In this week’s NME, on sale from Wednesday 27 October…
It’s a special tribute to Elliott Smith. With a new best of album out, we speak to his close friends to find out the truth about the life and death of this genius songwriter, and outsider icon.

Paul McCartney’s, once part of Ringo Starr’s backing band, is reissuing Wings’ ‘Band on the Run’ – who got to do the interview? Only Tom flippin’ Meighan from Kasabian! And he did it for free, the sucker…





