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Alabama 3

March 2023

  • The theme tune was originally Shiny Happy People … the cast of Friends.

    ‘Doing Friends killed our cool’ – theme tune revelations from The Sopranos to The OC and more

    The Friends anthem split the Rembrandts. Alabama 3 went partying with real mobsters. And Vonda Shepard ended up starring in Ally McBeal for years. Creators of legendary theme tunes relive their highs – and lows

September 2021

  • Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols

    Jailhouse rock: how history’s crimes live on in music

    From Maggie May to Ronnie Kray, crooks have long inspired songs, as a new book proves

December 2019

  • Alabama 3 the Barrowlands in Glasgow.

    Alabama 3 review – raucous ravers soak up mashup outlaws' sin and soul

    This was a rambunctious wake for founding member Jake Black – with their Sopranos’ theme a high point among club and country meldings

May 2019

  • Jake Black performing in Glasgow last year.

    Jake Black obituary

    Co-founder of the band Alabama 3 whose track Woke Up This Morning became the theme tune of The Sopranos

August 2015

  • Nick Drake

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: melancholy songs

    Bittersweet, articulate, beautiful or bold? Suggest selections for a special form of sadness in songs for this week’s sorrowful but strangely uplifting topic, says Peter Kimpton

February 2015

  • Howard Marks on stage at the Forum in London.

    Howard Marks benefit gig leaves audience on a high

  • Howard Marks

    Howard Marks: this concert is not a farewell

December 2013

  • Treasure chest

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about smuggling and stealing – results

    Pickpockets to highwaymen, bank heists to drug smuggling, the readers' collective Robin Hood act has made a treasure chest, says Peter Kimpton

December 2011

  • Sean Garland

    IRA veteran Sean Garland escapes extradition to US

    Former Workers' party president wanted over alleged links to 'super dollars' North Korean counterfeiting plot

April 2008

  • From Alabama 3 to Jay-Z

  • 'We're amazed we're still alive'

March 2008

  • After Presley and Cash, Alabama 3 get prison blues

    Prison concert is part of Rock Against Racism's reincarnation to fight BNP

September 2007

  • Face off

    What do an executed prisoner from Texas, a former UN official and an eccentric Cornish aristocrat have in common? They've all had their death masks made by sculptor and Alabama 3 member Nick Reynolds. By Duncan Campbell.

November 2006

  • Books blog
    Rocking with the king

  • Readers recommend
    Readers recommended: Songs about guns

March 2006

  • Robert Love, Ghost Flight

    The Alabama 3 front man's solo debut is not quite what you'd expect, but Molloy Woodcraft likes its smoky, country feel.

October 2005

  • We're jammin': Alabama 3

    Alabama 3: 'I'd take that horn off you if you couldn't play it.'

May 2005

  • Alabama 3, Outlaw

    (One Little Indian)

December 2003

  • Alabama 3

    Fibbers, York

April 2001

  • Alabama 3, the urban cowboys of acid house

    Alabama 3
    Underworld, London
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