Razorlight, Tom Jones, Robert Plant, Joss Stone, Ronan Keating + more

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Published Sept. 10, 2009 at 11:02 a.m.

Chart-busting big names come together to raise money for music therapy charity, Nordoff-Robbins. Expect dodgy collaborations in aid of a good cause ...

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Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the early 90s free party scene

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Published July 11, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the dream ... On 19 April 1992 - Easter Sunday - Spiral Tribe, a self-described "rag-tag sound system group who came together driven by the will to keep the party going", who had been running free raves with a mobile rig across the UK since 1990, set up in a warehouse in

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'I forgive you': The Clash's drummer Topper Headon makes peace with the man who sacked him

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Published June 27, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
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Driver K44 sits in a deep armchair with his Staffordshire bull terrier, Yowsah, lying across his lap. Stroking the dog he recalls the mini-cabbing job he took in west London in the late 1980s to fund his heroin addiction. "I look like death," he tells me. "I'm driving a Talbot Solara with a dodgy starter motor and I pick up this old lady. She goes to get in the car and I say, 'Excuse me,' and I hand her a broom. While I turn the key she has to bash the solenoid. The car starts and I go, 'OK, get

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Graeme Thomson meets six session musicians who've made everyone from Girls Aloud to Paul McCartney sound better

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Published June 13, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

They're on hundreds of hits - but you won't know their names. Graeme Thomson meets six session musicians who've made everyone from Girls Aloud to Paul McCartney sound better ... I refuse to call them backing vocals, it sounds so nondescript," says Beverley Skeete with an imperious giggle. After two decades of singing "complementary" vocals with everyone from Tina Turner to Robbie Williams, Skeete has perfected her pitch. "We make a huge contribution. When I listen back to Let Me Entertain You I

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Hot Chip And Filthy Dukes To Play "Hidden Gigs" For Crisis

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Published March 18, 2009 at 5:01 a.m.

Plus, Bluetones and Dodgy will also perform charity shows ...

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Your Brit awards checklist: Tick off Wednesday's controversies as they happen

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Published Feb. 14, 2009 at 7:01 p.m.

offensive gag ... Inspired by Russell Brand's near-the-knuckle MC-ing in 2007, James Corden greets co-host Kylie Minogue with a groin-thrusting rendition of Especially for You, before announcing Duffy's performance with an off-piste gag about "taking her up the Severn tunnel till she's begging for mercy." It doesn't fly ... The utterly bewildering winner ... In apparent tribute to Brandon Block's cameo in 2000, a chancer lopes on, ranting about US imperialism and Israeli war crimes. It takes a

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Why I Love: Playing the clarinet

Published Feb. 7, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
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I had to pretend I could play the clarinet when I had a part as a dodgy West Indian clarinettist in [the television series] Jericho. I liked it so much I decided to learn it for real, and my wife gave me a series of lessons for Christmas ...

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2008 review: 50 albums of the year

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Published Dec. 6, 2008 at 7:01 p.m.

1: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago ... There was no definitive album release this year, no generational lightning rod such as the Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am ... from two years ago, or surprise bottling of the zeitgeist in the manner of the Streets' A Grand Don't Come For Free from 2004. No rock act commanded the mainstream heights either, as even Coldplay rushed leftfield, hiring Brian Eno and some silly outfits. This is how things will be now that we are at the point, first

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