NPR's Scott Simon talks to Mike Scott of the Scottish band, The Waterboys, about their new album, "Life, Death & Dennis Hopper." ...

Many people got into The Waterboys through their brilliant early albums, but new release Life, Death, And Dennis Hopper looks ...

open image in gallery Lyrical lounging: the seed for this new album was planted five years ago when Scott named a song after Dennis Hopper in which every line rhymed with his last name (Paul Mac ...

He was one of Hollywood’s last great rebels, a maverick actor, director and screenwriter whose searing portrayals of ...

Some years ago Mike Scott chanced upon an exhibition of the ’60s photo art of Dennis Hopper, best known as the radical, freewheeling actor/director. Seeing the era through Hopper’s eyes moved Scott to ...

Titled Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, Scott’s latest album with The Waterboys features ... photography (evidenced by scores of vaunted exhibitions of his work), and art collecting (he was one of the ...

“You can’t do what Dennis Hopper did in Kansas ... I was like a solo artist, but I didn’t want to work under my own name The new album, like most Waterboys works, features a distinct ...

But he adds: “His own role as Dennis Hopper was his greatest role. "He wasn’t just an actor, he wasn’t just a photographer, he lived a life dedicated to art.” I’m meeting Dublin-based ...