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Rebecca Lucy Taylor talks choirs, cricket, Sparks, Freddie Mercury and indie sleaze

A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B

With his Italian charm and chiselled good looks, it’s little surprise that Matteo Bocelli is regarded as one of the music world’s heartthrobs. But the singer, son of superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli, is

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As a teenager my life was pretty tumultuous. At 16, I had fallen madly in love with a boy my parents deeply disapproved of, and it was a real tussle for freedom and control. I’d started being naughty

Paul Weller’s career is a rare phenomenon in British music. Six decades in, he’s still making records that matter, still selling out tours, still chasing the next thing. What makes Weller endure? Afte