Fletcher, born in Nottingham, grew up in Basildon, Essex, where his father worked in a cigarette factory. He gave up his job as an insurance clerk only when the band’s second single ...

Andy Fletcher, who died suddenly aged 60 in May 2022 from aortic dissection left the bulk of his net estate to his wife of 29 ...

Who could have foreseen Basildon's finest exponents of electropop ... destination was the world's No 1 centre for crack. As band members started to sell studio equipment to buy more drugs, the ...

Black Midi were declared “indefinitely over” and frontman Geordie Greep said the band wasn’t on speaking terms. He released ...

will perform at Basildon Sporting Village on March 15. The concert will celebrate the achievements of the Swedish pop group ABBA, one of the most successful music groups of all time. The band will ...

An ABBA tribute band will perform an "electrifying" concert next month in Basildon. ABBA Nation, one of the UK's best ABBA tribute bands, will perform at Basildon Sporting Village on March 15. The ...

Fountains of Wayne is getting the band back together five years after the death of founding member, Adam Schlesinger.

The oldest and only classically trained member of The Band, Garth Hudson was best known for his distinctive Lowrey organ work on songs like "Chest Fever." ...

In a typically self-effacing, and typically rare, interview with the Canadian magazine Maclean’s in 2003, Hudson – the only Band member who never contributed vocally on stage or on record ...