A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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The band is often labelled miserable, but the bassist made music that was suffused with joy.
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Why Eurovision is beloved by the LGBTQ community
The contest, developed in the 1950s as an opportunity for cheap TV, is now synonymous with camp. How did it…
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When Eurovision came to Liverpool
In a festival of geopolitics, money, culture and high camp, the proud outsider city spies a chance for renewal
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The conservatism of Nick Cave
Many were surprised when the musician announced he would be attending King Charles III’s coronation. They shouldn’t have been.
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The death of the groupie
The original mega-fan has shaped pop culture since the 1970s – but our ideas of sex, power and fame have…
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HMV is coming back to Oxford Street – music fans should rejoice
The retailer will return to its former flagship shop in central London after a four-year absence, following a surge in…
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The National’s First Two Pages of Frankenstein is just too predictable
On their ninth album, the band have collaborated with exciting acts from Taylor Swift to Sufjan Stevens – so it's…
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