Most people’s careers end in Vegas – Gwenno’s started there, in an Irish dance phenomenonshort30 May 2022
Gorillaz’s Murdoc Niccals at 16 – school expulsion and slate quarry dates on the path to music immortalityshort22 Apr 2020
Stephen Malkmus – the path to Pavement included the druggy hardcore scene of central Californiashort30 Mar 2020
Age 16 The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne thought he was going to die on a restaurant floorshort16 Aug 2019
Age 16 Adam Green had weathered the storm of bullies, and The Moldy Peaches were his overachieving high school bandshort9 Jul 2019
Carly Rae Jepsen recalls her year spent starring in musicals and running in the woods to Tom Waitsshort28 May 2019
Anna von Hausswolff grew up resisting Gothenburg’s gentrification and the portrayal of women in musicshort14 Jan 2019
John Grant spent 1984 feeling trapped by his sexuality, drinking cheap beer and revelling in ’80s pop musicshort22 Oct 2018
Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders at 16 – he left school and spent his savings on a drum kit stored in Alex Turner’s garageshort10 Sep 2018
Roisin Murphy: ‘When I look back at me as 16 now, I wonder where I got all the strength from’short10 Jul 2018
