WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Dethroned by the Sex Pistols 40 years ago, The Doctors of Madness make a spectacular, triumphant return
Doctors of Madness
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
THIS week I am devoting this entire column to my album of the year. Yes, I know it’s September but nothing will touch it. I am certain of that.
For the first time in our history the far right are chanting the name of the current prime minister, egged on by the Sun, Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph and Spectator.
The threat of a no-deal Brexit leaves us on the verge of economic turmoil unseen since the second world war.
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The bard ditches an unspecial relationship, encounters a new subdivision of metal, and discovers the cure for a stiff neck
