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Sought-after session player best known for his collaborations with Ry Cooder and Jackson Browne

The children of the late singer-songwriter have filed a motion claiming that his signed trust, valued at $48m, was forged

The directors deserve great credit for this nuanced and even-handed account of Spector’s misdeeds

An email from Bono

A retired academic wants an apology for an historic firebombing of his home. Hone Harawira tells him to "get f***ed"

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

Mixing powerful French texts with a twang of American country music, Baptiste W. Hamon has been compared to Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs and even Leonard Cohen. He recently released a third album called “Jusqu'à la lumière”. He tells FRANCE 24’s Florence Villeminot about recording in Bristol with…

A fascinating collection of early fiction foreshadows motifs and concerns that Cohen the performer later mined across decades

A novella and short stories from the 1950s showcase Cohen’s fascinating self-fashioning, but also a taint of bitterness