Dour, charmless and intermittently tuneful: Yes, it’s Morrissey, pop’s tarnished ‘greatest lyricist’
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Why vinyl refuses to die
The inaugural Vinyl festival, which takes place over the May bank holiday weekend, is a boutique event celebrating the golden age of stylus and disc
Philip Seymour Hoffman: a strange kind of movie star
Rather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their own
Cult musician Lou Reed who walked on wild side
After a long career one of rock music’s most influential alternative music figures has died aged 71
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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