‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go

‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’

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THE CURE - Cold ( Live On Paris Studio Davout (1982)

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My dad was a monster! Sara Karloff on reviving Frankenstein, 95 years on

Boris Karloff’s daughter and composer Michael Shapiro, whose musical score for the 1931 film is finally coming to London, talk about how it became a much-loved classic

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‘Being in Madness kept some of them out of jail’: how the baggy-trousered nutty boys made a guerrilla cinema classic

From a jail-inspired light sabre fight to the moment a sax-player flew, Take It or Leave It brilliantly captured the band’s grimy origins. Will the film’s return see it finally honoured as a music mov...

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Camera-Shy Chrissie Hynde on Finally Allowing a Definitive Doc to Be Made About the Pretenders, Bowing in Toronto: ‘I Just Wanted to Be in a Band. I’ve Never Graduated Beyond That Initial Interest in ...

Chrissie Hynde and director Joss Crowley talk about persuading her to talk for 'Pretenders,' an overdue band documentary at the Toronto Film Festival.

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The Cure --10 15 Saturday Night Live 1986

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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

I know you all come to me if you need expert musical knowledge because there is nothing I don’t know.

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‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon

He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singing

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Event: John Boorman and Bristol Films/ Boorman and Brecht in Bristol/ Some People and The Beatles/ Paul Mason on Communism

This newsletter provides details of new events and further research on John Boorman and Bristol in the 1960s.

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The Cure à Rock en Seine 2026

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