Music

The tabloid - considered to have had a good pandemic - plumbed the depths with a nudge-nudge non-story about the Take That star

It doesn’t belong to cowboys or Trump – it’s diverse, funny, rebellious and brilliant

We are willing to forgive holograms and ex-bandmates playing the hits – but not a good old-fashioned impersonator

The hard right channel is launching its own music radio station – with no foreign acts allowed

The increasingly dumbed down Newsnight pitched economics expert Dr Faiza Shaheen against a former member of Mumford & Sons

Despite swirling rumours, no charges had been filed against Sean Combs by mid-May 2024. Then a shocking video and a damning article changed everything

Ronnie’s has been Britain’s premier jazz venue for decades. But as the cost of a night out in Soho escalates, can it and its new challenger both succeed?

When a group of white supremacists turned up outside one of her shows in the summer of 1927, the great blues singer knew just what to do

The singer-songwriter nice-guyed himself into a row that will do little to help anyone suffering in the Middle East

A new biopic of the great jazz pianist who died too soon neatly sidesteps music biopic cliches

She parachuted into occupied France as an SOE radio operator. The statue of her in London was the first monument to an Asian woman anywhere in Britain

How one photographer helped create the image of the band that we still believe

The 1970s group are engaged in a war of words after one iteration performed at Reform's conference in Birmingham at the weekend

The answer is that no one can possibly play the Fab Four as well as they played themselves

The epitome of acceptance and joy, she was a protector for anyone ever felt unseen, unloved or unsafe

The disco group are said to be in talks to star at the party’s annual conference in September

The paper tracked down the new life of reclusive former White Stripes star Meg White. There was just one small problem

Each rock movie is packed with clichés about real events and songwriting. Now Sam Mendes has that problem fourfold

Most music biographies are lazy and rubbish. Here are 10 exceptions

A definitive new history settles decades of myths about the ultimate cult band – but are some mysteries better left unresolved?

The strange journey of a word that dates back at least eight centuries

The worst response to her story is voyeurism. The second worst is pretending there is nothing to see

Bands like Oasis are ducking interviews in favour of telling their own stories. Does that guarantee them an easy ride?

The bandleader was drifting on a long US tour until he met an activist who redefined his purpose

The bass legend believes music is becoming a middle-class hobby

The rapper turned politician gave young people a voice – so the military had to silence him

The Proms is a reminder that the stirring quality of organised sound defies all reason

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

The problem for the hip outsider is that, if you suddenly become the most powerful person in the country, your old ways don’t look the same any more

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

The PM-in-waiting’s playlist choices are sound. But then so were Boris Johnson’s

The extremist thug, agitator and convicted fraudster has somehow managed to get his show on to Spotify. If his first episode is anything to go by, it’ll be a downpour of race-baiting poison