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Chris Porritt
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Songs about new beginnings – ranked!
From CMAT and the Carpenters’ fresh starts to the Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun and Nina Simone’s Feeling Good, starting again is a rich theme in pop. Here are some of the best examples
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January 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
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December 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The best art and photography of 2025
Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year
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December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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More than just Christmas everyday: Wizzard frontman Roy Wood’s 20 best songs – ranked!
He’ll be forever known for his festive hit, but Wood was virtually the face of 70s glam rock – writing and performing stomping hits with the Move, ELO and Wizzard
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December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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From Otis Redding to Booker T, Steve Cropper was a strong yet subtle force that shaped so many soul classics
The guitarist for Booker T & the MGs defined the sound of original R&B, co-creating soul anthems and proving himself one of the most influential musicians of the 60s
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December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Steve Cropper, legendary guitarist for Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Prolific musician was known for work on songs like Green Onions and Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
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December 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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‘Most of it was the conga preset on Prince’s drum machine’: how Fine Young Cannibals made She Drives Me Crazy
‘Prince’s Purple Rain guitar was in the corner of the studio and his lava lamps were everywhere. You couldn’t help but be inspired’
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November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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New film explores how Caribbean workers helped win second world war
Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort
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October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Set Design - Black Narcissus ( 1947 )
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October 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities
Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and London
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October 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The 8 essential non-single cuts from every Roxy Music album
Boasting one of the most dazzling art rock catalogue's in pop, we take a look at each Roxy Music album and highlight the key non-single cut.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked!
As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts
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September 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing
The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of pers...
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September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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From Kate Bush to Pentangle to T-Rex, the late Danny Thompson’s musical brilliance knew no bounds
The bassist, who has died aged 86, was an extraordinary and wildly versatile presence in British music, bringing his personality into everything he played
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September 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Guyana found huge oil reserves 10 years ago, so why are most people still poor?
With a ‘one-sided’ deal handing vast profits to the world’s top oil firms, many Guyanese ask when the energy bonanza will benefit them
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September 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Slickness, sarcasm and one-night stands: Supertramp’s 10 best recordings
After the death of co-frontman Rick Davies, we survey the best of the songwriting partnership with Roger Hodgson that propelled them to mass success in the 70s
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September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
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September 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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The Best ’70s Albums Ever Made
Eighteen flawless full-length statements from an era that could teach us a thing or two about how to party our way through general malaise.
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September 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers
In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakth...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop
From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions
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August 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!
Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius
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August 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?
Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive
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August 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Terence Stamp obituary
Strikingly handsome British actor hailed for his film roles in Far from the Madding Crowd, Billy Budd and Superman
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August 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Terence Stamp: a life in pictures
The actor Terence Stamp, one of the key faces of the 1960s and later the star of The Limey, Superman and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died at the age of 87. We look back at hi...
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August 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM