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Philip Wilding

"What happens next, you give everyone a hard-on and then go around the room with a bat like Al Capone?!” Ginger Wildheart's wild tales of Lemmy, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick and more

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Ginger Wildheart headshot.

Ginger Wildheart has built an erratic career on brilliantly realised, rousing pop rock and the kind of offstage behaviour that might have given Hunter S Thompson pause for thought. He’s a Wildheart, a solo artist, a former Quireboy, the leader of Silver Ginger 5, SuperShit 666, Hey! Hello!, Clam Abuse, The Sinners and more, an occasional country artist, and even, ever so briefly, a Scorcher, a Bride Of Destruction and a member of Cheap Trick.

Currently, Ginger’s basking in the success of The Wildhearts' 11th studio album, Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts, described by Classic Rock as "a glorious ode to the litany of wankers we all have to deal with every day and a reminder that life isn’t always the big overarching questions."

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