‘Almost everything to do with George Michael pointed back to his father’
James Gavin's new biography of the troubled star shifts blame away from the tabloids and onto the strict father whose approval he craved
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Paul McCartney, Glastonbury review: One of the all-time great Pyramid Stage sets
Over three golden hours that featured a duet with John Lennon, McCartney served up one absolutely storming classic after another
Glastonbury festival 2022 line-up: Sunday set times, TV channel and how to get tickets for 2023
From Paul McCartney and Diana Ross to Olivia Rodrigo and Charli XCX, Glastonbury is back for 2022. Here's everything you need to know
No thanks, Glastonbury: the stars who turned down the world’s biggest stage – and why
From The Killers to Led Zeppelin, stars have often turned down glittering headline slots offered by the Eavis's – their reasons complicated
Billie Eilish, Glastonbury review: Masterclass in modern pop on the Pyramid Stage
Glastonbury's youngest headliner adopted the vast stage as if she was born on it
The 10 Glastonbury 2022 performers to watch this weekend
From rap and rock to pop and funk, our writer’s pick of the most exciting artists at Glasto this year
'The stench of body odour was absolutely suffocating. I almost passed out'
Washed up tents, heartbreak and trench foot: Telegraph writers remember their Glastonbury horror stories
Why modern culture is dying
McCartney is playing Glastonbury, Kate Bush is number one and Top Gun 2 is the year's big film. Have original ideas fallen out of fashion?
Elvis is a pack of lies – not that it matters
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic takes huge liberties with the facts, but if it introduces a new generation to the King's music then it's worth it
How Glastonbury’s ‘naughty corner’ went from ramshackle raves to a dystopian fantasyland
Makeshift, illicit and running 24 hours a day, the ramshackle raves of Wango Riley’s and Joe Bananas have become Glastonbury lore
Best European music festivals to get tickets for in 2022
If you prefer sun, sea and Sangria to wellies and lager, look no further. Here’s our pick of the best music festivals in Europe this summer
Harry Styles, Wembley Stadium, review: an utterly modern pop star who gets bigger and better
The songs are beside the point – the One Direction escapee is the rare performer who can fill a stadium with charisma alone
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Mary McCartney on her family and other animals
Frisky horses, a frog in peril and a Beatle. Mary McCartney shares her most affectionate shots – and what she's baking for her father's 80th
Kate Bush tops the charts with Running Up That Hill – 37 years after it was released
The 63-year-old singer’s single has finally reached the pop summit following its star turn in hit Netflix series Stranger Things
Jessie Buckley channels Joni Mitchell, Nova Twins storm the rock scene – the week’s best albums
Buckley and Bernard Butler offer baroque folk, while Foals quit the ‘doom soup’ for sunlit uplands and Perfume Genius enters Ugly Season
The Wham! in China documentary George Michael didn’t want you to see
Wham! wanted a celebratory film of their historic 1985 tour. But 'fuddy-duddy old Left-wing fart' director Lindsay Anderson had other ideas
Primavera Sound: from Dua Lipa to The Strokes, who needs sleep when the party’s this good?
The popular Barcelona festival boasted a line-up to die for, though with music running from 7pm-7am, it was a case of night-owls-only
Mike McCartney on growing up with Paul: ‘I waited all night to meet Jane Asher’
As the Liverpool home in which the McCartneys grew up is opened up to musicians, Mike shares his and Paul’s surreal childhood memories
Julee Cruise, singer and actress whose ethereal vocals characterised the Twin Peaks television series – obituary
She entered David Lynch’s orbit by chance but went on to become an essential part of his musical soundscape
Libertine Peter Doherty's tell-all memoir A Likely Lad is rock'n'roll excess at its most depressing
Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse, heroin, crack, prison – this chaotic memoir is an exhausting tale of self-destruction but fails to make us care
Best upcoming UK music festivals for summer 2022 — from Latitude to other dance events
In case you didn't get a ticket to British Summer Time 2022 and you're going to have to wait until Glastonbury 2023
Neneh Cherry interview: ‘The music industry can be very toxic. It’s not for humans with heart and soul’
With a new album out this week, Neneh Cherry – now 58 – talks family, business and Swedish lullabies
Paul Vance, songwriter responsible for the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini – obituary
He was inspired by his infant daughter’s embarrassment at having to wear a skimpy bathing costume