The Wildhearts

The Wildhearts were the kind of band that the British rock press dreams about: creatively brilliant, completely out of control, and utterly doomed from day one. Led by charismatic lunatic Ginger, the group's turbulent career lived up to the highest (or lowest, as it were) expectations. After numerous frightening twists and turns, the band finally derailed in spectacular fashion but not before yielding a wealth of inspired hard rock and literally miles of even more entertaining magazine copy, only to rise again and again through dozens of lineup changes, with Ginger the sole constant. After making a splashy debut with 1993's Earth vs. the Wildhearts and wowing fans and critics with 1995's P.H.U.Q., the Wildhearts spent literally decades collapsing and re-forming, keeping hardcore fans happy with LPs like 2006's Geordie in Wonderland, 2014's Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, and 2025's Satanic Rites of the Wildhearts.