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From Beyoncé to a jubilant musical roll call, music ignites the Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago is providing a spectacle for music-lovers.

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Battle for Beyoncé: Trump tries to steal Harris’s campaign song – but could it backfire?

Freedom has become the Harris campaign’s anthem, after Beyoncé gave the vice president permission to use the song

The Independent UK

13 of the best classic funk and soul tracks to test your system

These classic soul bangers from days gone by will sort the funk from the junk.

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Issac Hayes' Trump cease-and-desist

The former president was also recently warned by Celine Dion's management to halt the use of "My Heart Will Go On"

Salon

Isaac Hayes estate sues Trump campaign over use of song ‘Hold On, I’m Coming’

Family sought $3m in fees before lawsuit but warned litigation could cost Trump even more

The Independent UK

Family of Isaac Hayes threaten Donald Trump with lawsuit over use of song in rallies

Family call for $3m in licensing fees stemming from Trump’s frequent use of the Hayes-penned Sam & Dave track Hold On, I’m Comin’

The Guardian - UK

‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ closed out Trump’s convention speech. The songwriter says he didn’t want it played

‘We create music for uplifting people, not separating them,’ David Porter, who co-wrote the iconic track with R&B legend Isaac Hayes, told The Independent

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‘It became a beacon of hope’: the incredible story of Stax Records

A new docuseries traces the highs and lows of the Memphis record label, soaring with major acts like Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes but a victim of both capitalism and racism

The Guardian - US

"With music, you seem to take it all in and it becomes immersive. Music has a power all its own": The Cure's Reeves Gabrels picks the 10 records that changed his life

Former David Bowie and current Cure guitarist Reeves Gabrels picks ten singles that left a lasting impact

Louder

32 Movies Featuring Professional Musicians

These movies sing, thanks to this professional musicians that stretched their talents into acting.

Cinemablend

Richard Roundtree: how Shaft’s ‘first Black action hero’ changed culture for ever

With his smarts, swagger and unapologetic sexuality, Roundtree – who died on Tuesday aged 81 – spearheaded a new type of Black masculinity in mainstream cinema

The Guardian - UK

Richard Roundtree's best ever roles, from Shaft to Roots, as the iconic actor dies aged 81

The actor's Shaft films were among the first of the Blaxploitation movies that changed Hollywood in the Seventies

Evening Standard

‘It was an out of body experience’: looking back at the Wattstax music festival

In 1972, the largely Black community of Watts came together for a giant music event from Stax Records, captured in a thrilling, re-released documentary

The Guardian - US

Burt Bacharach created music for all the ways men fall in love

American composer Burt Bacharach, who has died at the age of 94, is arguably one the greatest songwriters of all time. With hits going back to the 1950s, Bacharach continued working until the age of 92.

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Los Angeles Times

Burt Bacharach: 20 essential songs

Music poured out of Burt Bacharach like martinis out of an ice-cold shaker.

The Guardian - UK

Jim Stewart obituary

American producer and executive who co-founded Stax Records in the late 1950s

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies at age 92

The white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player co-founded the influential record label with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful "Memphis sound."

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies

Jim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful “Memphis sound,” has died at age 92

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The Guardian - UK

Jim Stewart, founder of Stax Records, dies aged 92

Record producer signed many of soul and R&B’s most influential musicians, including Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes

The Guardian - UK

Monsters of doc: Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries

For our festival-averse film critic, movies about concerts and musicians are essential viewing – and he believes we are living through a golden age for the form

The Independent UK

Booker T. Jones performs at Stax, ahead of milestone

A performance by master keyboardist Booker T

The Guardian - UK

Mable John obituary

First female singer signed to Motown whose later hit for Stax, Your Good Thing, became a classic of deep soul

The Guardian - UK

From anal probes to Thom Yorke: the 25 best South Park episodes

As Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s nihilistically juvenile series turns 25, we look back on two and a half decades’ worth of celeb-packed, satire-loving wildness

The Independent UK

Family of soul musician Isaac Hayes calls out Trump for using song during NRA speech

The family of Isaac Hayes said his song, ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’’, was used by the former US president without permission

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