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• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music - "We asked some of our favorite artists to tell us about the sounds they cherish. Listen to their choices. In the past we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with piano, opera, cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, violin, Baroque music, sopranos, Beethoven, flute, string quartets, tenors, Brahms, choral music, percussion, symphonies, Stravinsky, trumpet, Maria Callas, Bach, the organ, mezzo-sopranos, music for dance and Wagner."
• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Renaissance Music - "Here’s your introduction to the shining, stirring sounds of a revolutionary period in cultural history."
• 5 reasons you should use Tidal over Spotify & Apple Music - "1. Masters of sound (quality) ... 2. Superior audio settings. ... 3. Third-party spatial audio support. ... 4. It pays artists better. ... 5. True lossless tracks for offline listening - at the highest quality available."
• 5 Things You Need to Know About Proper Vinyl Record Storage - "It's easy, as long as you follow the rules."
• 5 ways music changed in the 2010s - "Cast your mind back, if you can, to the 2010s."
• 8 Ways to Celebrate David Bowie’s Life in New York City - The New York Times.
• 10 Best Albums of 2020 - TIME Magazine.
• 10 Iconic Rock Albums from the 1970s Everyone Should Own - "The 1970s were flush with excellent - truly excellent - rock albums that icons have to be left off this list - say it ain’t so, George Harrison! Not only that but while we highlight groups like the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, they have multiple albums that could be on this list. But there is only room for one apiece. Albums everyone must not only listen to but listen to on repeat. Albums that should be owned on vinyl as well as digitally."
• 10 musicians who killed their careers in seconds - "Just because your time in the spotlight is gone doesn’t mean it’s entirely over, and many artists have successfully made second acts, either on the indie circuit or building themselves back up to at least a modest position in the music industry. Some may have been able to muscle through their controversial pasts, but they would never see the heights of their glory years ever again."
• 50 gigs that changed music - "Five decades after David Bowie’s seminal tour, our music writers reflect on the concerts that have left a mark, from Billie Holiday to Billie Eilish."
• The best albums & songs of 2020 - "In a confounding and overwhelming year, music has allowed us both to reflect on the state of the world and escape from it with equal brilliance, writes Nick Levine."
• 8 Beatles B-sides that were better than the A-sides - "The single is a curious thing for us in the 21st century. With streaming services now our primary way of discovering new music, the idea of picking up your favourite band’s new single from your local record store is the stuff of nostalgia-hued dreams. What’s perhaps even more alien is that those single releases always came with a B-side, an essential component to the vinyl releases that have since become a treasured piece of musical history."
• 10 Best Songs of 2018 - "Here are TIME’s best songs of 2018, from Ariana Grande’s 'thank u, next' to Childish Gambino’s 'This Is America'."
• 10 iconic ages of Madonna - "From here until the next reinvention, you will know her as Madame X."
• 10 most popular songs to die to, from Sinatra to Cyndi Lauper - "Marie Curie says music can help the dying connect with what it means to be human. Their playlist shows some want sombre reflection and some still want to have fun. The top ten: 1. My Way, Frank Sinatra. 2. I Will Always Love, Whitney Houston. 3. The Best, Tina Turner. 4. Over the Rainbow, Judy Garland. 5. Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper. 6. Angels, Robbie Williams. 7. What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong. 8. Beautiful, Christina Aguilera. 9. Hey Jude, The Beatles. 10. These Are the Days of Our Lives, Queen."
• 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts - "These are the songs that never end."
• 10 of the most expensive vinyl records to date - "Whether you're a seasoned vinyl junkie or have just recently discovered the beauty of analogue recordings ..."
• 10 songs supporting the world through lockdown - "With around half the world's population living under social distancing rules, many of us are turning to our favourite tunes for comfort. They're helping us to reflect, grieve or even dance around while we follow orders to stay at home."
• 10 Unforgettable Moments From Bob Dylan’s Career - "Bob Dylan is undeniably one of the most influential musicians to ever live. From Robert Zimmerman, a teenage rebel, to the winner of the Nobel Prize, Dylan can be whatever he chooses to be—and come out the other end as an icon. With his enduring legacy continuing to inspire countless generations, his life is chock full of memorable moments. We’re here to walk you through some of the freewheelin’ troubadour’s most iconic songs and performances across his decades-long career."
• 20 best songs of 2021 - "We celebrate everything from Lil Nas X’s conservative-baiting Montero to Wet Leg’s instant indie classic - as voted for by 31 of the Guardian’s music writers."
• 20 best songs of 2022 - "Alongside landmark records from Kendrick and Beyoncé, the year saw standout tracks from Steve Lacy, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more."
• 25 best pianists of all time - "The piano is one of the most popular musical instruments, but who plays it best? These are the 25 greatest to ever tickle the ivories..."
• 25 best songs from musicals - from Wicked to Cabaret - "As the film version of Wicked hits cinemas, our critics pick the best show tunes - from Mary Poppins to Les Misérables, from Cats to Cabaret."
• 27 CLUB - rock music artists who died at the age of 27.
• 27 Club is a myth but it adds to stars’ enduring fame - "That Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Amy Whitehouse all died at 27 was a fluke, but a study shows that it influences how well they are remembered."
• 41 era-defining music photos - From Elton John at the piano to Stormzy at Glastonbury & Madonna snogging Britney - "Icons, rock stars - and divas behaving badly: these photographs of musicians struck a chord around the world."
• 50 amazing albums you've never heard - The Telegraph.
• 50 best albums of 2018: the full list - "Our countdown is complete, and top spot goes to a timely blast of identity pop – adding to a fine selection of albums that range from the socially conscious to the political, as well as pure slices of ecstatic rock and cutting rap."
• 50 best albums of 2021: 50-41 - "Our countdown opens with a list of LPs that includes Gojira’s climate-crisis rally-cry and an uplifting house full-length from US producer Eris Drew."
• 50 Cent on love, cash and bankruptcy: ‘When there are setbacks, there will be get-backs’ - "Curtis Jackson was shot nine times before becoming one of the world’s biggest rappers. He discusses growing up, getting rich and the art of the hustle."
• 50 greatest Christmas songs - ranked! - "From John Fahey, the Sonics and the Waitresses to Slade, Wizzard and Mariah Carey, we count down the best festive numbers."
• 50 of the Best Workout Songs to Get You Motivated - "TIME's essential workout playlist is a mix of songs that are tried-and-tested crowd favorites and some deeper cuts worth your attention."
• 50 rising music stars to look out for - The Guardian.
• 60 greatest female singer-songwriters of all time - The Telegraph.
• 60 Times Madonna Changed Our Culture - "Power. Innovation. Identity. Madonna has blended all of these and much more into a singular career in music, fashion, movies and beyond that’s crossed boundaries and obliterated the status quo. For her 60th birthday, our writers assessed her broad and deep influence."
• 73 Outfits Prove That Lady Gaga Is Fashion’s Ultimate Shapeshifter - "Vogue is taking a look back at some of the star’s best ensembles over the years—the best 73 of them, to be exact."
• 100 best albums of the 21st century - "We polled 45 music writers to rank the definitive LPs of the 21st century so far. Read our countdown of passionate pop, electrifying rock and anthemic rap - and see if you agree."
• 100 best Christmas songs of all time - The Telegraph.
• 100 greatest songs of all time - The Telegraph.
• 200 Greatest Singers of All Time - "From Sinatra to SZA, from R&B to salsa to alt-rock." RollingStone.
• 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "For the first time in 17 years, we've completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of historic favorites, world-changing anthems, and new classics." Rolling Stone.
• 2016 Sunday Times Music Rich List
• 2021 GRAMMYs Awards Show: Complete Winners & Nominees List - "Find out who won in each of the 83 categories at the 2021 GRAMMY Awards show Sunday, March, 14."
• 2023 The Amplifier: The Best Songs Our Readers Discovered in 2023 - "Songs by Labi Siffre, Bessie Banks, the Brat and more that became invested with fresh meaning." The New York Times.
• 50,000 digitized pieces of vinyl can now be listened to on Internet Archive - The Verge.
• A musical tour of Europe's great cities: London - The Guardian.
• A musical tour of Europe’s great cities: Rome - The Guardian.
• Abba reunite for Voyage, first new album in 40 years - "Swedish hitmakers to release album of brand new material in November, and digital avatars will appear in London concert residency in 2022."
• Abbey Road zebra crossing repainted in coronavirus lockdown - "Council workers take advantage of the empty streets to spruce up the crossing featured on the cover of the 1969 Beatles album."
• Active rock chart - radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock plays contemporary rock artists with a mix of songs common in the classic rock radio format.
• Adele before & after 'Power of Makeup' makeover - "British superstar Adele sat down with beauty vlogger Nikkie de Jager for a tell-all 'Power of Makeup' session."
• Adele convinces Spotify to change the way it plays albums - "Adele wants you to listen to her album in order, and Spotify agrees."
• Adele Purchased Sylvester Stallone’s Los Angeles Compound For $58 Million - Under One Condition - "It turns out, Rocky has one very famous, and perhaps unexpected, fan Adele. The 'Easy On Me' singer purchased Rocky actor Sylvester Stallone’s sprawling Los Angeles compound in 2022 for a reported $58 million - a massive discount compared to the original asking price of $110 million. However, in a recent interview with WSJ, Stallone said that she would purchase the home under one condition: that she kept the Rocky statue by the pool. When asked if he wanted to keep the statue, he told WSJ: ''I did. But she said, ‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal,'' Stallone explained. 'She wanted the statue. I like what she’s doing; she’s making it gorgeous.'"
• Adele stands by decision to cancel Las Vegas residency: It wasn’t ‘good enough’ - "Adele has no regrets when it comes to canceling her Las Vegas residency in January, saying the show simply was not up to her standards."
• Adele sweeps gender-neutral Brit awards dominated by women - "In the first Brits ceremony to do away with gendered categories, women or female-fronted acts won 10 out of 15 overall awards."
• Air Guitar World Championships, in pictures - The Telegraph.
• All 43 Spice Girls songs - ranked! - "As the Spice Girls reconvene without Easy V (she don’t come for free) for a string of 2019 stadium shows, we sift their catalogue to decide what’s best."
• All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas's defining song - here's why - "When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple - but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns supreme over the holiday season. What is the secret of its success?"
• ALL THE GEAR YOU NEED TO RECORD A HIT SONG ON YOUR IPHONE - Wired.
• ALLMUSIC - a place for music fans to indulge their passion.
• ALLROVI - movies & music. Commercial database that compiles information about music and movies from the former services Allmovie and Allmusic.
• Amy Winehouse - 10 of the best - The Guardian.
• Amy Winehouse: The diaries of Amy Winehouse: ‘I’m the nutter of the class - loud & mouthing off!’ - "Using family photographs, journals, letters and handwritten lyrics, a new book sheds fresh light on the great singer’s life – while hinting at the tragedy to come."
• Amy Winehouse’s 20 greatest songs - ranked! - "With the 10th anniversary of her death this week, rediscover the best of Winehouse’s discography, where heartbreak and anger are mixed up with wit and joy."
• Amy Winehouse's heartbreaking private teenage journals are released by her parents - "Late singer wrote she was 'pleased to be different' and questioned if 'love was ever going to cross her path'."
• ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - English composer of musical theatre.
• AngÉlique Kidjo on pop, politics & power - "‘Africa has so much talent - we can’t even grasp it’. She’s played with everyone from Tony Allen to David Byrne. Now the Grammy winner is singing with a new generation of African stars, celebrating their continent while confronting its failings."
• Apple is making Shazam a bigger part of your iPhone - "iOS 14.2 can identify songs that are playing inside your apps."
• Apple Music: Complete Guide - "Apple Music is Apple's streaming music service, comparable to similar streaming services like Spotify, Amazon Music Unlimited, Google Play Music, Tidal, and others, though it has a leg up over many of its competitors with high-quality lossless audio and Spatial Audio support."
• Apple Music kicks off 10-day ‘100 Best Albums’ of all time countdown - "Apple Music will reveal 10 albums each day for the next 10 days. Here are the ranks for spots 100-91: 100. Body Talk, Robyn; 99. Hotel ..."
• Aretha Franklin: Jury reaches verdict in battle over Aretha Franklin’s estate - "Kecalf Franklin testified Monday that he believed the signature on the 2014 document is valid, particularly because it contains the smiley face 'characteristic' of Franklin’s signature."
• Aretha Franklin's 30 greatest songs - ranked! - "The queen of soul’s imperious late-60s, early-70s output was unsurpassed, but through the eras of disco, hip-hop and house, she always offered something special."
• Aretha Franklin’s sons battle over handwritten wills 5 years after her death - " Five years after her death, the final wishes of music superstar Aretha Franklin are still unsettled. An unusual trial begins next Monday to determine which of two handwritten wills, including one found in couch cushions, will guide how her estate is handled."
• Arpeggio - broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat some of the notes from the chord and span one or more octaves.
• Arthur Schopenhauer thought music was the greatest of all artforms - "Music is often labelled a 'universal language,' and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that."
• AUTO-TUNE EVO - "The Fastest, Easiest-To-Use, Highest-Quality Tool for Correcting Pitch."
• APOLLO THEATER - New York, U.S.A.
• Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) obituary - The Guardian.
• Artaria & Co. - was one of the most important music publishing firms of the late 18th and 19th century. Founded in the 18th century in Vienna, the company is associated with many leading names of the classical era.
• At 81, Ann-Margret Is Finally Living Her Rock ’n’ Roll Dream - "The actress and musician, who first burst out in Bye Bye Birdie in 1963, is releasing a new album of old rock covers featuring guests like her 'Tommy' co-star Pete Townshend."
• Avicii’s dad: 'I miss him every minute, but I get angry at him for leaving' - "On April 20, 2018, the world lost a music superstar, chart-topping DJ Avicii. Aged just 28, he tragically took his own life while on holiday in Oman."

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• Baby It's Cold Outside rewritten by John Legend to remove 'date-rape' lyric - "A new version of the 1944 duet, whose gender dynamics have long been argued over, will appear on Legend’s forthcoming Christmas album."
• Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) - catalogue of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• BACKSTAGE PASS - the stars' & celebrities' backstage (outrageous) wish lists.
• Barack Obama shares his summer playlist & it’s fire - "Tupac Shakur, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner make the cut."
• Barbra Streisand: ‘It’s the funniest thing to me that people still can’t get my name right’ - "In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows of her early career, the difficult transition into pop and how she rose above jabs at her appearance."
• Barbra Streisand on Her Pristine Early Recordings: ‘That Girl Can Sing’ - "'Live at the Bon Soir,' a restored set of songs from November 1962, allows listeners today - and Streisand, herself - to rediscover the sounds of a star being born."
• Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight - The New York Times.
• Beatles Albums to Go on Streaming Services at Midnight - The New York Times.
• Beatles Biographer Grapples With the ‘Paradox’ of George Harrison - "Philip Norman, the author of books about Paul McCartney, John Lennon and the Beatles as a group, discovers that Harrison was, among other things, a puzzle."
• Belieber - a fanatical devotee of the Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber.
• Beethoven: DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise Nearly 200 Years Later - "One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs and abdomen swollen, each breath a struggle."
• Beethoven's nine symphonies ranked, from worst to greatest - "From the iconic knocks of fate in Beethoven’s Fifth, to the unbridled joy of the final moments of the Ninth, Beethoven’s symphonies unquestionably define the symphonic genre."
• Bennifer rebooted! Why is Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez’s reunion so cheering? - "They were a tabloid dream, the super-cool fly girl and the eyeliner-wearing Caped Crusader. Now, 17 years on, Ben and Jen are together again. But what do the ultimate 00s couple mean to the TikTok age?"
• Best Festival Accessories & Gear - "The Best Festival Accessories and Gear. No matter the genre or location, these gadgets will upgrade your experience."
• Best Opera Recording Ever Is Maria Callas Singing ‘Tosca.’ Hear Why - The New York Times.
• Best Prince Videos Available on YouTube - Wired.
• best test tracks to trial your hi-fi system - "Test tracks that are particularly telling of a system's talents."
• Better Records - "Hot Stamper LPs - 100% Guaranteed Great Sound." A different kind of record store, specializing in finding LP pressings with unusually good sound.
• BeyoncÉ concert in Stockholm blamed for unexpectedly high Swedish inflation - "Swedish inflation fell below 10% in May, official statistics showed, but was still higher than expected with some analysts suggesting superstar Beyoncé had tipped the scales."
• BeyoncÉ officially has the most Grammys of any artist - Beyoncé was already a queen, but now she’s the queen of the Grammys.
• BIG BAND - Wikipedia.
• Billie Eilish: Growing up in public has been bruising - "Billie Eilish is the first person born in the 21st Century to win an Oscar. The 20-year-old singer tells BBC 100 Women she has struggled with impostor syndrome, and that growing up in the public eye was a 'bruising experience'."
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• Billie Eilish: I would have died from Covid-19 if I hadn’t been vaccinated - "The pop star told Howard Stern that she had the virus in August: ‘I want it to be clear that it is because of the vaccine I’m fine’."
• Billie Eilish lands number one with James Bond theme - "No Time To Die by Billie Eilish has become only the second-ever James Bond theme song to reach the top of the UK singles chart."
• Billie Eilish: No Time to Die review - a Bond theme befitting the Craig era - "The pop sensation sidelines her trademarks for a tasteful track that matches the haunted solitude of its leading man."
• Billie Eilish's Vogue cover interview in full - "'It’s All About What Makes You Feel Good': Billie Eilish On New Music, Power Dynamics, And Her Internet-Breaking Transformation."
• BILLIONS CLUB - playlist by Spotify - "All the songs with more than 1 BILLION streams on Spotify."
• Billy Joel Is Selling the Mansion He First Saw While Dredging Oysters - "The celebrated musician has decided to part with the house of his wildest childhood dreams."
• bitterest music-duo spats - "We look at the pop pairs who fell out of harmony."
• BjÖrk - her 20 greatest songs ranked! - "Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath."
• BjÖrk’s otherworldly head, one album at a time - "The iconic Icelandic singer reveals all about her creative process in Björk: Sonic Symbolism. Join Björk in conversations with collaborators about her sound experiences. In the podcast you’ll learn about the moods, timbers, and tempos that vibrate through each album."
• BLINKX - "Find Music Videos by Artist, Group of Band." Internet video search engine for video and audio content that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand. the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 35 million hours indexed (almost 4,000 years) and agreements with over 720 content companies.
• Blurred Lines - song by American singer-songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams and rapper T.I., produced by Williams. It was released on March 26, 2013.
• Bob Dylan: 10 Unforgettable Moments From Bob Dylan’s Career - "Bob Dylan is undeniably one of the most influential musicians to ever live. From Robert Zimmerman, a teenage rebel, to the winner of the Nobel Prize, Dylan can be whatever he chooses to be—and come out the other end as an icon. With his enduring legacy continuing to inspire countless generations, his life is chock full of memorable moments. We’re here to walk you through some of the freewheelin’ troubadour’s most iconic songs and performances across his decades-long career."
• Bob Dylan apologizes for using autopen device to 'hand-sign' new book - "Bob Dylan has apologized for an 'error in judgment,' after it emerged that he used a machine to autograph special copies of his new book that had been advertised as 'hand-signed.'"
• Bob Dylan - I'll be at the Nobel Prize ceremony... if I can - The Telegraph.
• Bob Dylan releases first original song in eight years, 17-minute track about JFK - "Singer says Murder Most Foul, ‘recorded a while back’, is a gift to fans for their support and loyalty over the years."
• Bob Dylan: where to start in his back catalogue - "In Listener’s digest, we help you explore the work of great artists. Next: the junkyard raconteur and voice of a generation."
• Bob Dylan wrote 'Lay Lady Lay' for Barbra Streisand, he revealed in a just-released 1971 interview - "Bob Dylan's 'Lay Lady Lay' was an instant hit. From Duran Duran to Ministry, countless music groups have taken a crack at one of the most popular love songs of the late '60s. For decades, the song was thought to have been written for the 1969 film, 'idnight Cowboy.'"
• Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs - ranked! - The Guardian.
• Bob Dylan’s Many Influences - The New York Times.
• Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive - The New York Times.
• BOSSA NOVA - Portuguese for "new trend".
• Bob Dylan’s Stately Mansion In The Scottish Highlands Hits The Market For $4 Million - "The Times They Are A-Changin’. Music legend Bob Dylan is parting with his Scotland estate. The musician recently listed the 25-acre property - known as the Aultmore House - for $3.9 million. The home is set within the Scottish Highlands’ beautiful Cairngorms National Park, with views of the Abernethy Forest and Cairngorm mountains. Dylan, whose real name is Robert Zimmermann, purchased the property in 2006 with his brother for $2.9 million, reports say. The property features a 16-bedroom mansion, Victorian greenhouse, woodland, an orchard, walled garden, a fountain, croquet lawn, and three standalone four-bedroom cottages. The Edwardian mansion is located near the village of Nethy Bridge and clocks in at 18,357 square feet. There are also 11 bathrooms, two kitchens, a billiards room, a butler’s pantry, staff wing, and four reception rooms, including a lounge, TV room, and music room."
• Bond music has been reinvented more times than Bond himself - "How 007 movie music evolved from John Berry to Hans Zimmer."
• Bossa nova pioneer Carlos Lyra at 90: ‘We wrote songs about our reality: the beach, sun & love stories’ - "Lyra was at the genre’s 1950s birth in Rio beachside jams, bringing sensuality to Brazil’s serious music scene. He explains how he shaped bossa’s stunning melodies - and gave it a social conscience."
• Brandy: ‘Music is my therapy. I don’t know what life would be without it’ - "At her 90s peak, the R&B star had her own sitcom and Barbie doll. Now she is back with a self-released album, and going her own way."
• Bravura - in classical music, a bravura is a style of both music and its performance intended to show off the skill of a performer. Commonly it is a virtuosic passage performed as a solo, and often in a cadenza.
• Britney Spears conservatorship case explained - "US pop star Britney Spears has called for an end to the 'abusive' management of her business and personal affairs, telling an LA court: 'I want my life back'."
• Britney Spears: Everything she said in court - "Britney Spears told a US judge that she had been drugged, forced to perform against her will and prevented from having children, as she asked the court to end a conservatorship that has governed her life for the last 13 years."
• Britney Spears joins Spotify's 'Billions Club' - "It’s been seven years since Britney Spears released her last album, but she’s still making news in the music space. Over the weekend Spears became a member of Spotify’s 'Billions Club,' when her 2003 hit single 'Toxic' hit a billion streams according to the streaming platform."
• Britney Spears: judge denies request to remove father from conservatorship - "A week after Spears delivered dramatic testimony calling the conservatorship ‘abusive’, a court filing reveals her petition to remove Jamie has been unsuccessful."
• Britney Spears speaks out against 'abusive' conservatorship at hearing - "US pop star Britney Spears has spoken out against her conservatorship at a court hearing in Los Angeles."
• BURT BACHARACH - American pianist and composer. He is known for his pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick.
• Burt Bacharach obituary: Classy & complex songs that transcended an era - "Burt Bacharach was one of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th Century. Together with Hal David, he created songs that became standards in their own right."
• Buzz Angle Music - Music Charts.

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• Carly Simon Says 'You're So Vain' Is About Warren Beatty - People.com.
• Carly Simon's 20 greatest tracks - ranked! - "As her debut album turns 50, we select the best work by a songwriter with a standout talent for finely drawn character studies."
• Cass Elliot’s Death Spawned a Horrible Myth. She Deserves Better - "The Mamas & the Papas singer was known for her wit, her voice and her skill as a connector. For 50 years, a rumor has overshadowed her legacy."
• cats in classical music - 10 of the best - "From a medieval monk’s tribute to Henze’s cat-opera and Ravel’s erotic yowling, music celebrates the feline like no other animal. Here are 10 of the best, with not even a whisker of a certain musical ..."
• CÉline Dion cancels concerts due to ‘severe & persistent muscle spasms’ - "Canadian singer ‘heartbroken’ after being unable to rehearse for new concert residency in Las Vegas."
• Cher at 74: 'There are 20-year-old girls who can’t do what I do’ - "Her $60m annual Las Vegas residency was off the cards this year, but the singer still has lots to say about animal rights, Trump’s ‘toxic’ politics, cosmetic surgery and the men in her life."
• Cher's 30 greatest songs - ranked! - "From her hippy-counterculture beginnings alongside Sonny Bono to her 80s power ballads, the singer has surfed the zeitgeist for half a century. Here are the best songs from her extraordinary career."
• Cher's Former Home On A Private Island In Miami Is On The Market For $42.5 Million. Take A Look Inside - "The 12,450-square-feet home comes with 158 feet of waterfront land and a resort-sized pool."
• Cher’s Malibu Home - "AD100 designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard details his experience of crafting Cher’s own personal sanctuary."
• Chu Chin Chow - musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. The piece premièred at His Majesty's Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), an astonishing record that stood for nearly forty years until Salad Days.
• Cliff Richard becomes first artist to reach UK Top 5 across eight decades - "Music ... The Air That I Breathe reaches No 3 this week - 61 years after the singer’s first chart album."
• COLUMIBIA RECORDS
• Common practice period - in the history of European art music, the term common practice period refers to the era between the formation and the dissolution of the tonal system.
• Concept album - loosely describes a studio album unified by a larger purpose or meaning to the album collectively than to its songs individually.
• Concert residency - is a series of concerts (typically of live music), similar to a concert tour, but only performed at one location. The concert residencies have been a staple of Las Vegas Strip for decades, pioneered by singer-pianist Liberace in the 1940s and Frank Sinatra with the Rat Pack in the 1950s.
• Counterpoint - in music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.
• COVER BAND - Wikipedia.
• Curse of the ninth - superstition connected with the history of classical music. In essence, it is the belief that a ninth symphony is destined to be a composer's last; i.e. that the composer will be fated to die while or after writing it, or before completing a tenth.

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• Daniel Barenboim: What Beethoven's Ninth Teaches Us - "The conductor Daniel Barenboim explores the political and spiritual power of what many consider the greatest symphony."
• DATA TO DATE: THE RAPID RISE OF SOCIAL & STREAMING - Next Big Sound.
• David Bowie: Invisible New Yorker - The New York Times.
• David Bowie: publishing rights to song catalogue sold for $250m - "Warner Music Group deal for songwriting adds to company’s recent acquisition of Bowie’s recorded music."
• David Bowie’s Style Through the Years - The New York Times.
• ‘Deaf’ genius Beethoven was able to hear his final symphony after all - "Musicologist uncovers evidence that, contrary to established belief, the great composer retained some hearing in his final years."
• Despacito becomes most-viewed video in YouTube history - The Guardian.
• Diana Ross’s best looks - "Stop! In the name of style." As the Supremes singer prepares to release her first new album in 15 years, we look back on her effortless, classic fashion.
• Diana Ross's greatest songs - ranked! - "It’s 50 years since the Supreme diva released her debut solo album. Here’s 20 of her best, from tear-stained showtunes to anthems of black feminism."
• 'Diddy': 'He thought of himself as a king': The parties that led to Diddy's downfall - "There was a time when an invitation to a party hosted by Sean 'Diddy' Combs was one of the most sought-after tickets in the entertainment industry."
• Diddy: Lawyer cites 300 potential cases against Diddy - "A lawyer representing several alleged victims of Sean 'Diddy' Combs says the potential number of civil legal cases against the musician 'is probably in the 300 range'."
• DJS OF THE FUTURE DON'T SPIN RECORDS—THEY WRITE CODE - Wired.
• Dolby Atmos: The ins, outs & sounds of the object-based surround system - "An in-depth guide to the spatial audio technology. In brief, Dolby Atmos is a new audio format that allows you to hear sound in a 360-degree bubble. With its object-oriented audio engineering and its up-or-down-firing speakers, Atmos is changing the way home theaters are setup and, more importantly, how sound is distributed in the room."
• Dolly Parton recreates iconic Playboy cover - "The 75-year-old country singer surprised her husband Carl by recreating her original Playboy cover from the 70s."
• Dolly Parton uninterested in having her own AI hologram - "‘I don’t want to leave my soul on Earth’."
• Don Buchla, modular synthesizer pioneer, dies aged 79 - The Guardian.
• Dusty Springfield’s 20 greatest songs - ranked! - "Sixty years after her debut album, we rate the pop singer’s best tracks, from a song recorded in a stairwell to a Pet Shop Boys collaboration."
• Dusty Springfield's remarkable comeback - "As her 1990 album Reputation turns thirty, Nick Levine looks back at how the troubled pop icon enjoyed a glorious and unexpected late-career high after years out of the limelight."

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• Earth Harp: The man behind the unique instruments 'epic' sound - "William Close is the inventor behind the Earth Harp - the world's longest string instrument which uses architecture and landscapes to create a unique sound."
• EASY LISTENING - Wikipedia.
• Ed Sheeran cleared of infringing copyright in Marvin Gaye lawsuit - "Case centered on whether Sheeran’s hit Thinking Out Loud ripped off Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On."
• EDDIE BARCLAY - (1921-2005). French music producer whose singers included Jacques Brel & Charles Aznavour.
• ELECTRONIC CASH KINGS - the world’s highest-paid DJs.
• Elton John becomes an Egot after winning an Emmy award - "The 76-year-old singer won his first Emmy award, making him the 19th person to win an Emmy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy - known as Egot status."
• Elton John farewell tour ends after years of 'pure joy' - "Elton John told his millions of fans on Saturday night that they would remain in his 'head, heart and soul', concluding his marathon farewell tour in Stockholm with one of his biggest hits - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road."
• Elton John says he has lost his eyesight - "Elton John says he still cannot see, months after suffering a severe eye infection."
• Elvis Presley: a life in pictures, 40 years after his death - The Guardian.
• Elvis has left the building - definition & explanation.
• Elvis Presley’s Childhood Home Is Up for Auction - "Presley lived in the blue-planked home from 1943 to 1944. It was originally located at 1241 Kelly Street in East Tupelo, Mississippi, up until five years ago. In 2017, the house was carefully taken apart and preserved for later reassembly. Presley’s former home is being auctioned by a Chicago-based high-end memorabilia firm called Rockhurst Auctions. The minimum bid for the Presley home is set at $25,000. The estimated value of the house is between $50,000 to $75,000."
• Elvis Presley’s Dilapidated Private Jet Sat in the Desert for 40 Years. It Just Sold for $260,000 - "Noting her husband's love of winged transport, Priscilla Presley spoke about the King's aircraft collection at the auction."
• Elvis Presley’s Palm Springs Honeymoon House Hits The Market For $5.65 Million - "The mid-century modern home in California where Elvis and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon in 1967 has hit the market for $5.6 million. The Palm Springs home was featured by Look magazine in 1962 as the 'House of Tomorrow.'"
• Elvis Presley’s Private Jet, Harley-Davidson & Lincoln Continental Go Up for Auction - "Elvis Presley was not only the king of rock and roll, but also the king of bling. Presley was a fashion trendsetter back in the day, and he left behind an impressive collection of jewelry and other personal belongings, a portion of which will be auctioned off later this month."
• Elvis Presley's Private Lockheed Jetstar Jet for sale - Liveauctioneers.com.
• Elvis Week - Elvis event at Graceland, 3717 Elvis Presley Blvd., Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.
• EMI
• Emily Ratajkowski - American model and actress born in London, and raised mainly in San Diego, California. She rose to prominence in 2013, after appearing topless in the music video for Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines", which became the number-one song of the year in several countries.
• Emily Ratajkowski Is Being Sued for $150,000 Over an Instagram Photo - "They say a picture is worth a thousand words..."
• Emo - style of rock music characterized by melodic musicianship and expressive, often confessional, lyrics.
• Every one of Madonna's 78 singles - ranked! - The Guardian.
• Eurythmics: The genre-fluid music ahead of its time - "Eurythmics 'made not fitting in feel triumphant', writes Arwa Haider, remembering how the duo's music soundtracked her teenage years."
• Everything the Beatles ever did - all 226 Beatles tunes.
• Express yourself: why Madonna wants to tell her own life story - "The material girl is to write and direct her own biopic, but fans will want to see the struggles as well as the triumphs."

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• FOX MUSIC
• Framing Britney Spears review - a sobering look at sexism & celebrity - "The hit documentary arrives on Sky and Now TV, and explores the feeding frenzy that has surrounded the pop star since she was 10 years old."
• FranÇoise Hardy: A Life in Photos - "The French pop star Françoise Hardy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 80, was celebrated for her beauty and style."
• FranÇoise Hardy epitomised French chic - in pictures - "Celebrated for her insouciant cool and varied style, the late singer was a muse across decades of fashion. Here are some of her greatest ensembles."
• Frank Sinatra & his violent temper - The Telegraph.
• Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still - The New York Times.
• Frank Sinatra Gave Two Watches to Tony Bennett. Now Both Are Heading to Auction - "Julien's Auctions is holding a two-day sale dedicated to the late musician on April 18 and 19."
• Frank Sinatra hated being linked to mobsters - "Frank Sinatra hated reports linking him to the Mafia - and believed that the only reason he was portrayed in the media as mobbed up was anti-Italian sentiment, his former road manager Tony Oppedisano told Page Six."
• Frank Sinatra: personal items including engagement ring to be auctioned - "The collection, expected to fetch at least $3.5m, also features a Norman Rockwell painting and trinkets from former presidents."
• Freddie Mercury’s collection of ‘splendid things’ up for auction - "Items belonging to Queen singer on sale include costumes, handwritten lyrics and a moustache comb."
• From Beethoven’s Ninth to Theme from Shaft: the best exercise anthems - "Soul classics, German film soundtracks and chugging rap - here’s a workout of bangers to get you off the couch."

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• GANGNAM STYLE - launched on YouTube on July 15, 2012. Viewed by 1 billion people on December 21, 2012. The background story, dance and song.
• 'Gangnam Style' at 10: How Psy's smash hit sent Korean culture global - "‘It was a little crazy’: Psy on 'Gangnam Style', 10 years on."
• Gangnam Style statue built in South Korea's Seoul - BBC News.
• GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN - the official website.
• GEORGE MICHAEL IS DEAD - Daily Mail.
• George Michael’s 30 greatest songs - ranked! - "With Last Christmas sailing up the singles charts again, now’s the time to reappraise Michael’s best tracks, from sublime pop to haunting elegies."
• gesamtkunstwerk - definition & explanation.
• Glennon Doyle: how the author & love warrior changed Adele's life - "The singer has credited Doyle’s latest bestselling self-help memoir, Untamed, with transforming her sense of self. And Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon are similarly impressed."
• GLOBAL GRIND - the world according to HipHop.
• Good time girl: memories of a super groupie - The Guardian.
• Google MusicLM review - "Google’s AI-powered, browser-based tool uses machine learning to generate an infinite variety of sounds. Is this the future of sound design or just a gimmick?"
• GOTTA HAVE IT! Collectibles, Inc. - "The premier resource for the highest quality collectibles and fully authenticated Sports, Entertainment, Rock & Roll and Historical memorabilia." New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• GOTTA HAVE ROCK AND ROLL - "The Rock & Roll Pop Culture Auction." New York City, NY, U.S.A.
• Gradus ad Parnassum - the Latin phrase gradus ad Parnassum means "steps to Parnassus". It is sometimes shortened to gradus. A seminal textbook on counterpoint written by Johann Fux in 1725, but still used today for instruction in musical theory and composition; Leopold Mozart is said to have taught his son Wolfgang from its pages. Beethoven held it in great esteem, and Haydn meticulously worked out each of its exercises.
• Grammy Awards 2024: Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, SZA & Joni Mitchell to star at ceremony - "The ceremony, which takes place in Los Angeles on Sunday, is notorious for scoring own goals, often rewarding middle-of-the-road heritage acts over cutting-edge, contemporary pop."
• Grand Order of Water Rats - founded in 1899. Entertainment industry charity, and brotherhood, based in London.
• greatest record sleeves – as chosen by the designers - The Guardian.
• 'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on - all 38 discs - "It was a blueprint for Live Aid and every mega-festival since. We survey a new archive box set - in full - to uncover the real story of these ‘three days of peace and music’."
• GRUNGE - rock music that incorporates elements of punk rock and heavy metal, often expressing a bleak or nihilistic outlook.

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• Handel: where to start with his music - "Hallelujah! This week, the composer whose music illuminated Georgian London, and who refined the art of bringing emotion alive in works that still resonate for us today."
• HANS ZIMMER - composer, at the Internet Movie Database.
• ‘Happy Birthday’ Copyright Invalidated by Judge - The New York Times.
• HARLEM SHAKE - the background story, dance & videos.
• Harry Belafonte - a life in pictures - "The singer, actor and activist, who has died aged 96, became the first artist to have a million-selling album - and said his desire for social change kept him awake at night."
• Harry Belafonte obituary - "Singer, actor and activist who matched his genial persona with political commitment."
• HD vinyl is a promise, not a product - engadget.
• HIGH RESOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES - "Home of the Music Streamer." Make the average laptop sound like proper hi-fi.
• HIP HOP MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• HITQUARTERS - world's largest music industry search directory, including contact information and individual track records.
• HOLLYWOOD BOWL - modern amphitheatre in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
• 'Holy Grail' Beatles record sold for £77,500 at auction - BBC.
• Hong Kong’s unmissable music festivals - The Guardian.
• House Of Ye - "Chaos, Anti-Semitism, ‘White Lives Matter’ & Steady, Unbothered Sales. Ye, the billionaire music entrepreneur and fashion designer previously known as Kanye West, is having quite a few months. He’s unleashed hateful rhetoric against Jews, worn clothing that mocks the Black Lives Matter movement and used social media to harass his ex-wife and her then-boyfriend - a trifecta of nauseating behavior."
• How 5G could change everything from music to medicine - CNN tech.
• How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music - The New York Times.
• How Florian Schneider & Kraftwerk influenced five decades of music - "Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider, who has died at the age of 73, helped forge a new future for pop, changing the sounds and techniques of how music was made."
• How much are musicians making from our favourite Christmas songs? - The New Musical Express.
• How Music Could Become a Crucial Part of Your Sleep Hygiene - "Experts imagine a world in which scientifically-designed albums could be just as effective and commonly used as sleeping pills."
• how musicians’ estates are the biggest earners in pop - The Guardian.
• How pop is blurring the gender lines - "Last week, Ariana Grande set the internet on fire with a lyric that suggested she was bisexual. But what was truly remarkable was how unremarkable the line was."
• how restaurateurs choose the perfect dinner playlist - "There has never been a greater awareness of how music can affect our mood. Little wonder restaurants are employing consultants to select music for their diners."
• How singing can make you feel better in tough times - "Whether you have the voice of a songbird or sound like some ball-bearings in a blender, singing can have some remarkably positive effects."
• How Sony paved the way for modern music production - "One format that you might not even have heard of helped democratize music production."
• How Taylor Swift showed us the scary future of facial recognition - "Surveillance at concerts is just the beginning, as fears grow around an unregulated, billion-dollar industry."
• How the iconic music of 2001: A Space Odyssey came to be - Vox.
• how the Mugler catsuit is shaping pop - "From Billie Eilish to Beyoncé, the Mugler outfit has become the natural successor to Madonna’s bustier."
• How the Rolling Stones Became Fashion Icons - The New York Times.
• How the Twin Peaks soundtrack came to haunt music - The Guardian.
• How the world plugged into the electric guitar - The Guardian.
• How to listen to spatial & hi def music streaming, CD/HD, Ultra HD, Dolby Atmos & 360 Reality Audio - "Spatial audio and higher definition audio are great ways to listen to high quality music via Amazon Music Unlimited, Deezer, Tidal and other streaming services but how can you setup your phone, speakers, headphones etc to listen to at the best audio quality level?"
• How to survive the inevitable CD revival - "For better or worse, the compact disc could be making a comeback."
• How You Can Block the Music of Problematic Artists From Playing on Your Music App. Here's How - "If you’re a fan of streaming music, personalized playlists, and mixes made 'just for you,' you’ve no doubt run into some boring, bad and even downright offensive songs you’d rather not hear again. And if you’re familiar with the news surrounding today’s most popular artists, you probably have a running list of artists who you’d rather never hear again - no matter how good their newest single may be - because of their misogyny, or racism, or other problematic behavior."
• HYPE MACHINE - since 2005. "Popular MP3 & Music Blog Tracks." MP3 blog aggregator.

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• ‘I collect for the beauty, not the value' - Sir Elton John.
• I’m a Harvard neuroscientist. Here’s the No. 1 music I listen to when I need to focus - it’s not classical - "With music and people being so diverse, how do you decide which is best for you? Researchers have found that when it comes to boosting brainpower, there is no one-fits-all genre."
• Iconic Guitar Brand Gibson Files For Bankruptcy - Rolling Stone.
• If video killed the radio star, VR slayed it - "The future of the music video is here, and it's in virtual reality."
• Iggy Azalea Is Making Money On OnlyFans - "Azalea’s OnlyFans isn’t just any old OnlyFans. It is a year-long, collaborative multimedia project entitled Hotter Than Hell that will feature music, photography, video, art, and, according to a press release, content from 'her upcoming fourth studio album.' For $25 a month, subscribers will get a front-row seat to the project as it drops, before the rest of the world sees it. The concept was inspired by Pamela Anderson, 90s supermodels, and Madonna’s controversial book Sex and culminates with a coffee table book to be released in December 2023."
• ILIKE - "Do you love music? Get personalized concert alerts from your favorite artists in iTunes. Share playlists and recommendations with friends. Join over 50 million music lovers across Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, hi5, and iGoogle."
• Indiegogo - "The World's Funding Platform." Since 2008. International crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for film, music, art, charity, small businesses, gaming, theater, and more.
• Inside Elvis's long-abandoned private jet - The Telegraph.
• Inside the booming business of background music - "Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated - and influential - than any of us realise."
• Is Listening to Music Good For Your Health? - TIME Magazine.
• Is opera the most misogynistic art form? - The Guardian.
• ‘It has stood the test of time’: was 1971 the greatest year in music? - "In Asif Kapadia’s new Apple TV+ docuseries, the music of the year, and its cultural and political impact, receives much-deserved attention."
• 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms - "Dead stars from Whitney Houston to Maria Callas are going on tour again. As Miley Cyrus explores the issue in a new Black Mirror, we uncover the greatest identity crisis in music today."
• 'It's the screams of the damned!' The eerie AI world of deepfake music - "Artificial intelligence is being used to create new songs seemingly performed by Frank Sinatra and other dead stars. ‘Deepfakes’ are cute tricks - but they could change pop for ever."

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• Jane Birkin: a life in pictures - "British model, actor, singer and muse Jane Birkin has died aged 76."
• Jane Birkin obituary - "Singer and actor who duetted with Serge Gainsbourg on Je T’aime ... Moi Non Plus in 1969 and went on to a prolific film career."
• Janet Jackson Has Revealed The Cruel Names That Michael Jackson Would Call Her - "Janet Jackson’s much-anticipated documentary, JANET, is set to hit our screens in the coming days after five years in the making."
• Jeff Beck - a life in pictures - "The maverick virtuoso rock guitarist has died aged 78. A pioneer with heavier styles, he paved the way for heavy metal, won eight Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist and member of the Yardbirds. We look back at a landmark career."
• Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck didn't Sign a Prenup! - "We called a divorce attorney for some answers."
• Jennifer Lopez is Hollywood's most underestimated star - "Twenty years on from her defining single, Lopez remains the ultimate 'triple threat' as actor, singer, and dancer. So why does she still not receive her dues, asks Laura Martin."
• Jennifer Lopez's iconic Grammy Awards gown changed the internet forever - "More than two decades ago, Jennifer Lopez changed the internet forever when she wore a dress so striking it inspired engineers to build Google Image Search."
• Jerry Lee Lewis - a life in pictures - "The pioneering rock’n’roller has died at the age of 87 after a career that saw him rise to the top yet struggle to remain out of trouble."
• Jerry Lee Lewis was a star who lived life dangerously close to the edge - "Beloved for his music but also known for his off-stage extremities, the late singer leaves behind a difficult legacy."
• Jimi Hendrix, Monterey Pop 1967: a live performance never bettered - "The festival belonged to Hendrix. Dazzling technique, feedback and fuzz transformed him from a relative unknown into the personification of rock."
• Jimi Hendrix's former London flat to open as a museum - The Guardian.
• Joan Baez: What Fuels the ‘Manic Creativity’ of Joan Baez - "The 82-year-old singer and subject of a new documentary sleeps in a tree, has come to terms with not being a reader and is more interested in upside down than right side up."
• JOHN BARRY - English film score composer, at the Internet Movie Database. Best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style.
• John Lennon & Yoko Ono: his affairs, binges & diet pills - "For years the radio host Elliot Mintz was the only person the former Beatle and his wife trusted. Now, he has written a book about his intense relationship with the couple: 'John, meanwhile, was every bit as charming, funny and intelligent as he came across in public. But I gradually discovered he was far from perfect. For starters, for a guy who aspired to be a world-shaking peacemaker - a thought leader on a par with Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela - he was surprisingly uninformed about historic figures like, well, Gandhi, King and Mandela. Yoko was even more airy and ethereal in private than she was in the media. She could be a fountain of aphorisms, dispensing endless nuggets of Zen-like philosophy. Her haiku-esque homilies on manifesting one’s desires or the wisdom of the nonrational mind could be a bit much for some people.'"
• John Lennon killer Mark David Chapman denied parole for 11th time - "Yoko Ono continues to oppose release of man who shot Lennon outside his New York apartment in 1980."
• John Lennon letter to the Queen explaining return of MBE valued at £60,000 after being found in car boot sale - The Telegraph.
• John Lennon once asked Stanley Kubrick to direct The Beatles in 'The Lord of The Rings' - "We’re always surprised to find out something we didn’t already know about John Lennon. The iconic figure of the bespectacled Beatle has been so relentlessly pawed over that it feels unimaginable that any stone has been left unturned - yet somehow, it still happens, and the landmark singer leaves us with another tidbit to share ..."
• John Lennon’s Long-Lost Patek Philippe 2499 Has Been Found, Phillips Watch Exec Claims - "Has one of the great watch mysteries finally been solved? On Thursday, Phillips executive Arthur Touchot announced on his Instagram that one of the great mysteries plaguing the watch world has been solved: John Lennon’s long-lost Patek Philippe Ref. 2499 Perpetual Calendar Chronograph has been found."
• JOHN MAUCERI - American conductor, producer and composer for theatre, opera and television, at the Internet Movie Database.
• John Mayall, pioneering figure of British blues, dies aged 90 - "Influential musician, whose band the Bluesbreakers played leading role in 60s blues revival, dies at home in California."
• Jon Bon Jovi on wealth, love and his ugly tussle with Trump: 'It was seriously scarring' - "The big hair and bombast have long gone and the thoughtful singer-songwriter remains. He talks about politics, pain and meeting his wife of 40 years in history class."
• Joni Mitchell: where to start in her back catalogue - The Guardian.
• JosÉ Padilla, Ibiza DJ who defined chillout music, dies aged 64 - "Spanish DJ and producer, who became famous with the Café del Mar bar and compilation series, dies from colon cancer."
• Juliette GrÉco: Doyenne of French singers dies at 93 - "A true icon of the French chanson, Juliette Gréco, has died aged 93 after a fabled career that spanned eight decades."
• Justin Timberlake Did It Again - "Mr. Timberlake, the 'Mickey Mouse Club' veteran turned boy band pinup; half - along with Britney Spears - of an iconic millennial power couple; and now, as the whole wide world has learned, the dude arrested in the Hamptons early Tuesday morning and charged with driving while intoxicated."

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• Kanye West canceled? Here’s why it probably won’t happen - "Kanye West has had so many controversies you may have forgotten a few. From his infamous interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to his early embrace of former President Trump and his 'Make America Great Again' agenda, the artist, designer and entrepreneur is, perhaps, best known for being a provocateur. The latest calls to cancel West, who legally changed his name to Ye, may be the most intense yet. After he wore and featured 'White Lives Matter' (The Anti-Defamation League categorizes the phrase as a hate slogan used by White supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan) apparel in his recent Paris fashion show, there was new outcry against West."
• Kanye West claims he lost $2bn in one day amid backlash to antisemitic comments - "Rapper known as Ye confirms the impact of Adidas and other companies cutting ties over his hateful remarks about Jewish people."
• Kanye West denies claims that Taylor Swift got him kicked out of the Super Bowl - for buying tickets directly in front of her VIP suite to steal the limelight.
• Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler - "Several people who were once close to the artist formerly known as Kanye West told CNN that he has long been fascinated by Adolf Hitler - and once wanted to name an album after the Nazi leader."
• Kanye West tour demands REVEALED - "Rapper insists on having 24 rooms in a five-star hotel just for his own personal use, his crew must wear all black and one product is BANNED backstage."
• Kanye West's Famous video: is it art? - The Guardian.
• Kanye West's Super Bowl Masterstroke - "By choosing to run an advertisement crafted entirely on an iPhone, West not only circumvented the high production costs typically associated with such endeavors but also managed to captivate a global audience, resulting in significant financial success."
• Kanye West's team name-dropped world-famous Noma to get a last-minute table at S.F. restaurant - "On a recent afternoon, someone called San Francisco Thai destination Nari wanting a last-minute reservation for six people - 'it’s going to be a table of Noma people,' the person said, according to restaurant owner Pim Techamuanvivit. Techamuanvivit’s staffers thought maybe Danish chef and Noma owner René Redzepi, whose New Nordic restaurant has repeatedly been ranked the best restaurant on Earth on the World’s 50 Best list, was in San Francisco. Fortunately, Nari’s semi-private dining room was open that night."
• Kanye West's 'wife' Bianca Censori has angered locals with her racy outfits in Italy - "These tourists have been dress-coded in much less revealing clothing."
• Kanye West's wild Italian trip with 'wife' Bianca Censori - "From public nudity and PDA-filled outings to risking arrest over THOSE racy outfits."
• KARAOKE - invented by Inoue Daisuke in 1971.
• Keep your sheet music organized with Gvido E Ink reader - engadget.
• King of Pop - and Perversion - "A haunting new documentary lays bare Michael Jackson’s predations and forces us to wonder: Why does celebrity continually excuse perversion?"
• Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! - "From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded."
• Krautrock: The 1970s bands which helped post-war Germany overcome its dark history - "Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever."
• Kris Kristofferson - a life in pictures - "The US country singer and actor has died aged 88. The Texas-born Grammy winner wrote songs including Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down and Me and Bobby McGee. He was a member of the supergroup the Highwaymen and starred in 70 films over his career."
• Kris Kristofferson: 'Special' singer & actor Kris Kristofferson dies - "Tributes have been paid to Kris Kristofferson, the award-winning country singer and actor following his death at the age of 88."
• Kurt Cobain's green cardigan raises record $334,000 at auction - "Nirvana frontman wore the jumper on MTV Unplugged, months before his death."
• Kurt Cobain’s Ultra-Rare 1959 Martin D-18E Guitar Sells For $6 Million At Auction - Forbes.
• Kylie Minogue on Glastonbury, lockdown & her favourite Kylie era - "Ever since her first TV appearance on Aussie soap The Sullivans at the age of 10, she's evolved from actress to pop star to fashion icon, children's author, talent show judge and even a successful designer of home furnishings."

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• Lady Chablis, transgender nightclub star, dies aged 59 - The Guardian.
• Lady Gaga's 30 greatest songs - ranked! - "Following her triumphant One World: Together at Home charity concert - and before her album Chromatica - we rate the best of Stefani Germanotta’s gloriously OTT pop."
• Lady Gaga's Priceless 128.54 Carat "Tiffany Diamond" Necklace Was Last Worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1961 - W Magazine.
• Larry Levan, the DJ who changed dance music forever - The Guardian.
• Last Christmas by Wham! reaches No 1 for first time after 36 years - "Festive favourite was kept off No 1 by Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? in 1984."
• LAST.FM - "Last.fm is a music service that learns what you love... Every track you play will tell your Last.fm profile something about what you like. It can connect you to other people who like what you like - and recommend songs from their music collections and yours too."
• Leaning power: Spotify names its most streamed track of all time - The Guardian.
• Legato - indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.
• leitmotif - a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition.
• Les Six - name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse. Their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The members were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983).
• Let’s All Obsess Over Intricate Map of Alt Music History - Wired.
• Liam Payne of One Direction - a life in pictures - "British boyband star and solo singer Liam Payne has died aged 31, after falling from a hotel in Argentina. Payne was 16 when he joined One Direction, which was formed by music executive Simon Cowell on reality show The X Factor in 2010. The band - Payne, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik - went on to become one of the biggest boybands of all time. They went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016 and Payne began a solo career."
• Liam Payne updates with MailOnline after singer's death - "'Wild' Liam Payne was seen arguing with mystery woman about money in hotel lobby just hours before falling to his death from balcony."
• life inside Prince's Paisley Park - CNN.
• Like a virgin: Madonna before stardom - in pictures - The Guardian.
• Lisa Marie Presley died from weight-loss surgery complications, autopsy finds - "January death of Elvis Presley’s daughter, 54, ruled as being from natural causes due to effects of small bowel obstruction."
• Lisa Marie Presley to be laid to rest at Graceland - "'Lisa Marie’s final resting place will be at Graceland, next to her beloved son Ben,' said a representative for her 33-year-old daughter, Riley Keough. She is also survived by twin 14-year-old daughters Finley and Harper."
• List of historical sites associated with Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia.
• Listen To Hotel Playlists From Las Vegas To Lake Como - "Hotels know how to create a mood. Step into a hotel lobby and you can feel a sense of place through the décor, lighting, scent and, of course, music. And when it comes to the latter, we don’t mean monotonous Muzak. Instead, you’ll hear relaxing island melodies in Maui and rousing Italian classics in Lake Como."
• Listening Clubs Tantalize Audiophiles in London - The New York Times.
• Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy’s Mysterious Genius - BuzzFeed.
• Lossless compression - "Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though usually with greatly improved compression rates (and therefore reduced media sizes)."
• Louis Armstrong: The US jazz icon with a controversial legacy - "With the release of new, previously unheard live recordings from the BBC, questions remain over Louis Armstrong's complicated and controversial career and persona. More than half a century after the death of Louis Armstrong, fans and critics are still arguing over his name. Is it pronounced Lewis or Louie?"
• Louis Vuitton's Monogram-Clad Pizza Box Is Not Actually for Pizza - "It’s meant to hold a stack of vinyl records."
• LYRICS SEARCH ENGINE

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• MACARENA - the background story, dance and song.
• Madonna feels lucky ‘to be alive’ after hospitalization - " One month after Madonna was hospitalized in the ICU after suffering a bacterial infection, the queen of pop is reflecting on how her loved ones are helping her heal."
• Madonna hits back at ageist criticism after Grammy Awards appearance - "The 64-year-old musician clapped back at the remarks, saying in her Instagram post that the world 'refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45.'"
• Madonna leads celebrity vogue for Covid-19 conspiracy theories - "Singer’s claim vaccine is being concealed is latest example of stars spreading falsehoods during pandemic."
• Madonna: Plastic surgeons weigh-in on Madonna's 'unrecognizable' face at Grammys 2023 - "Material girl? Plastic surgeons weigh in on what they REALLY think happened to Madonna's face after 'unrecognizable' Grammys appearance - from 'excessive filler and Botox' to a facelift and nose job."
• Madonna rocks completely destroyed denim after Grammys 2023 appearance drama - "Madonna pushed ripped jeans to the extreme on Instagram Thursday, posing in an epically distressed denim jacket and pants covered from top to bottom in rips and tears."
• Madonna rushed to hospital, intubated in ICU after being found unresponsive - "We hear the 'Material Girl' singer, 64, was intubated for at least one night before having the tube removed - and she is now alert and recovering." Page Six.
• Madonna: The Nerve of Madonna to Pull It Off, Again - "Eighteen years ago, Madonna observed: 'Once you pass 35, your age becomes part of the first sentence of anything written. It’s a form of limiting your options and almost putting you in your place. For women, naturally.' She was 47 when she said that."
• Madonna Then & Now: Photos Of The Music Icon’s Evolution - Hollywood Life.
• Madonna's free Brazil concert at Rio's Copacabana beach attracts more than 1.6 million fans - "Madonna put on a free concert in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night with throngs of fans flocking to see the pop idol on Brazil's famous Copacabana beach. The signer performed some of her greatest hits, including Nothing Really Matters, Like a Prayer and Vogue, and was joined on stage at one point by Brazilian singer Anitta."
• Madonna's Pompeii party for 500 A-list guests sparks outrage among Italians - "They discover just how 'cheaply' she is renting historic site for. An American events company is believed to have booked the site for €30,000."
• Maria Callas Was Opera’s Defining Diva. She Still Is - "Callas would have turned 100 on Dec. 2. She and her flash of a career remain beacons of artistic integrity and profundity."
• Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - "This is how much money Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' is raking in."
• Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You went from modest 1990s hit to Christmas's defining song - here's why - "When it was first released in 1994, it made a mere ripple - but 30 years on, it is a track that reigns supreme over the holiday season. What is the secret of its success?"
• Mariah Carey: ‘They’re calling me a diva? I think I’m going to cry!’ - "A brutal childhood, a traumatic marriage, decades of racism: the singer has overcome it all on her way to the top. She lets rip about the people who have wronged her and the self-belief that sustains her."
• Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You reaches UK No 1 after 26 years - "Festive favourite that reached No 2 in 1994 finally tops British chart, with Carey saying ‘we are keeping the Christmas spirit alive together despite how dismal the year’s been’."
• Marianne Faithfull: the muse who made it on her own terms - "As the singer prepares to release her 21st album, we look back at a singular career marked by creative restlessness, personal troubles & triumphant reinventions."
• Marvin Gaye – 10 of the best - The Guardian.
• METACRITIC - "Keeping score of entertainment". Discover what's new and notable. Compare what's new this week, what's great this year, and all-time favorites. Finding quality entertainment is easy with the Metacritic scorecard.
• Michael Jackson Died With $500 Million in Debt - "Jackson owed about $40 million to the tour promoter A.E.G. in 2009, his estate’s executors said in a court filing. They said all the debts have been eliminated."
• Michael Jackson: Sexual abuse cases against star’s estate can be revived, court docs show - "Wade Robson and James Safechuck - two men who have long alleged that the late Michael Jackson sexually abused them when they were children, and who were featured in the 2019 documentary 'Leaving Neverland' - are now able to revive their since-dismissed lawsuits against Jackson’s estate, according to a court opinion filed on Friday and obtained by CNN."
• Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Is First Album to Sell 30 Million Copies - RollingStone.
• Michael Jackson's true legacy - CNN style.
• Mick Jagger says his kids ‘don’t need $500 million’ as he hints he may give away their inheritance - "Jagger’s eight kids, Karis, Jade, Elizabeth, James, Georgia May, Lucas, Gabriel and Deveraux, range in age six to 52."
• Mick Jagger’s 80 greatest moments, on his 80th birthday - "The singer who invented the very idea of the frontman has reached his ninth decade. We pick out the Jagger-iest moments of all, from killer lyrics to self-mocking sketches."
• Midas touch: how to create the perfect James Bond song - "Shirley Bassey set the template - now Billie Eilish will create the theme for No Time to Die. Are these sultry anthems, usually sung by women, actually subverting 007?"
• Moog’s New App Is a Spot-on Recreation of a Classic Synth - Wired.
• Moshing - also known early on as "slamdancing".
• Mother nature’s son: the exotic world of songwriter eden ahbez - "Long-haired and vegetarian, with no interest in money, eden ahbez, the writer of Nat King Cole’s 1948 classic Nature Boy, is only now being recognised as the first of the hippies."
• MOTOWN RECORDS
• Mozart childhood portrait sold for €4m at Paris auction - "A rare portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart aged 13 has fetched €4m at a Christie's auction in Paris - far more than had been expected."
• Music Business Worldwide - "Music Business Worldwide (MBW) is a free, in-depth news, jobs and analysis platform for the international music industry."
• Music can boost your productivity while working from home – here's how - "Music has been shown to improve both productivity and cognitive performance, especially in adults."
• 'Music is as good as gold or oil': meet the man spending billions on old hits - "Former Elton John and Beyoncé manager Merck Mercuriadis on championing artists and his business buying over 13,000 songs."
• MUSIC RECORDING SALES CERTIFICATION - a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped a certain number of copies. Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after the precious materials gold, platinum and diamond (silver is also used in some countries).
• music that makes you dumb - (unofficial) SAT (intelligence) test based on your taste in music.
• Music Thing - "Simply the best music tech blog around."
• Music to Cats’ Ears - The New York Times.
• Music to die for: how genre affects popular musicians' life expectancy - The Conversation.
• MUSICALS101.COM - "The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals."
• MUZAK - best known for distribution of music to retail stores and other companies.

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• Nancy Sinatra: I was too shy for showbusiness - "Singer says she did not have the confidence for a ‘big career’ such as her father, Frank, enjoyed."
• NATIONAL RADIO HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM
• Neil Young - every album ranked! - "As a new live album is released and a 50th anniversary edition of After the Gold Rush approaches, we rate every album by Canada’s irascible godfather of grunge."
• Never-Before-Seen Cop Reports Expose Michael Jackson’s Sick Secrets - Radar Online.
• New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’ - The New York Times.
• Next Big Sound - "Analytics and Insights for the Music Industry." Launched in 2009, Next Big Sound is the leading provider of online music analytics and insights, tracking hundreds of thousands of artists around the world. Provides a dashboard, charts, and reports to monitor popularity, activity, and metrics for musicians across social media, sales and events.
• NO STUDIO NEEDED: HOW ANYONE CAN MAKE A HIT RECORD WITH A LAPTOP - The Verge.
• Nokia Theatre L.A. Live - music and theatre venue located in downtown Los Angeles, California located at L.A. Live. It is sponsored by then Finnish cellphone maker, Nokia. The theatre auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States.

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• Obama Has a Song in His Heart … 40 of Them, on Spotify - The New York Times.
• Octave - in music, an octave or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
• Off their heads: the shocking return of the rave - "With clubs shut, thousands of young people are breaking the Covid-19 rules to attend parties organised on social media - and more are being set up every day."
• Official Charts Company | OCC - compiles various "official" UK record charts, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, and the UK Official Download Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.
• Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta reunite in iconic Grease costumes - "'I haven't sung in a year': Cancer-stricken Olivia Newton-John, 71, sings Hopelessly Devoted To You in iconic Grease costume during a special moment with co-star John Travolta, 65."
• Olivia Newton-John: a life & career in pictures - "The singer, actor and activist has died at the age of 73. One of the world’s best-selling recording artists, she achieved global recognition in 1978 playing Sandy in the film adaptation of Grease. We look back at her life and career."
• Olivia Newton-John obituary - "Singer and actor with a girl-next-door reputation whose career rocketed after her starring role as Sandy in Grease."
• OMEGA AUCTIONS - Sale, Cheshire, U.K. "Specialist auction house for Vinyl Records, Music Memorabilia, TV & Film Memorabilia."
• on the road with Beach Boy Brian Wilson - The Guardian.
• One-hit wonder - often used to describe music performers with only one Top 40 hit single or for having one signature song which overshadows their other work.
• ‘One of the best singers ever’: remembering Eva Cassidy, 25 years after her death - "The singer died at 33 of cancer before the world got to hear her sing. Those who knew and worked with her look back on an unusual talent."
• Oratorio - large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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• Paul McCartney at 80: A life of fun-loving fashion - "Renowned musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney has always had a playful sense of style. To celebrate his birthday on Saturday, we take a look back at his best fashion moments."
• Paul is dead - urban legend and conspiracy theory suggesting that Paul McCartney of the English rock band the Beatles died in 1966 and was secretly replaced by a look-alike.
• Paul McCartney says ‘final’ Beatles song coming thanks to artificial intelligence - "In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s 'Today' program released Tuesday, the legendary musician and former Beatle was asked about AI and how it’s been used to make his voice sound younger - and to resurrect the voices of fellow band members John Lennon and George Harrison who died in 1980 and 2001, respectively. And he revealed there’s a 'new' Beatles tune coming, thanks to the technology."
• Paul McCartney says there’s nothing artificial in new Beatles song made using AI - "Musician clarifies how artificial intelligence was applied to vocals by John Lennon, amid anxiety over how the technology will affect music."
• Paul McCartney’s photos show the craziness of ‘Beatlemania’ but also some of the quieter moments - "‘Beatlemania’ through the lens of Paul McCartney. Sixty years ago, 'Beatlemania' was born. During this pivotal time in the Beatles’ history, a young Paul McCartney was taking photos of all the excitement around him and his bandmates. For decades, these photos - shot with his 35 mm Pentax camera - were mostly unseen, stored away in his archive as negatives and contact sheets. They were rediscovered just a couple of years ago."
• Pharrell denounces Blurred Lines: 'I realised we live in a chauvinist culture' - "In an interview, Williams says he has now realised the song, made with Robin Thicke, contributed to sexism."
• Phil Spector brought joy to pop music - and misery to so many lives - "Spector’s ‘Wall of Sound’ technique gave his artists’ music an infectious joie de vivre, but the man behind it was damaged, bitter and violent."
• Phil Spector: ‘He was celebrated & protected’: revisiting the dark story of Phil Spector - "In a new docuseries, the life of the abusive music mogul is contrasted with that of Lana Clarkson, the woman he was convicted of murdering."
• Phil Spector, pop producer convicted of murder, dies aged 81 - "Producer who revolutionised music in 1960s with his ‘wall of sound’ dies while serving sentence."
• PHIL SPECTOR RECORDS - "The Official Phil Spector Site."
• PING -"A social network for music." Set your inner groupie free by following your favorite artists on Ping and friends to discover the music they're talking about, listening to, and downloading. Ping is built into the iTunes app on iPhone and iPod touch. So you can see artist updates from anywhere.
• PlÁcido Domingo says harassment apology gave 'false impression' - "Spanish opera singer says his words had been misunderstood after apology triggers backlash."
• Playing Mozart’s Piano Pieces as Mozart Did - The New York Times.
• Playlist - a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.
• Playlist Used By The CIA To Torture Detainees - The Anti-Media.
• Pogo (dance) - dance in which the dancers jump up and down.
• POP MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• POPULAR MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• PRELUDE - a prelude is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. The prelude may be thought of as a preface.
• President Obama's Summer Playlist - Spotify Web Player.
• Prince Charles reveals the songs that give him 'an irresistible urge to get up & dance' - "The Three Degrees, Diana Ross and Edith Piaf all made the cut as part of the prince's list, which he shared as part of an hour-long show on hospital radio to thank healthcare staff and volunteers for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the PA news agency."
• Prince: how did he die and what happened to his money? - The Telegraph.
• Prince's 50 greatest singles - ranked! - "As a remastered and expanded version of classic album 1999 is announced, we rate the Purple One’s finest funk hits."
• PRODUCTION MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• Puttin' on the Ritz - popular song written and published in 1929 by Irving Berlin.

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• Queen catalogue breaks record with £1 billion sale - "The band are reported to have sold portions of their music catalogues to Sony, rivalling Michael Jackson’s record-breaking deal."
• Queen's 50 UK singles - ranked! - "Following the release of Bryan Singer’s Freddie Mercury biopic, we run the rule over the band’s British releases."
• Quincy Jones, giant of US music, has died aged 91 - "Quincy Jones, musician and producer who worked with Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and many others, has died at the age of 91."

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• Rap Genius - "If you don't know, now you know." Website dedicated to the explanation and interpretation of hip-hop music. The site's purpose is "not to translate rap into 'nerdspeak', but rather to critique rap as poetry." The site relies on user-generated content through a Wikipedia-like format of contribution, where contributors earn "Rap IQ" for interesting explanations. The site also includes a blog and a feature called the Rap Map.
• Reading Rock Star Obituaries - The New York Times.
• Record Store Day - annual event, founded in 2007, held on the third Saturday of April each year to to celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store. The day brings together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores across the world.
• REGGAE - Wikipedia.
• requiem for the ipod shuffle - Wired.
• Rhapsody's VR app is a hub for live music videos - "Watch on-demand concert performances in 360 degrees."
• RHYTHM AND BLUES - Wikipedia.
• RIAA | RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - the trade organization that supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies. The RIAA also certifies Gold, Platinum, Multi-Platinum and Diamond sales awards.
• RIDER - additional clause, document, or slip of paper that adds, alters, amends, or removes the provisions of an associated or attached agreement or contract (such as an insurance policy) or a negotiable instrument.
• Rihanna appointed an ambassador of Barbados - CNN entertainment.
• Rihanna is the first woman billionaire to play the Super Bowl halftime show - "Rihanna is about to perform at the Super Bowl LVII on Sunday (Feb. 12), marking the superstar’s first return to a musical stage in five years. The halftime show is a familiar setting for some of the music world’s richest stars, including the likes of Sean P. Diddy Combs and Paul McCartney, but Rihanna is in a tier of her own. Currently worth an estimated $1.4 billion, Rihanna stands as the wealthiest musician in the world, with Jay-Z close behind."
• Rihanna leapfrogs homegrown stars on UK music rich list - "Barbados-born singer near the top of the wealth charts after moving to London last year. Rihanna has staked a place near the top of the UK’s annual music rich list after moving to Britain last year, beating the likes of Mick Jagger, Elton John and Rod Stewart."
• Rihanna: There’s a reason why Rihanna’s a billionaire - "‘Servin’ face and jianbing’: Rihanna courts China’s lucrative beauty market with some clever culinary skills."
• Rihanna's journey to Forbes' billionaire list is about much more than music - "The singer turned entrepreneur, who ranks 1,729 (out of 2,668) with a net worth of $1.7 billion, first achieved billionaire status in August. She is the first billionaire of her home country, Barbados."
• Ringo Starr cancels North America tour with Covid - "Sir Ringo Starr has cancelled the rest of his North American tour after testing positive to Covid-19 again. The Beatles drummer, 82, had earlier cancelled some dates with his All Starr band after catching the virus, but returned after a negative test."
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• Rise & Fall of Paramount Records Volume 1 (1917-1932) - Amazon.com: US$393.82.
• rise of the synthesizer - "How an Electronics Whiz Kid Gave the 1980s Its Signature Sound."
• ROCK AND ROLL - definition & explanation.
• Rolling Stones: 25 defining moments in their career - The Telegraph.
• Rolling Stones deliver historic concert in Cuba: review - The Telegraph.
• Rolls-Royce Playlist Uses to Tune Its Bespoke Audio System - "Rolls-Royce has a certain reputation it has to live up to. It’s not for nothing that the brand’s name is now being used as an adjective, to describe the best of the best in any field. Thus, when developing the new Phantom, the utmost attention had to be paid to every little detail. Since a lot of the customers going to the Goodwood-based manufacturer are musicians, a special task force was created to make sure the best bespoke audio system in the world can be found in the Phantom."
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• Rotel S14 - since 1966. "Streaming your days away." The Rotel S14 Integrated Network Streamer is an all-in-one solution providing the ultimate in convenience to the near limitless catalog of music delivering 150 Watts of Class AB power. Album artwork on the front display, included remote, simple operation and intuitive setup ensures the S14 becomes the heart of your music system.
• Rotel's first just-add-speakers S14 network streaming system could rival the Naim Uniti Atom - "Should Naim be worried?"

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• SCHLAGER MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• Scientists find part of brain responds selectively to sound of singing - "US results also confirm previous findings that some neurons respond to speech or music."
• Scott Walker - (1943-2019). Was an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. Walker was known for his baritone voice and an unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s teen pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician.
• Scott Walker, experimental pop hero, dies aged 76 - "Few pop stars went the artistic distance that Scott Walker did – and from the middle of the road to its further edges, his work was always extraordinary."
• Sean 'Diddy' Combs: 'He thought of himself as a king': The parties that led to Diddy's downfall - "There was a time when an invitation to a party hosted by Sean 'Diddy' Combs was one of the most sought-after tickets in the entertainment industry."
• Sean 'Diddy' Combs: Lawyer cites 300 potential cases against Diddy - "A lawyer representing several alleged victims of Sean 'Diddy' Combs says the potential number of civil legal cases against the musician 'is probably in the 300 range'."
• Seasonably Rich: How much are musicians making from our favourite Christmas songs? - The New Musical Express.
• Seatwave - "Your ticket to a great time." Online marketplace where fans can buy and sell tickets for concerts, theatre, sports and just about any other live event.
• Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home to open to public - "Property owned by daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg has been kept as it was when singer died 30 years ago."
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - all the people pictured on the cover.
• Shania Twain: I was touch & go with Covid - "'I had a very bad bout with Covid, with Covid pneumonia, and it was very touch-and-go. I was feeling like, oh my God, I just have to breathe.'"
• Shania Twain on childhood, stardom, divorce & survival - "The record-breaking singer is back with her sixth album. She discusses deprivation, domestic violence and feeling triumphant after stage fright and surgery."
• Signature songs - song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.
• Silent disco - "A silent disco or silent rave is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants. Those without the headphones hear no music, giving the effect of a room full of people dancing to nothing."
• Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry & self-obsessed - study - "Researchers analysed the words in more than 12,000 English-language songs across several genres from 1980 to 2020."
• Songs of the Century - the list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. that aims to "promote a better understanding of America’s musical and cultural heritage" in American schools.
• Sonos announces redesigned app that puts everything on your homescreen - "The company’s desktop apps are being phased out in favor of a web app that lets you control your Sonos gear from anywhere. It’ll roll out for both Android and iOS on May 7th."
• SONY CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF WALKMAN IN TOKYO - "Four decades of portable, personal music."
• SONY MUSIC
• SOUL MUSIC - Wikipedia.
• SOUND CLOUD - "Share Your Sounds. SoundCloud is the world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere. Recording and uploading sounds to SoundCloud lets people easily share them privately with their friends or publicly to blogs, sites and social networks. It takes just a click to share sounds to Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Foursquare. SoundCloud can be accessed anywhere using the official iPhone and Android apps, as well as hundreds of creation and sharing apps built on the SoundCloud platform.
• SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST | SXSW - one of the largest music festivals in the United States usually in March in Austin, Texas with more than 2,000 performers.
• Spice Girls songs (all 43) - ranked! - "As the Spice Girls reconvene without Easy V (she don’t come for free) for a string of 2019 stadium shows, we sift their catalogue to decide what’s best."
• Spotify says it will remove Neil Young's music, according to reports - "Spotify will no longer stream the music of Neil Young. For what it's worth, he asked for it."
• Spotify tattoo - artists want you to know these risks - "What if you were able to have your favorite song basically on speed dial, ready to go for any moment that calls for it? What's known as a 'Spotify tattoo' has made that possible: On Spotify, every piece of content has a series of unique sound bars known as a Spotify code, meant for sharing the content with someone when scanned with the camera function on Spotify's mobile app. Get a code tattooed on your arm or another body part and, when scanned, it should immediately play the content associated with it."
• Sprechgesang - (German: "spoken singing") and Sprechstimme (German: "spoken voice") are expressionist vocal techniques between singing and speaking. Though sometimes used interchangeably, Sprechgesang is directly related to the operatic recitative manner of singing (in which pitches are sung, but the articulation is rapid and loose like speech), whereas Sprechstimme is closer to speech itself (because it does not emphasise any particular pitches).
• Staccato - form of musical articulation. In modern notation it signifies a note of shortened duration, separated from the note that may follow by silence.
• Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna - The New York Times.
• Stephen Sondheim left behind an estate worth an estimated $75 million - "Sondheim designated his wealth - including his personal effects, the rights to his music and literary works and everything else - to go into the Stephen J. Sondheim Revocable Trust, the will says."
• Stephen Sondheim: master craftsman who reinvented the musical dies aged 91 - (1930-2021). "Scoring his first big hit with West Side Story at 27, the US composer and lyricist raised the art form’s status with moving and funny masterpieces including Follies and Company."
• Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpieces on stage & screen - in pictures - "From West Side Story to Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George to Into the Woods, Sondheim’s works have been performed - and loved - by the stars of musical theatre and cinema alike."
• Steve Jobs’ Favorite Books & Bands - "Steve Jobs once famously said that people don’t read anymore, but he did, and amongst the revelations of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple’s co-founder are his favorite books and bands."
• Streaming is now the US music industry's biggest money maker - "It just edged out downloads in 2015."
• SUN STUDIO - the birthplace of Rock N' Roll.
• Supremes co-founder & singer Mary Wilson dies aged 76 - "Mary Wilson, who co-founded The Supremes and remained a member of the group until they split up, has died at the age of 76."

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• TAPS - musical piece sounded at dusk, and at funerals, particularly by the U.S. military. It is sounded during flag ceremonies and funerals, generally on bugle or trumpet, and often at Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Girl Guide meetings and camps. The tune is also sometimes known as "Butterfield's Lullaby", or by the first line of the lyric, "Day is Done". At YouTube.
• Taylor Swift & Kanye West’s 2016 Phone Call Leaks: Read the Full Transcript - "Swift fans believe it vindicates her of charges she lied about not being told all the 'Famous' lyrics. Either way, the 25-minute call diverges fascinatingly into West's relationship with his wife, Drake rivalry, debt load and confidence of becoming 'a multi, multi, multi-billionaire.'"
• Taylor Swift: A Brief Guide to Who's Who on Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' - "Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets."
• Taylor Swift becomes first woman to have four albums in US Top 10 at once - "Singer is just third artist in history to have four albums in top 10 concurrently, with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) becoming her 12th album to reach No. 1."
• Taylor Swift breaks The Beatles' chart record - "Taylor Swift has broken The Beatles' long-held chart record for having the fastest run of three number one albums. The US singer scored her hat-trick in a total of just 259 days, beating the Fab Four's 54-year-old record of three chart-topping albums in 364 days. John, Paul, George and Ringo's run was for Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver."
• Taylor Swift claims she offsets her travel carbon footprint - "Taylor Swift has been criticised for her private plane usage, but claims to have bought double the amount of carbon credits needed to offset her flights for the Eras Tour."
• Taylor Swift deepfakes spark calls in Congress for new legislation - "US politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed millions of times online."
• Taylor Swift fans ‘Shake It Off,’ causing record-breaking seismic activity during Seattle shows - "Taylor Swift fans are in their record-breaking era. After two nights of earth-shaking dancing at Swift’s Seattle 'Eras' tour concert at Lumen Field, enthusiastic Swifties caused seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake, according to seismologist Jackie Caplan-Auerbach."
• Taylor Swift grabs royal selfie at London gig - "Taylor Swift grabbed a perfect royal selfie ahead of her Wembley gig - posing with the Prince of Wales and two young music fans, Prince George and Princess Charlotte."
• Taylor Swift: 'Her fans are making pilgrimages': How Taylor Swift's Eras tour became a near-religious experience - "Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, a 'cultural juggernaut' remarkable for both its scale and intimacy, comes to an end this week. Along the way, it has become the most extraordinary live event of our time – and for many, it's meant even more. Being relatable has long been Swift's calling card. Even as her fame and wealth has soared (she joined the Forbes World's Billionaires List earlier this year), she's continued to keep fans believing that she's not really all that different from them."
• Taylor Swift: her life & career in pictures - The Telegraph.
• Taylor Swift joins world's richest on billionaire list - "Taylor Swift has joined Elon Musk as ranking among the world's 2,781 wealthiest people with a collective wealth of $14.2 trillion, according to a new rich list."
• Why Taylor Swift is a literary giant - by a Shakespeare professor - "Sir Jonathan Bate is a world authority on the Bard - and a long-time fanboy of the American singer. Here, he shall compare her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose. Plus, play our lyric-guessing game."
• Taylor Swift makes one million dollars, EVERY DAY - Daily Express.
• Taylor Swift: Person of the Year 2023: Taylor Swift - "This was the year Taylor Swift perfected her craft—not just with her music, but in her position as the master storyteller of the modern era."
• Taylor Swift 'put brakes on' relationship with Tom Hiddleston - The Telegraph.
• Taylor Swift Rep Refutes Private Jet Usage Claims - "A representative for the singer says her Dassault Falcon 7X is often on loan. Thus, blaming Swift for its emissions is 'blatantly incorrect.'"
• Taylor Swift’s fury at ‘four years of hell’ at the hands of Kim Kardashian & Kanye West - "With massive fame and even bigger fortunes, they are three of the hugest stars on the planet."
• Teenage Engineering’s Record Factory is a DIY musician’s dream - "Creating a lo-fi mono recording never felt so satisfying."
• THE BEATLES BIBLE - songs, albums, history, profiles, places, photos and more.
• The Beatles created a painting together while on tour in Japan. Now it’s up for auction - "That painting, believed by some experts to be the only artwork jointly made by all four Beatles (or at least signed by all four), will be up for sale at Christie’s auction house in New York on February 1."
• The Beatles: The long & winding road to The Beatles' break-up - "It could be said eight violins, four violas, four cellos, three trumpets, three trombones, two guitars, and a choir of fourteen women were what finally broke up The Beatles. 'It was the straw that broke the camel's back,' according to Denise Kelly who has studied more than 300 pages of legal documents relating to the Fab Four's demise."
• The Beatles: The story behind the only known painting by The Beatles, as it goes up for sale at auction - "The Beatles made a psychedelic painting together - at auction on 1 February - while holed up in a Japanese hotel room. Its creation seemed to provide a moment of calm at a tumultuous time."
• The Beatles' singles - ranked! - "As Abbey Road turns 50, we rate the Fab Four’s 22 UK singles, which dominated the charts in the 1960s - and changed pop for ever."
• The betrayal of Britney Spears: how pop culture failed a superstar - "In an effective new documentary, the difficult life of a pop star is examined from family struggles to the toll of being at the mercy of the media."
• The Carpenters’ 20 greatest songs - ranked! - The Guardian.
• The coded messages in pop songs - "While a catchy tune can grab our attention, subliminal subversive ideas are often what really connect with us."
• The dress that changed British pop history - "Remember when Ginger Spice wore the Union Jack?"
• The Economics of Rihanna’s Superstardom - "The music industry can tell us a lot about our winner-take-all economy."
• The Five - (also known as The Mighty Handful & The New Russian School). Were five prominent, 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinctly Russian classical music. Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin all lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870.
• The Gay Architects of Classic Rock - The New York Times.
• THE HYPE MACHINE - since 2005. "Popular MP3 & Music Blog Tracks." MP3 blog aggregator.
• The most expensive album ever made? - Bloomberg.
• The most prized vinyl record in the world - "On paper, that title goes to the Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The album resides as the most expensive record ever sold by far. In 2015, it was bought for $2 million by the disgraced pharmaceutical mogul Martin Shkreli. However, that wasn’t because it was a mystic rarity. In fact, the price was manipulated because the hip-hop collective only produced one single copy and enshrined it in a glitzy box, along with a contract that stipulated that the owner cannot sell or attempt to make money from the album for 88 years."
• The music industry battles the Internet Archive - "The big music labels, led by Sony and Universal, are filing a lawsuit against the Internet Archive to stop the non-profit’s Great 78 Project. It’s an effort to digitize and preserve recordings on old 78 RPM records, a format discontinued in 1959. The labels feel the Archive, the closest thing the web has to a public library, is infringing its copyrights after digitizing tracks from big names like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. And the labels are asking for damages of $150,000 per still-copyrighted recording - the better part of $372 million in total."
• THE MUSIC VIDEO DATABASE - "If you're looking for music video information and resources, then look no more! This is the perfect place for you."
• 'The nearest to God we get': stars pick the Beethoven work they cherish - "Ali Smith does an opus a month, Tony Hall saw Fidelio on Robben Island, and Lady Brenda Hale used to march to his Grosse Fuge. As the Proms celebrate Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, stars reveal a favourite work"
• THE PEOPLE'S CHART - the 75 most listened to songs of the last 75 years.
• THE RECORD COLLECTOR - 7809 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA, U.S.A. The Record collector was founded in Hollywood in 1974 and has been in the same location for more than 25 years. You will find here unusual and extramely rare and out of print 10" and 12" vinyl LP's. The Record Collector has an inventory exceeding 500,000 records. It consists of 300,000 classical LP's, 100,000 jazz LP's, and over 100,000 records consisting of soundtracks, vocals,comedy, spoken word, blues, ethnic music, R&B, and soul music. Search service for rare and collectible used records, specializing in classical and jazz.
• THE ROCK & ROLL POP ART AUCTION - the ultimate destination for fully authenticated Sports, Entertainment, Rock & Roll and Historical memorabilia.
• THE SMOKING GUN - large collection of public documents on crimes, celebrities, politicians, and the FBI.
• The Unlikely Making of The Velvet Underground & Nico - Pitchfork.
• The Vinyl Factory - "The Home of Vinyl."
• The Well-Tempered Clavier - BWV 846–893, is a collection of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, composed for solo keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach.
• The Worst Songs of the Nineties - Rolling Stone magazine.
• The wrong goodbye: rewatching the strangest award show tributes ever - "Madonna’s VMAs ode to Aretha Franklin has been labelled a self-indulgent disaster but it’s not the first time an onstage tribute has gone wrong."
• These Are the Songs a High-End Audio Company Uses to Test Its Speakers - "From Leonard Cohen to Eva Cassidy, here’s how the audio experts at Sonus faber ensure the best sound for their line of speakers."
• ThÉÂtrophone (1881/1890-1932). ("The theatre phone") was a telephonic distribution system available in portions of Europe that allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines.
• Thirteenth - in music or music theory, a thirteenth is the interval between the sixth and first scale degrees when the sixth is transposed up an octave, creating a compound sixth, or thirteenth.
• This is the kind of music you should listen to at work - The Telegraph.
• Three-hand effect - a means of playing on the piano with only two hands, but producing the impression that one is using three hands. Typically this effect is produced by keeping the melody in the middle register, with accompanying arpeggios in the treble and bass registers.
• Tom Jones's journey from south Wales to sex symbol - "A one-off documentary celebrates the full-throated crooner as he turns 80."
• Tom Lehrer: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity? - "In the 1950s and 60s, his songs stunned and delighted listeners with their irreverence, wit and nihilism. Then he gave it all up to teach mathematics. Lehrer is still alive at 96 - so I went in search of answers."
• Tony Bennett - a life in pictures - "Tony Bennett, whose genial jazz songcraft won him multiple generations of fans, has died aged 96. Take a look back at his long career."
• Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96 - "Publicist confirms death of American pop and jazz singer who became torchbearer for Great American Songbook."
• Tony Bennett hangs up concert hat on doctor's orders - "American singer Tony Bennett is stepping back from concert performances at the age of 95, his son said on Friday. Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, canceled a run of concerts planned for later this year and won’t be returning to touring, his manager son Danny Bennett told Variety in an interview."
• Tony Bennett has set a new Guinness World Record - "The Grammy Award-winning singer just set a Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to release an album of new material. 'Love for Sale,' a collaboration with Lady Gaga, was released on October 1, and at the time, Bennett was 95 years and 60 days old, according to Guinness."
• top 20 Valentine's Day songs on Spotify - The Telegraph.
• top 100 songs of 2018 - "Guardian music writers have picked their favourite songs of the year - from UK drill breakthroughs to pure pop anthems - and put them all on a giant playlist."
• Top-Earning Women In Music - Forbes.
• Top of the flops: is streaming rendering the charts obsolete? - "Record companies might disagree, but exclusives, eligibility algorithms, bundling and ‘streaming farms’ are threatening to ruin the Top 40."
• Top Streamed Song on Spotify Every Year, 2014-2023 - "Spotify is one of the most popular paid music streaming services, totaling 626 million users across 180 markets, as of July 2024. This chart shows the top-streamed song of the year on Spotify from 2014 to 2023, with figures from Spotify, Complex, and Wikipedia."
• Trini Lopez, US singer & star of The Dirty Dozen, dies aged 83 from Covid-19 - "Mexican-American was signed by Frank Sinatra, designed guitars for Gibson and had global hit in 1963 with If I Had a Hammer."
• Turn Yourself Into a Songwriter with These Free Apps - Wired.

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• UNHEAR IT - "Get that damn song out of your head!" We created this site for those of you that have a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out no matter what you do. Using the latest in reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology, we've been able to allow our users to "unhear" songs by hearing equally catchy songs.
• U2's 40 greatest songs - ranked! - "As Bono turns 60, we look back at how the Irish greats turned scratchy post-punk into a stadium-filling proposition - and continue to move with the times."

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• Vera Lynn: a life in pictures - "Vera Lynn has died at the age of 103. The singer became known as the ‘forces’ sweetheart’ because of her popularity during the second world war, and went on to become one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers."
• Vera Lynn's soaring voice gave Britons hope when hope was most scarce - "In the war’s darkest days, Lynn’s songs of optimism and love exemplified the very best of what we thought ourselves to be."
• Vinyl buyers are lonely, middle-aged introverts, according to new study - FACT Magazine.
• Vinyl records outsell CDs in US for first time since 1980s - "Report on first half of 2020 finds that vinyl makes up 62% of physical music revenue."
• VIP syndrome: why do the doctors to the stars make fatal mistakes? - "Medical professionals who treat celebrities such as Prince and Michael Jackson are as susceptible to star power as the rest of us, and the results can be deadly."
• Virtuoso - an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.
• Vivaldi taught Venetian orphan girls - did they help write his music in return? - "A chance discovery introduced me to the composer’s work with abandoned children. The more I learned, the more I wondered about the creative role they played in his music."
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• Vladimir Horowitz - The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966-1983 (50 CD Box Set) - Amazon.com: US$179.98.
• VOLARE - the only song that originated in Italy to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

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• Wall of Sound - a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings developed by record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1960s.
• WARNER BROS. + REPRISE RECORDS
• wear these stylish earplugs to your next concert - Wired.
• Wham!'s Last Christmas crowned Christmas number one - "Wham! has been declared the UK's official Christmas number one with Last Christmas - 39 years after first being denied the festive top spot. Written and produced by the late George Michael, Last Christmas was beaten to the festive top spot in 1984 by Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?"
• Wham!’s Last Christmas has been remastered in 4K & it looks incredible - The Verge.
• What Happens When a Pop Star Isn’t That Popular? - "Pop’s middle class enjoys loyal online fan bases. For these artists, pop stardom isn’t a commercial category, but a sound, an aesthetic and an attitude." The New York Times.
• What to buy if you want to start producing music at home - "Setting up a home studio doesn't have to be hard or expensive."
• What to say - and not to say - about Kanya West - "A few things we know about Kanye West."
• WHAT WE LISTEN TO WHILE WORKING FROM HOME - "The Verge’s favorite audio picks, from hip-hop to podcasts to game soundtracks."
• What would the world have been like without the Beatles? - "Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis’s film, Yesterday, imagines what might have happened if the Fab Four had never existed. Guardian writers and Beatles experts offer their own alternative histories."
• What's the best song to wake up to? - Today.com.
• when pop stars & politicians collide - The Guardian.
• Which Rock Star Will Historians of The Future Remember? - The New York Times.
• 'White Christmas': The biggest selling single of all time - "American entertainer Bing Crosby made 'White Christmas' by Irving Berlin, one of the defining songs of World War Two."
• Who was the real Elvis Presley? - "How does the portrayal of 'The King' in Baz Luhrmann's new biopic compare to the reality? Kaleem Aftab explores the complex debate around Presley, civil rights and cultural appropriation."
• Why is Spotify full of faster versions of pop hits? Let’s bring you up to speed - "Sped-up versions of existing songs are becoming more popular than the original versions. But who’s behind the trend?"
• Why It Matters That J. Lo Is Now J. Aff - "'A woman taking her husband’s last name feels to me like a submission - a gesture that doesn’t say 'I belong with him' so much as 'I belong to him."
• Why my way is the most popular funeral song - BBC Music.
• Why You Should Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons, According to Science - TIME Magazine.
• WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE - weeklong electronic music conference, held every March since the mid-1980s in Miami, Florida, United States. Venues are hosted primarily in Downtown Miami and Miami's South Beach. It is aimed at professionals such as artists, DJs, record label representatives (A&R), producers, promoters, radio and the media.
• WMG | WARNER MUSIC GROUP
• WOMEX - the world music expo. Virtual trade fair for world music on the internet - open the whole year round.
• WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL - August 15-18, 1969.
• WORLD MUSIC DATABASE - a forum where musiclovers can submit their knowledge about various aspects of popmusic. Collects information such as used samples, samplesources, bands, bandmembers, pseudonyms, nicknames, credits, interesting facts about videoclips and many more.
• world's first Freddie Mercury museum is on an African island - "Down a small, narrow alley in the historic Stone Town neighborhood of Zanzibar, an old building beckons to visitors. Faded photographs are pinned outside the door while inside, a gallery of glossy pictures and old newspaper clippings lead the way to the room's centerpiece: a black piano with an interesting history."
• World's Highest-Paid Musicians 2013 - Forbes.
• World's Highest-Paid Women In Music 2018 - "Forbes’ annual list sees Katy Perry rise from ninth place to unseat Beyoncé, now in third place behind Taylor Swift."
• World’s Top-Earning Musicians Of 2019 - Forbes.

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• X, formerly Twitter, commandeers ‘@music’ handle from user with half a million followers - "Social network Twitter, recently rebranded as X, has commandeered the handle '@music' from open-source software developer Jeremy Vaught, who told CNBC he created the account in 2007, and had built a community of around half a million followers there."

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• YÉ-yÉ - was a style of pop music that emerged from Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" was derived from the English term "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles.
• Young Performers Look to Apps for Stardom - The New York Times.
• YOU TUBE - find music videos by artist, group or band.
• 'Your Majesty, I'm returning this MBE in protest' - John Lennon - The Telegraph.

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• Zelensky hails his country's Eurovision win & vows to hold next year's event in MARIUPOL - "President Zelensky has vowed to hold Eurovision in Mariupol next year after an outpouring of support from the European public propelled Ukraine to victory - as Britain's Sam Ryder earned a shock second place. Britain surprisingly topped the jury vote and led for most of the night before Ukraine were awarded a mammoth 439 points in the public vote."