Guardian Unlimited

Nirvana, Kurt Cobain: Kurt's Gone. So What?

Comment by Tom Cox, Guardian Unlimited, April 1999

ROCK KILLS. The list of victims is too long and depressing to print here. We still raise an eyebrow when another tortured Narcissus bites the ...

Why Great Footballers Like Really Crap Music

Essay by Steven Wells, Guardian Unlimited, March 2003

WITH ALL THE current hoo-hah about how all gun crime in the UK is obviously caused by listening to gangsta chaps rapping about ho's and ...

Parting Shot: Keith Morris 1938-2005

Obituary by Mark Williams, Guardian Unlimited, July 2005

IN THE EARLY 1970s, Keith Morris was asked to do a session for the first album with an unknown singer-songwriter, Nick Drake. Keith took a ...

Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop: In Praise of Delia Derbyshire

Profile by Jude Rogers, Guardian Unlimited, July 2008

Last week's news that lots of Derbyshire tapes had been found and digitised marked the latest stage in her recovery as a musical, and feminist, ...

Jimi Hendrix: Mitch Mitchell Remembered

Obituary by David Stubbs, Guardian Unlimited, November 2008

THE DEATH of drummer Mitch Mitchell, aged 61, marks an unwanted milestone in rock mortality. ...

Rock Journalist Carol Clerk Broke the Mould

Obituary by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian Unlimited, March 2010

Former Melody Maker news editor Carol Clerk, who died last week, was a role model for female music writers. She loved old-school rock – and ...

Boyz II Men: Brixton Academy, London ****

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian Unlimited, January 2012

"I'VE NEVER HAD to say this to a crowd before," says Shawn Stockman, the tenor who puts a great deal of the quivering oomph into ...