With late frontman Shane MacGowan replaced by a succession of guests, this 40th anniversary show for the Pogues’ debut album, Red Roses For Me, could
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Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
With the world-famous statue towering over it from Corcovado mountain, Rio de Janeiro is well used to Christ the Redeemer. For one night only this
Keane review – note-perfect return with added emotional wallop
After the chart-steamrollering success of their 2004 debut album Hopes and Fears, singer Tom Chaplin’s drug and alcohol addiction meant things had gone badly awry
Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism review – a banger-filled missive from dating land
Dua Lipa’s last album, 2020’s Future Nostalgia, moved the cultural dial. Released into the pandemic, it was ubiquitous, neon-hued and life-affirming, winning two Brits and
Unknown singer stands in for Olly Murs at last-minute as Take That support in Glasgow
A Scottish singer has said he is “still on a high” after being plucked from obscurity to replace Olly Murs as the opening act for
Sabrina Carpenter: how the Espresso singer became a piping hot pop prospect
Capped with one of the most brilliantly nonsensical chorus lines in pop history – “That’s that me, espresso” – Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso is the most
Keane’s Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley look back: ‘Long friendships are like a marriage. You have to adapt to each other’s madness’
Tom Chaplin and Tim Rice-Oxley are childhood friends and founding members of Keane, a group from Battle, East Sussex. The band formed in 1995 and released
Sharleen Spiteri: ‘I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you’
Born in Scotland, Sharleen Spiteri, 56, worked as a hairdresser before forming Texas with Johnny McElhone aged 17. They went on to have hits I
‘When I became a meme it was humiliating and hurtful’: Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong
The London hotel room is huge, with a grand piano in one corner. In the middle is a stash of crisps, nuts and drinks, laid
‘I was sad in a way I never knew possible’: Yaya Bey on grief, poverty and using music as therapy
“My life has been a whirlwind,” sighs Yaya Bey. Across a turbulent near-decade, the R&B auteur has weathered divorce and bereavement, relocated from Washington DC back home