“It’s perfect for the song,” Cole said in a statement. “What could be worse than burning a grand piano and filming it?” Cole’s former bandmates from Lloyd Cole and the Commotions ...

Popular musicians long ago ... serves as a gloriously bubbly answer to Lloyd Cole's "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken," one of the all-time great breakup songs. Sophisticated pop that draws on ...

Like the relationships they limn, Stars' songs don't take a straight line ... compositions of Prefab Sprout and opening act Lloyd Cole. Like the relationships they limn, Stars’ songs don ...

Lloyd Cole was famous with a small f – a regular on Top of the Pops and on the covers of NME, Record Mirror and Melody Maker. He can recall the precise moment he realised all that was a thing of ...

Lloyd Cole has been making meticulously literate music for two decades, balanced in recent years by a warmth that seldom seeped into his work with his first band, the Commotions.