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He’s a national treasure to many, with a remarkable songbook spanning more than 40 years. But after kicking heroin twice, he spiralled back into drinking – until an ardent fan saved his life

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Tourists could soon be forced to pay to visit the ancient Calanais Standing Stones which inspired Outlander.

‘When I played it to Paul Simon, he suggested changing the title – saying, “No one’s going to know how to ask for A Hey Ah Ma Ma Ma in a record store”’

This April, BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Sounds present Courtney Love’s Women, in which Courtney Love shares the ultimate soundtrack to her life.

On this day in 1984, four Manchester boys put out an album that would change the destiny of rock and pop music forever.

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‘If any journalist asks you about the Beatles because you’re from Liverpool, say you hate them and you don’t listen to that old crap.’ Such was the advice that the DJ Roger Eagle, promoter and founder of the legendary (and there really is no other word for it) Merseyside punk club Eric’s, dispensed to a

At the end of the 1970s, Paul Simpson was in a band with future Echo and the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch and Julian Cope, soon to be the singer…

The Wild Swans frontman also formed bands with Ian McCulloch, Ian Broudie and Julian Cope – and was Courtney Love’s flatmate – but admits to being a peripheral voice in Liverpool’s music scene. A new memoir could change that