Hear Me Out: ‘Skying’ by The Horrors is a perfect drug album
The Horrors are one of the most influential bands of their generation, and a lot of this is to do with the magic of 'Skying', a perfect drug album.
The unique way The B-52’s wrote ‘Love Shack’: “Nobody knew that was gonna be a hit”
The B-52's wrote their iconic hit 'Love Shack' by exercising spontaneity and improvisation, choosing to extract good lyrics to cut it down to radio size.
How frustration with The Beatles pushed Cat Stevens to launch his own career
When Cat Stevens grew endeared to The Beatles, he tried to learn their music. However, he couldn't grasp it, and instead took a path to learning his own style.
Roland Emmerich’s failed attempt to play three Oscar-winning movies at their own game
As well as these two 21st Century war movies, Emmerich was also inspired by the 1977 classic A Bridge Too Far. He even wanted William Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who penned the movie, to ...
“It’s so hard to lose your loved ones”: The Marianne Faithfull song that can help you with mourning
The world was rocked by news of Marianne Faithfull's death recently, but she has a song that can help with the mourning ...
“I can hear a front”: the album George Michael refused to return to
There was one particular seismic album George Michael refused to listen to over time as he could "hear a front" on the lyrics and found it too naive.
The movie that broke Quentin Tarantino’s heart: “I was depressed for a month”
Quentin Tarantino has made many incredibly successful movies, like 'Pulp Fiction', but not all of his movies have performed ...
The role Ethan Hawke regrets missing out on: “Maybe I could have lived the life I wanted to”
Ethan Hawke once auditioned for a role that, had he landed it, would have changed his life for both better and worse. Read ...
The singer Don Henley called his “favourite of all time”
Don Henley picked his all-time favourite singer, sharing praise to a performer working in a very different genre to his own ...
How many people have seen The Rolling Stones live in total?
The estimate across all of The Rolling Stones' tours stands at over 45 million, with numbers accrued from over a staggering 2 ...
Why David Lynch thought viewers needed to decipher his movies for themselves: “Figure things out as a detective”
David Lynch did not believe in giving viewers all the answers. nstead, his movies, like 'Mulholland Drive', force us to make ...
Kurt Russell’s ultimate cult classic movies, according to Kurt Russell: “They were misunderstood”
Kurt Russell has starred in more cult classics than most, with the actor singling out which entries in his filmography fit the bill best.