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Black Sky Thinking
A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid’s Lyrical Crime Scene
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack
Black Sky Thinking
Wild Sting: In Defence Of Dune
In the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
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Cabin Fever: Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Favourite Music
Beverly Glenn-Copeland takes Stephanie Phillips through the albums that fuelled his love for music over the years, from the soundtracks to secluded woodland trips to meetings with younger artists inspired by his work and how he found the work of Sting
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Beyond The Hits
Morrissey: Maudlin Treats From Beyond The Hits
While there's nothing wrong with a Morrissey solo hits comp, that is never going to give you the whole story. Jeremy Allen, Jude Rogers, Alex Ogg, Will Parkhouse, Ben Graham, Tom Milway, Joseph Stannard and Petra Davis explain their non-hit single choices...
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Severed Heads
A crack squad of Severed Heads fans select ten points of entry into the bewilderingly large back catalogue of Tom Ellard - the core of the long-running, cult Australian electronic project. Introduction by Becky Marshall and selections by JD Twitch, the So Low crew and Stuart McLean from The Dark Outside
