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At a time when many aspects of Tom Petty ’s world were falling apart, he took refuge in the studio. The deeply personal Wildflowers album was the result, and despite all the chaos and confusion that fed into it, it’s the one he regarded as his best.

No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi

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hen Soft Cell were art students at Leeds Polytechnic, Marc Almond wrote a song in the vein of Ziggy Stardust about a fictional band breaking up. Four years later, when Soft Cell had been informed by t

Fifty years ago, Heart ’s Ann and Nancy Wilson gatecrashed a male-dominated, payola-fuelled rock scene with with Dreamboat Annie , a platinum debut album powered by passionate vocals, guitar heroics and unshakeable self-belief. “We were young people on fire!”