In a new interview with American Songwriter, Scott explained how the concept album was born out of an appreciation he began developing for Hopper ... while living in Taos, New Mexico, in the ...

Kilmer, who died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 65, is one of the most famous people to call New Mexico home ... talks with friends of actor Dennis Hopper at Hopper’s memorial service in Ranchos ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...