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  ‘We took a lot of chances on that record – for which we were gloriously punished’

  Twenty years on from the release of Garbage’s overlooked third album, frontwoman Shirley Manson turns back the clock.

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  Shirley Manson regrets spending $5,000 on a pair of boots

  Shirley Manson gets "crazy" whenever she thinks about the time she spent $5,000 on a pair of leather boots. The Garbage star was asked about her most indulgent purchase during a recent interview with Rolling Stone, and recalled how, "at the height of (her) success", she used to have a personal shopper who picked out items for her and sent them to her hotel room. "I would choose what I wanted and return anything else," the 54-year-old explained. "One day, this beautiful pair of Italian leather bo

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  Garbage’s Shirley Manson: ‘Children should not be used to make money for big corporations’

  Shirley Manson thinks a great reckoning is due in the music business, which she describes as “an absolute nest of abuse of power and sexual violence”. The Scottish frontwoman for American electronic rock outfit Garbage says she is still routinely patronised by “male musicians, male managers, male accountants. I’ve talked about this my whole career.” She is hugely supportive of the #MeToo movement. “The younger generation of women are not f____ around. And I hope they all find the courage to come

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  The Guardian

  On my radar: Shirley Manson’s cultural highlights

  On my radar: Shirley Manson’s cultural highlights. The singer on her obsession with The Bureau, the revolutionary Lil Nas X and her seafood pilgrimage to East Lothian

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  Garbage - No Gods No Masters review: bizarrely fun and absolutely furious

  Fearless rock icon Shirley Manson is back, and she’s got something to say

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  The Independent

  Album reviews: Garbage – No Gods No Masters, and Maroon 5 – Jordi

  Garbage’s latest record takes aim at all of society’s ills while Maroon 5’s seventh album shows Adam Levine and co are sticking to their comfort zone

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  Du Blonde: Homecoming review – DIY at its weird, wilful finest

  Du Blonde: Homecoming review – DIY at its weird, wilful finest. (Daemon T.V.)Beth Jeans Houghton channels 90s Boston indie rock to perfection on this one-woman wigout with a few choice guests

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  Shirley Manson mocks Adam Levine’s claim there are ‘no bands anymore’

  ‘Wait are you telling me Maroon 5 is a band and not just Adam Levine,’ one commenter wrote

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  The Independent

  Debbie Harry and Shirley Manson: ‘Every woman has awful experiences. That’s what men don’t understand’

  Blondie and Garbage are going on tour together in 2021, and their respective frontwomen have been friends since 1990. They talk to Helen Brown about ageing in pop, being former sex symbols, and sexual assault victims – and why no one has a right to judge how women process that

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  Shirley Manson on Garbage at 25: ‘I didn’t think of myself as a singer’

  Shirley Manson thinks back to the summer she became a star and shudders. As frontwoman of Garbage, the flame-haired Scot seemed perfect for the job of rock celebrity: she was striking, formidable and smart. But the musician reflects on her band’s early days with fresh clarity. “It was very challenging,” she recalls from her home in Los Angeles, of the time she joined the band and changed the course of rock music forever. “I keep expecting that my feelings about that period are going to change wi

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