“Then I go all the way.” This is certainly the case with the Waterboys’ new album, “Life, Death and Dennis Hopper,” due Friday. The record follows the arc of Hopper’s life, from ...

open image in gallery Tributes: ‘Life, Death and Dennis Hopper’ is the latest in a long line of releases from Mike Scott, which honour his heroes (The Waterboys) The seeds of the new album ...

Titled Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, Scott’s latest album with The Waterboys features 25 tracks that bore into every aspect of Hopper’s work, influence, and meaning. That’s no small feat ...

Inspired, he wrote the simply named pop art rocker Dennis Hopper (which appears here in reprised form as closer Aftermath) for The Waterboys’ 2020 album, Good Luck, Seeker. Then, over four years, he ...

The Waterboys line-up has never been fixed in stone, and Scott likes to claim there have been more members than any other band, upwards of 80 over their 42-year career.

Scott is friends with Hopper’s hopped-up biographer Tom Folsom, and incorporates his idea that the actor is omnipresent: here, there and everywhere, a stoned Zelig, Dennis the Menace.

It is a life that Mike Scott and The Waterboys try to capture in their concept album "Life, Death And Dennis Hopper." SCOTT: He's such an amazing character. He had such a fabulous life.

He'll be playing tracks from it at the band's gigs in Cork and other venues Mike Scott of The Waterboys; and the cover of the band's new Dennis Hopper-themed album. “I’m happy if more people ...

The song, appropriately titled “Dennis Hopper,” appeared on The Waterboys’ 2020 album, Good Luck, Seeker. After recording the tune, Scott recalled, “I thought, ‘Dennis Hopper ...

Titled Life, Death and Dennis Hopper, Scott’s latest album with The Waterboys features 25 tracks that bore into every aspect of Hopper’s work, influence, and meaning. That’s no small feat considering ...