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How a song written in 1974 turned up on Bowie's Let's Dance and unwittingly kicked off a controversy

In 1977, Metro’s single Criminal World was considered “too gay” for the BBC. By 1983, it was too suggestive for David Bowie too. 40 years later, its songwriter explains what it’s like when one of your songs turns up on the biggest albums of the 80s

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The story of The Great Gig In The Sky and the best £30 Pink Floyd ever spent

One of the highlights of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Clare Torry's vocal on The Great Gig In The Sky lifted the song to celestial heights

Louder

Let's Dance: How Nile Rodgers transformed David Bowie from arty outsider to global superstar

For David Bowie in 1983, art-rock and clown suits were in the past. He wanted to become a bona fide superstar. So he recruited the man nicknamed The Hitmaker

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'Mafia offered me $30k': The rock and roll life of Salford's Harvey Lisberg

Herman's Hermits, Hurricane Higgins, 10CC and me

Manchester Evening News

Pink Floyd's enigmatic, record-breaking album The Dark Side Of The Moon turns 50

The iconic cover art, the boundary-pushing sonics, that thing where it supposedly synchronises with The Wizard Of Oz — Pink Floyd's legendary album is one of the most successful releases of all time.

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N-Dubz ‘sign two album deal and following comeback tour

N-Dubz have reportedly scored a “two album deal with EMI Records” following the end of their comeback tour in December.

Evening Standard

McCartney Daughter Gives Intimate Tour of Abbey Road

The daughter of pop megastar Paul McCartney has given an intimate peek into the hallowed halls of Abbey Road, the studio where he -- and many other music stars -- recorded masterpieces. Mary McCartney directed the new documentary, "If These Walls Could Sing", which gets a worldwide release on Disney+…

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Take a deep dive into Abbey Road history

David Hepworth's book, with foreword by Paul McCartney, takes fans from its 1931 EMI beginnings to today

Salon

The Beatles' first single Love Me Do was released 60 years ago — but it nearly didn't happen

The Beatles had a major problem and it wasn't going to be easily resolved. They didn't like the song they'd been asked to record by their producer George Martin.

ABC News

HMV launches record label as it ‘harks back to its roots’

The entertainment retailer, which runs 115 stores across the UK, has signed Newcastle-based singer-songwriter India Arkin to the new label.

The Independent UK

Newcastle singer is first to sign to new HMV music label as high street giant returns to record-making

Talented India Arkin was signed by HMV's newly-launched label after performing at the Newcastle branch of HMV

Chronicle Live

Turnbull’s hobby, the Fall’s pope song, and Stevie Nicks’ atomic number – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Max Boyce to play special 50th anniversary concert at Swansea Arena

Max's special concert is a one-night-only affair - and is sure to be a night not to miss

Wales Online

Danger Mouse and Black Thought: Cheat Codes review – an out-and-out hip-hop masterpiece

Razor-sharp US rapper Black Thought and his one-time acolyte, now super-producer, Danger Mouse, finally get it together on an album that’s a nonstop joy

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‘Ooh, yeah, you’re amazing!’ The wonder of Kate Bush – and 10 tracks to delight new listeners

Thanks to Netflix’s Stranger Things, the 1985 classic Running Up That Hill is in the charts again, and a new generation are discovering the singer’s unique appeal

Daily Mirror

Sex Pistols drama charts rise and fall of punk band who mocked the Queen at Jubilee

They may have only last two and a half years before self-destructing but decades on the Sex Pistols' punk legacy lives on in an era eerily similar.

The Guardian - UK

‘My mother thought I’d ruined my life’: how EMF made Unbelievable

‘I envisaged living off my royalties … but 10 years ago I retrained as a fully-fledged secondary school teacher’

Daily Mirror

Taylor Hawkins 'had cocktail of 10 different drugs in his body' when he tragically died

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, 50, is believed to have suffered a suspected heart attack, according to health chiefs in Bogota, which may have been due to an overdose

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Taylor Hawkins' cause of death is suspected heart attack - as 'white powder' found

Tragic Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, 50, suffered 'chest pains' which sparked a medical emergency, the City Health Department said in a statement

The Guardian - UK

Bill Clark obituary

Other lives: Video producer and film-maker whose second feature, Starfish, raised awareness of sepsis

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