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Queen. Bowie. Heath Ledger. No wonder A Knight’s Tale is a classic

FLASHBACKS: Millennials understood that a movie that mixed Heath Ledger in armour with David Bowie and Geoffrey Chaucer couldn’t go wrong. Patrick Smith salutes the return of a lurid, anachronistic trendsetter

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Yungblud wants to record a Bond theme with Oasis

Yungblud has revealed he would jump at the chance to team up with Oasis on a James Bond theme.

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“It went totally sour. After we did the album thing, it was like, ‘This isn’t happening’”: Why Nile Rodgers and John Mayer’s collaboration was derailed – because of a Rolling Stones album

Rodgers and Mayer swapped albums ahead of a potential partnership – but their differing tastes at the time meant it all fell apart

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"He walked into my bedroom, and he says, Darling, I think this is a hit." How a disco legend and a hotshot Texan blues guitarist helped resurrect David Bowie's career

"Rock and roll is a business and David wasn’t selling any records in America"

Louder

From Kurt Cobain's death to Beyoncé's Illuminati ties: The weirdest music conspiracy theories

Warning: This article contains references to suicide, drug use and plenty of baseless conspiracy theories. Tin hats on, sheeple...

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Harry Styles to curate 2026 Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre: 'I'm deeply honoured'

Harry Styles follows the likes of David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Chaka Khan, Grace Jones and Patti Smith in arranging the festival’s line-up

Evening Standard

Harry Styles to curate 2026 Meltdown Festival

British pop star joins a long line of prestigious past curators including David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith and Elvis Costello

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“David shook my hand and said, ‘Here’s the song I want to do.’ It was Golden Years. I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie

As a member of Bowie’s band, George Murray cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters

Guitar World

“One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’”: How to replicate the trailblazing pulse of I Feel Love

I Feel Love’s innovative electronic rhythm section set the stage for pretty much everything that followed, and here’s how you can recreate its bewitching energy in your DAW

MusicRadar

The Guide #230: From Oasis to Bowie, your stories of seeing pre-stardom acts

In this week’s newsletter: Everyone has to start somewhere … and in front of someone. Thankfully, these soon-to-be-huge artists left the mime act and dodgy covers (mostly) in the past

The Guardian - UK

A New Subject Is Here. ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Brings a New Energy in the New Trailer

Let's all listen to "Long Face" on repeat until a new song comes along.

The Mary Sue

Half-term fun for cultural families

Half-term problems solved for culturally-minded Londoners with children who have no choice but to tag along

Evening Standard

The Uncool by Cameron Crowe audiobook review – memoir of an awestruck insider

The film-maker and author narrates this vivid account of his wide-eyed adventures as a young music journalist in 70s America, hanging out with heroes from David Bowie to Led Zeppelin

The Guardian - UK

20 Famous Songs With Hidden Stories That Will Change The Way You Listen Them

Here are 20 famous songs with hidden stories that will change how you hear them.

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From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked!

As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop

MusicRadar

“He knew one day someone would come and look through this stuff. They’re not objects for veneration to be kept in a box": Rare footage of Bowie from 1978 to be included in new ‘immersive’ show

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone opens in April

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New David Bowie exhibition to feature ‘holy grail’ footage of icon

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David Bowie immersive experience You’re Not Alone set to open at London's Lightroom

David Bowie fans will get a chance to journey into the mind and music of one of pop culture’s most transformative figures.

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The Independent UK

Immersive David Bowie exhibition to offer close-up of ‘the man behind the masks’

Rare and previously unseen footage to feature in a show that celebrates Bowie as ‘a champion of human creativity’

The Guardian - UK

‘Holy grail’ footage of David Bowie at his peak to feature in immersive London show

Earl’s Court performance of Heroes in 1978 is among highlights of exhibition exploring singer’s life and work

Evening Standard

You're Not Alone: New immersive David Bowie show to open in London

The show at Lightroom will aim to give fans insight into Bowie’s creative processes as well as featuring some iconic performances

Guitar World

“I asked for a cash discount. The shop assistant said, ‘I could phone up Eric Clapton and he’d come and buy it’”: Robert Fripp’s life in three guitars

The King Crimson founder has enjoyed the company of all kinds of guitars in his time –from the good, bad to the ugly – but these are the three that have meant the most to him

Evening Standard

Patsy Kensit dates at Scott’s, dines at Benihana and gets breathalysed with Mariella Frostrup

The actor and Cool Britannia poster girl on her favourite spots in the capital

MusicRadar

“We did that song, I think, the day that David Bowie died… It just kind of flowed”: Anderson .Paak on how the death of a music legend inspired Dang!, the 2016 pop-rap masterpiece that he would eventually record with Mac Miller

“He sat with it for like, a couple weeks and sent it back,” he says of Miller’s contribution. “He had his verse. He had put horns on it, and that's when I realised, ‘Oh, he's like, a producer, too. He's a real musician’”

The Independent UK

Mark Ronson to be honoured with outstanding contribution award at 2026 Brits

Ronson joins a distinguished list of artists to have won the award, including David Bowie, Oasis and Sir Elton John

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