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Hawkwind’s Dave Brock: ‘They phone me up every day to check I haven’t died’
On tour again, the Hawkwind frontman talks about the Blitz, sacking Lemmy and why ill health won’t stop him
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OMD, review: ‘mindless’ synth-pop has seldom sounded more creative, intelligent or daring
Forty years ago, OMD seemed to come from both space and the future – amazingly as this jubliant evening proved, they still do
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The Secret Diary of Taylor Swift’s Cat, aged 10¾
Other partners have come and gone but I’ve been at the singer’s side for a decade, as her favourite furry friend – and this is our story
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Maurizio Pollini, pianist, political activist and uncompromising champion of modernism – obituary
One critic, after a severe recital, called him ‘the Hosni Mubarak of pianists’, but others admired his refusal to be ‘user-friendly’
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10cc: like the Beach Boys doing Frank Zappa by way of Reeves and Mortimer
At the Royal Albert Hall, the veteran rock band demonstrated their English eccentricity – and proved they’re still full of surprises
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Astonishing agony and ecstasy from the Cardiff Singer of the World, plus the best of March’s classical concerts
All the songs at Louise Alder’s recital shone out in their own true, rich colours – which was quite a feat as the musical range was so vast
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Behind the music
The stories behind the greats - a celebration of musical nostalgia
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Hawkwind’s Dave Brock: ‘They phone me up every day to check I haven’t died’
On tour again, the Hawkwind frontman talks about the Blitz, sacking Lemmy and why ill health won’t stop him
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The gun-toting nurse who became one of Africa’s biggest rock stars
Sahra Halgan gave up her dreams to fight against Somaliland’s vicious dictator. Now, she’s on the warpath
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Kurt Cobain: unseen family photographs of Nirvana’s broken idol
Thirty years after the troubled musician joined rock’s most tragic club, he is adored by a generation who weren’t yet born when he died
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The Libertines’ Carl Barât: ‘I tried to get into heroin like Pete but fortunately I hated it’
The lead guitarist on addiction, depression, Kate Moss, and the night Mark Blanco died
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