Creatively and stylishly melding sweeping art-rock and a heavy-duty metal crunch, Jane's Addiction were built on guitarist Dave Navarro’s multi-storey riffs, topped with the unmistakable melodic banshee howl of vocalist Perry Farrell.
This clash of two creative forces – fuelled by a mountain of mind-altering substances – led to some great music, but also to the band splitting in 1990 after just three albums. But Jane’s Addiction cast a long shadow, and in 2003 they were back with Strays, their first album of new material in 13 years, when we asked them to look back on the things they'd done.
