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Talk Talk

June 2023

  • Person using a mobile phone.

    Why are UK telecoms firms imposing inflation-busting bills?

    Exclusive: Ofcom is facing calls to intervene after companies pushed through prices rises of up to 17% this year

February 2023

  • Mobile phone

    UK mobile and broadband firms plan huge price rise for existing customers

    Exclusive: Consumers would save £600m if EE, Vodafone, O2 and others kept to increases in line with inflation

March 2021

  • openreach van in rural setting

    BT to invest £12bn in faster broadband and reaching remote areas

    Telecoms regulator Ofcom unveils financial incentives to help achieve government’s ‘gigabit’ UK plan

October 2020

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    There's no harm in asking but easyJet shouldn't bet on a bailout

    Nils Pratley
  • Stephen Collins on Dido Harding – cartoon

    The Stephen Collins cartoon
    Stephen Collins on Dido Harding – cartoon

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

April 2017

  • Snapshot …John Shirley's parents, Arthur and Rosa, leaving for their honeymoon in August 1933 with John's paternal grandmother and her husband at the gate.

    Family life
    Family life: My parents setting off on honeymoon, April 5th by Talk Talk and Maki’s tempura udon, British style

    Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes

September 2016

  • Hand hovering over computer keyboard

    What if? economics
    Talk Talk, Ashley Madison and now Apple show no company is immune from cyber attack

    Tackling hacking is a $75bn-a-year industry that companies cannot ignore for fear of consumer backlash

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
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