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The US singer successfully bridged the worlds of pop music and jazz on a global scale for more than 60 years

Tributes have continued to pour in for Bennett from musicians such as Bonnie Raitt and Mariah Carey.

He had ups and downs both professional and personal, but by rejecting fashion and forging ahead with his jazz-informed, after-hours style, Bennett remained hugely admired

At that point, the Kiss bassist says, "Geddy played purely by ear." Of course, he continued, "later on, he learned what the notes were and stuff like that“

"We realised there was something very special happening," says collaborator Paul Muldoon

The British session ace on being asked to audition for the Rolling Stones, producing the Sex Pistols’ early demos and recording Robert Gordon’s final album

Here’s a look back at some of her most notable musical moments ahead of Barbie-fever well and truly landing

Snail bolognese and goat’s milk ice cream pep up Richard Corrigan’s upmarket brasserie menu at The National Portrait Gallery, writes Lucy Thackray

Delving into some of the best low-end tones of all time

Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,…

Dirty Honey's Justin Smolian opens up on touring with Guns N' Roses, and why Paul McCartney is still a bass playing genius