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BBC: David Bowie fans will get an unprecedented look into his life, work and legacy after the V&A museum acquired the star’s extensive archive. The collection includes more than 80,000 letters, lyrics, photos, stage designs, music awards and costumes. It also features several instruments owned by the musician, including the Stylophone he played on his […]
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AT 50 – To celebrate a half-century of one of rock’s landmark releases, we talk to many of those that were there on its release, revisit (often underwhelmed) contemporary reviews and look at the most collectable incarnations of a record that, well, eclipsed all before it on its release […]
We are told: THE COMPLETE SHOW RECORDED AT THE MARQUEE LONDON IN 1973 The 1980 Floor Show (a pun on the song ‘1984’) was the first appearance by David Bowie since his much publicized retirement on 3rdJuly 1973 at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was also to be his last appearance as Ziggy Stardust The show […]
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Petridis As Dave Gahan happily admits, there was a moment when he thought there would never be another Depeche Mode album. Actually, he says, there were two. The first came as a result of the pandemic, when he underwent a rock star equivalent of the Great Resignation, the phenomenon in which […]
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Patrides U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom with the same missionary zeal: they seldom made any bones about wanting to be the biggest band in the world, something they duly achieved in grandstanding style. Their tours have involved everything […]
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Petridis https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/16/sly-stones-greatest-songs-ranked
THE GUARDIAN Fans and fellow musicians rushed to defend Meg White after a journalist branded her a ‘terrible’ drummer and suggested the White Stripes would have achieved more without her MORE
THE GUARDIAN / Andrew Clements The pianist Lars Vogt died in September last year. His cancer had been diagnosed in 2021, and he was already ill when, against doctors’ advice, he had travelled to Bremen to begin these Schubert recordings with his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja. They began […]
THE GUARDIAN / Ben Beaumont-Thomas https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/14/metallica-buy-vinyl-factory-thrash-metallers-format
THE GUARDIAN / LAURA SNAPES After a five-year wait, Henry Rollins is finally back in the UK. From this week, he’ll embark on one of his famed speaking tours – the Good to See You jaunt that was postponed as a result of the pandemic. It’s good news for fans as well as the former […]
THE GUARDIAN Jim Gordon, the drummer who played on the Beach Boys’ iconic album Pet Sounds and for Eric Clapton in Derek & The Dominos, has died in prison aged 77. The session musician was serving a life sentence when he died of natural causes on Monday (14 March).
REVIEW BY STEPHEN THOMAS ERIEWINE (Allmusic.com) All the rules fell by the wayside with Revolver, as the Beatles began exploring new sonic territory, lyrical subjects, and styles of composition. It wasn’t just John Lennon and Paul McCartney, either — George Harrison staked out his own dark territory with the tightly wound, cynical rocker “Taxman”; the […]
THE GUARDIAN / Mirander Sawyer lot of these politicians, they’re not evil. They’re just very detached,” says Jason Williamson, singer and lyricist of the Sleaford Mods. “I’d like to say it’s not just bounteous privilege, but it is. People like Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, they’re incredibly cut off from the world. They’re not serial killers, […]
THE GUARDIAN / Dave Simpson I played I Like the Way This Is Going as a love letter to my then girlfriend, now wife, before having it played as we walked down the aisle. What does it feel like to be able to create songs that can change people’s lives? cleckhuddersfax It’s the most amazing […]
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Patrides In early 1997, Everything But the Girl were at the height of their fame. Fifteen years into their career, they had executed a remarkable turnaround in fortunes. Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn had been dropped by their label after the release of their 1994 album, Amplified Heart, only to see […]
It’s probably overstating the case to say that the release of Blue Monday transformed New Order’s career, but it certainly changed it. It put them in the Top 10 and on Top of the Pops for the first time. It spent 38 weeks in the Top 75, became the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time […]
At first glance, Kyiv looks and feels relatively normal. One year on from the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the streets, bars and restaurants once again bustle with people going about their lives. Look a little closer however, and it becomes clear how completely transformative and tragic the war has been. Bombed-out Russian tanks, missile […]
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THE GUARDIAN / Ben Beaumont-Thomas Roger Waters has revealed the first minute of music from his re-recorded version of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, after the original turned 50 years old this week. He posted a clip of himself listening to a new recording of the song Us and Them, along with an […]
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Today we welcome Rosie Purdie The issue of opera and its appeal to a wide and diverse audience is one that opera makers are painfully aware of. It’s no secret that nowadays the majority of audiences who go to the opera are in the 60-plus age bracket and, although valiant attempts are being made to […]