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Pop star Madonna sleeps with a purple stuffed octopus

Madonna has revealed that she sleeps with a purple stuffed octopus.

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Gender-bending is now part of menswear. Paris runways show how mainstream it has become

At Men's Fashion Week in Paris, women were everywhere, walking coed runways and modeling menswear

The Independent UK

"I just couldn’t relate to him at all. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?" When David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen first met in 1974, it did not go well at all

On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men

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‘I can out-dance Bowie and Jagger!’ Martha Reeves on Motown, Dancing in the Street and smashing crockery with Dusty Springfield

Now 84, the voice of Heat Wave and Jimmy Mack is releasing a new album. She answers your questions on Marvin Gaye, popularising the roundabout and why she hates cover versions of her songs

The Guardian - UK

In which decade was this drag queen photographed? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz

In the final instalment of our five quizzes, the V&A Storehouse in London set 15 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collection

The Guardian - UK

"In the studio the baby I picked couldn’t put two gurgles together. I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip." The stories behind David Bowie's Labyrinth soundtrack album, now celebrating its 40 anniversary

The five songs David Bowie recorded for Labyrinth were never performed live, but that doesn't mean they weren't special to him, or to fans

Louder

“Sylvian then felt justified in mixing our work alone – which by any other name would be known as hijacking”: The destructive breakdown of a band that reached artistic greatness only to fall apart due to internal tensions – twice!

While Rain Tree Crow was an unlikely second chapter for Japan, its existence proved that their collective talent was too rare to walk away from

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Pop icon Madonna reveals how David Bowie inspired her

Pop star Madonna has discussed her admiration of David Bowie.

BANG Premier

From surprise Foo Fighters and The Prodigy chaos to hip hop, metal and punk rock takeovers, these are the 15 greatest Glastonbury festival performances ever

Glasto is the biggest festival on Earth - and these are its very best moments

Louder

From a Shakespeare First Folio to Bowie’s handwriting: inside Mona’s new $100m library of 30,000 books

After 10 years of planning, four years of construction and a budget that blew out almost 10 times over, Phrontisterion is finally open in Hobart

The Guardian - AU

“The rock business has become so established, and so much like a society, that I have revolted against it." After killing off Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie recorded a covers album in a French castle. This is the story of Pin Ups’ creation

After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed

Louder

Sneak peek at MONA's $100m underground library

After more than four years of construction, Tasmania's MONA will open its new library containing owner David Walsh's personal collection.

AAP

“I’m sick of people saying Walk On the Wild Side is a classic. I got paid £12, and David Bowie didn’t even show up”: Session bass legend Herbie Flowers on the making of Lou Reed’s 1972 hit – and the hardest session he ever did

Having recorded over 20,000 sessions for the likes of David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, T.Rex, Paul McCartney and Elton John, Brian ‘Herbie’ Flowers was not your average bassist

Guitar World

Syd Barrett 80th birthday celebrations include tribute concert in Cambridge and tribute album featuring Pink Floyd, David Gilmour and more...

A special tribute concert at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, where Syd Barrett played his last ever live show, will take place in October

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The Guardian - UK

‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history

Today, Jim Henson’s dark fairytale is seen as a classic of 80s high camp. But on release, it bombed. Here, members of the cast and crew remember laughter, tricky puppets and Henson’s ‘joyful magic’

Louder

"We got mad at a promoter and threw donuts at the wall backstage. Then we cleaned it up, because we felt guilty." The unlikely triumph of rock'n'roll's greatest nerds, the B-52s

How new-wave eccentrics The B-52s spun lobsters, aliens and Yoko Ono into floor-shaking hits and became massive

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If You Can Find It, You Should Check Out This '90s Hidden Gem About A Bisexual Rock Star

Hang all together!

Louder

How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

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“We never wanted David to write the score. It would have been a cliché”: Why Ryuichi Sakamoto’s spellbinding theme from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence remains so captivating

We take a deeper look at the theory underpinning Ryuichi Sakamoto’s gorgeous, award-winning theme from the movie that gave him his acting and scoring debut

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7 Music Idols With Age Gaps So Disturbing, Fans Still Can’t Move On

Here are 7 music idols with age gaps so disturbing fans still can't move on.

The Guardian - UK

Readers reply: If an alien asked you: ‘What is music?’ what would you play for them?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions comes up with an epic extraterrestrial playlist for Earth’s first contact from beyond the stars

Guitar World

“I wasn’t shocked by Angine de Poitrine. Microtonalism has always been there. When Hendrix played 20 cents sharp, it’s the most beautiful thing he played”: David Torn is playing louder and heavier than ever, leaving a trail of trashed bridges in his wake

The prolific guitarist, producer and film composer reflects on his first solo album in a decade, lessons learned across a long career, and his rejection of “guitarists living in the hero age”

Louder

"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation

The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop

The Guardian - UK

Bigfoot, ‘slutfluencers’ and a David Bowie-powered gay fantasia: Edinburgh festival 2026’s must-see theatre

Plays about political extremes, religious sects, swimming the Channel and an 80th birthday party are among the highlights at this summer’s arts spectacular

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David Bowie's '70s Jacquard Sofa Predicted the Anti-Trend Look Dominating Our Living Rooms in 2026

A peek into David Bowie's living room from 1972 demonstrates that more is more – it's the same look we're taking guidance from this year

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