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The “totally unique” guitarist Keith Richards called a “genius”

(Credits: Far Out / Bent Rej) Wed 29 October 2025 11:24, UK In the halls of rock ‘n’ roll’s fabled mansion, there is one man who has seemingly peed in every corner of the gaff. Keith Richards hasn’t just dominated The Rolling Stones since their inception in the 1960s but made a good claim at […]

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Lily Allen reveals how The Streets inspired her new album, ‘West End Girl’

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still / Press) Wed 29 October 2025 11:24, UK Lily Allen surprised fans around the world by dropping a 14-track album, West End Girl, on October 24th. Now, she has revealed that The Streets were a key influence on the project Allen’s first release in eight years details, in detail, […]

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’96 Tears’: The illustrious story of the first ever punk song

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Wed 29 October 2025 11:00, UK You could toil through the pages of musical history for decades, and any attempt to pinpoint the exact origin story of punk rock would still be ambiguous at best. It might have exploded onto the scene during the mid-1970s in a flash of safety […]

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Paul Simon called one of his most cherished songs “a failure of songwriting”

(Credits: Far Out / Record Sleeve) Tue 28 October 2025 11:23, UK Looking back through the annals of music history, there are some songwriters who just don’t get the recognition they deserve, and Paul Simon is one of them. Now, before you pick up your metaphorical pitchforks or light your figurative torches and start to […]

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‘Fawlty Towers’ star Prunella Scales dead at 93

(Credits: BBC) Tue 28 October 2025 11:07, UK Prunella Scales, the actor best known for playing the character of Sybil Fawlty in the iconic British sitcom Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.  The news was confirmed in a statement released by her sons, Samuel and Joseph, on October 28th. The children said that Scales passed […]

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Jesse Plemons’ disastrous ‘Star Wars’ audition: “I was spiralling”

(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Mon 27 October 2025 11:30, UK In Breaking Bad, a show filled with drug kingpins, vicious gangsters, and neo-Nazis, one of the most hated characters of all was some ginger kid named Todd, played by the incomparable Jesse Plemons, selling sinister in the guise of terrible normalcy. Often hit with […]

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Mark Knopfler names “the most important songwriter” of his lifetime

(Credits: Far Out / Aherrero) Mon 27 October 2025 11:27, UK For an artist who has sold over 120 million records, Mark Knopfler carries himself without an ego that’s the size of his vast achievements. Knopfler is a musical purist who believes that songs, rather than showmanship or gimmicks, are what it takes to be […]

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John Butler reveals the greatest acoustic guitar performance of all time

(Credits: Far Out / YouTube Still) Mon 27 October 2025 11:00, UK If you’re ever in Australia, it’s a scientific certainty that within 12 hours, someone will have shown you John Butler’s performance of ‘Ocean (Live)’ from 2009 on their phone. It’s a point of national pride, and when it’s finished, they will correctly point […]