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Founder and Editor-In-Chief @FarOutMag.

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Lee Thomas is the editor-in-chief and original founder of Far Out Magazine. Far Out began life as Gonzo journalism exploration of unsigned artists and independent music venues that has since evolved in stories about the weird, the wild, and the wonderfully offbeat corners of culture old and new.

The journey from indie single reviews to cultural deep-dives started with a simple idea: create a space where the boundary-pushers and rule-breakers of the creative world could shine. That idea became …

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Running, remembering and Jarvis Cocker with the most beautiful missed beat in music history

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Pulp weren’t supposed to be there. On June 24th, 1995, Jarvis Cocker and his band walked onto the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury to headline the biggest night of their lives, having been given about ten days to contemplate the fairly terrifying prospect.
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The 1969 song that changed Johnny Marr’s life: “It’s a beautiful mix of rhythm, sex and street poetry”

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Credit: Far Out / Salford University While Johnny Marr may not have been the primary wordsmith in The Smiths, nor did he steal the limelight amid their rise to fame, but his impact on popular music as we know it today can not be understated. As the spine that propped up The Smiths, Marr’s jangly pop DNA can be seen running through countless bands from Blur to Oasis, Stone Roses, Pulp and on and on.
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The man Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix crowned the “best guitar player of a generation”

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Credit: Far Out / Alamy / Bent Rej Debating the person to be considered the ‘greatest guitarist of all time’ is an argument that can never really be settled definitively. The way someone works a fretboard and the sonic threads they then produce is the equivalent of a master painter and their brush. Defining, therefore, which strokes are better than others is a foolhardy endeavour.
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