Some years ago Mike Scott chanced upon an exhibition of the ’60s photo art of Dennis Hopper, best known as the radical, freewheeling actor/director. Seeing the era through Hopper’s eyes moved Scott to ...

I feel very at home’Opens in new window ] That individual is, of course, the late Dennis Hopper, the baddest of Hollywood bad boys and an agent of chaos in both his own life and the glory days ...

Scott is friends with Hopper’s hopped-up biographer Tom Folsom, and incorporates his idea that the actor is omnipresent: here, there and everywhere, a stoned Zelig, Dennis the Menace.

He has devised a 25-track album celebrating “one of the great American lives”, Dennis Hopper — actor, filmmaker, photographer, womaniser, firebrand, hellraiser. It summons a blizzard of ...

Well, yes, indeed I could.” Life, Death and Dennis Hopper feels cobbled together. Sixteen of the numbers are under two-and-a-half minutes long, jams with psyched purple prose voice-overs representing ...

open image in gallery Lyrical lounging: the seed for this new album was planted five years ago when Scott named a song after Dennis Hopper in which every line rhymed with his last name (Paul Mac ...

However, not even the most seasoned of Waterboys fans would have predicted that the band’s 16th album would be a concept album about the life, death… and associated works of cult American actor Dennis ...

“In one of the books the three brothers visit a beatnik character named Groover McTuber who tells them, ‘I’m going to watch five Dennis Hopper movies tonight,’” Scott says. “That was ...

Another cracked arrived this week: an ambitious 25-song concept album about Easy Rider and Apocalypse Now star Dennis Hopper. It’s called Life, Death & Dennis Hopper and it’s exactly the sort ...

The Waterboys have announced a fall North American tour in support of their upcoming album Life, Death & Dennis Hopper. Anna Tivel will be along as tour opener and things start September 4 in ...