Lou Reed has described himself as “bigger and stronger than ever” just weeks after undergoing a liver transplant. The former Velvet Underground frontman, whose wife Laurie Anderson said last week was “dying” of liver failure, credits a mixture of tai chi and modern medicine with his recovery.
Thursday 16 May 2013
Drummers are axiomatically the madmen of rock, but there's never been a mad drummer quite like Ginger Baker, subject of this hugely enjoyable documentary profile. It gets off to a magnificent start, with a scene of the 73-year-old Baker attacking the film's director, Jay Bulger, with his walking stick – and just gets better.
Friday 10 May 2013
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman's cause of death has been established by a coroner as alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver – and not as a result of flesh-eating disease Necrotizing fasciitis as previously reported.
Sunday 07 April 2013
Monopoly has a special place in my heart.
Thursday 28 March 2013
The former MP's music manager husband has influenced the careers of major acts such as Madonna, Foals and Snow Patrol
Thursday 22 November 2012
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Although voters in every part of England and Wales outside London have the chance to go to the polls tomorrow to elect 41 police and crime commissioners, Labour and Conservative strategists will privately be more interested in the parliamentary by-election in Corby.
Saturday 23 June 2012
The problem with having a languid style is that it's easily taken for sheer laziness, especially when the results lack a certain spark.
Friday 30 March 2012
Andy Copping, 51, senior vice-president of music at Live Nation, has been promoting Download Festival since its rebirth in 2003
Thursday 08 December 2011
We wouldn't want to suggest no one at the European Commission does any work, but we are a little suspicious about the biography of Ryanair's Michael O'Leary, posted on its website ahead of his appearance at a conference. Is it the introduction – "Born in a stable in 1961, he was a boy genius, who excelled both academically and at sports" – that makes us think the EC has simply cut and paste O'Leary's submission to them, or the conclusion, "It is widely known that women find him irresistible"?
Wednesday 03 August 2011
Kings of Leon's cancelled US tour could cost up to $15 million.
Monday 11 July 2011
Slipknot closed Sonisphere festival in the UK with a "f***ing celebration" last night.
Friday 08 July 2011
Seven countries in 10 days. "Exhausting" sums up following the world's only touring music festival, Sonisphere. So far I've travelled with it from Turkey, up through Eastern Europe, into Croatia and Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland. I've clocked up 5,000km on the car, passed through four countries in one day and slept in a Swiss barn. I am on first name terms with border guards and a reluctant expert on Euro motorway cuisine.
Friday 01 July 2011
Thursday 16 June 2011
Metallica have recorded an album with Lou Reed.
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