The band’s leader tells us about the making of Life, Death And Dennis Hopper – and why one period of Hopper’s life feels like ...

HOLD on to your hats! Mike Scott of The Waterboys is taking us on a wild ride. He has devised a 25-track album celebrating “one of the great American lives”, Dennis Hopper — actor, filmmaker, ...

Titled Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, Scott’s latest album with The Waterboys features 25 tracks that bore into every aspect of Hopper’s work, influence, and meaning. That’s no small feat ...

Rock and roll experimentalist operation The Waterboys—brainchild of Scottish multi-instrumentalist and sole consistent member Mike Scott—have outdone themselves with the beautifully bizarre Life, ...

He was one of Hollywood’s last great rebels, a maverick actor, director and screenwriter whose searing portrayals of ...

Many people got into The Waterboys through their brilliant early albums, but new release Life, Death, And Dennis Hopper looks ...

Mike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselves ...

“Then I go all the way.” This is certainly the case with the Waterboys’ new album, “Life, Death and Dennis Hopper,” due Friday. The record follows the arc of Hopper’s life, from ...

open image in gallery Tributes: ‘Life, Death and Dennis Hopper’ is the latest in a long line of releases from Mike Scott, which honour his heroes (The Waterboys) The seeds of the new album ...

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Over four decades ago, when Mike Scott started The Waterboys, the very first song they released saluted the art of somebody else. “A Girl Named Johnny”, issued in 1983, swooned over the ...