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‘My education was in a bar’: Shania Twain on childhood, stardom, divorce and survival
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The record-breaking singer is back with her sixth album. She discusses deprivation, domestic violence and feeling triumphant after stage fright and surgery‘What’s your favourite track?” Shania Twain asks, about her new a...

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‘He sounded great’: David Crosby was working on new album when he died, musicians reveal
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Folk-rock pioneer ‘writing, playing, singing his ass off and preparing a fantastic show’ in his final days, says guitarist Steve PostellDavid Crosby was working on a new...

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Hundreds gather to mourn Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland memorial service
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People pay their respects at Memphis mansion that singer inherited from her father, rock legend Elvis Presley Hundreds of mourners gathered in Graceland on a chilly, grey Sunday morning to pay their respects to ...

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The Murder Capital: Gigi’s Recovery review – superlative downbeat rock thrills
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(Human Season)The Irish post-punk band go bigger and deeper on a second album that exudes muscular dramaThe Murder Capital’s lavishly poetic, intensely dour When I Have Fears was superb, an album so perfectly realised tha...

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Martha Wainwright: ‘My happiest decade is also my saddest – this decade’
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The singer-songwriter on her famous musical family, coping with death, divorce and parenting, and how her childhood was still easier than Prince Harry’sMartha Wainwright, 46, is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter...

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MĂ„neskin: Rush! review – less haste, more speed for Italy’s glam rockers
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(Epic/Sony)The Eurovision winners’ third LP boasts gleaming production values and nuanced songs, but tries to tick too many boxesItalian rock sensations MĂ„neskin have barely stopped since a 2021 Eurovision win plucked them out of th...

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Who was Beethoven’s mysterious Elise? Historian concludes she never existed
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The identity of the muse for FĂŒr Elise has long puzzled experts. A new book suggests it was named by someone else, after the composer’s deathIt is one of clas...

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Beyoncé makes controversial live return at exclusive Dubai concert
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US singer plays first full concert for more than four years to audience of invited influencers and journalistsBeyoncé has given her first full concert in more than four years, at a luxury resort in Dubai, for an audienc...

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Paul Clarvis, Liam Noble, Cathy Jordan: Freight Train review – quite a ride
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(Village Life)Irish folk singer Cathy Jordan, with Clarvis and Noble on percussion and piano, works her magic on songs ranging from Duke Ellington to Mose AllisonIt starts with Dear Somebody, a harmless little waltz sung by the sweet, fo...

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‘Ritual humiliations’: African music stars struggle to get visas to Europe
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A Kenyan DJ’s post of being denied transit through Amsterdam has put the spotlight on airlines’ alleged racist policiesEmma Nzioka, a Kenyan performer and DJ known as Coco Em, was looking forward to the Ter...

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‘We’ve always been very divisive’: MĂ„neskin on fighting fascists and breakfast with Chris Martin
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First The X Factor, then victory at Eurovision, now a Grammy nod: the Italian glam rockers have taken the road less ordinary on their way to worldwide fame. So long as they can be themselves, they wouldn’t have it any other wayD...

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