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Temple’s star-filled study of the Clash man’s contradictions

Seems my blog has been hijacked over the weekend by Steve Sutherland, who's clearly having the time of his life out at Coachella. Here's his second report, involving The Arcade Fire, Kings Of Leon, the mighty Roky Erickson and a few random Hollywood A-listers. God, it sounds great. . .

HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO April 23 to 29, 1997 Aerosmith's record label, Sony, are forced to issue an apology to the American Hindu Anti-Defamation Coalition, after complaints over the artwork for the group's album, Nine Lives. The original sleeve, swiftly replaced, featured a doctored image of Krishna which depicted the Hindu deity with a cat's head and wearing a skirt.

Eddie Izzard also stars in new musical film Across The Universe

The Skids reform to play T In The Park too, 26 years after disbanding

The Atlanta rock trio will rehearse new album at five shows

The U2 front man is now 'Sir' Bono, sort of

It sprawled from the South. “Southern Strokes” return, swampily

The madchester boys are back with first record and full tour in 15 years

Late Clash man's tracks appear on Julien Temple's biopic