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In an exclusive extract from a new book to celebrate Glastonbury festival’s 50th anniversary, its organiser reflects on the time Prince almost played, how she wooed Adele and what it’s like behind the scenes at Britain’s biggest music event
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I was invited by the singer’s manager to the concert where he donned the notorious T-shirt, says feature writer Joshua Surtees
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The songwriting storyteller recorded thousands of cassettes for visitors to Cahuita, his paradise town in Costa Rica. Now the race is on to rediscover them -
A new version of the 1944 duet, whose gender dynamics have long been argued over, will appear on Legend’s forthcoming Christmas album -
Swift and two other songwriters are accused of taking lyrics from a song by girl group 3LW for her hit Shake It Off
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Celebrated for his incredible voice and outsider-folk charm, the musician is stepping out of the shadows with his new album, 2020, a one-of-a-kind opus that is being hailed as a masterpiece -
2019 has been the UK rapper’s breakout year. He talks about how drum’n’bass informed his style – and why Boris Johnson is ‘a very small man’ -
The shapeshifting rapper on being the new Joni Mitchell, body dysmorphia, and why she is wary of talking politics -
The actor and singer grew up in her parents’ shadow, and starred in Lars Von Trier’s most extreme films. She talks about why she’s finally comfortable in her own skin
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Charli XCX Laser sharp star burns her own path
4 out of 5 stars.Charli XCX knows how to party, replacing the galaxy of star collaborators on new album Charli with her own vocals and raging through pop-vulnerable hits
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4 out of 5 stars.
OMD Clap-along electropop sounds even better with age
4 out of 5 stars.Outrageous antics and a set of ‘old ones, new ones, weird ones and dancey ones’ sees the new wave pioneers in fine fettle -
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John Legend A neo soul love-in
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Tricky A bizarre but brilliant enigma
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Alexis Petridis's album of the week Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Colorado – a direct, disgruntled din
3 out of 5 stars.Deeply personal ballads and the incredible potency of his band elevate Young’s 39th album above his painfully on-the-nose political messaging -
3 out of 5 stars.
Sudan Archives Athena – Afro futurism goes mainstream
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30 years after Nirvana released their debut album, Bleach, we revisit Jonathan Freedland's 1994 report from the aftermath of Cobain's death
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A new version of the 1944 duet, whose gender dynamics have long been argued over, will appear on Legend’s forthcoming Christmas album
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The 20-year-old Norwegian is edging towards indie-pop greatness -
Athletic star dancer who dazzled as Spinderella in the hit West End show Into the Hoods
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Thunderdome launched with a giant octopus on an ice rink – and created the Netherlands’ biggest youth culture movement. Three decades on, it’s stronger and tougher than ever -
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Experimental music The Necks review – a magical mystery tour de force
4 out of 5 stars.Just what is it that makes this instrumentalist trio from Australia one of the most entrancing live acts in the world? -
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Metal Sunn O))) review – gods of noise build a colossal drone henge
4 out of 5 stars.Anyone can play loud, but the Seattle masters of slow metal turn noise into an overwhelming physical experience
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