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<p>L-R: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Rick Wright at Live 8 London in Hyde Park, 2 July 2005</p>

playbacks

How the Pink Floyd reunion topped a miraculous Live 8 line-up

Macca played with Bono and George Michael, Elton John with Pete Doherty, but getting Roger Waters and David Gilmour together for the final time really took some doing. Mark Beaumont remembers a history-making day, with the help of Razorlight and UB40

<p>Don’t Look Back in Anger: Oasis fans should delve into a latter-day catalogue that, while undeniably patchy, is stuffed full of gems unfairly dismissed the first time around</p>

In Focus

Music critics say Oasis only made two good albums. Gen Z disagree

<p>‘My dad can’t go to f***ing Waitrose, he can’t go and buy a paper or whatever. Do you actually want that?’ says Starkey of his father, Ringo Starr</p>

interview

Drummer Zak Starkey on The Who: ‘They have an addiction to friction’

<p>Kneecap drew such a crowd that entrances were shuttered 45 minutes before their arrival</p>

In Focus

The Kneecap controversy is proof they’re the perfect Glastonbury band

Interviews

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Interview

Iwan Rheon: ‘Part of me was left behind when I left Wales’

<p>Queen of Latin pop: Gloria Estefan is one of the best-selling female singers of all time with over 100 million record sales</p>

interview

Gloria Estefan: ‘He told me he’d kill my mother if I told anyone’

<p>Thom Rylance: ‘I’ll be in a charity shop in Wigan and I’ll get a FaceTime from Chad Kroeger out of Nickelback, and think I’ve got a weird life’</p>

Interview

Lottery Winners: ‘Robbie Williams said my biggest talent is bravery’

<p>Cypress Hill at the Royal Albert Hall</p>

Interview

Cypress Hill: ‘We made plenty of tracks when we weren’t high’

Glastonbury 2025

<p>Bob Vylan’s performance on the West Holts Stage on Saturday drew significant criticism (Yui Mok/PA)</p>

LiveGlastonbury Festival

Glastonbury live: Bob Vylan ‘dropped’ by agency

Final day of festival brought major sets from Olivia Rodrigo and Rod Stewart following controversy over Bob Vylan’s Saturday show

LiveGlastonbury Festival

Glastonbury live: Bob Vylan ‘dropped’ by agency

Final day of festival brought major sets from Olivia Rodrigo and Rod Stewart following controversy over Bob Vylan’s Saturday show

<p>Bob Vylan’s performance on the West Holts Stage on Saturday drew significant criticism (Yui Mok/PA)</p>

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Glastonbury Festival

Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury was a show and therapy rolled into one

<p>Worthy Farm was the perfect place to welcome back the charmingly genuine singer</p>

State of the Arts

Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury comeback tells us everything about him

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Glastonbury Festival

Rod Stewart’s Glastonbury set feels like he’s wringing out the dregs

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury 2025 reviews, Sunday: The Libertines, Wolf Alice and more

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury 2025 reviews, Sunday: The Libertines, Wolf Alice and more

<p>The veteran singer-songwriter performs with heart and intensity</p>

Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury headliner Neil Young thunders through a mighty setlist

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Glastonbury Festival

Doechii’s Glastonbury set sees her triumph over a biblical set clash

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Music Box

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Samantha Crain is mesmerising in Music Box performance of ‘Gumshoe’

Watch Sam Ryder’s brilliant pared-back performance of single ‘OH OK’

<p>Annie DiRusso performs during a Music Box session</p>

Watch rising star Annie DiRusso’s electrifying pared-back session

New Sensations

<p>Lydia Night: ‘Going solo has felt the most freeing thing in the world’</p>

New Sensations

Lydia Night: ‘Being messy is excused - but only if you write about it’

<p>Star power: ‘Justin Bieber called me the other day to tell me that he is so grateful to know me, like saying, ‘I’m so proud of you’</p>

New Sensations

Jensen McRae: ‘Justin Bieber is like a big brother to me’

<p>Bea Wheeler’s observational lyricism has earned her a Rising Star nomination at the prestigious songwriting ceremony, the Ivor Novello Awards (up against the already Brit-nominated Lola Young, Liang Lawrence, LULU., and Nia Smith)</p>

New Sensations

Bea and her Business: ‘I would go to label meetings alone aged 16’

Reviews

<p>The Haim sisters: they’re going through changes </p>

Haim could have abandoned more on their muscular summer album, I Quit

Live music

<p>Radical change: Dua Lipa more than proved herself at Wembley Stadium</p>

Dua Lipa’s Wembley debut underscores how far she’s come as a performer

<p>Lola Young performing at Little Simz’s Southbank Centre takeover, Meltdown Festival</p>

Lola Young conquers her nerves and proves Adele comparisons are just

<p>Charli performing in Victoria Park</p>

Brat summer is forever at Charli XCX’s victory lap LIDO Festival show

<p>Cocker leaps, writhes, points and shouts like he was born to do it</p>

Jarvis Cocker is Britpop’s ultimate comeback king in epic Pulp show

Retrospectives

<p>Shelley fused punk’s velocity to timeless songwriting</p>

Playback

How Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley swapped punk for queer-pop electro

<p>Supergrass: ‘We didn’t want to walk around town wearing Nike track suits. We’d probably rather wear some strange, velour, slightly wizardy outfit because it was just fun to dress up weirdly’</p>

Interview

Supergrass on ‘I Should Coco’ at 30: ‘We got even more psychedelic’

<p>Keyboardist Richard Wright plays on stage in ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII’</p>

Playback

This was Pink Floyd at their experimental zenith

<p>George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley at the Great Wall of China ahead of Wham!’s concert at Beijing's Workers’ Gymnasium in 1985</p>

In Focus

‘The police were scared’: When Wham! took Western pop to China

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