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Arctic Monkeys Glastonbury headline set in chaos - possible replacements and fan theories

As festival goers fear Alex Turner's ill health will see the Arctic Monkeys pull out of headlining Glastonbury on Friday, we take a look at who could replace the I Wanna Be Yours hitmakers on the Pyramid Stage

Daily Mirror

The people who rejected or gave back their honours including Prince Philip, two Beatles, and Michael Sheen

Some big-name celebrities have turned down knighthoods and peerages for a number of reasons

Wales Online

‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads’: my 2,700-mile bike ride into Bowie’s Life on Mars?

Sailors fighting, Lennon on sale, all those mice … the single released 50 years ago this week is David Bowie at his most enigmatic. Could a cycling odyssey unravel its mysteries?

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‘If you have dreams, follow them!’ Paul Nicholas on Bowie, the Bee Gees, playing Jesus – and ruffling the king’s hair

In six decades in showbiz, he has been murdered by Screaming Lord Sutch, played the lead in Hair, had hit singles and a hit sitcom – and surprised Serge Gainsbourg

The Guardian - UK

His playing took Eric Clapton’s breath away and David Bowie called him the most exciting guitarist since Jeff Beck: how Stevie Ray Vaughan became a blues guitar hero

Inside the rise of the Jimi Hendrix-worshipping Stratocaster master, who delivered some of the greatest solos and tones in guitar history

Guitar World

‘Bowie said my Space Oddity was the most poignant version ever’: Chris Hadfield’s honest playlist

The astronaut and author was raised on Elton and does a soaring Stand By Me at karaoke, but which song did his hero allow him to perform in space?

The Guardian - UK

“David was furious: 'I won’t have that kind of disloyalty!’" The real reason David Bowie ended Ziggy Stardust and sacked the Spiders From Mars

50 years ago, David Bowie announced that he was playing his last ever show. It marked a split from the men who had revitalised his career – and it was all over money…

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Blondie star Debbie Harry bats off suggestion David Bowie shouldn’t have flashed her in the 1970s

’I think you should rethink that,’ singer said

The Independent UK

Bowie on film: the stories behind 10 classic David Bowie movies

From The Man Who Fell To Earth to The Hunger, this is the best of David Bowie on the big screen

Louder

Dancer who appeared in Labyrinth with David Bowie in fight with Peckham neighbours over garden wall

Susan Lee and her neighbours Vanessa and Andrew McVickers are at war over the brick wall that runs between their gardens in Peckham

Evening Standard

"Don't you EVER say that to me!" Lou Reed and David Bowie once had a fist-fight in a London restaurant and it got very, very ugly

When the Thin White Duke met Lou Reed's fists of fury

Louder

Watch David Bowie's electrifying performance of Fashion at the 1996 Fashion Awards for a reminder of how he was truly far cooler than us all

David Bowie appeared at the VH1 Fashion Awards in 1996 and strutted his way through a performance of Fashion and Little Wonder in his iconic Alexander McQueen Union Jack coat

Louder

20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did

The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

Louder

“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

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Sadiq Khan’s shades of grey over female authors at fiction prize

The mayor has revealed he likes Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James

Digital Camera World

Mick Hutson 1965-2023: "Most people’s reaction to my job is ‘you lucky sod!'"

Mick Hutson photographed pretty much every rock legend during his 37-year career, but his charm is what people loved

The Independent UK

Josh Hartnett on Black Mirror, Oppenheimer and saying no to celebrity: ‘I was on a different path’

The star of ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘The Virgin Suicides’ speaks to Adam White about going to space for ‘Black Mirror’, the truth about his ‘feud’ with Harrison Ford, and finally working with Christopher Nolan 20 years after turning down Batman

The Guardian - UK

Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure review – hot-girl-summer hedonism

Putting aside the high-concept Afrofuturism of earlier albums, the R&B shapeshifter blends Afrobeat, reggae and laidback soul into a hazily intoxicating cocktail of sex and partying

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A beginner’s guide to Krautrock in five essential albums

The genre with the joke name that stuck: With a sonic imprint still discernible in all corners of music, these are five albums that tell the story of Krautrock

The Guardian - UK

Peter Howson on his war art: ‘People were horrified. Then David Bowie bought it’

He was the official artist of the Bosnian conflict but paid a terrible price. The Scot, loved by celebrities from Bowie to Madonna, talks about the day he lost all hope, overcoming his addictions – and finding peace walking his dog Buster

Irish Mirror

'It was my choice to book Harry Styles for Slane - he's a modern-day David Bowie'

The Slane owner Lord Henry Mountcharles said: "It was my choice to book Harry. I think he is phenomenal and he is still so young."

iMore

C.ARP is a fun retro instrument iPhone app inspired by the Suzuki Omnichord

Get strumming with this fish-themed music-making keyboard based on the quirky 80's instrument beloved by the likes David Bowie, Bjork and Brian Eno.

The Week

Tina Turner obituary: ‘the Queen of Rock’n’Roll’

Tina Turner, who has died aged 83, was an “earthshaking singer whose rasping vocals, sexual magnetism and explosive energy made her an unforgettable live performer and one of the most successful recording artists of all time”, said The New York Times. She was also one of the music world’s great…

Louder

Watch David Bowie create Tina Turner in a laboratory in this Pepsi commercial

In 1987, the late Tina Turner appeared in a Pepsi ad with David Bowie, duetting on his 1983 song Modern Love

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art

Postwar artists wouldn’t have had a chance without affordable housing or social security, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University

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