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“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender – the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics – and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer

The mercurial Seattle indie rockers have returned with their first album in six years, Patience, Moonbeam – they tell us how their lush, multifaceted arrangements all begin on the humble six-string

Guitar World

Usher: Race, reinvention, educating himself — and why he'd like to be Ed Sheeran

The superstar musician is in London for — count them — 10 nights at the O2. He speaks exclusively to Dylan Jones

Evening Standard

“He fined me 50 bucks and fired me, even though I didn’t mess up”: The bassists of James Brown reveal what life was really like playing alongside the Godfather of Soul

Fred Thomas, Ray Brundidge and Bootsy Collins dig into what it meant to play with Soul Band No. 1

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“For those who think they know Joel’s story, as well as those who are not as familiar, I believe this two-part film is both a revelation and a surprise”: New Billy Joel doc is on the way

Billy Joel: And So It Goes lands on HBO this summer

MusicRadar

Billy Joel 'totally healthy'

Christie Brinkley's daughter has insisted Billy Joel - who she fondly calls 'Uncle' - is "totally healthy", despite him postponing a string of upcoming concerts for medical reasons.

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Billy Joel postpones tour after surgery

Veteran musician Billy Joel has postponed his 2025 tour by four months to give him time to recover from surgery after he was struck down by a mystery medical condition.

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Billy Joel postpones tour dates due to ‘medical condition’

The ‘Piano Man’ singer underwent a recent surgery, from which he is ‘expected to make a full recovery’

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Music icon Billy Joel reschedules first Scotland show in 49 years

LEGENDARY singer Billy Joel has rescheduled a hotly anticipated Scotland show which was planned for this summer ...

The National (Scotland)

Singer Billy Joel reschedules two UK shows due to medical condition

The shows were due to be the singer’s first performances in Liverpool and Edinburgh in more than 45 years.

Evening Standard

Christie Brinkley announces memoir

Christie Brinkley is releasing a memoir, 'Uptown Girl', in April.

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Christie Brinkley has a memoir out in April. Yes, it's called 'Uptown Girl'

Christie Brinkley will have a memoir out this spring

The Independent UK

FireAid, with Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga, is the latest in a long line of massive benefit concerts

FireAid, featuring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Sting, Red Hot Chili Peppers and others in a fundraiser for Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts, is the latest event to combine music and philanthropy

The Independent UK

"I thought, What is this? I don't understand what I'm hearing, but wow!" Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor on the "life-changing" record which blew his teenage mind, and why soft rock legends Barry Manilow and Billy Joel may have influenced his songwriting

Trent Reznor testifies to the mind-expanding wonders of his teenage record collection

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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, December 9 (game #547)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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Billy Joel announces new co-headlining dates with Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart

Billy Joel just can't get enough of performing with Stevie Nicks and Sir Rod Stewart as two more shows are confirmed for next year.

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Billy Joel teases new song

Billy Joel has teased a clip of a previously-unheard song called 'Every Time'.

The Guardian - AU

The Crunch: how mpox attacks, Billy Joel mapped, where washing machines spit microplastics

We highlight a great visual primer on a disease the WHO has declared a public health emergency

MusicRadar

“You get to a point where you’ve gotten good enough so that nothing is good enough”: Billy Joel explains to John Mayer why he gave up on songwriting

“The writer thing is a curse you take with you throughout life, and when I listen to material or listen to other people’s songs the writer is always at work,” he says

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“I get paid, so why not?": Sting says he’s fine with other artists interpolating and sampling his music, and that Every Breath You Take hasn’t been “tainted” for him

"I never object because I always learn something about the song that I hadn’t known or anticipated," he says

The Independent UK

19 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

Louder

“We knew not everybody would like The Astonishing – we’re not blind and we’re not stupid – but we did it anyway. After a long career we reserve the right to do that”: Jordan Rudess’ life and times with Dream Theater

He started out in a college so strict that he couldn’t understand prog when he first heard it. But the composer, educator and tech fan, has made the most of opportunities that came his way

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“I think Billy would say there was no need to make any more songs. And maybe, as a fan, I felt the need for one more”: Freddy Wexler talks songwriting, producing, discovering Lady Gaga and restarting Billy Joel’s fire

“I told some very powerful people, ‘I found the next Madonna’. Four months later, she changed her name to Lady Gaga and the rest was history”

Evening Standard

Strictly Come Dancing week five songs and dances including a Couple’s Choice

Liverpudlian Chris McCausland will be waltzing to an iconic track

Latin Times

How Latinos Have Made Allentown, PA, The 'Center of the Universe' Ahead of November Elections

Allentown, a small town in eastern Pennsylvania, is catching the eyes of Washington politicians as it could decide the fate of Congress, if not the White House

Louder

Axl Rose surprises 18,000 Billy Joel fans in Los Angeles with performance of Live And Let Die

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