Talk Talk

BT to invest £12bn in faster broadband and reaching remote areas

Telecoms regulator Ofcom unveils financial incentives to help achieve government’s ‘gigabit’ UK plan

Mark Sweney

19, Mar, 2021 @6:41 AM

There's no harm in asking but easyJet shouldn't bet on a bailout

The airline has time to act, and a reasonable base from which to assemble a self-help package

Nils Pratley

08, Oct, 2020 @7:00 PM

Stephen Collins on Dido Harding – cartoon

Lead from the top...

Stephen Collins

03, Oct, 2020 @5:00 AM

Musicians on Mark Hollis: 'He found hooks in places I'm still trying to fathom'

Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Charlotte Church, Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry and others on his songs, enigmatic spirit and musical vision

Interviews by Laura Snapes

26, Feb, 2019 @6:00 PM

Talk Talk's visionary: Mark Hollis's ambition co-existed with commercial success

With enigmatic lyrics and aspirations to rival Shostakovich, Hollis considered himself the leader of a jazz band which should never stop innovating

Annie Zaleski

26, Feb, 2019 @5:11 PM

A sacred voice: Mark Hollis sang the English gospel

Talk Talk began as 80s synth-pop stalwarts, but Hollis developed not only what became known as post-rock, but his own transcendent music

Graeme Thomson

26, Feb, 2019 @3:30 PM

Mark Hollis obituary

Lead singer of Talk Talk who took the group from synth-pop chart success into boldly experimental territory

Adam Sweeting

26, Feb, 2019 @3:09 PM

He disappeared into the fog: Mark Hollis the ethereal outsider

Talk Talk’s singer was a master of melancholy and reinvention whose touchingly tender voice allowed us to vanish into ourselves

Jude Rogers

26, Feb, 2019 @2:30 PM

'Thank you for soundtracking my life': readers' tributes to Mark Hollis

You have been reacting to the news Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, has died at the age of 64

Guardian readers

26, Feb, 2019 @1:12 PM

Mark Hollis: reluctant pop star who redefined rock

Few musicians start out in pop, move into the avant garde, invent post-rock and then go silent for decades. But Talk Talk’s Hollis was no ordinary musician

Alexis Petridis

26, Feb, 2019 @12:53 PM

Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, dies aged 64

Keith Aspden, Hollis’s long-term manager, confirmed the death of the art-pop pioneer, hailing his ‘gentle beauty’

Guardian music

25, Feb, 2019 @9:19 PM

Talk Talk – 10 of the best

Led by the hugely talented Mark Hollis, the London-based four-piece transitioned from bright, hard-edged pop to mesmeric, meditative post-rock over the course of nine years and five albums