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‘God Save the King makes me sick’: Bobby Gillespie’s honest playlist

The Primal Scream man is resolutely unromantic and really dislikes the royals, but what does he put on at a party when ‘everyone’s had a few’?

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"Sometimes a gig is more than just a gig." Friends of the late, great Mark Lanegan - including Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde and Bobby Gillespie - assemble in London for an emotional, once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a truly singular talent

On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick

Louder

Bobby Gillespie needed a break from Primal Scream

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie believes that the eight-year wait for the band's new album 'Come Ahead' was needed for his and the band's sake.

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Bobby Gillespie felt 'boxed in' by Primal Scream

Bobby Gillespie needed to find a new way to write songs after becoming "boxed in" by Primal Scream's recent work.

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Scottish rockstar blasts Blur bassist for hanging out with David Cameron

FRONTMAN for Scottish rock band Primal Scream Bobby Gillespie has hit out at Blur bassist Alex James over a picture he took alongside ex-Tory Prime…

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Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie hits out at Blur’s Alex James for ‘hanging out with David Cameron’

‘That’s obviously social climbing going on there, right?’ he said, adding, ‘I don’t mean it like that’

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Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – Bobby Gillespie’s most personal album yet

The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul

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Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie calls Blur's Alex James a 'social climber'

Bobby Gillespie claims the different between himself and Blur's Alex James is the fact he's never tried to be a "social climber".

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Primal Scream’s funk-influenced album Come Ahead is perfect for a baggy-limbed boogie

4/5 At 63, Bobby Gillespie can still channel the back-alley menace of a truant teen while embracing full-blown hedonism in his music

The Independent UK

"The highlights are undermined by quite a lot of dross": Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead

The Primal Scream team fail to get their rocks off with this underwhelming comeback

Louder

Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – the album of the year

5/5 Their first album in eight years is a masterpiece of personal songwriting, rage for the exploited and funk... yes, funk!

Evening Standard

“Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” Primal Scream offer a cautionary warning about our troubled world with Deep Dark Waters

Primal Scream explore colonialism, xenophobia, fanaticism, human rights and political violence on new single Deep Dark Waters

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"Roger Waters took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is." The story behind the Syd Barrett song that Pink Floyd considered too disturbing to be released, but The Jesus And Mary Chain recorded for their first single

The story behind the Pink Floyd song the band kept in their vaults for almost 50 years

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‘Politicians? They’re mugs, all of them’: Paul Weller on music, style and the state of the nation

At 66, the Modfather may have mellowed, but he’s lost none of his cool. Paul Weller reveals how he beat his demons, found a new sound – and why he’s still angry with the establishment

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‘Defeat would be a big blow’: Labour faces double trouble of Corbyn and Abbott in Islington and Hackney

Jeremy Corbyn’s old constituency reacts to his decision to stand as independent, while decision looms on allowing Diane Abbott to rejoin the party

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Paul Weller: 66 review – the Modfather holds his ground with a little help from his friends

Noel Gallagher, Bobby Gillespie and Suggs chip in on this solid affair, which peaks with some smouldering sax

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'Shane hated funerals': Crowds and celebrities gather for Shane MacGowan's funeral

CELEBRITIES, politicians, and former bandmates all flocked to small Irish town of Nenagh in Country Tipperary on Friday to celebrate the life of…

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‘All punk power and visceral emotion’: farewell, Shane MacGowan, my Celtic soul brother

His best songs made you cry and raise a clenched fist at the same time. Yet the man I knew was also a gentle, poetic soul, says Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie

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‘Like the Three Tenors, but with drummers’: Budgie, Lol Tolhurst and Jacknife Lee on their supergroup rebirth

The drummers from the Banshees and the Cure joked about a collaboration until – with megaproducer Lee on board – they were soon jamming with The Edge and Bobby Gillespie. They talk pop, alcoholism and leaving the UK

Evening Standard

John Pearse dressed Jagger and Hendrix — now he is wooing Gen Z

The Soho-based, Swinging Sixties legend is the ‘Mod buddha’ dazzling a new generation of fashionistas, says Joe Bromley

Louder

“Phil Lynott could sing you into bed”: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie on his love of Thin Lizzy

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie thinks Thin Lizzy are the creators of the best record ever made – but which one has he gone for?

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Primal Scream musician’s son says band’s ‘tough love’ isolated father before death

Keyboard player Martin Duffy was ‘not able to cope’ after being excluded from tour and rights deal, inquest told

The Independent UK

Martin Duffy’s son shares devastating details of Primal Scream musician’s final days

Son of the late Primal Scream keyboardist claims that the band’s ‘method’ of ‘helping’ Duffy backfired and left him ‘distraught and upset’

The Independent UK

Martin Duffy died penniless and alone after being ‘demoted’ by Primal Scream bandmates, son claims

Son of the late keyboardist claims that the band’s ‘method’ of ‘helping’ Duffy backfired and left him ‘distraught and upset’

Daily Record

Son of Primal Scream member Martin Duffy blasts frontman after inquest hears he died 'penniless'

Primal Scream were one of the biggest British bands of the late 90s, with album Screamadelica widely acknowledged as a classic.

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