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Robert Chalmers looks inside the mind of Ukip’s Nigel Farage

Alex Gibney tells Don O’Mahony about his documentaries on an Irish massacre and the most interesting man in music

Mormon rockers The Killers have triumphed in the baffle of the bands — after their hit ‘Human’ was judged to have the most bewildering song lyric.

IT’S always been about the music for singer/song writer Paddy Casey. From Crumlin in Dublin, he dropped out of school when he was about 13 to follow his passion.

MUSIC NEWS: The big issue among the music world’s chattering classes this week has been the announcement of Metallica’s headline slot at Glastonbury.

Venue: Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin

AT HOME, four days after finding Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire under the tree, in a box with my name on it.

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi celebrates the 40th anniversary of Hunter S Thompson’s classic account of the campaign trail for the US presidential election in 1972

WHEN seventies giants The Eagles broke up amidst mutual threats of “ass-kicking” in 1980, Don Henley announced through gritted teeth the band would only ever play together again “when hell freezes over”.

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JOHNNY DEPP played an extravagant version of the controversial author Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

THE American auto industry as we knew it – even just 12 short months ago – is officially dead and as nobody yet knows what will emerge from the ashes of automotive behemoths such as General Motors and Chrysler (Ford are still clinging to the wreckage of gross corporate mismanagement), PJ O’Rourke’s paean to this once-great and all powerful manufacturing phenomenon is timely.

The widow of tragic author Hunter S Thompson has vowed never to remarry, because no man could fill the void he left.

Editors at music bible Rolling Stone have published a note written by gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson days before he committed suicide in February.

ROLLING Stone, the magazine that was home for years to writer Hunter S Thompson, will publish a note written by the gonzo journalist days before he committed suicide in February.

Hunter S Thompson’s final wish will be granted today when his ashes are blasted from a giant cannon.

THE ashes of the US writer Hunter S Thompson are to be fired from a tower the height of the Statue of Liberty in a ceremony at his Colorado home today befitting his eccentric and controversial life.

Actor Johnny Depp has hired a Los Angeles event planner to ensure gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson goes out with a bang.

John Lydon has been voted the “most punk” star of all time. The Sex Pistols legend came out just ahead of Joe Strummer from The Clash - and 13 places ahead of former bandmate Sid Vicious.

Plans for a public ceremony celebrating the life of Hunter S Thompson have been cancelled in favour of a private memorial service.

Author Hunter S Thompson's ashes will be fired by cannon across his American estate, as requested in his will.

ROBERT WELLER’S article on Hunter S Thompson (Irish Examiner, February 22) states that Richard Nixon once said the writer represented “that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character.”

AT THE same time as Pope John Paul II was struggling to hang on to his life in Rome, another famous man was putting paid to his life in the USA. Using a gun. Also a telephone, but we’ll come to that later.

I FOUND myself sitting next to a spy from Newcastle United at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.

The widow of writer Hunter S Thompson said he killed himself while they were talking on the phone.

Hunter S Thompson, the “gonzo journalist” with a penchant for drugs, guns and flame-thrower prose, might have one more salvo in store for everyone: friends and relatives want to blast his ashes out of a cannon, just as he wished.

Hunter S Thompson's ashes wil be fired across his Colorado estate by a cannon, in keeping with his final wishes.

One of counterculture writer Hunter S Thompson’s closest friends said he was not surprised at his suicide because he had been in a lot of pain after a broken leg and hip surgery.

HUNTER S Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularised a new form of fictional journalism in books such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, shot and killed himself on Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

Johnny Depp, who played the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, is to return to the character for The Rum Diaries, based on Thompson’s first novel.

Johnny Depp has joined the cast of The Rum Diaries, a film based on Hunter S Thompson's classic novel.

HUNTER S THOMPSON, the self-styled US gonzo journalist who portrays himself as hard-drinking and unpredictable, was on his best behaviour as he married his long-time assistant near his home in Colorado, officials said.

Hunter S Thompson, the self-styled US “gonzo journalist” who often portrays himself as hard-drinking and unpredictable, was on his best behaviour as he married his long-time assistant near his home in Colorado, officials said.

THE letters first started arriving in the mid-1990s showing up in hotel managers' in-trays, tourist attractions and airline customer-service departments across America.

Paul Oakenfold is a well travelled man. In the past week the famous DJ, producer and now artist in his own right, has returned from America and been to Ibiza and back, all the while happily balancing the many strands of his career.