Latest articles by Niall Doherty
Stephen Fretwell on how his song became the theme tune for Gavin & Stacey
In short: the singer-songwriter is very lucky to have a publisher who doesn’t pay any attention to his instructions
The indie-pop superstar who had Thin Lizzy, Dire Straits and, umm, Christopher Biggins visit his family home when he was a kid.
A famous frontman looks back on a childhood surrounded by rock stars, actors and welders that his dad had brought home from the pub.
The night Metallica's Robert Trujillo got pied in the face by a rock legend
It was the Metallica man’s birthday and an iconic rock veteran wanted to make sure it was properly celebrated
AC/DC unveil details of first US tour in nine years
The North American leg of the rock legends’ Power Up tour will see Angus & co. work their way across the country next spring
Kurt Cobain on the novel that inspired a Nirvana classic
The 1985 novel that rarely left the Nirvana frontman’s pocket and became the basis for one of In Utero’s heaviest tracks
The fan request that shocked Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood
The Radiohead man also says he’d love the band to get back on the road in 2025, but there is a caveat...
Elton John reveals that he’s lost his vision
The Rocket Man was speaking at a performance of his new musical The Devil Wears Prada, which he says he can only listen to
The essential one-size-fits-all phrase U2’s Bono was given by a hard rock icon
U2’s frontman on being enlightened by a true rock’n’roll sage
The Stone Roses on the making of their flawed, long-in-the-making second album
Second Coming turns 30 this week but the Mancunian indie-rockers’ resurrection didn’t last long
Ahead of next summer’s shows, your full guide to the contenders to play with Noel and Liam in Oasis, 2025 version
From Bonehead to Andy Bell and Guigsy to Gem, your essential guide to the contenders to join the Oasis Live '25 bandwagon
Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on how making Band Aid 20 was the "beam me up" moment of his career
Producer Nigel Godrich on the "clusterf**k" that was putting together the 2004 charity single
Dave Gahan on how he “blagged” his way into Depeche Mode
The story goes that the other members heard him singing Bowie’s “Heroes” in the room next door – but was it Gahan on the mic or not?
Nicky Wire on why cooking programmes wind him up so much
The Manics man, who also reveals the very unique approach he has to making baked beans, probably didn’t tune in to the Great British Bake Off finale this week
How Blur’s Damon Albarn turned his idea for a cartoon band into one of the biggest acts of the 21st century
Diving into the beginnings of Gorillaz, Damon Albarn’s virtual pop side-project that became even bigger than Blur
The drug-addled craziness that fuelled Blondie’s most successful era
Debbie Harry’s new wave trailblazers had a special formula to knocking out the hits in the late 70s, not one your doctor would recommend
"Global warming is horrible but damn, it makes for beautiful weather." An audience with Kim Deal, still the coolest indie rock star on the planet
She was the coolest person in the Pixies, a platinum-selling artist with The Breeders, and now, finally, she's gone solo. Kim Deal on Steve Albini, dogs, loss, life and loving it all – even the rubbish bits
Evan Dando revisits the "hellish performance" that persuaded him to quit drugs and get clean
How one disastrous show in a cemetery made Evan Dando realise it was time to kick his drug habit
How this 2014 Bowie single set up his final masterpiece
Bowie’s jazz experiment was released ten years ago this month. Here, his collaborators remember how it came together
The story of how The Beatles made Free As A Bird
It’s 30 years since McCartney, Starr and George Harrison entered the studio together again to record The Beatles' reunion hit
Watch The Cure take on The Beatles' Hello Goodbye
Robert Smith & co. took on the very chirpy and unCure-like Hello Goodbye for a Paul McCartney tribute album
The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Inspired by a baseball-capped server at a dive-thru, the song brought the band a UK No.1 single, lifted them out of the doldrums and set them up for the next period of huge success
Finger Eleven have made an album that sounds like it's from both the past and the future
Multi-platinum Canadians Finger Eleven will release their first album in a decade next year - we asked what they've been doing in the meantime
Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on what the mammoth success of their debut taught him
The grunge-rockers' multi-million selling debut turned 30 this month and the singer says success was a long time coming
