Joan Wasser on Jeff Buckley: ‘I really understand the fascination... he was spectacular’
Joan Wasser, aka Joan as Police Woman, talks about her ‘spectacular’ late fiance Jeff Buckley, flat-out fun touring with Iggy Pop and the craft of songwriting
Lou Reed
The Music Quiz: Where are the brackets placed in this U2 song title?
Plus: From which song on Lou Reed’s 1973 album, Berlin, did Mike Scott choose the name of his band?
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper review – Sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful
Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves
Mike Scott: ‘Ireland is recovering from a long trauma, and opening out in to a liberal future. I feel very at home’
The Waterboys frontman on his adopted home and the band’s ambitious new album, based on the life and times of the Hollywood maverick Dennis Hopper
Sister Midnight director Karan Kandhari: ‘I don’t know how, but we snuck this film through the British system’
An extravagantly original fable about marriage, bad housekeeping and some kind of vampirism
Anohni at the National Concert Hall review: A night of nourishing melancholia conjuring an ocean of warmth
In homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deserves
Anohni: ‘The Irish are fighting the good fight in so many regards’
The Mercury Prize-winning singer on Trump’s misogyny, climate change and preparing to celebrate her mentor Lou Reed in Dublin
Suzi Ronson: ‘David Bowie called me, sobbing, the day after Mick died ... He hadn’t done anything to help’
Suzanne Fussey was a young hairdresser when she met David Bowie. It turned into a rock’n’roll life on the road – and marriage to his guitarist Mick Ronson
The Velvet Underground: ‘Every part of their story is extremely powerful’
Lou Reed and John Cale’s pioneering band created modern music, according to David Bowie, whose biographer has now chronicled their group and their legacy
‘If you look like Penn & Teller, you have to have the best magic trick ever seen’
‘Houdini used deception to help people recognise the difference between fraud and reality’
Andy Warhol: Profound artist, affectless hero, subversive icon
Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records
Jim Kerr: ‘I’d been a rock star. I thought, What happened my life?
The singer talks about Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds
First Look: Liss Ard Hotel in west Cork gets a ‘friend’s lavish pad’ makeover
A major refurbishment has been carried out at the former hangout of spies and rockstars
Johnny Cash gave her a daisy and the rest was history
The New York film maker who tumbled upon creativity in the haystacks of Kildare
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices