In fact, in classic Hopper fashion, he admitted that he thought he was hot shit, having just performed a Shakespeare play in San Diego’s Globe Theatre – but then he saw what Dean was doing, and it ...

Making a film with one of your friends sounds like a dream that many filmmakers and actors would surely love to achieve. Having one of your closest companions by your side as you write, act, and ...

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, ...

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 ...

I thought, ‘Dennis Hopper? He was an actor ... Scott says: “As Dennis said himself many times, Easy Rider was a cowboy movie — with motorbikes instead of horses. “For me, it was the ...

Mike Scott is The Waterboys. Launched by wide-eyed 1980s folk-rock, and “The Whole of the Moon”, he’s long since roamed into whatever stylistic gumbo he fancies. The latest album – the band’s 16th – ...

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 ...

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

None of them interests him more, it seems, than Dennis Hopper, the first star to inspire from Scott ... pivotal films like Rebel Without a Cause and Blue Velvet), directing (Easy Rider, which ...

The Waterboys frontman on his adopted home and the band’s ambitious new album, based on the life and times of the Hollywood maverick Dennis Hopper ...

Gunsmoke had plenty of guest stars over its 20 season run, but Dennis Hopper has one special connection to the show that no ...