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D avid Bowie’s first album of the 1980s was a milestone record for many reasons. It was his last to be co-produced with collaborator Tony Visconti for more than 20 years, his swansong for RCA and for

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

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QUEEN I know this is it,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor told The Guardian newspaper in September 2023. “There’s no next rung coming.” As an artist who’d experienced both the dizzy highs and crushing lows of lif

Aged 46, Sophie Ellis-Bextor could have begun settling for a pop semi-retirement. Her touring schedule was easing towards the usual rounds of arena supports and mid-afternoon festival slots. Given tha