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What’s in a name for baby born on 8 December? Octavian means ‘born eighth’, while Jagger’s father was called Basil
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A nervous Patti Smith sings ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ in Stockholm on Saturday, in a performance given to mark Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature
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Greg Lake, one of the key figures in the prog rock boom of the 1970s, has died at the age of 69 on Wednesday
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Madonna joins James Corden for a trip around New York in the latest episode of Carpool Karaoke from The Late Late Show aired on Wednesday.
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Lady Gaga visits a shelter for homeless LGBT teenagers in New York and tells them about her own struggle with PTSD
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Country singer Dolly Parton has created a ‘My People Fund’ to help victims of fires that have killed 10 people and laid waste to large parts of her home county in the Smoky Mountains
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It’s the 25th anniversary of the death of the Queen frontman on 24 November – test your knowledge of his life and times
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It’s our weekly test of your knowledge of pop arcania – come and have a go if you think you know enough
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A delinquent Door; a rapping Ramone; a generation of Whitesnakes; and a TV dispatch from our own correspondent
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The Morrison Hotel Gallery is hosting Long May You Run, a retrospective of Neil Young, charts his rise from Buffalo Springfield to refusing to settle down in his 70s
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Since the 1980s, Melody Maker’s Tom Sheehan has captured the Cure’s ascent from the underbelly of British alternative rock to global stadium headliners. Now Sheehan – who was even enlisted as frontman Robert Smith’s official wedding photographer – has compiled a record of his journey with the band in a new book, In Between Days
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A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips
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Since the 1970s, Ross Halfin has photographed the biggest names in rock and pop, capturing seminal shows by the Who, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Shots from his career will be exhibited at The Indulgence Show in London
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