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You might be feeling a bit jaded after overindulging last night. But fear not, we have an aural cure featuring Massive Attack, Brian Eno and Spiritualized.

25 July 2021 There's much more to folk rock than its hey nonny nonny roots, as Jimmy Page will attest. These ten essential albums prove it (Image credit: Gems/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images ) Rock musicians spent half the 1960s nicking ideas off the folkies. You only have to take a brief listen to Jimmy Page’s Black Mountain Side instrumental on Led Zeppelin’s 1969 debut alongside folk guitarist Bert Jansch’s Black Water Side (see what he done there?) on his 1966 album, Jack Orion, to realise that they are even closer than the (not so) subtle title change suggests. Fast forward ...

David Bowie is selected twice in Gatti’s survey. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images David Bowie is selected twice in Gatti’s survey. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images A collection of writers on their most cherished albums reveals who rates David Bowie higher than Leo Tolstoy and who fell in love with Joni Mitchell on a golf course Sat 5 Jun 2021 07.00 EDT The public airing of musical tastes doesn’t always bring out the best in human nature. The scope for being snobbish, competitive, judgmental, braggish (humble or otherwise) and a long list of other petty vices i...

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"I’d been trying really hard for so long to connect with audiences, and then suddenly it happened in Ireland," David says. Photo: Derrick Santini Skellig, of course, is a reference to Skellig Michael, the much-mythologised pyramid-shaped island off the coast of Kerry that recently found global fame thanks to its use in one of the Star Wars films. Gray has not yet set foot upon the island — a home for hermit monks for centuries — but he intends to, one day. “When all this [the pandemic] is over,” he says, “I’d hope to be able to go there, but I know it’s not the easiest place...