A new Led Zeppelin film complicates my feelings about Seventies rock
I saw the documentary in a spirit of curiosity rather than fandom – and was won over by the thrill…
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Richard Dawson’s songs of England
On his new album The End of the Middle, the cult singer explores a nation defined by loss and alcoholism,…
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Remembering the real Marianne Faithfull
The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her…
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In search of Jutta Hipp
In 1979, a musician put out a call in a magazine. Did anyone know where the German jazz pianist of…
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Vashti Bunyan’s second life
At 60, the singer released Lookaftering, her first album in 35 years – and sparked a career renaissance.
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The sound of Auschwitz
A new documentary marking the 80th Holocaust Memorial Day tells the extraordinary story of the camp’s 15 orchestras.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams’ bitter symphony
The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his…
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The Bob Dylan mystery machine
In A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold and actor Timothée Chalamet present Dylan as an enigma – a mythology favoured…
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