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Mark Hollis

March 2019

  • Mark Hollis of Talk Talk Dies at 64 Talk Talk<br>(FILE PHOTO) Mark Hollis of Talk Talk has dies at the age of 64 announced on February 26, 2019. English new wave band, Talk Talk, 1982. Left to right: keyboard player Simon Brenner, singer Mark Hollis, drummer Lee Harris and bassist Paul Webb. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)

    Letter: Simon Brenner on his Talk Talk bandmate Mark Hollis

    Simon Brenner writes: I met Mark when I was working in a record store in South End Green, north-west London

26 February 2019

  • ‘His music showed me how powerful music could be’ ... Mark Hollis.

    Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom'

  • ‘Flashes of iconoclastic brilliance, even on their most commercially successful early works’ ... (L-R) keyboard player Simon Brenner, singer Mark Hollis, drummer Lee Harris and bassist Paul Webb, pictured in 1982.

    Talk Talk's visionary: Mark Hollis's ambition co-existed with commercial success

  • ‘Heralding the imminent arrival of a new world’ ... Mark Hollis pictured in 1990.

    A sacred voice: Mark Hollis sang the English gospel

  • Mark Hollis, centre, with Talk Talk on stage in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1984.

    Mark Hollis obituary

  • He disappeared into the fog: Mark Hollis the ethereal outsider

  • 'Thank you for soundtracking my life': readers' tributes to Mark Hollis

  • Mark Hollis: reluctant pop star who redefined rock

25 February 2019

  • ‘The Tube’<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (805804uq) ‘The Tube’ - Talk Talk - Mark Hollis ‘The Tube’

    Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, dies aged 64

    Keith Aspden, Hollis’s long-term manager, confirmed the death of the art-pop pioneer, hailing his ‘gentle beauty’

May 2017

  • Talk Talk in 1982

    10 of the best
    Talk Talk – 10 of the best

    Led by the hugely talented Mark Hollis, the London-based four-piece transitioned from bright, hard-edged pop to mesmeric, meditative post-rock over the course of nine years and five albums

August 2013

  • Talk Talk

    From Rock's Backpages
    Talk Talk: 'You should never listen to music as background music' – a classic interview from the vaults

    It’s 25 years since Talk Talk released their masterpiece Spirit of Eden. In this classic Q interview – taken from Rock’s Backpages, the home of music writing – they discuss the making of the album, and how they fought against compromise

September 2012

  • Talk Talk in 1986

    Talk Talk: the band who disappeared from view

    Mark Hollis’s group started out as poppy hitmakers, then lost most of their audience as they invented a musical vocabulary of their own. Now a new tribute album is celebrating their legacy

February 2011

  • Making a statement ... electro pioneers Talk Talk.

    Music blog
    How Talk Talk spoke to today's artists

    Ben Myers: Often overlooked in favour of their contemporaries, Mark Hollis and co were one of the most influential English bands of the 80s

April 2008

  • Music blog
    Wherefore art thou Mark Hollis?

    The story of Hollis and his band Talk Talk has to be one of the more interesting of the synth pop era

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