music
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Rapper woken by police smashing down door of his London home after reports he was burgling it
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Following snub of Beyoncé’s Lemonade in major categories, Stevens joins growing criticism of Grammys’ poor track record of honouring black artists
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DJ claims he spent the weekend ‘talking to friends who work in DC’ and could ‘accurately’ post insider information on the Trump presidency
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Stars from the music world turn out in force on Sunday night in LA for the 2017 Grammy awards ceremony
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1997 was a year of many influential album releases. We’d like to know more about the ones that have made a lasting impression on you 20 years on
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video
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The Inna De Yard project invites legends of the Jamaican reggae scene to record outdoors, high up in the hills surrounding Kingston
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Puppets and opera aren’t such strange bedfellows, as this exclusive video of Wattle and Daub’s new show proves
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The rock star, who is on tour in Australia, says ‘our hearts and our spirits are with all the millions of people’ who marched against the new US president
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Musician Gary Kemp, a lifelong fan, and Nicholas Pegg, author of The Complete David Bowie, reflect on life without the Starman as they take a tour of some of Bowie’s London haunts
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George Michael, one of Britain’s biggest pop star of the 1980s, has ‘passed away peacefully’ at his Oxfordshire home
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Kanye West and Donald Trump meet at Trump Tower on Tuesday. Trump says the rapper is a good man
interviews
quizzes
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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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How many of the classical world’s comings and goings, openings and closings, bouquets and brickbats do you remember from the past 12 months? Try our quiz
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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
in pictures
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A new book collects the Photoshopped fantasies of rap mixtape covers – from riffs on Top Gun and Game of Thrones to sadistic violence and political commentary
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Adele, Solange and Rihanna were among the most fierce and fashionable at the 59th annual music awards show
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Singer Aretha Franklin has announced she will retire – after recording one final album with Stevie Wonder – 61 years on from the release of her first record. The Queen of Soul revealed her plans on a Detroit TV channel, saying: ‘I must tell you, I am retiring this year’
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