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July 2022

  • ‘The Beatles? They were sycophants!’ … Johnny Echols.

    Love guitarist Johnny Echols: ‘Arthur Lee was warm, giving – and obnoxious’

    Currently touring the UK, Echols harks back to the multiracial band whose Forever Changes was hailed as a masterpiece, but who faced chaos, false rumours, racism, drug addiction and more

September 2020

  • Jimi Hendrix at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, February 1968.

    'Colourful, vibrant, sensual!' Stars on Jimi Hendrix, 50 years gone

    In awe of everything from his raunchiness to his skill with sheer volume, members of Pixies, Yes, Parliament-Funkadelic, Thin Lizzy and more celebrate the guitar god, who died 50 years ago today

March 2015

  • Arthur Lee

    From Rock's Backpages
    Arthur Lee: ‘I try to get cats who want to participate in things I’ve written’ – a classic interview from the vaults

    Love’s Arthur Lee would have turned 70 on Saturday. To mark his birthday, here’s a classic NME interview from 1972, taken from Rock’s Backpages, the online home of music writing

February 2015

  • Love is

    Music blog
    The sound of beating hearts: our writers' favourite love songs

    With Valentine’s Day upon us, our music team choose the love songs they’ll be listening to over the bouquets and breakfast in bed

December 2014

  • Love Arthur Lee

    The music that changed my life
    The house from hell took me to musical heaven

    A year in Newcastle – in the company of a questing housemate – showed that NME-approved music was just the tip of a huge and strange iceberg

June 2014

  • Parklife album cover

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best summer albums

    Last week we brought you our 10 best summer albums. Here, we present your thoughts on the albums that should have made the list

March 2012

  • Billy Strange

    Billy Strange obituary

    Guitarist in the coterie of session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew

April 2008

  • Reviews 26-40

    From The Pogues to Hadouken!

December 2006

  • Those were the dazed

    Two of psychedelia's most individual talents died within weeks of one another. Sean O'Hagan recalls the wayward genius of both Syd Barrett and Arthur Lee.

August 2006

  • Arthur Lee

  • Hippie hero Arthur Lee dies aged 61

February 2004

  • Home entertainment
    Love bites

    Arthur Lee, currently enjoying a Love revival, has all the time in the world for the music of Jackie Wilson, Elvis, Charlie Parker and Beethoven.

January 2004

  • Love, Forever Changes in Concert

    (Snapper)

January 2003

  • Arthur Lee and Love

    Royal Festival Hall, London

May 2002

  • Hard times

    Arthur Lee was once bigger than Hendrix or Jim Morrison. Back on the road after six years in jail, Love's frontman talks to Paul Lester.

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