The music-loving world, temperamentally, seems to divide neatly into two. There are those who spend their idle hours thinking about which songs they would like to have pl...
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I knocked around the fringes of academia for years, but it’s just as well that I never became a teacher — because there’s nothing I find more irritating...
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Mark Knopfler is set to join the folk legend on his October tour
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(Handmade Music)Bobby Valentino faces one obvious problem: that his image as a British Clark Gable lookalike, complete with moustache, and his chosen name (retained after...
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(Proper Records)Celebrating visionary British trad-jazz veteran Chris Barber's 80th, this two-disc set includes encounters with Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Dr John and E...
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The use of 'faggot' in Money for Nothing is a known issue, so let's not let a synthetic censorship row obscure the real issueSo, it's finally happened: the people of Cana...
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a r n e l said...V.A. - The 7th Christmas Collection(a BoBW jazz funk compilation)01. Last Christmas - The Puppini Sisters / 4:5802. Blue Christmas - Miles Davis / 2:...
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Insightful rock music journalist, critic and Radio 3 broadcasterRobert Sandall, who has died of prostate cancer aged 58, was a music journalist whose writing was elegant,...
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Mark Knopfler is going to share his wisdom.
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Would it be Coldplay? Or Pearl Jam? Or maybe even Cliff Richard? No! It was (half of) Radiohead, with a rather brilliant stripped-back acoustic setGlastonbury potentiates...
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Elvis Costello is the latest pop star to pull performances in Israel. But can a boycott do more harm than good?Last week, Elvis Costello became the latest, though probabl...
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“The thing about the old Straits songs is that they are signposts for people’s lives. Obviously I’ll play them differently here and there to keep it ali...
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