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Per Nørgård obituary
www.silverguide.site – Danish composer driven by the concept of musical metamorphosis and a renowned symphonist…
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Australian artists making waves globally but local listening at ‘historic low’
www.silverguide.site – Only 8% of the top 10,000 artists streamed in Australia in 2024 were Australian, an analysis in a Creative Australia report finds…
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John Lennon’s ‘smutty and funny’ letter to future first wife to be sold at auction
www.silverguide.site – Beatle wrote in 1962 letter to Cynthia Powell that he wished he was on his way to her flat with ‘chocies and a throbber’…
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Hyper-prolific rapper Boldy James: ‘I never settled for the cards life dealt me. I’ve always been the dealer’
www.silverguide.site – He’s already put out seven albums this year alone – a work ethic inherited, he says, from selling drugs in Detroit. But will we ever hear his tracks with the late great J Dilla?…
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‘Send me some money!’ My unforgettable encounters with the legendary Sly Stone
www.silverguide.site – He went from the towering highs of the 60s and 70s, where he changed the face of music, to the shambolic lows of a decades-long addiction. But interviewing the music genius over the years showed me a man who was awed, revered and strangely shy…
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Tell us your favourite album of 2025 so far
www.silverguide.site – We would like to hear about the best new album you have heard this year so far and why…
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The best albums of 2025 so far
www.silverguide.site – Bon Iver straddles stark indie-folk and poppy R&B while PinkPantheress makes an unarguable case for going out out as we revisit six months of the music you mustn’t miss…
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Taylor Swift granted restraining order against alleged stalker
www.silverguide.site – Forty-five-year-old Brian Jason Wagner reportedly made numerous visits to Swift’s Los Angeles home and claimed he shared a child with her…
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Share your tributes and memories of Sly Stone
www.silverguide.site – We would like to hear your memories of Sly Stone – whether you met him, or appreciated his work as a musician…
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Sly Stone obituary
www.silverguide.site – Funk and soul musician whose band, Sly and the Family Stone, had a profound effect on US music in the 1960s and 70s…
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‘I’m closer to the end than the beginning’: British soul legend Omar on EastEnders, Stevie Wonder and his industry battles
www.silverguide.site – He’s worked with the cream of US neo-soul and is seen as a national treasure by his peers – so why is Omar underrated? From hits to label struggles, he revisits the highs and lows…
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Sly Stone was a trailblazer who changed the course of music – and an icon of both hope and pain | Stevie Chick
www.silverguide.site – With the Family Stone, Sly was so audacious it was hard to believe his brilliance could ever be exhausted – making his unravelling all the more painful to watch…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s ex-girlfriend says she felt obligated to participate in ‘freak-offs’
www.silverguide.site – ‘Jane’ resumes testimony and she repeatedly told Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs she didn’t want to have sex with other men…
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Governors Ball 2025: Olivia Rodrigo and Hozier reign over New York festival
www.silverguide.site – While there were less zeitgeisty moments in this edition, acts like Young Miko and Benson Boone still brought energy to New York’s cheaper Coachella…
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Sly Stone, pioneering funk and soul musician, dies aged 82
www.silverguide.site – American songwriter lit up generations of dancefloors with his group Sly and the Family Stone…
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Glastonbury sells ‘a few thousand less tickets’ to avoid overcrowding
www.silverguide.site – Festival organiser Emily Eavis says other changes include Shangri-La area ‘going full trees and green space’…
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Voces8 review – agile and poised vocal group celebrate 20 years, with a little help from their friends
www.silverguide.site – The choir’s birthday concert focused mainly on 20th and 21st-century music with a contemplative bent. Joined in the second half by members old and potentially new, and also the BBC Singers, the sound was thrilling…
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New Music Biennial review – sitars, thorax-quaking bass and vibrators
www.silverguide.site – A varied weekend in the UK City of Culture showcased a huge range of energetic, imaginative and boundary-crossing new music…
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‘I watched Bob Dylan play tennis with three of the Beatles’: how we made the Isle of Wight festival
www.silverguide.site – ‘It’s a myth that Jimi Hendrix played while the stage was on fire. It was a firework’…
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Saul review – probing, dark and engrossing staging of Handel’s oratorio
www.silverguide.site – Barrie Kosky’s remarkable 2015 production returns to the summer festival with Christopher Purves and Iestyn Davies superb in the lead roles…
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