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Tricky: ‘I was less nervous going to prison than I was getting on stage’

As his debut Maxinquaye gets reissued, the Bristolian music legend answers your questions on Beyoncé, Bob Marley and annoying Gary Oldman with a Twix

The Guardian - UK

Gary Wright obituary

Singer and songwriter whose 1976 hit Dream Weaver combined yearning vocals with a haunting and distinctive synthesiser sound

The Guardian - UK

5 songs guitarists need to hear by... John Martyn

Brilliant, inventive, troubled, there was never a folk guitar player like Martyn, whose appetite for experimentation created a sound that resonated far beyond guitar culture

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‘I felt his vibration!’ Sonny Roberts, the UK’s first Black music studio owner

The Jamaican immigrant producer and entrepreneur, who is being honoured with a blue plaque this week, laid the foundations for a vibrant British reggae scene

The Guardian - UK

Procol Harum: The epic story of A Whiter Shade Of Pale

More than half a century ago Procol Harum recorded the unlikeliest, best-selling, most bitterly-contested drug anthem of all time

Louder

Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack review – folk’s fragile man of mystery

This definitive study of the venerated singer-songwriter, who died at 26, examines his alarming unravelling and short life of artistic torment

The Guardian - UK

The star-studded mountaintop utopia that wasn’t

The creators of a "Ted meets Burning Man" conference set out to build a utopia for tech elites and celebrities on Powder Mountain, but it didn't work out quite as planned.

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Kidjo, Blackwell, Pärt awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize

Singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award

The Independent UK

From lovable weirdos to queer icons, the B-52's dance this mess around one last time

LOS ANGELES — Forty-three years after the release of their weird, wonderful debut album, the B-52's are calling it a wrap.

Los Angeles Times

Inez Foxx obituary

Soul singer who with her brother Charlie was best known for their much-covered hit Mockingbird

The Guardian - UK

The Islander by Chris Blackwell review – maverick who brought Bob Marley to the masses

This compelling autobiography charts the rise of the Island Records founder who became as much of a legend as the acts he championed

The Guardian - UK

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell: ‘I’m interested in what’s different’

In a wide-ranging new memoir, the impresario who worked with Bob Marley, Roxy Music and U2, talks about his incredible life in the industry

The Guardian - US

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