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<p>Kym Marsh: ‘I can’t do anything quietly’</p>

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Kym Marsh: ‘No more marriages for me. Three strikes and I’m out!’

The singer and actor parlayed her Noughties fame on ‘Popstars’ into an unpredictable career across stage, screen – and the cobbles. As her new play ‘Abigail’s Party’ rakes in rave reviews in Manchester, she sits down with Alim Kheraj to talk relationships, tabloid attention, and why she still speaks with disgraced ‘Strictly’ pro Graziano Di Prima

<p>New viral acts will arrive, but not many will surpass a behemoth like Ed</p>

State of the Arts

Ed Sheeran’s Persian pop experiment proves he’s too big to fail

<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

<p>Teddy Swims: ‘I’m just a blossoming flower’</p>

Interview

Teddy Swims: ‘Men should tell each other how pretty we are’

Interviews

<p>Lone rider: Mike Scott has been the one constant throughout The Waterboys’ 40-year career</p>

Interview

The Waterboys on Dennis Hopper: ‘At crucial moments, he’s there’

<p>Samia: ‘What I’m reaching for is self-certainty’</p>

New Sensations

Singer-songwriter Samia: ‘It’s easier to be an idea than a person’

<p>The Darkness’s Justin Hawkins (left): ‘Sometimes you gotta take matters into your own hands’</p>

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Justin Hawkins: ‘People saw our video and assumed I was back on drugs’

<p> Santana: ‘Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die’</p>

INTERVIEW

Carlos Santana: ‘Hostile forces tried to destroy Michael Jackson’

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Rising singer-songwriter Brooke Combe dazzles in new Music Box session

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Rapper Strandz stars in Music Box performance of ‘No Peace, No Time’

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Indie band Oracle Sisters star in gorgeous Music Box session

New Sensations

<p>Chloe Moriondo makes music for mermaids</p>

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Chloe Moriondo: ‘I’ve been embarrassed by my online past selves’

<p>‘In a world that is very loud and everything is supposed to be faster and more efficient, for me, songwriting and folk music are the opposite of that’</p>

New Sensations

Clara Mann: ‘We’re alienated from each other – live music is a remedy’

<p>Irish post punk group The Murder Capital are releasing their third album, ‘Blindness’</p>

New Sensations

The Murder Capital: ‘Irish artists aren’t so protective of their loot’

Reviews

<p>Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) in artwork for his latest album</p>

On SABLE, fABLE, it’s cool to hear Bon Iver having fun at last

<p>Elton John and Brandi Carlile teamed up for their new album, ‘Who Believes in Angels?’</p>

Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s album delivers old-school fun

Live music

<p>Father John Misty’s latest album filled the setlist – proving he’s still in full swing</p>

Father John Misty’s songs about mortality come to life in London

<p>A group of pulsating performers surround FKA twigs at Magazine London, two-stepping to the glitchy techno beat of ‘Room of Fools’</p>

FKA twigs shows off her extraterrestrial star power at Eusexua rave

<p>Sabrina Carpenter performs at the Brit Awards in March 2025</p>

Sabrina Carpenter’s saucy O2 gig makes tweens shriek and parents blush

<p>Lamar on the hood of a classic GNX car at the start of his performance in New Orleans</p>

Review

Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-baiting at the Super Bowl was a smoke-screen

Retrospectives

<p>Better Belieb it: Justin Bieber in concert in Germany in 2009</p>

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There’s a simple reason we owe Justin Bieber more respect

<p>‘A new breed of autonomous, self-defined and uninhibited female rock star’: Patti Smith pictured in 1976</p>

Horses at 50: How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic

<p>The documentarians were able to dig up once-lost footage, like a performance from 1969’s Bath International Music Festival</p>

In Focus

The inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

<p>Sinéad O’Connor’s lustrous, synthetically orchestrated version of the song broke the world’s heart</p>

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The wild drama behind Sinéad O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

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