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Melody Maker: Justin Hayward profile

...changing and British pop music was starting to come into its own. The Beatles had taken America, while Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Yardbirds and Dave Clark Five were bending traditional American rock n’ roll in an entirely different direction. Justin responded...

Ladi6 yearns for wild Wairarapa

...new tracks may find their way on to the upcoming tour set list. "We could delve into the new songs live and work out some kinks on the road. There are loads we've never played live before, so it's a prime opportunity to flex the new songs a little bit and...

Ladi6 keen to go wild again

...at a forest gig "in the middle of a Wairarapa nowhere" several years ago is still fresh in her memory. She and her musician partner Parks, aka Brent Park, had trekked over the hill together to play a two-day South Wairarapa festival concert. "I don't even...

Life to the Pixies

They blasted out of nowhere with a brilliantly surreal sound that influenced a generation future stars, from Kurt Cobain to Thom Yorke. Then they split bitterly, with promises to never reunite. So how did the greatest band of the late '80s become the hot

Corrections and clarifications

...and saxophone. Also, the original article to which the correction referred described the Giuffre track that inspired the Kinks' You Really Got Me as a song; it was an instrumental track. • An appreciation of the writer and illustrator Judith Kerr misspelled...

Headline entertainers announced for 2013 West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival

...sharing the bill with Gene Pitney, The Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, Neil Diamond, America, Tom Jones, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, and The Who. Thousands of teenage girls waited at concerts to rush the stage and rip clothing for souvenirs. Overnight,...

Ian McLagan: Some face time with a rocker

..."But by then, they were starting to rise. They weren't just a blues cover band anymore. It was the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, the Who, and the next thing I remember, the Small Faces. And here we go. A whole year goes by, and I'm on TV. I mean, it happened...

Living with motor neurone disease: Hearing 'last orders' inspired Mark's fight

...Lonsborough was an electrical engineer, amateur musician and father of two when he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in November 2001. The devastating condition destroys the nerves that power the muscles and there is no cure. Mark, from Poynton, was...

(Following Advance for Use Friday, June 21)

...Actor Monte Markham is 78. Songwriter Don Black is 75. Actress Mariette Hartley is 73. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 72. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 69. Actress Meredith Baxter is 66. Actor Michael Gross is 66. Rock musician Joe Molland (Badfinger)...

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