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December 2024

  • Alfa Anderson performing in New York in 2015.

    Alfa Anderson obituary

    American singer best known as a vocalist with the 1970s disco group Chic whose hits included Le Freak

November 2024

  • Peter Sinfield, left, with Robert Fripp in the recording studio, 1969.

    Peter Sinfield obituary

  • Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera photographed at his studio in London.

    ‘Somebody’s up there saying: good karma!’ Phil Manzanera on Roxy Music, Cuban grooves and making a fortune off Jay-Z and Kanye West

July 2024

  • Brian Eno … in scene that may or may not appear.

    Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

    Produced using software that means that the film is different every time it is shown, this presents the former Roxy Music man as a restlessly creative mind

November 2023

  • Part of the cover of Led Zeppelin IV, showing the man whom a historian has identified as Lot Long, a Victorian thatcher from Wiltshire.

    Musical mysteries: the unlikely album cover stars who became modern pop enigmas

    As the old man on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album artwork is identified, we take a look at albums that are as famous for the faces on their sleeves as their music

July 2023

  • ‘I was obsessed’ … Steve Thorne's Roxy Music scrapbook.

    ‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom

    With the Wham! documentary showcasing Andrew Ridgeley’s mum’s scrapbooks of their career, readers share their own shrines to Roxy Music, Metallica, David Bowie and more

June 2023

  • Kari Ann Moller and husband Chris Jagger.

    Norwegian Roxy Music model Kari-Ann Moller fights to stay in UK after Brexit

    Husband, Chris Jagger, uses 1972 album cover to support settlement application for Moller, who has lived in UK for 74 years

October 2022

  • ‘A delicate speak-sung delivery somehow befits an irony-dripping oeuvre’ … Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music at the OVO Hydro, Glasgow.

    Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked

    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

April 2022

  • Bryan Ferry at a piano

    The reader interview

    Bryan Ferry: ‘I did a lot of whistling on my paper round as a lad’

  • Bryan Ferry Credit: Neil Kirk

    The reader interview

    Post your questions for Bryan Ferry

April 2019

  • Kraftwerk In Front Of World Time Clock In Keio Plaza Hotel<br>Kraftwerk in front of world time clock in Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, September 1981. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

    The 50 best songs about Europe – ranked!

    Brexit is delayed – so voyager avec nous on a trans-European tour of music, from Paris to Berlin via Finistère. Tout le monde à bord!

February 2019

  • ‘Flashes of iconoclastic brilliance, even on their most commercially successful early works’ ... (L-R) keyboard player Simon Brenner, singer Mark Hollis, drummer Lee Harris and bassist Paul Webb, pictured in 1982.

    Talk Talk's visionary: Mark Hollis's ambition co-existed with commercial success

    With enigmatic lyrics and aspirations to rival Shostakovich, Hollis considered himself the leader of a jazz band which should never stop innovating

December 2018

  • Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and the Cure’s Robert Smith.

    British artists dominate 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees

    Radiohead, the Cure and Def Leppard among new recipients of US honour

October 2018

  • from left, Thom Yorke, Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks

    Radiohead, Stevie Nicks and the Cure among 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees

    The Ohio institution will select its 2019 cohort at a ceremony in Brooklyn next March

April 2018

  • Bryan Ferry performing in Paris in 2017.

    Bryan Ferry review – lounge lizard still at his best on the dancefloor

    The Roxy Music frontman’s crooning numbers can be sophisticated – and also dull. It’s when he gets slinky that his tour’s opening night comes alive

March 2018

  • Laura Snapes

    Lorde's US tour has flopped – but it might be the making of her

    Laura Snapes

    The New Zealand star is playing to arenas that are only a third full. But dropping out of pop’s upper echelons may give her the long future she deserves

February 2018

  • Bryan Ferry in 1972

    Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'

    With their thrillingly strange 1972 debut, Roxy Music announced themselves as a band that were unlike anyone else. The singer looks back at how they created a new kind of music – out of Stax, oboes and Marilyn Monroe

January 2018

  • Lady Gaga.

    Unmissable culture of 2018

    Kendrick cruises, Wiley confuses and Gaga goes OTT: the essential pop for 2018

    Can Lady Gaga get away with murder? Will Kendrick Lamar stay on top? Are Franz Ferdinand set to blossom? And has Harry Styles’ transformation only just begun? We preview the new year’s pop highlights

August 2017

  • Carly Simon's You're So Vain is very eclipse worthy.

    10 of the best

    Songs for the eclipse – 10 of the best

    As the US prepares for a total solar eclipse, here are some of the best songs to enjoy as the sky goes dark

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