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Could piped music in shops cause customers to make a bolt for it? | Letters
Letters: Nigel Rodgers of the Pipedown campaign, Dorothy Lewis, Peter Suchin and Hugh Edwards on the intrusive nature of ‘background’ music
Read more » | Desktop version »Mari Wilson: Neasden’s very own queen of soul | Brief letters
Brief letters: Laurence Binyon | Margaret Bondfield | Neasden | Damon Albarn’s attire | Same old Brexit news
Read more » | Desktop version »Greta Van Fleet review – rolling, tumbling, yowling classic rock
Echoing Led Zeppelin and Bill & Ted, the Michigan four-piece deliver taut, dynamic rock’n’roll topped with awesome hilarity
Read more » | Desktop version »Threatin: band creates fake fanbase for tour attended by no one
US-based ‘band’ embarked on a tour of empty venues in the UK – having been booked on the basis of a fake online fanbase
Read more » | Desktop version »Neil Young criticises Trump after losing his home in California fires
Songwriter says state is vulnerable because of climate change and accuses US president of defying science
Read more » | Desktop version »BTS should apologise to Japan and Nazi victims, says rabbi
K-pop band accused of mocking the past as row over ‘atomic bomb’ T-shirt continues
Read more » | Desktop version »The Silver Tassie review – superb, fiery outing for Turnage's first world war masterpiece
This concert staging of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera based on Sean O’Casey’s play was forcefully conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and sung by a consistently strong cast
Read more » | Desktop version »Beatles biographer Philip Norman: 'Yoko was waiting for me – with two lawyers'
He has charmed Elton John, angered Paul McCartney – and horrified Yoko Ono. What will he uncover about the ‘murky’ death of Jimi Hendrix? The great rock writer reveals the pain – and pleasure – of chasing stars
Read more » | Desktop version »LPO/Jurowski review – war poetry Hollywood-style amid a sea of poppies
This short, left-field remembrance concert sidestepped cliche with Magnus Lindberg, Stravinsky and Janáček, but delivered little emotional heft
Read more » | Desktop version »Aretha Franklin’s famous outfits auctioned in New York
Queen of Soul’s history-making wardrobe of sequins and furs go under the hammer
Read more » | Desktop version »Kurt Vile and the Violators review – a guitar hero for our age of anxiety
Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile reinvigorates stoned 70s rock with an assortment of six strings and an existential edge
Read more » | Desktop version »Home listening: Bostridge and Pappano, Anne Lovett and Our Classical Century
Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano join forces on a moving set to mark Armistice, the BBC celebrates 100 years of British music, and Anne Lovett channels the here and now
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