The Only Ones

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Only Ones – Even Serpents Shine

Why The Only Ones’ Even Serpents Shine is actually a prog album

By Malcolm Dome published

Vocalist Peter Perrett used his voice to disorientate, just like Peter Gabriel, while the band felt like XTC, produced by Joe Meek, steeped in Van der Graaf Generator

Albums
Massive Attack's Robert del Naja

Massive Attack hit out at the "moral vacuum" of Keir Starmer's government as musician Peter Perrett, 73, is arrested at London protest

By Paul Brannigan published

"UK civil liberties are trapped in a deeply cynical, manufactured crisis" - Robert del Naja

Bands & Artists
Peter Perrett studio portrait

Peter Perrett and the long road to a genuine late-career masterpiece

By Ian Fortnam published

A late-career starburst in his drugs-hastened twilight years, former Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett’s latest solo album is the best he's ever made

Interviews
The Only Ones

Seven songs that prove The Only Ones were much more than a one song band

By Kris Needs published

Famed for Another Girl, Another Planet but increasingly influential, there's much more to The Only Ones than "the greatest rock single ever recorded"

Tracks & Singles