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The New York Dolls play 'mock rock' on British TV

5147 days ago
Guardian Music — November 1973: Number 6 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe Dolls' appearance on the Old Grey Whistle Test kickstarted the war between punks and hippies three years early. Before filming, Dolls frontman David Johansen ... more info
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The Sex Pistols play the Lesser Free Hall: all of indie Manchester sees the future of music

5147 days ago
Guardian Music — 4 June 1976: Number 8 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicGoogle the words "Sex Pistols Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976", or simply "4 June 1976", and you can use the resultant 22,600,000 pieces of information to piece togethe... more info
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The Smiths make their Top of the Pops debut

5147 days ago
Guardian Music — November 1983: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicI wrote This Charming Man for a John Peel session. I just leapt out of bed and wrote it. It was the culmination of trying to find a way of playing that was non-r... more info
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Manic Street Preachers, Indie's autodidacts, provoke the masses

5147 days ago
Guardian Music — 21 January 1991: Number 36 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicWith lines like "I laughed when Lennon got shot", Manic Street Preachers' first single for Heavenly, Motown Junk, was a shot across the bows, a kamikaze manife... more info
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The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead turns 25 – in pictures

5148 days ago
Guardian Music — Stephen Wright took the famous Salford Lads Club photograph on the album's inside sleeve. Here is a selection of his finest Smiths shots ... more info
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Photographer Stephen Wright's best shot

5148 days ago
Guardian Music — 'At the time, I was using my bedroom as a darkroom – and storing all my chemicals in old lemonade bottles'This shoot really should have gone to a big-name photographer – an Anton Corbijn or a Pennie Smith – but it went to me, a fan using a chea... more info
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ONE SONG BY THE SMITHS....A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS (Part 41)

5150 days ago
The Vinyl Villain — I think the photo gives away the fact that today's song is one of the instrumentals:-mp3 : The Smiths - Money Changes EverythingThe b-side to Bigmouth Strikes Again, this was the second instrumental track the band released.  There's no mistaking tha... more info
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Arctic Monkeys, Don Valley Bowl, Sheffield | review

5150 days ago
Guardian Music — Don Valley Bowl, SheffieldAccording to one music paper, this is the week "Arctic Monkeys reconquer the world". That may be pushing it – at the time of writing, the Sheffield foursome have stopped short of invading foreign territories – but after ... more info
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Morrissey makes festival go meat-free

5151 days ago
Guardian Music — Singer persuades Lokerse Feesten in Belgium to embrace 'catering challenge' and go veggie on the day he performsA Belgian music festival will go vegetarian for 24 hours to appease headliner Morrissey. Lokerse Feesten has banned meat from its food sta... more info
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Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

5151 days ago
Guardian Music — When I think of bookishness in music, it's not of Katy Perry or will.i.am, but something more awkward, more earnest, the type of music that stays inside on a sunny dayI recently found myself at two events – each extraordinary in its own way – tha... more info
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