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The dazzlingly beautiful identical twins Mamaine and Celia Paget were born in 1916 and brought up in rural Suffolk – not the greatest springboard, you would think, for lives at the intellectual heart of the mid-20th century. Yet the list of their friends reads like a roll call of literary notables: Dick Wyndham, Peter Quennell,

In 1923 Compton Mackenzie responded to music-lovers’ pleas for a new magazine about records and launched The Gramophone

As American critic Ted Gioia puts it, 'For the first time in 500 years, people listen to music, and don’t even know the name of the artist or song. This is not by chance, but is an intentional move driven by powerful interests -- with the goal of shifting control from artists who create to technocrats who merely aggregate … Musicians now make only pennies where previously they made dollars'

Inspired by the divisive composer Edward Elgar, Sheeran goes into his mellow, misty-eyed mode for his seventh studio album

Michelle Assay traces a history of music inspired by William Shakespeare, uncovering a treasure trove of well-known as well as lesser-known gems

The actor, best known for his roles in A Room with a View and Four Weddings and a Funeral, shares five classical works that touched him deeply

Roger Daltrey talks to Louder about making "music to fight to", The Whos future, opera, orchestras, and liking "a growl"

Discover some fantastic music from the master of English Baroque, William Boyce

Patrick Hadley composed music of darkness and profound beauty, leaving behind an underappreciated canon. Why is he not better known?

Victor M. Cassidy on the mysterious and jumbled oeuvre of Wyndham Lewis.