The bizarre saga of the $4m one-off album you’ll never get to hear
With a single copy made and strict rules on sharing it, Wu-Tang Clan’s 2015 album is the ultimate limited edition. Is that about to change?
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What Disney’s Beach Boys film doesn’t tell you about Brian Wilson’s broken brain
The pop genius’s many horrific battles with mental health began in the 1960s and continue to this today… Then why gloss over them?
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How Aurora awed Billie Eilish, met Leonard Cohen’s lover and sang her way out of the Norwegian woods
The secret star of Frozen II on why she chose music over molecular science – and the reason ‘art without politics is a bit boring’
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‘We love Bake Off and Bob Marley’: the nuns shaking up the music industry
Since the Poor Clare Sisters of Arundel became 2020’s biggest-selling classical music debut, they want to set some misconceptions straight
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Nicki Minaj: The rapping superstar serves up spectacle – and breaks the rules again
The Trinidadian-American rapper delivered exactly the sort of bells-and-whistles show her fans expected – and scorned the O2’s curfew
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Duke Ellington in London: how the jazz star’s UK tour changed Britain
The Duke’s 1933 tour made a huge impression on the musical life of the UK, and helped counter some of the country’s racist stereotyping
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Behind the music
The stories behind the greats - a celebration of musical nostalgia
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How Aurora awed Billie Eilish, met Leonard Cohen’s lover and sang her way out of the Norwegian woods
The secret star of Frozen II on why she chose music over molecular science – and the reason ‘art without politics is a bit boring’
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‘We love Bake Off and Bob Marley’: the nuns shaking up the music industry
Since the Poor Clare Sisters of Arundel became 2020’s biggest-selling classical music debut, they want to set some misconceptions straight
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The Kokomo calamity: how The Beach Boys’ most detested song was made
Thanks to Tom Cruise – not Brian Wilson – the absurdly catchy summer anthem gave the Beach Boys their first hit in years. But at what cost?
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Kevin Rowland: ‘I thought, if anyone tries it on with my woman – I’m going to hit him’
The Dexys star on cross-dressing, changing his ‘macho’ attitude – and how Come on Eileen caused trouble during the Troubles
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Barry Manilow: A pure showbiz ‘farewell’ from the Springsteen of easy listening
Kicking off his ‘last’ UK residency at the Palladium, the 80-year-old delivered everything his audience could have hoped for
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The Beach Boys, review: plenty of bad vibes among the good vibrations in bittersweet film
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Sir Mark Elder: ‘Manchester has never been a great city for opera’
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The Kokomo calamity: how The Beach Boys’ most detested song was made
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Why billion-dollar music fund Hipgnosis hit a bum note: ‘Songs are not gold and oil’
Music rights company Hipgnosis disrupted the industry by turning songs into ‘assets’ and making retired musicians rich. Then disaster struck
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Kevin Rowland: ‘I thought, if anyone tries it on with my woman – I’m going to hit him’
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How to survive in pop? Create a deepfake version of yourself
Musician FKA Twigs is outsourcing her social media interactions with fans to an AI avatar. This may well be the dystopian future of fandom
