ULTIMATE CULT HEROES

Chosen by: NME’s Matt Wilkinson

Now that Syd’s gone there is nobody else in UK music surrounded by such enduring mystique as Lee Mavers of The La’s. The perennial lost boy of Merseybeat, but he endures because of the quality of those songs he left behind: ‘Tears In The Rain’… ‘Callin’ All’… these ‘lost’ tunes are as strong as the likes of ‘Feelin’’ and (almost) ‘There She Goes’.