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HISTORICAL FACTS: Placebo - The Untold Story

Placebo's Brian Molko reveals the one question that David Bowie asked all his musician friends

Brian Molko shares David Bowie's words of wisdom, and reveals who he'd like to portray him in a Placebo biopic

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10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

Louder

‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy

‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’

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‘It’s the same rhetoric today – really frightening’: Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire

In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, they don’t just want to preach to the choir

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Garbage cover The Cure at London gig for the Teenage Cancer Trust

Placebo also played a stripped-down set at the Royal Albert Hall.

Evening Standard

"It’s a celebration of where we began, and a meeting point between who we were then and who we are now." Placebo announce reimagined version of 1996 debut album, plus 30th anniversary arena tour

Placebo Re:created is described by the band as a "director’s cut" of their groundbreaking debut album

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Placebo mark 30 years of debut album with new RE:CREATED Album and arena tour

Placebo are releasing Placebo RE:CREATED and touring to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1996 self-titled debut album.

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Scarlet Page exposes rock legends Placebo – with Leica and Nikon facing off in the process

Never-before-seen shots of the iconic 90s band reveal insights into photography in the age of sex, drugs, and film

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Placebo make theatre debut with score for Brecht production by Royal Shakespeare Company

Alt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title role

The Guardian - UK

Placebo tease something 'quite significant' to mark 30th anniversary of debut album

Placebo have something secret in the works for the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album.

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"It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

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“I didn’t think that Oasis were very good songwriters. This obsession with Britishness just didn’t really compute with us”: Placebo on drugs, Bowie and standing out from Britpop ‘like a sore thumb’

Band have a new documentary coming on

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Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged with calling Meloni ‘fascist’ and ‘racist’

The singer is being charged with defamation of the far-right Italian prime minister leader while performing at a festival in Turin in 2023

The Guardian - UK

Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged after labelling Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni a "piece of s***, fascist, racist” and a "Nazi" during festival appearance

Brian Molko has been hit with a defamation charge after calling the Italian PM a "Nazi" during a performance at Sonic Park festival in 2023

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‘Nazi’ jibe at Italian PM lands British rock star police charge

Brian Molko made the remarks at a 2023 music festival in Turin

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Brian Molko charged in Italy

Placebo's Brian Molko has been charged after allegedly branding Italy's Prime Minister "racist" and a "fascist" on stage in July 2023.

The Guardian - UK

This Search for Meaning review – slick reminder of radical rockers Placebo

Eye-opening archive footage and a Bowie appearance are the highlights in an otherwise polite but bland documentary

Louder

"Placebo might play something from each of their eight albums, but it’s not a pure nostalgia-fest." Brian Molko's crew roll back the years but keep their feet firmly planted in the present at celebratory London show

Placebo play a special, career-spanning set in England's capital

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"My coping mechanisms for a long time were alcohol and drugs." Placebo announce new documentary This Search For Meaning, featuring interviews with Robbie Williams, Garbage's Shirley Manson, Idles, Yungblud and more

"This Search for Meaning glimpses the band in a way that I do not believe they have been seen before" says director

The Guardian - AU

‘Absolute joke’: customers’ personal data exposed amid Pandemonium Rocks festival refund stoush

Information commissioner investigating data breach as ticket holders demand refunds because of amended lineup

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"Hopefully we’ll get all the metallers weeping": English shoegaze legends Slowdive on their upcoming appearance at one of America's biggest metal festivals

Slowdive aren't entirely sure why they were booked to play next month's Sick New World metal festival in Las Vegas, but they know that it'll be "an experience"

Digital Camera World

"It's about evoking feelings in people," says rock photographer Scarlet Page

Jimmy Page's daughter tells how she "borrowed" her dad's lenses, captured nine frames with Paul McCartney, and why she's intimidated by Duran Duran

The Guardian - UK

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni sues Placebo singer for calling her ‘fascist racist’

Calls for overhaul of defamation laws in Italy after legal action brought against Brian Molko

The National (Scotland)

Rock band singer ‘investigated’ over comments made about Italian Prime Minister

Prosecutors in Turin have reportedly opened an investigation after the lead singer of rock band Placebo insulted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia…

The Independent UK

Italian prosecutors open an investigation after Placebo frontman calls Meloni a fascist, reports say

Prosecutors in Turin have reportedly opened an investigation after the lead singer of British band Placebo insulted Premier Giorgia Meloni during a July 11 concert

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