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25 years on, ‘You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party!‘ remains the most memorable parody of goofball hard rock jock anthems around.

Now Beastie Boys‘ Adam Yauch has written and directed a 30-minute comedy short film ‘Fight For Your Right Revisited’ to celebrate one of the Beastie Boys’ most renowned songs.

This sequel to the events [...]

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Last week Gil Scott-Heron died in New York aged just 62. It is always a sad loss when someone as talented an artist passes away but even more so I feel as it follows so quickly the release of his 2010 album I’m New Here on XL Recordings and the more recent collaboration with The [...]

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Bill Nelson is probably best known as a highly praised guitarist who started his career with 1970’s art rock group Be-Bop Deluxe.  But at the height of their fame Nelson decided to disband Be-Bop Deluxe and change musical direction by forming Red Noise which erred more towards an electronic-etched rock music with singles such as [...]

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Signed to Kitchenware Records in 1982, Newcastle’s Hurrah!, along with the Paisley Underground movement of California, were a prime influence on the hugely successful Creation Records.
“Hurrah! were like a perfect punk rock fantasy Byrds… what we all wished we were. Great songs, great shows, supreme überpunk attitude… we just loved them.” – Alan McGee, 2011
With [...]

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Before EBTG even became Everything But The Girl, Tracey Thorn began her pop music career as a shy young thing singing and playing guitar with the Marine Girls, a group she started with Gina Hartman, a sixth form school friend.
The Marine Girls was formed in 1980 with further members Jane Fox on bass and her [...]

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