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16 pop stars who did (or didn’t) make brilliant actors

From the highs of Meat Loaf, Lady Gaga and — really — Victoria Beckham, to the lows of Ed Sheeran, Adam White has curated 16 music icons that have tried their hand at acting to various degrees of success

The Independent UK

“He wasn’t like a mad scientist with all these live wires hanging around in the studio – the wires were all in his mind”: The prog credentials of pioneering producer Conny Plank

He helped create krautrock before his influence stretched round the progressive world via his belief that “craziness is something holy”

Louder

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, August 12 (game #428)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

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The 25 most overrated albums ranked, from The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper to Nirvana’s In Utero

THE COUNTDOWN: Sometimes critical hysteria hits, and records are hoisted into positions of historic importance. The Independent’s music team have chosen the most undeserving – you’ll probably disagree with every single one...

The Independent UK

First look: Sphere’s new exterior artwork draws on a need for human connection

Wallpaper* talks to Tom Hingston about his latest large-scale project – designing for the Exosphere

Wallpaper

‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

It was a seedy hotbed of sex, drugs, edgy music and A-list celebrities where Lou Reed and Andy Warhol partied alongside Blondie and Bowie. How did Max’s Kansas City fall apart?

The Guardian - UK

"I love Blackberry Smoke. They're the Status Quo of country": This is the soundtrack of legendary broadcaster Bob Harris's life

Old Grey Whistle Test legend 'Whispering' Bob Harris picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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“A showcase for wondrous mandolin and banjo… and the majesty and clarity of Maddy Prior’s voice”: Steeleye Span’s 50th anniversary edition of Now We Are Six

“A showcase for mandolin, banjo and Maddy Prior”: Steeleye Span’s Now We Are Six, 2024 edition

Louder

"Joe Elliott knows more about Mott than I do. You just have to sit back and listen to him": Ian Hunter's stories of Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and more

He’s Ian Hunter, solo artist and former Mott The Hoople frontman, and these are some of his stories

Louder

“That's when the phone lines all over the world collapsed… The moment came when people fully understood what this was for”: The creation of The Cars’ song Drive and how it soundtracked a humanitarian catastrophe

“The lyrics don't have to mean anything in an intellectual sense. They're endlessly interpretive. They just have to make an emotional sense”

MusicRadar

“It’s like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. We can’t live with each other and we can’t live without each other”: the tangled history of Rick Wakeman and Yes

Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman’s history with Yes goes back to the early 70s – but there have been plenty of bumps along the way

Louder

“Maynard had this fifty-yard stare and I was in the target zone. I thought he was ready to jump off stage and have a ruckus”: how A Perfect Circle made the funniest and most provocative rock album of the 2010s with Eat The Elephant

Death stares, Axl Rose and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy are all part of the story of Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel’s A Perfect Circle

Metal Hammer

Christine Anu: ‘I don’t think I was ready for any new material’

In our monthly series Headline Act, we spotlight the Australian artist we’re most excited about – and they make us a playlist

The Guardian - AU

David Bowie's Legacy Compilation Hits 400 Weeks On U.K. Chart

David Bowie's Legacy compilation achieves 400 weeks on U.K. albums chart, highlighting his enduring influence and impact on the music industry.

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Guitar World

5 easy ways to make open chords more interesting

Players such as David Bowie and Joni Mitchell have deployed alternate voicings to great effect in their songwriting, and they can be a powerful songwriting tool to have under your belt

Evening Standard

'Hedonistic hideaway' on rock 'n' roll Eel Pie Island in Twickenham on the market for £3.25 million

Palm Beach is a house on the residents-only island where David Bowie and The Rolling Stones used to hang out in the Sixties

Louder

“I thought Syd could do no wrong. It’s so sad that he couldn’t continue with the fever he started with. ” Why David Bowie was “passionately in love with” Syd Barrett and took huge influence from his “magical" time in Pink Floyd

"His impact on my thinking was enormous." David Bowie on Syd Barrett

Woman & Home

The most hilarious moments in British TV

From sitcoms to reality TV blunders and news bloopers, we chart the funniest (and most shocking) British TV moments

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“I just couldn’t relate to him at all. It was a bad time for us to have met. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?” When David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen first met in 1974, it did not go well

On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men

MusicRadar

“To me, it's kind of milking a dead cow”: Beatles engineer Ken Scott on the release of Now and Then, the band’s final single, in 2023

“It's more to do with the fact that I know that George was not particularly fond of finishing it off back in the day,” he says

The Conversation

Ziggy Stardust: how David Bowie developed the role that would bring him undying fame

In 1964, a bunch of mop-topped young men appeared on the BBC’s early evening Tonight programme, being interviewed by a mildly bemused, but not unfriendly, Cliff Michelmore to promote the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men”. Their spokesman, making his first television appearance, was 17-year-old David Jones.

The Guardian - UK

Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

Produced using software that means that the film is different every time it is shown, this presents the former Roxy Music man as a restlessly creative mind

Guitar World

“Seymour Duncan went to work. He dragged it through the grass. Put motor oil on it. Chipped it. Frank Zappa said, ‘If you wanted to ruin your guitar, Adrian, why didn’t you loan it to a friend?’” Adrian Belew’s number one Stratocaster has lived a life

Is this the first relic'ed guitar? Belew says so, and it's graced records by Zappa, Talking Heads, David Bowie and King Crimson. It has been on the cover of GW. It is still in service

The Guardian - UK

I Was There by Alan Edwards review – the rock gods’ right-hand man

The ‘godfather of British music PR’ delivers a raw, warm and anecdote-packed account of sometimes bruising encounters with Bowie, McCartney, Jagger et al

The Guardian - UK

Euro 2024 is a party – but continent’s fractures are there for all to see

This Germany team could not emulate side of 2006 in a tournament intertwined with complicated nationalism

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