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“I was told to take it off. I didn't want to take what he'd said to me off... Because I thought it was really interesting": Damon Albarn reveals that Lou Reed’s voice on The Mountain is a ‘replica’

His estate wouldn’t give permission

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Damon Albarn used 'replica of Lou Reed's voice' on Gorillaz track

Damon Albarn used a "replica of Lou Reed's voice" on Gorillaz track The Plastic Guru - which features on new album The Mountain - because he wasn't allowed to feature the original recording of the late star.

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Gorillaz: The Mountain review – a late career peak haunted by ghosts yet glowing with life

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon band mark 25 years with an album inspired by India and shaped by loss, featuring collaborators living and dead

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Gorillaz - The Mountain review: Life (and dazzling music) after death

5/5 After 25 years Gorillaz are making music more ambitious than ever, reaching now for the higher ground away from the apocalyptic earth

Evening Standard

Shock in Southampton as Henry Nowak, 18, Becomes Latest Teen Victim of Street Stabbing

Henry Nowak, 18, a University of Southampton student, was fatally stabbed in Portswood after celebrating with football teammates. Two charged with murder.

International Business Times UK

Suede: Antidepressants review — an electrifying, life-saving record

5/5 The new album by Suede is a remarkable triumph which captures the anxiety of the era while delivering the kind of musical thrills that could provide the answer

Evening Standard

Edwyn Collins: ‘Could an Orange Juice reunion ever be on the cards? No!’

The singer-songwriter on breaking up his band, recovering from a stroke, being too old to be a punk, and the chaos of recording with Mark E Smith

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From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats

When pop stars are deemed ‘past their peak’, it’s easy to dismiss their work. But do that and you might miss out on hidden treasure. Here our critics celebrate unexpected gems from the likes of Aretha Franklin and The Fall

The Guardian - UK

‘We can’t all retire because someone died’: the new bands honouring the spirit of old ones, from Talk Talk to Thin Lizzy

Unlike tribute acts or bands still going with no original members, the likes of Held By Trees and House of All are leveraging time spent in their former groups to make music that looks forward as well as back

The Guardian - UK

“Shane had dropped an enormous amount of acid. Mark E. Smith was out of his mind on amphetamines. I was literally one day out of rehab.” Nick Cave recalls his “disastrous” first meeting with his dear friend and “angel” Shane MacGowan

Nick Cave and the late Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan were great friends: here's how their friendship began

Louder

Is it only rock’n’roll when pop stars turn up hours late for a gig?

Letters: If a whole orchestra can start on time, why can’t Madonna, asks Jane Gillon; Warren Brown and Steve Drayton recall other tardy artists

The Guardian - UK

‘Mark E Smith said the Fall would only come on if I didn’t play piano’: Jools Holland on making Later …

‘I’ve been hosting the show for 31 years. That’s almost half my life. You don’t get that for armed robbery’

The Guardian - UK

The rock stars have arrived

The one about the house where a Prime Minister supposedly locked his deranged son in the basement.

Newsroom.co.nz

Where tourists seldom tread, part 5: more UK towns with hidden histories

From the home of the original Super-Tramp to the country’s only polycentric city, we find reasons to visit places where few choose to alight

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A beginners' guide to UK 80’s indie in five essential albums

The 1980s were a hugely fertile period for free-thinking, boundary-pushing British 'indie' bands. Here is the story of the genre via five essential albums

Louder

Five new bands you need to hear if you love The Fall

With a whopping 31 albums in their back catalogue, it figures that cult favourites The Fall have influenced a legion of fearless, boundary-pushing bands in their wake – here, five of the best

Manchester Evening News

'I tried the award-winning chippy that has queues around the corner'

Chips @ No. 8, reviewed

The Guardian - UK

Which music videos have been filmed at football stadiums?

Plus: golden boot winners in multiple countries (2); a caretaker saving a Premier League club from relegation; and more

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The Guardian - UK

Uncharted territory: how the Fall’s fractious New Zealand tour nearly sank Flying Nun records

When the Kiwi indie label got a chance to record a live album by the Manchester band, the tensions fraying the group almost destroyed the record company – as documented in a new book

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Brix Smith’s cultural highlights

The ex-Fall guitarist on a compelling fashion rivalry, Björk’s latest masterpiece, and a surreal film moment she won’t forget

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a homage to what Mark E Smith taught us’: ex-Fall members House of All deny exploiting band’s legacy

Smith’s family have called the new band ‘extremely offensive’. Martin Bramah, a founding former member of the original Fall lineup, defends his new outfit

The Guardian - UK

The Horror Show! review – the bands, TV shows and artists who revealed Britain’s sinister psyche

Slicing into the nation’s dark side, this excellent show is full of phantoms ranging from Rachel Whiteread’s spectral House to the gothic terror of Inside No 9

The Guardian - UK

Rock snapper Kevin Cummins: ‘I still leave space for the NME logo in the corner’

The man who created more than 250 cover images for the rock weekly has put together a book of almost 40 years of photographs of the Fall. ‘We put Manchester on the map,’ he says

The Guardian - UK

‘My life would be very different without the Fall’: Stewart Lee’s honest playlist

The comedian is still inspired by Mark E Smith but has finally fallen out of love with Morrissey. But whose sandwiches did he once steal?

The Independent UK

Yard Act: ‘There were a lot of good reviews for our debut that we disagreed with’

The Leeds-formed band are up for this year’s Mercury Prize with their bristling first album, ‘The Overload’. Frontman James Smith and bassist Ryan Needham meet with Roisin O’Connor to talk about playing with northern stereotpyes, songwriting, and how they wrong-footed the music industry

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