NPR's Scott Simon talks to Mike Scott of the Scottish band, The Waterboys, about their new album, "Life, Death & Dennis Hopper." ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“Then I go all the way.” This is certainly the case with the Waterboys’ new album, “Life, Death and Dennis Hopper,” due Friday. The record follows the arc of Hopper’s life, from ...

Lead singer Mike Scott stumbled on an exhibition of photographs from the late actor Dennis Hopper. MIKE SCOTT: His eye was so spot on, and there was something about the people he took pictures of.

“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 ...

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 ...