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Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since ’76
During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades later, with Morrissey making offensive comments about Sadiq Khan and Britain reeling from Brexit, David Stubbs asks if anything has changed
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Join The Chant? Pop’s Endlessly Problematic Relationship With Politics
As senior columnists and musicians complain that younger generations are no longer both musically and politically engaged, David Stubbs argues that rock and pop have never been the defiantly countercultural revolutionary corps that many claim
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A Path Through Darkness: Keeley Forsyth Interviewed
Keeley Forsyth’s debut album is an intimate document chronicling harrowing times. But, as she tells Derek Robertson, such darkness lies deep within us all, serving less as artistic inspiration and more as defining our shared humanity
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The Strange World Of… Lou Reed
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that serve as guides to an intimidating post-Velvets discography
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There Is A Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Therapy? Revisit Infernal Love
It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya
