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“Mick came in with his Les Paul, plugged in to my amp and fiddled with the controls. All of a sudden there it was, the full Ziggy Stardust tone”: The post-Bowie career of Mick Ronson, rock ’n’ roll’s most quietly spoken guitar hero

Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie’s classic early ’70s albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others

Guitar World

How the CIA inspired Firestarter, why Axl Rose hates JD Salinger, David Bowie’s Orwell musical and why Jimmy Savile was the first ever club DJ: The books and stories that influenced classic songs

How books by Hemingway, Stephen King, the Marquis De Sade etc influenced Metallica, Nirvana, Iron Maiden, Kate Bush, The Prodigy, The Jam, David Bowie and more

Metal Hammer

Bill Callahan’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As breakout album Supper turns 20, we chart the lo-fi legend’s best tracks – from mournful meditations to witty country tales

The Guardian - UK

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Anohni and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge For You To Cross review: there’s always magic in that voice

Much more strident on her last album, Hopelessness, here she mostly sounds resigned and mournful

Evening Standard

12 examples of the songwriting genius of Lou Reed that aren't Perfect Day or Walk On The Wild Side

Twelve Lou Reed tracks for the connoisseur, charting his journey from black-clad street poet to ornery elder statesman

Louder

“David was furious: 'I won’t have that kind of disloyalty!’" The real reason David Bowie ended Ziggy Stardust and sacked the Spiders From Mars

50 years ago, David Bowie announced that he was playing his last ever show. It marked a split from the men who had revitalised his career – and it was all over money…

Louder

"Don't you EVER say that to me!" Lou Reed and David Bowie once had a fist-fight in a London restaurant and it got very, very ugly

When the Thin White Duke met Lou Reed's fists of fury

Louder

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20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did

The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

Louder

The best films to watch on Apple TV+ in June 2023

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

The Independent UK

The best films to watch on Apple TV+

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

The Independent UK

The best films to watch on Apple TV+

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

The Independent UK

Anohni on anger, empathy and trans rights: ‘The UK is one of the most misogynist countries in the world’

The spellbinding singer returns with an album of warm, empathic folk-soul – plus a screaming lemur – to salute LGBTQ+ trailblazers, Lou Reed and more. She explains why we must embrace forgiveness if we are ever to make change

The Guardian - UK

SBT: Joan of All review – heartfelt but fizzling indie rock

One-time Smog collaborator Sarabeth Tucek returns after a decade away with a double album that works best when it’s spiky

The Guardian - UK

‘Life can be complicated’: Rachel Weisz on balancing privacy with stardom

Her latest TV series calls for her to play both twins in a reworking of Cronenberg’s dark and bloody classic, Dead Ringers. But Rachel Weisz, the famously private Oscar-winner, is used to stepping in and out of roles

The Guardian - UK

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Seymour Stein, music mogul who discovered Madonna, Talking Heads and more, dies aged 80

Influential executive co-founded Sire Records and signed Lou Reed, the Ramones and introduced the Smiths and the Cure to the US

Louder

Why The Velvet Underground hated The Doors

"How fabulous, in a bathtub in Paris!" - Lou Reed, upon hearing of the death of Doors frontman Jim Morrison

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #79: Five big questions going into the final season of Succession

In this week’s newsletter: Welcome back to TV’s worst family for one more round of backstabbing. But how will the Roy kids strike back? And who will ultimately come out on top?

The Guardian - UK

The Art of the Straight Line review – how tai chi brought out Lou Reed’s mild side

The singer-songwriter transformed his later life practising the martial art, as this compilation of writing, edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, shows

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Meet Me in the Bathroom charts the rise of The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem and more in early 00s New York

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol and more populate Meet Me in the Bathroom, an archival documentary that sheers away the New York scene's ugliness, pettiness and ambiguity.

ABC News

Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia uses photographs to show the artist through a new lens

A new exhibition of snaps and portraits by Warhol and his peers reveals a lesser-known but influential aspect of his practice — and a different side of the man himself.

The Guardian - UK

Peggy Nolan: the late-flowering artist who found freedom in photography

Forty years after she began taking pictures of her seven children, Nolan’s striking images are being published. Here the 79-year-old reveals how the gift of a camera transformed her life

Los Angeles Times

Death? Bill Nighy will worry about that later

LOS ANGELES — Bill Nighy handed me a cassette mixtape many years ago titled "Ooh Baby Ooh," a nod to the chorus of a Lou Reed rocker that was not among the 20 songs on the cassette, though there was plenty of Lou and Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield and…

The Guardian - UK

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But Tom Verlaine wasn’t impressed

The Guardian - UK

John Cale: Mercy review – the titan of cool misses a trick

The 80-year-old’s latest album features some inspired younger guests but cries out for less dated beats and a visionary producer

The Guardian - UK

‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

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