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"If you’re a public figure," says Rod Stewart, "you’ve got to enjoy being in the public. If you don’t, then fuck off!"
A revealing post-prandial chat with the eternal superstar. (It was 1993. It feels like yesterday.)
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Resins To Be Cheerful: The Beautiful Secrets Of My Mother's Shellac Record Collection
Behind The Golf Clubs and The Dusty Bibles In The Wasp-Infested Loft, I Found A Pile of 78rpm discs. It Was Like A Message From Another Time
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The Good, The Bad, and the Defence Minister: A Conversation Between Damon Albarn and Thomas Vinterberg About Art and Politics In A Time Of…
The musician and the film director met 20 years ago. How much has changed?
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Skinheads, Slade, and the Everlasting Beauty of Yob Rock
The re-release of the film Slade In Flame after 50 years prompts a re-appraisal of a very British success story
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Unmasking the Public Image: The Rebellious Moments of Punky Reggae Photographer Dennis Morris
The Hackney photographer bunked off school to follow Bob Marley and everything changed
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The story of Orange Juice: a song that arrives in an adolescent rush and leaves in a hurry
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Poetry. Full Stop.
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North Berwick is the best place to live in the UK. An extended postcard from my home town.
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My Life As A Badge #10
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Mick Jones has a copy of Interview signed by Andy Warhol. I have the Evening Express autographed by TV Smith
The Rock 'n' Roll Public Library was not a library. It was much more than that.
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A Visit to Basque Country - Sex, Cigarettes, and the Nostalgic Allure of Jack Vettriano
A furtive encounter with Scotland's illustrative man
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30 Years of Cultural Agitation: A final reckoning for one of the great post-punk record labels
Douglas MacIntyre of the Creeping Bent organisation selects his all-time Top 10
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Buzzcocks interview on Radio Forth from 1979
Some punk archaeology from the archive
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From Teddy Boy to Hitler To Christ
The venomous career of Alex Harvey
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Poetry. Full Stop.
On the occasion of his 102nd birthday, a hirple through the poetic humour of Mr Ivor Cutler, humorist, teacher, cloud-fancier, opsimath
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Television's Tom Verlaine: "Do I sound like a screeching reptile?"
TV on being Scottish (ish) and how Little Johnny Jewel was one of the earliest rap songs
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Alternatives To Valium
Alternatives To Valium
A post-punk fanzine by Alastair McKay. An extension of the book Alternatives To Valium: How Punk Rock Saved A Shy Boy's Life.
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