As this column ends, I thought it appropriate to talk about rock's profound sense of beginning – its power and possibility, its surging promiseThis column began fiv...
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A positively cherubic Van Morrison struts like a rooster, celebrating the free world of the radioIt's a "joyous shot at how things ought to be" – getting together, ...
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Kings of Irish trad-folk celebrate 50th anniversary by recording album with indie artistsThe Chieftains will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an album of collaborati...
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Tonight, 22:00 on BBC Two and BBC HD (UK Only)Joining Jools on this last programme in the current series are: LA's own alternative rock/funk superstars Red Hot Chili Pepp...
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Hi-Fi Club, LeedsMichael Kiwanuka stands centre stage with his eyes closed, shirt hanging awkwardly off his back. The only instrumentation is his guitar and the occasiona...
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Experience Belfast Music Week in Style As the city famous for giving the world Van Morrison and Snow Patrol, Belfast prides itself on having one of the strongest musi...
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Van Morrison proves his soulfulness to German TV viewers in a classic 70s clipFrom a 1974 German TV programme, Musik Laden (Music Shop), this is a six-and-a-half minute g...
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CSS feat Bobby Gillespie Hits Me Like A Rock (V2) Who'd have thought that Bobby G sighing over a track that sounds like Aqua covering The Tide Is High by Blondie would so...
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Royal Festival Hall, LondonBy pulling together folk, jazz and blues into evocative, melodic albums, Pentangle were ahead of the curve in the late 1960s. An early "supergr...
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Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums ever – with a view that you might do the same – Laura Barton plum...
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Royal Concert Hall, NottinghamThis week has seen the pop tribe's elders out in force. Bob Dylan (70) played a blinder at London's Feis festival last Saturday, followed by...
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Belfast is the place to be this summer for a music and culture extravaganza! In fact, Northern Ireland is home to some of the best musical talent around, from Snow Patr...
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15-17 August 1969: Number 18 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicJust as the Glastonbury festival doesn't actually take place in Glastonbury, W...
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When I think of bookishness in music, it's not of Katy Perry or will.i.am, but something more awkward, more earnest, the type of music that stays inside on a sunny dayI r...
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Barbican, YorkDavid Gray reveals that, before his latest tour, he asked fans which songs they would like to hear. "There were 156 suggestions," he chuckles. "One of them ...
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