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The composer says he feels the era of making money from albums is over for most artists.

“THAT’S commercial,” said a character in Derek Jarman’s film, Jubilee, which was a bit ironic, really, because nothing in that film was commercial, even

Last month we wondered – aloud, and over 14 pages – whether 1977 was a classic year for music. This month, we contend, over a similar number of pages,

Do you ever wonder what was the greatest year ever for music? Some reckon it was 1956, the dawn of rock’n’roll, others that it was 1966, when Blonde On

Welcome back from suspended animation on Venus if you didn’t know that, imminently, the nation will be celebrating the platinum jubilee of the Queen. To

10 August, 1985  Some believe it was Sir Winston Churchill who was responsible...

Featuring Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?, Comfort Blanket and Taking on Putin

Once upon a time as everybody knows and I have said a lot here, almost all songs were cover versions. Even after the idea of copyright had been, er,

For this month’s cover story, we celebrate the twin anniversaries of David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Roxy