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In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

The Brit-loving Canadians play shows up to mid-December.

Everybody’s favourite Yorkshire lass tells Shereen Low why life in her sixties is better than ever

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

New year, new albums bonanza: expect records in ...