The Walkmen: 'We're not difficult, honest'

Broken limbs, intransigent rules, alienating albums ... are the Walkmen their own worst enemies?It was the guitar Paul Maroon had been searching for his whole adult life: a Rickenbacker 360 Capri, made in 1959, with twin pickups, a rosewood fretboard and a hollow maple body. It had been refinished in black, to look like a larger version of the guitar John Lennon played at the peak of Beatlemania.Maroon's band, the Walkmen, were at a low, without a label, a manager or a studio. The Rickenbacker's...

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