Broudie

Ian Broudie and his son, Riley, in 1995 and 2023Ian Broudie and his son, Riley, in 1995 and 2023. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Andie Redman. Grooming: Carol Sullivan at Arlington Artists using Shakeup Cosmetics. Archive image: courtesy of Ian BroudieBorn in 1958 in Liverpool, singer, songwriter and producer Ian Broudie is best known for his Britpop-era hits with the Lightning Seeds. As well as being a producer for the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, the Zutons, the Coral and the Fall, Ian’s eclectic…

Born in Penny Lane, Liverpool in 1958, Ian Broudie attended his first gig, the Beatles at the Liverpool Empire, when he was six. A member of punk band Big In Japan in his teens with Holly Johnson and the KLF’s Bill Drummond, he went on to produce records by Echo and the Bunnymen, the Fall, Alison Moyet, Texas and the Coral. Recording as the Lightning Seeds from 1989, he has released seven albums, and his 1996 song for that year’s UEFA European Championship, Three Lions, has been No 1 three times. He has just published his…

It’s coming home, it’s coming home … You know how it goes. Hang on, though: it came home, didn’t it? In July, when the Lionesses beat Germany with a dramatic extra-time winner at Wembley to win Euro 2022. It was England’s first major trophy since Bobby Moore, Jack and Bobby Charlton, Nobby Stiles, Gordon Banks, Geoff Hurst etc won the World Cup in 1966. With all those years of hurt finally over, David Baddiel said he was happy for his song, Three Lions, to be “put to bed”.Guess what, though: it just got up again, for the…