Pop and rockObituaryDan McCafferty obituaryLead singer with the hard rock band Nazareth whose vocal range stretched from quiet introspection to heavy-metal howlingA shorthand description of the musical style of Nazareth would be hard rock, but it was a cover of a slow ballad with its roots in country music that was the trigger to the band winning international acceptance. Love Hurts had originally been recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1960, but Nazareth preferred the version from the Gram Parsons album Grievous Angel (1974). Read More...
Written for radio in 1984, this strikes me as Howard Barker's best play, a classic study of the inevitable conflict between the artist and society. And, even though I have reservations about Barker's own Wrestling School production, I have none about Kathryn Hunter's bravura performance as the uncompromising painter heroine.
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30 minutes with …Pop and rockInterviewHozier: ‘I’ve had a few delightful letters from pastors who have some choice words to say’Alex NeedhamThe Irish singer whose Take Me To Church became a global phenomenon has learned to take the clerical flak as well as the fan calls that flooded in when he posted his mobile number on Twitter
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