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The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper.

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Althea & Donna: Althea And Donna: Why It's A Hit Beyond Words...

Report by Robin Katz, Daily Mail, 2 January 1978

See mi in mi heels and thing Them check say we hip and thing True them no know and thing We have them going and thing Nah pop no ...

Queen: The Crowning of Queen

Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Daily Mail, Spring 1978

FREDDIE MERCURY appears on stage like a writhing python, stalking the boards in the black leotard he normally wears. Looking rather like an Edwardian one-piece ...

Billy Joel: Power Behind The Throne

Profile and Interview by Robin Katz, Daily Mail, 22 February 1979

WHAT ROCK'S LATEST SUPERSTAR OWES TO HIS WIFE ...

Frank Zappa 1940-1993

Obituary by Michael Gray, Daily Mail, 7 December 1993

FRANK ZAPPA, who has died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 52, might well be seen as the last wild man of ...

Bruce Springsteen

Profile by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 1998

ROCK MUSIC in its 50-year history has inspired many degrees of love, adulation and awe. Yet among the ranks of legends and superstars, only two ...

The Sex Pistols

Retrospective by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 1999

ON DECEMBER 1, 1976, Londoners tuned in to Thames TV's Today show, expecting the usual bland mix of metropolitan news and views appropriate for a ...

The Beatles: Neil Aspinall: The Man Who Really Made The Beatles

Profile by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 12 April 2007

LOYALTY IS not a virtue associated with the pop music industry. Treachery, exploitation and kiss-and-tell are its far more familiar signature-tunes. ...

The Beatles: Magical Mysteries... The 'Fifth Beatle' Who Kept Their Innermost Secrets To The Very End

Obituary by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 26 March 2008

NEIL ASPINALL, the deservedly-named 'Fifth Beatle' who has died in New York aged 66, was not an easy man for a journalist to befriend. ...

John Legend: "Don't blame hip-hop for everything that's wrong in the world," says John Legend

Profile and Interview by Angus Batey, Daily Mail, 19 July 2008

"A LOT OF THESE places are disappearing," says John Legend with a rueful smile. He is sitting at a grand piano in the middle of ...

John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John Lennon: Give New York A Chance

Guide by Philip Norman, Daily Mail, 3 December 2008

FEW EXILES have been so cherished by a city as John Lennon was by New York. Certainly, none has ever left such a legacy of ...

Mumford & Sons: Babel

Review by David Bennun, Daily Mail, 24 September 2012

Nothing towers in Mumford's Babel ...

Gary Barlow: Bournemouth International Centre

Live Review by David Bennun, Daily Mail, 19 November 2012

CUT GARY BARLOW, one suspects, and he bleeds light entertainment. ...

Jess Glynne: Eden Project, Cornwall

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, 23 July 2016

IF THERE IS a more magical place to see music performed on a summer evening than the Eden Project, with its natural amphitheatre and unearthly ...

Christine and the Queens: O2 Academy, Glasgow

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, 12 November 2016

HÉLOÏSE LETISSIER, the French artist who performs as Christine and the Queens, is demob-happy. "This is a free zone," she tells us in charming accented ...

Johnny Marr, The Smiths: Johnny Marr: Set The Boy Free

Book Review by Stuart Maconie, Daily Mail, 26 November 2016

Written in disarmingly unaffected prose, Johnny Marr's long-awaited autobiography avoids all the rock and roll clichés. ...

Jess Glynne: Falkirk Stadium, Scotland

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, 19 August 2017

Jess Glynne offers a sprinkling of magic to unsunny Stirlingshire, but inevitably for an artist still touring her first record, the handful of killer comes ...

The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding (Atlantic)

Review by Graeme Thomson, Daily Mail, Summer 2017

ADAM GRANDUCIEL, strategist-in- chief behind Philadelphia's the War On Drugs, works in a field we might call ambient Americana. Imagine the music of Bruce Springsteen, ...

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah! What a love affair...

Retrospective and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Daily Mail, 13 July 2019

A new film tells the entrancing – and ultimately tragic – story of Leonard Cohen and the muse he always adored... ...

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