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As a new collection of his work, Phew, Eh Readers?, is published, former colleagues including Neil Tennant recall the irreverent music journalist’s phrasemaking genius

Singer told to rest for two weeks, forcing him to cancel gigs in California and Los Angeles

‘TOO many protest singers/Not enough protest songs.” So sang Scots former Orange Juice frontperson, Edwyn Collins, on his 1994 hit single, A…

Sometimes a petty disagreement can become a lifelong grudge. Louis Chilton picks 11 of the most notorious feuds between musical collaborators

The Eighties pop star talks his surprise renaissance as an internet meme, becoming a Smiths tribute singer and using the Mission Impossible team in his new music video

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There’s a scene in The Simpsons episode, Lisa The Simpson (1998), where Lisa is watching a jazz violinist’s performance and a man is criticising it. “You have to listen to the notes she doesn’t play,” Lisa says in the music’s defence. “I can do that at home,” the man drily…

They were used to write Smiths classics like Still Ill and What Difference Does It Make? As the star publishes a coffee-table book telling the stories of his most adored guitars, he remembers the loan to Noel that made him give up booze

Slow repatriation of women and children from Syrian refugee camps poses a risk to fully defeating Islamic State, lawyers for a group of Australians say.