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• Post your questions for Sananda Maitreya

  29-03-2024 16:15
  
  As the 80s pop phenomenon prepares to release his 13th album, here’s your chance ask about his early work, collaborating with Calvin Harris or his best boxing tipsSananda Maitreya had a simple plan for his 13th album: 13 songs, led by guitar, bass and drums. The ominous number didn’t faze him: “Anything that others are irrationally afraid of interests me,” he said recently. “I love black cats. Black cats are bad? No, black cats are fucking cool. The number 13 needs
  
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• John Cooper Clarke: ‘I read Kerouac at 12 and figured I could improve on it’

  29-03-2024 11:00
  
  The punk poet on finally getting JD Salinger, why he rereads the Bible, and growing up with Rupert Bear and BatmanMy earliest reading memory
  My earliest memories are of reading Rupert Bear, American comic books – Batman, Superman, Weird Planets, Creepy Worlds, Sinister Tales, Mad magazine, Kid Montana, Kid Colt: Outlaw and also Dick Tracy.My favourite book growing up
  The Buffalo Bill Annual, which contained the potted biographies of all the big hitters of the old west, inclu
  
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• Samantha Morton and Richard Russell on their new album: ‘We’re in the business of wellbeing’

  29-03-2024 06:00
  
  The Oscar-nominated actor and the boss of XL Recordings – now a synth-pop duo performing ghostly songs with lyrics rooted in childhood trauma – discuss the healing power of making art Inside a rehearsal space scented with essential oils, a new, unlikely electro-art-pop duo are preparing for their live debut. Called Sam Morton, they are the collaborative pairing of the twice-Oscar-nominated actor, director and writer Samantha Morton and the celebrated producer, songwriter and boss of
  
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