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“At four in the morning, I got a call from David Bowie. He said they needed a guitar player for Iggy Pop’s album”: As right-hand man for everyone from Mark Knopfler to Eric Clapton, ‘Session Man’ Phil Palmer more than earned his nickname

Armed with a Nocaster given to him by his uncle, the Kinks’ Dave Davies, Palmer became a go-to guitarist for some of music’s biggest names, landing an official role in Dire Straits – and narrowly missing out on playing Clapton’s MTV Unplugged set

Guitar World

"As an album it's pretty good but as a handbook for Mott's future it's fantastic": Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes (50th Anniversary Edition)

Mott The Hoople's David Bowie produced 1972 classic receives the now traditional 50th Anniversary remastered makeover (with bonus tracks)

Louder

“When I listen to Sheik Yerbouti and Joe’s Garage, it reminds me of what a giant he was." Frank Zappa's incredibly busy and industrious 1979

Terry Bozzio and Adrian Belew look back on the year Frank Zappa created Baby Snakes, Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage and more

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The story of David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy: "David wasn’t going to do the show, and his mum said, ‘No, you HAVE to work with Bing Crosby!’ She was a fan"

A schmaltzy TV special did not seem the most likely vehicle for a hit Christmas single, but this 1977 collaboration between David Bowie and Bing Crosby yielded an enduring classic that cuts across the generational divide

MusicRadar

“We couldn’t get a deal for Jethro Tull. The one person interested would only sign them if they dropped the flute player”: How Chrysalis rose from a booking agency to a leading prog record label

Chris Wright operated a business model that was more like a balancing act, with jail as the penalty for toppling - but Procol Harum, Trevor Rabin, Gentle Giant and others benefited from the approach

Louder

32 of the greatest onstage moments in the entire history of the rock guitar

Celebrating the pioneering, the spectacular, the unexpected and the unrepeatable

Louder

Barbie director Greta Gerwig says she wasn’t allowed Barbie dolls as a child

Film’s co-writer and director says her mother initially stopped her from having a Barbie doll

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Nile Rodgers says David Bowie wouldn’t have made it in modern music industry

Chic guitarist says streaming ‘has changed things considerably – and not for the better’

The Independent UK

David Bowie would have failed in today’s cut-throat music industry, says Nile Rodgers

Chic frontman said no label would give the artist time to produce a global hit record after early career struggles

The Guardian - UK

"I love that we do this thing that other musicians relate to": Page Hamilton on Helmet's rock royalty fans and advisors

Helmet leader Page Hamilton on playing with Bowie, catching a fragrant whiff of Ozzy Osbourne, and not turning into Night Ranger

Metal Hammer

‘It felt like being stripped naked’: the prisoners confronting their crimes with art

Dean Kelland has spent almost five years making art with inmates at Europe’s only fully therapeutic jail – with a little help from Elvis and David Bowie

The Guardian - UK

The gender-bending powers of eyeliner

"Eyeliner" author Zahra Hankir spoke to Salon about the many messages that eyeliner can convey beyond beauty

Salon

No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies

Together with Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, long celebrated film directors are proving that entering their ninth decade and beyond is no barrier to ambition

The Guardian - UK

Playground Sessions review

No name-calling, hair-pulling or lunch money-stealing going on here - just a generous dose of interactive piano tuition

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Why I ❤️ David Bowie's Hunky Dory, by My Morning Jacket's Jim James

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James on the classic 1971 album that introduced him to the joys of David Bowie

Marie Claire

32 Icons of the 1970s

Fashion, film, and music would never be the same.

The Guardian - UK

Alma Player obituary

Other lives: Member of the production crew for the BBC2 music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test

MusicRadar

“I am always able to come up with brand-new chords that no one has been stupid enough to sing over”: Page Hamilton on harmonic curiosity and the aggressive expansion of Helmet’s musical vocabulary

Hamilton discusses how drop tunings, NYC, fine art, Led Zep, the Bee Gees, Glenn Branca, jazz and soul all played their part in shaping Helmet's unique, uncompromising sound

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The Guardian - UK

Chandler Bing pyjamas, a Shrigley frisbee and Bowie’s scarf: it’s the arts Christmas gift guide 2023

A Bear apron, a Van Gogh vase, a reversible Frida Kahlo jacket, a Britney death metal T-shirt … here, curated by our arts team, are 30 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

Louder

“I was completely petrified by Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights on TV. Anyone I was scared of I was interested by”: How Matt Berry discovered prog

Toast Of London star and self-taught musician became a fan of Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and more

Louder

We’ve combed Spotify to find out the least popular songs by Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC and more

The Guardian - UK

‘I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise’: meet the world’s most prolific film extra

As a new film spotlights her 60-year career, record-breaking film extra Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David Bowie

Louder

When audience members attack: Six times a rock star was injured by someone in the crowd

Musicians should always feel safe onstage: sometimes, they're clearly not - and people need to stop throwing stuff

Evening Standard

David Bowie lyric sheet set to fetch thousands at auction

The lyrics date from Bowie's 1970s heyday

Louder

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

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