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All Ears: Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Essay by Metal Mike Saunders, The Village Voice, 14 March 2000

THE SEMINAL moment of the teenpop era is of course in the Clueless movie, where Cher refers to college-rock R.E.M.-crap as "mope rock", or "dope ...

Gary Barlow: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 24 March 1998

Stepping on the Gaz for the middle of the road ...

Dua Lipa: SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Live Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 22 April 2018

Dua's great Lipa forward: the charismatic pop star du jour proves herself to the hangar born on the opening night of her first arena tour. ...

David Cassidy: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 19 March 1972

David Cassidy was a roaring success ...

Justin Bieber: O2, London

Live Review by John Aizlewood, The Evening Standard, 12 October 2016

WHEN JUSTIN BIEBER most recently played the O2 in 2013, he arrived two hours late, broke the hearts of his young audience and was shoddiness ...

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 ...

Rihanna: LG Arena, Birmingham

Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 10 May 2010

IF 2008 WAS the year in which Rihanna consolidated her status as a global pop phenomenon and 2009 the year that she came back stronger ...

Lorde: New Band Of The Week: Lorde

Profile by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 7 June 2013

THIS NZ TEEN is about to make a big splash beyond blog-land. Think Lily meets Lana, only cuter and more cutting. ...

Monkees, The: The Monkees — They're What's Happening Baby!

Profile by Derek Taylor, Rave, January 1967

An exclusive story by Derek Taylor ...

Abba: the sound of business

Interview by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1977

TO STIG Anderson, it's a familiar story. "I've seen it all a hundred times," says Abba's business manager, record company president and lyricist. "First, we ...

Beatles, The, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Donovan, Manfred Mann, Ravi Shankar, Walker Brothers, The, Lester Young: Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Donovan, Ravi Shankar et al

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967

SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, Donovan's first big "commercial" success, is a beautiful, poetic, soothing, soaring, lyrical, rhythmic, groovy experience. ...

Bay City Rollers, The: Bay City Rollers: Top of the Pops?

Profile by Wayne Robins, The Village Voice, 8 September 1975

IF YOU believe, as I do, that 'Sugar Sugar' was a brilliant record, you may like the Bay City Rollers. On the other hand, it ...

Ariana Grande: How Ariana Grande floated free

Comment by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 29 August 2018

Grande has lifted the weight of the Manchester terror attack with a collection of gloriously oddball, career-changing pop songs. ...

Backstreet Boys, Robbie Williams: Backstreet Boys: Millennium (Jive); Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed (Capitol)

Review by James Hunter, New York Observer, 24 May 1999

Backstreet Boys Play Coy, Robbie Williams Is a Joy ...