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1 week ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry
An upended coffin stood ominously stage left, as Iggy Pop (now 78), who notoriously cheated death with his hard-drugs habits well into middle age, slunk onstage and tore off his skimpy leather waistcoat to perform, as ever, topless.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Perry
Since they first properly struck gold with 1974’s piano-pounding art-glam romp, This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us, Ron and Russell Mael’s “band”, Sparks (its personnel has long since consisted of just the two of them), has been an ever-present gold standard for left-field pop – perhaps the world’s most successful cult act.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry
Further on, the glacially product-placing JanSport Backpack hilariously satirises our contemporary fixation with brand identity, often in preference over what's actually going on around us, or to us. More laughs beckon on Running Up A Tab At The Hotel For The Fab (oh, that craving to spend indiscriminately at a pricey boutique establishment!).
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | James Hall |Andrew Perry |Poppie Platt
Though you might almost imagine that Felt Better Alive was recorded in a remote Normandy barn, it was actually made at the Libertines' studio within their Albion Rooms hotel in Margate, with sometime Baxter Dury producer Mike Moore, who also serves as guitarist in Liam Gallagher's live band.
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3 weeks ago | 
ahajournals.org | Andrew Perry
Research ArticleOpen AccessNonstandard Abbreviations and AcronymsADFalternate day fastingFHSFramingham Heart StudyIHTGintrahepatic triglycerideMASLDmetabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver diseaseMRI‐PDFFmagnetic resonance imaging proton density fat fractionPCAprincipal component analysisClinical Perspective•We identified a proteomic signature associated with hepatic steatosis content that tracked with changes in hepatic steatosis over an interventional study of alternate day fasting.
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2 months ago | 
standard.co.uk | Andrew Perry
With the news that The Who’s microphone-swinging singer Roger Daltrey, now 81, has handed over the reins of curating the annual week of Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall to the The Cure’s Robert Smith, there was a worrying sense that perhaps, to borrow a line from their old muckers in mid-’60s beat-pop, The Rolling Stones, this could be the last time – was tonight The Who’s final hurrah?
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry |Poppie Platt
Following a winning streak of three consecutive US chart-topping albums (and two in the UK), Marcus Mumford's folk-rock giants sit only behind Coldplay as Britain's biggest post-millennial band. It's been seven long years since their last outing: in the interim, country & western has helpfully come back into fashion, but that aside there's sufficient ammo on this fifth long-player to keep their band up top.
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2 months ago | 
mojo4music.com | Andrew Perry
Now into their 80s, The Who’s core duo are in incendiary form as they step down from Teenage Cancer Trust patronage in style. The WhoAs Roger Daltrey steps down as curator of Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual week-long residency at the Royal Albert Hall, what does this mean for The Who moving forward? The band’s charitable mouthpiece, now 81, has always given them this benevolent purpose to reconvene at least once a year – and, indeed, their two appearances this week are their first since TCT24.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Andrew Perry
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2 months ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Andrew Perry
Even after turning 83 earlier this month, Welsh-born rocker John Cale showed no signs of relaxing his high-art principles in a rare London appearance at the Royal Festival Hall. From a background in classical and avant-garde minimalism, Cale helped revolutionise pop music in the late 1960s in The Velvet Underground, the radical New York City ensemble bankrolled by Pop Artist Andy Warhol, where he wrought sonic havoc on the songs of Lou Reed with his droning viola and uncompromising aesthetics.
