The real rock'n'roll troubadour

Richard Hawley has been called a modern-day Roy Orbison. The Sheffield crooner talks about fame, Pulp, his dad's death – and kicking a gargantuan drug habit.It has, Richard Hawley concedes, been an extraordinary few years. Actually, what he says is: "I haven't had a leg-up – I've been fucking catapulted into the castle and luckily landed on a bale of hay." Hawley says things like that a lot: odd, funny metaphors peppered with examples of what his friend Jarvis Cocker once called hi...

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