Music

Music isn’t something the French have ever truly excelled at. But, I’m slowly being won over

The city is celebrating its past and future on Saint Christopher’s day

Spain's rock’s greatest frontman was silenced by “sand in my lungs”. Now, miraculously, he’s back

Aqua were right: we’re all Barbie girls and we’re all living in a Barbie world

The singer and actress was the Frenchest of us all, and somehow also the most British

The longest-running German music festival is a treat for all Wagner fans. Tickets, however, can be hard to come by

Felix Portello’s protest rap has earned him a different sort of following from the one he’s used to

Sold as the most exciting thing to come out of Europe since the Sex Pistols, his hedonistic lifestyle halted his momentum

New photos by Paul McCartney reveal a band on the cusp of global stardom, trapped for a mad three weeks in the city of light

Jobriath dreamed of combining Dietrich with Dylan and playing at the Paris Opera. Then reality bit

The lead singer of legendary rock band Rammstein faces accusations of grooming young fans for his pleasure

With his “music that doesn't disturb” the German became one of the biggest-selling recording artists in Europe

Carl Orff’s choral masterwork Carmina Burana was feted by the Nazis. But was he a willing collaborator or a canny survivor?

Sparks still have a truly unique sound but it's yet to be seen how their latest work will influence musicians this side of the Atlantic

The electronic boys from Basildon are a national treasure – both at home and abroad

After a decade of striving for success, David Bowie finally had it all. And then he seemed to throw it all away by killing off “my monster”

The contest looks plausibly like an alternative governmental structure for our fissiparous yet self-loving continent

The impact Eurovision has is too important to be dismissed as a fluffy amateur festival

The recent Ed Sheeran plagiarism court case revives the old question of where music really comes from

The Japanese composer’s work was imbued with a healthy disregard for musical and national boundaries

In the early 70s, the band decamped to the rural Netherlands to make a ‘comeback’ album that nearly finished them

Grandbrothers’ new release Late Reflections matches the landmark’s emotional heft

Morris dancing, folk music and other English traditions are making a comeback. And the new followers are a diverse bunch

It is apparent that Picasso’s name comes to the lips of singers with the same ease as “Jesus” or “Elvis”

The late Israeli actor and singer performed If I Were a Rich Man more than 3,500 times in multiple productions of Fiddler on the Roof

Arguably the greatest footballer in the world has inspired a plethora of songs across Europe

In the 1970s, the Jamaican singer was a new definition of the slogan ‘Black Power’ and she did not need politics

Kælan Mikla bring their witchy synth-punk to the UK for the first time since the pandemic

How Sweden’s Eurovision loser became perhaps Europe’s greatest-ever jazz singer

It was a real privilege to sit down with Björn Ulvaeus this week to discuss the band's social impact

After decades of success in the US and Europe, the Russian composer suffered an ignominious demise in 1950s Moscow

How the jazz musician’s iconic soundtrack to Lift to the Scaffold still resonates today