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Why Placebo stopped spilling "blood and spunk" across the planet, and grew up

By Paul Brannigan Published

Currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, Placebo are one of the UK's best-loved cult bands. Back in 2000, frontman Brian Molko told us that he wanted his band to be "legendary" but also to "mess with people's heads"

Bands & Artists
David Bowie, Brian Molko
Placebo's Brian Molko reveals the one question that David Bowie asked all his musician friends

By Paul Brannigan Published

Brian Molko shares David Bowie's words of wisdom, and reveals who he'd like to portray him in a Placebo biopic

Bands & Artists
1996 alt rock albums
10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world

By Paul Brannigan Published

Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

Bands & Artists
Placebo
Thirty years after its original release, Placebo 're:create' their 1996 debut album to stunning effect

By Paul Brannigan Published

The 30th anniversary "director’s cut" of Placebo's debut album is a triumph

Albums
Placebo 1996
Placebo announce reimagined version of 1996 debut album, 30th anniversary tour

By Paul Brannigan Published

Placebo Re:created is described by the band as a "director’s cut" of their groundbreaking debut album

Bands & Artists
Brian Molko backstage at Glastonbury, 1997
The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

By Rob Hughes Published

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

Interviews
David Bowie and Placebo live in 1999
“I spotted them and I thought they were a really terrific band.” How David Bowie took one of the 90s' big breakout rock bands under his wing - right before they blew up

By Niall Doherty Published

The rock'n'roll icon turned mentor for the trio the 90s and insisted they record a song together

Bands & Artists
Placebo's Brian Molko
Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged after labelling Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni a "piece of s***, fascist, racist” and a "Nazi" during festival appearance

By Liz Scarlett Published

Brian Molko has been hit with a defamation charge after calling the Italian PM a "Nazi" during a performance at Sonic Park festival in 2023

Bands & Artists
Placebo on stage
Placebo roll back the years but keep their feet firmly planted in the present at celebratory London show

By Eleanor Goodman Published

Placebo play a special, career-spanning set in England's capital

Concerts & Shows
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Placebo announce This Search For Meaning doc

By Paul Brannigan Published

"This Search for Meaning glimpses the band in a way that I do not believe they have been seen before" says director

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