Rejected by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the minimalist dance-pop opus would become the defining song of Kylie’s career. And, a quarter of a century later, it hasn’t lost its capacity to burrow its way into your brain. La la la …Around...
Read MoreThe crowds wept and prayed, police used their song lyrics for briefings and a vicar gave a sermon about brotherly forgiveness. The directors of Don’t Look Back in Anger relive their wildest ride everOn 4 July last year, Oasis...
Read MoreCapturing the band’s 2025 global comeback tour, this two-hour film reveals the tense first rehearsal with Liam, Noel being a big softie and the Gallaghers’ politics – just don’t expect any mention of ticket pricesIt was the...
Read MoreHe taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 83, the folk-pop legend explains how he came back to singingAs Art Garfunkel is keen to point out, “I am a singer – there,...
Read MoreReferencing Tarkovsky and French theory, the Austrian-Iranian singer is writing some of today’s wittiest music – though she’s ‘too pop for the art world, too indie-darling for the mainstream’You wait ages for a brilliant pop...
Read MoreHe was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men. Thirty-five years after his death, in the week he would have turned 80, Mary Austin talks about...
Read MoreBramham Park, LeedsCharli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house names like Kettama and Josh Baker• Charli xcx, Reading festival review –...
Read MoreTheir raucous pop music has made Katseye the biggest girl band in two decades. Can they weather toxic fandom, critical pans and a dwindling member count?Before screenings of their new documentary, the members of Katseye appear...
Read MoreBeing recognised by the Brits, Grammys and Drake made the singer one of British music’s most famous names – and also left her exhausted. Now, after decompressing in her home town she returns with a record made for ravingIt is a...
Read MoreAs the self-professed geeky rockers release their conceptual 20th album, Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson discuss dodging failure, being saved by fans and their obsessive creativityThe first song Rivers Cuomo wrote for Weezer’s...
Read MoreOn its anniversary, the author of a new book about the album explains the complex legacy and masterful musicianship of the 1986 classicIt was the summer of 1984 and things weren’t going well for Paul Simon. The year prior, a...
Read MoreNext year’s competition won’t take place in the country’s capital, an announcement that even surprised Bulgarian winner, DaraEver since Bulgarian singer Dara was crowned winner of the Eurovision song contest this May, it has...
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