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“Mark impressed me from the get-go – a cocky, sneering upstart who didn’t care whether you liked the songs or not.”
Jagger, Richards, Wood and pals (now including The Cure!) are turning back the clock on record while shadows gather over the stage. Who’d bet against yet another final act? “You’ve got to be really tough to survive.”
Patti Smith’s man for all seasons is also one of rock’n’roll’s great curators and cheerleaders, and now a solo songsmith. “I’m in my bonus era,” he tells David Fricke.
Liverpool’s most-heralded band since The Beatles were championed by the Fabs’ PR guru, influenced Madness and Dexys, but remain in a category of one.
As they refit their roots-rock masterpiece Fisherman’s Blues for the road, Mike Scott and co revisit its creation: “It was a mystery train of discovery.”
Indie rock or country? Why not both, say Asheville’s rising force, built on Karly Hartzman’s bittersweet, beautifully observed, passionately belted songs.
In June 1966, a shy young folk and blues singer joined a psychedelic SF R&B band, for good and ill. “It was the beginning – but it was also the end.”