Bruce Springsteen and I don't know each other. We've never met. There are no Rolling Stone or NME-style backstage stories for me to recount about chats over beers after a gig — let alone memories of dancing onstage amid the E Street Band. And as a middle-class Brit who can't drive, I'm hardly the natural audience for an American singing about underemployed labourers driving '69 Chevies out west in search of work. Yet had I been one of the lucky fans asked about their relationship with The Boss for a new documentary released on Monday, that wouldn't have been a problem.
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Friday 11 January 2013
Crowd surfing continues with the band off-stage, a topless girl balances on a mate's shoulders and the bouncers look panicked. This year’s hotly tipped saviours of guitar rock take all this in their stride, at least until a chaotic finale, suggesting either they learn fast or this is typical of their gigs.
Also showing: The Oranges, So Undercover, I, Anna and Confession of a Child of the Century
Sunday 09 December 2012
The Oranges (90 mins, 15)
We live with our parents, act more politely and abuse fewer drugs. Is this Generation Zzzz?
Tuesday 30 October 2012
To be a rebel you need a society to rebel against - but we adore the hell-raisers
BBC4's weekly Top of the Pops repeats are rapidly turning into a roll call of shame
Wednesday 03 October 2012
The BBC’s decision to repeat every existing episode of Top of the Pops was supposed to provide a nostalgic insight into the cultural mores of the 70s. But BBC4’s weekly hit parade is rapidly turning into a roll call of shame.
For sale: thousands of pounds worth of Pete Doherty's blood, sweat and tears
Monday 07 May 2012
Former Libertines frontman is auctioning his paintings and collected curiosities
French fashion's entente cordiale
Monday 30 April 2012
Their labels have already conquered women's wardrobes. Now Sandro's range for men will turn the guys Gallic too, says Harriet Walker
The Afterparty, By Leo Benedictus
Sunday 12 February 2012
Not enough story to tell – how very postmodern
Coogan: Determined to show depths press can sink
Thursday 09 February 2012
Steve Coogan and Paul Gascoigne are among the latest people to have settled claims for damages over phone-hacking, the High Court has heard.
Joan Smith: Pete Doherty is not a child
Sunday 10 July 2011
I suppose it's one way of seeing whether short prison sentences work: the singer Pete Doherty was released on Wednesday after serving less than two months of a six-month sentence for possession of cocaine. It was his third spell in jail, and the judge who sentenced him remarked on his "appalling record", which includes at least 13 previous court appearances. Doherty has been arrested many times for drug and driving offences, and he could face another prison sentence after allegedly breaking into a record shop in Germany in March.
Howard Jacobson: Singing is the problem, not the drinking
Saturday 25 June 2011
The School for Scandal, Barbican Theatre, London
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Deborah Warner's production of Sheridan's 18th-century comic masterpiece is a blast. The stage is strewn with huge, leaning pieces of scenery, scrawled captions, ladders, shopping bags. A fashion show is in progress, models bearing down on the audience in torn clothes, with rough placards of character traits --"Mr Hypocrite"; "A Teasing Temper"; "Perverse and Obstinate".
Pete Doherty back behind bars
Friday 20 May 2011
Musician Pete Doherty was jailed for six months today after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine.
Police accused of cover-up over death at Pete Doherty party
Friday 13 May 2011
The mother of an actor who plunged to his death from a balcony following a row with the singer Pete Doherty and his friends has accused the police of a cover-up.
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