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Musicians rally around Kneecap after row over ‘kill your MP’ footage

Video has emerged from a November 2023 gig appearing to show one member of the Irish trio saying ‘kill your local MP’.

Evening Standard

"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?

Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves

Louder

Ocean Colour Scene owe their success to presenter Chris Evans

Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler will always be grateful to TV and radio presenter Chris Evans for championing the band's work during the 1990s.

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Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler to lead cast of Deep Cuts

Saoirse Ronan and Austin Butler have been cast in 'Deep Cuts', which is being directed by Sean Durkin.

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Rick Buckler obituary

Drummer whose insistent beat underpinned the Jam’s distinctive sound on six top-selling studio albums and 18 consecutive Top 40 UK singles

The Guardian - UK

"A great drummer whose innovative patterns helped shape our songs": Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies aged 69 after a short illness

The drummer, alongside Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton was the essential power behind the 1970s pop/punk/new wave 'fire and skill' triumvirate

MusicRadar

Rick Buckler death: The Jam drummer dies aged 69

His former bandmate Paul Weller said he was ‘shocked and saddened’

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Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam, dies aged 69 after short illness

The musician, along with band members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton, had many hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including four UK No 1s

The Guardian - UK

Paul Weller ‘shocked and saddened’ after death of The Jam drummer Rick Buckler

With The Jam, the drummer released six studio albums including In The City (1977), All Mod Cons (1978) and Sound Affects (1980).

The Independent UK

Rick Buckler, drummer from The Jam, dead at 69

The death of Rick Buckler has been confirmed in a statement from his agent

Louder

The Jam drummer Rick Buckler dies aged 69

Rick Buckler was part of the band’s classic line-up alongside bass player Bruce Foxton and lead singer and guitarist Weller

Evening Standard

Paul Weller still loves writing hits

Paul Weller still relishes the experience of writing a hit song.

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“Deserves status as one of rock ’n’ roll’s most iconic electric guitars solely from its association with three of the four Beatles”: From the Beatles to the Stones, Johnny Marr and Radiohead, why everyone loves the Epiphone Casino

It was the sound of the British Invasion, of Lennon’s Revolution, and it brings us jangle and bite in equal measure. We pay tribute to the E230TD/TDV’s golden years

Guitar World

‘I’d turn that off if I was having sex!’: Joanna Page’s honest playlist

The Gavin and Stacey star associates Paul Weller with dolphins and doesn’t think Fleetwood Mac are sexy. But who does she swear along to to in the car?

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“He got a kidney infection, so he’s in hospital… That’s a bit of a drag, because he was going to be the lead guitarist”: The iconic charity rock song that missed out on its star guitarist due to illness – and why it could have sounded very different

Do They Know It’s Christmas? could have ended up with more guitars had fate not intervened

The Guardian - UK

Milton Jones: ‘I was heckled by Paul Weller and Robbie Williams at the same gig!’

The standup on the power of strange shirts, the importance of never Googling yourself and how he came to specialise in one-liners

Guitar World

“Was smoking Hendrix’s Strat my wildest studio experience? Oh, certainly not! We always went full tilt. There was never a dull day!” Steve Cradock on his star-studded session with Paul McCartney, SGs vs Teles – and the joint he laced with Hendrix’s guitar

The Paul Weller and Ocean Colour Scene guitarist hints at high times in the band’s studio history, and he’s looking forward to going back to track their first album in “freaking years”

Louder

"In which not-so-jolly Roger regales us with his musings on all the usual subjects": Roger Waters rails against capitalism, America, war, religion and television on Amused To Death

Amused To Death is Roger Waters’ proudest solo moment and a damning reflection on social disintegration.

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Saoirse Ronan praises 'truly special' Paul Weller

Saoirse Ronan thinks Paul Weller is a "truly special person" and loved working with him on 'Blitz'.

Guitar World

“We all turned up and laid down the backing track. Then, they told me that maybe Paul McCartney would be coming down”: Steve Cradock on that time he recorded with a Beatle – using Paul Weller’s Epiphone Casino

Cradock and McCartney formed a supergroup with Weller, Noel Gallagher, Steve White and Carleen Anderson during the recording of 1995's The Help Album

Louder

Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Kneecap and more to play Gig For Gaza charity fundraiser in London

“An opportunity to enjoy a night of powerful music, and make a tangible difference in the lives of people facing unimaginable hardship”

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Paul Weller dedicates My Ever Changing Moods to 'people of Gaza' at London show

Paul Weller took a moment to speak out against the "genocide" of the Palestinian people at his concert at London's Eventim Apollo on Friday night (08.11.24)

The Guardian - UK

‘I’ve stumbled deep into alien territory’: our sportswriters and arts critics swap jobs

What would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our experts found out last week

MusicRadar

“Right up there with the most iconic Fenders of all time… A ton of work went into this one”: The Fender Custom Shop unveils $20,000 replica of John Frusciante’s 1962 Strat, forensically replicating every ding and dent of the RHCP guitarist’s original

Masterbuilt by Paul Waller, featuring pickups hand-wound by Abigail Ybarra and an Ilitch Electronics onboard hum-cancelling system, Frusciante’s Stratocaster is the Custom Shop at the height of its powers

Louder

“They didn’t understand how important image was – they started the thing about us being academic geeks. It really hurt us”: The Zombies on living large, inheriting the Beatles’ studio and staff, and being prisoners in a concert hall

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades

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