be alive

Evan Dando was already using hard drugs before The Lemonheads ever existed, but his appetite for self-destruction went into overdrive when his band were tipped to become 'The Next Nirvana'

Louder

Evan Dando: ‘I wanted to try heroin because of William Burroughs and Keith Richards’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Arguably the most gifted melodicist of his generation, Dando was the bronzed, blond pin-up boy of Nineties indie rock – before he threw himself heartily and disastrously into a life of sex and drugs. Now two years clean, he catches up with Michael Hann on what he’s…

The Independent UK

“I was on coke and dope but doing all these edibles. That’s what I’d become. My teeth were all gone”: Lemonheads leader Evan Dando on the moment he knew he had to get clean

How one disastrous show in a cemetery made Evan Dando realise it was time to kick his drug habit

Louder

On my radar: Evan Dando’s cultural highlights

The Lemonheads musician on crazy websites, cosy restaurants and a bar where it’s always Christmas

The Guardian - UK

Beauty and the beat: why do so many models shoot for pop stardom?

Sam Fox managed it – but Naomi Campbell didn’t. As Paris Hilton assails ears with a new album, we look at the chequered history of models in pop, from Grace Jones to Kim Kardashian

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‘I hadn’t slept for 10 days’ – the Lemonheads on making It’s a Shame About Ray

‘The song made things happen – but it’s weird to be proud of something you did 30 years ago on drugs’

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