His many fans will no doubt wonder at the absence of anything by Wayne County from the list of Top 50 American punk albums we've compiled as part of this month's cover story on the Ramones. After all, Wayne – who by 1980 was Jayne County, following the necessary surgery – was with his band Queen Elizabeth part of the same Max's Kansas City, Mercer Arts Center and Club 82 scene that nurtured the early New York Dolls.
Arctic Monkeys have announced a new single, "Arabella".
The track is taken from their latest album, AM, and will be released on March 10, 2014.
The band have also announced details of a new outdoor live show, at Marlay Park, Dublin, Ireland on Saturday July 12, 2014.
They have sold out two shows at London's Finsbury Park on May 23 and 24.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited to perform on stage at the 56th Grammy Awards.
McCartney and Starr took to the stage at Los Angeles' Staples Center and played "Queenie Eye", a recent single from McCartney's latest album New. The performance marked 50 years since The Beatles' career-making performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
There’s a story about Brendan Gleeson meeting unsuccessfully with a Hollywood agent to discuss furthering his acting career overseas. This was in the mid-Nineties, and until then Gleeson had largely worked in television, mostly in his native Ireland, with only a handful of minor film roles to his credit. Admittedly, Gleeson had come late to acting: he’d been a secondary school teacher in Dublin before taking up acting full time in 1991 and was now in his early forties.
Mick Jagger has said he may never publish a memoir as he'd rather be "doing something new".
Jagger revealed that he doesn't have any plans to follow Keith Richards' best-selling 2010 autobiography, Life.
"I think the rock'n'roll memoir is a glutted market. I'd rather be doing something new," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "I'd rather be making new films, making new music, be touring. If someone wants to know what I did in 1965, they can look it up on Wikipedia without even spending any money."
It has been confirmed that Neil Young's forthcoming album A Letter Home will be released on the Third Man Records label owned by Jack White.
A message posted on the Third Man and Neil Young websites confirmed the news.
Credited to 'Homer Grosvenor', the message reads: "Third Man Records unearths Neil Young's A Letter Home.
It’s recently been announced that a rare live recording of Syd Barrett guesting on guitar with The Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band in Cambridge in July 1972 is to be released – so now seems like a perfect time to revisit the extensive tribute we published in Uncut just after Barrett’s death in July 2006 (Take 112, September 2006). As well as a fantastic piece written by David Cavanagh, we hear from Syd’s friends, collaborators and admirers, including David Bowie, David Gilmour, Mick Rock, Peter Jenner, Damon Albarn, Julian Cope and Kevin Ayers. Shine on…
