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The Reid brothers, now 40 years into their music career, are releasing new album Glasgow Eyes in March
As fraternal band combos go, the Reid brothers are up there with the Gibbs, Gallaghers and Greenwoods: their group the Jesus and Mary Chain have been going on and off for 40 years, still riding a wave of gorgeous fuzz. Members came and went, including Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie as drummer, but they vaulted from Alan McGee’s nascent Creation Records to a subsidiary of major label WEA, which released debut album Psychocandy in 1985, topped with what has become their signature song, Just Like Honey. In the 90s they undertook legendary tours such as the quadruple-headliner Rollercoaster with Blur, Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine and a stint in the US travelling festival Lollapalooza (“thousands of Beavises and Buttheads”, William complained of crowds at the latter), and by the end of the decade they had released six albums in all.
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