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Reimagining Classics: Hollywood's Top 10 Cover Songs Explored

Discover Hollywood's Top 10 cover songs, as talented artists put their unique spin on classic hits, giving them a fresh and exciting new sound.

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OPINION - Why Harry Styles is definitely a gay icon (even if you think he's queerbaiting)

Harry Styles is, to the gays, a lot like feather boas. Loads love them, just as many prefer to keep a wider berth.

Evening Standard

"David Bowie said, I hear you play a mean piano": Rick Wakeman on playing on Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, then turning down David Bowie's invitation to join The Spiders From Mars on the same day he joined Yes

Rick Wakeman was a popular and much in-demand musician in the early '70s, as his friend David Bowie would discover to his cost

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"If anyone tries to tell you that Max’s wasn't a drug den, then they are lying to cover their now-respectable asses": the story of the club that provided a safe haven for New York's creatives, freaks and weirdos

Home to the Velvet Underground, Warhol, Bowie and the New York Dolls, Max’s Kansas City was about so much more than just the music that was played there

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"I walked into my publicist's office saying, 'I've got the formula. I've cracked it.' And that was the minute I stopped having the formula": How Roll Away The Stone was the beginning of the end for Mott The Hoople

Roll Away The Stone was such an obvious hit The Hollies tried to steal it sway, but it was effectively Mott The Hoople's final chartbuster

Louder

A musical tour of Berlin: from Wagner’s epic opera to techno raves

In our new series, we explore a city through its musical landmarks and songs. First stop, Germany’s hip, historic capital, home to trailblazing clubs and inspiration for Dietrich and Bowie

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The 32 greatest '80s actors

As the Cold War ended and shopping malls sprang up, these were the biggest stars on the screen

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“By the time I swapped over the tapes I knew I was in the stinky brown stuff. Somebody said, ‘God help us’ … the budget for the cover was cut back”: How Rick Wakeman proved everyone wrong with The Six Wives of Henry VIII

His 1973 debut solo album was roundly hated by label bosses and reviewers – but it became a coffee-table classic and gave him freedom from Yes

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“She has managed to maintain her position without ever once being sucked into the creative vacuum of celebrity culture”: The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know

Supported by established artists, secured in a family business and a star by the age of 21, her vision and clarity made her prog’s first pop star (and pop’s first prog star)

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“I got a call from David Bowie’s people to record Let’s Dance. I became a big advocate of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the studio. Nobody else could play like him”: Session bass great Carmine Rojas shares the stories behind his awe-inspiring resume

Despite suspecting he used the wrong bass on Tina Turner’s Foreign Affair, the veteran dedicates himself to being a supporting player and learning every day with the likes of Keith Richards, Joe Bonamassa and Billy Gibbons

Guitar World

"Rock doesn’t need saving in 2024, but it’s nice to be reminded just how thrilling and relatable three chords and the truth can still be." 'Saviors' is inarguably Green Day's best album in 20 years

After the limp misfire of their last album, Green Day clearly have something to prove

Metal Hammer

“When you’re the bass player and it’s time for the solo, you go nuts, because you’ve been playing rhythm for everyone else for so long!” Tony Visconti on David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold The World

Spurred on by guitarist Mick Ronson, Tony Visconti’s bass playing ranged from the wildest of improvised runs to proto-heavy-metal support

Guitar World

Amazing lost TV footage of The Sweet has been recovered after 50 years

Watch The Sweet play Alexander Graham Bell on Lift Off With Ayshea in 1971, the year before they hit the big time

Louder

The BBC is set to auction thousands of rare records including Bowie, Beatles, and Pink Floyd gems

The broadcaster will be selling over 400 lots later this month, some including hundreds of class recordings.

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‘Bowie’s teeth were bleeding’: Mott the Hoople on making All the Young Dudes with David

‘We went for a pizza after it came out, with Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit. He was suffering from malnutrition. Starman came on and he said, “Your song will be on soon”’

Louder

8 obscure but brilliant 1970s glam rock songs

Def Leppard singer and ’70s glam connoisseur Joe Elliott on 10 glitter rock masterpieces

Radio France Internationale

Rue David Bowie, a space oddity in Paris for pop icon's fans

Paris has a new road: Rue David Bowie. The French capital this week became the first city in the world to name a street after the late British music icon – but why here?

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Mark Kermode on… director Christopher Nolan, a magician of cinema as memory

From Memento to the Golden Globe-winning Oppenheimer, the head-scrambling British-American director has revelled in using cinema as a time machine – and a conjuring trick

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‘We came away awestruck’: 13 writers on Europe’s hidden treasures, from Chagall in Kent to Rome’s secret Caravaggios

David Bowie’s Berlin bolthole and the world’s most stolen artwork in Ghent are among the cultural icons that our writers have long wished to visit

Evening Standard

Tories call on Elon Musk for election help, claiming X is biased

Some Conservatives claim Community Notes favour the Left

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51 Moments Fathers Had To Pick A Name For A Baby, But Failed Epically, As Shared Online

51 times dads were in charge of baby names and it wasn’t good, as shared in this viral online thread. The post 51 Moments Fathers Had To Pick A Name For A Baby, But Failed Epically, As Shared Online first appeared on Bored Panda.

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"If we make this record and it sells, then if nothing else some of our heroes can get some royalties": The stories of the songs that powered Guns N' Roses' strangest and most understood album

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Louder

David Bowie: curator, mentor, nurturer, counter-intuitive collaborator, hard rock lover, surfer of the zeitgeist, Tin Machine genius

The death of David Bowie in 2016 sent a seismic shock through the music world, but his chameleon career colours a legacy that endures far beyond his passing

International Business Times

Paris Names Street After David Bowie

The city of Paris on Monday named a street after rock music icon David Bowie, a first in honour of the singer eight years after his death.

The Independent UK

Paris names a street after David Bowie celebrating music icon's legacy

Paris is immortalizing British music icon David Bowie by naming a street after him in the city’s southeast on what would have been his 77th birthday

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