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THE origins of “Bohemian Rhapsody” are found in the late 1960s, when graphic art and design student “Freddie” Bulsara jotted a few ideas on some scraps of paper. A couple of years later, as Queen fron

Today, down jackets built for K2 are worn on the school run and premium waterproofs pop up in pubs. In their photo book, Max Leonard and Henry Iddon track down hard-as-nails but unheralded mountaineers and the fabric innovators who put them safely – and sometimes even stylishly – on summits to ask how we got here

Music was an all-consuming escape. Now, every song he writes is a love song At 16, I was just starting to take writing seriously. I became obsessed with lyricism and writing lines and my heroes were a

The highs and shocking lows of some of the biggest girlbands of the 1990s are revealed in a documentary that lays bare body-shaming, abortions and other secrets. BBC Two’s two-parter Girlbands Forever

Claire Jackson’s opinions on Brahms (Hero or Hype?; August) resonated with me. I studied his First Symphony for O-Level, and his Fourth for A-Level. Then at college, my piano teacher insisted I learn