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“They certainly booed”: How Bob Dylan created one of his greatest songs as controversy erupted around him

60 years ago, in July 1965, one of Bob Dylan’s most celebrated and influential songs was released. Like A Rolling Stone was a ...
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The enduring appeal of the REM radio smash that Michael Stipe hated

The song was inescapable in the early 1990s, yet the shifting dynamics and sunny lyrics of REM's upbeat smash continue to ...

This is like the warm-up, it’s so early in my career – I want to win a Grammy for a solo track one day, says Cian Ducrot

SEVEN years ago when Cian Ducrot was an unknown, he predicted that he would win a Grammy Award for his songwriting. Back in February, that dream came true when the half-Irish, half-French ...
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‘If this happened when I was 21, who knows what would have happened? It probably would have been too much.’

Sean Momberger tells his side of the Not Like Us creation story and also discusses his collaboration with Mustard, the secret ...
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"I saw The Beatles and it all made sense”: The singer who scored two No.1 hits with the band that had once fired him

It was singer Kevin Cronin’s melodic sensibility that transformed REO Speedwagon into one of America’s biggest bands in the 1980s. And it was Cronin’s songs that gave the band their two US No.1 hits – ...
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“It’s a sad song, but so many people tell us they had it played at their wedding”: How a dejected indie folk gem became a wedding song staple

You couldn’t get away from the Lumineers’ Ho Hey when it was released back in 2012, but few people knew that the life-affirming anthem was actually a pained reflection on multiple heartbreaks ...