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"That song is actually the answer to the big question - it's got real power": The story of the post-punk classic that defined a band and inspired a Hollywood movie

Its lyrics evoked vintage Scott Walker and posed the question of destiny vs. free will. More importantly, it didn't sound like U2

Louder · Sep 24, 2025

“I did the intro to The Killing Moon without thinking. We went for a curry – and the engineer spotted that run and put it at the start”: How happy accidents, disastrous finances and an un-tuneable 12-string made Echo and the Bunnymen’s classic album

Sergeant might not be 100 percent happy with Ocean Rain but that doesn't stop it being a stone-cold classic with a killer lead single, whose influence we hear in generations of post-punk bands

Guitar World · Apr 4, 2025

‘Our computer sampler cost more than a house!’: how the Korgis made Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime

‘I wrote it in 20 minutes one Sunday morning and there have now been more than 50 cover versions. My favourite is the brooding one Beck did for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2025

"It's like living in a third world country" : The heartache in a Greater Manchester pawnbrokers as everything in life goes up

The M.E.N's Louisa Gregson talks to people buying, selling and working in Greater Manchester pawnbrokers as the cost of living crisis surges

Manchester Evening News · Mar 27, 2022