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<p>Bad Bunny’s album was the first salsa-inspired record to go to Number One in the US</p>

IN FOCUS

‘People want to hear real music’: Why salsa is back in the spotlight

From US No 1 albums by Bad Bunny to viral DJ sets by Gia Fu, the 1970s Latin party genre is having a moment. Kate Hutchinson speaks to Fu, Nathy Peluso and more about how salsa has bubbled up from the club underground and into the charts

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interview

Sigrid: ‘I’ve been co-producing my whole career without the credit’

<p>Chuck D: ‘Public Enemy is a juggernaut – it is a locomotive of its own’</p>

Interview

Public Enemy’s Chuck D: ‘Bob Vylan ain’t got no tanks’

<p>Noel Gallagher: ‘I wrote “Supersonic” in about however long it takes six other guys to eat a Chinese meal’</p>

EXTRACT

Oasis and the unlikely story of Supersonic: The making of a smash-hit

Interviews

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Interview

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

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interviews

Metallica and Alice in Chains on Black Sabbath’s farewell show

<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>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’

On Trend

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>Kae Tempest’s fifth studio album finds him delivering his signature style with a well-deserved confidence</p>

Kae Tempest delivers power and truth on new album Self Titled

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Lorde explores Virgin territory as she (almost) returns to finest form

Live music

<p>Ozzy Osbourne waves his arms as his plays his final show</p>

Black Sabbath’s final show was less Live Aid, more Loud Aid

<p>Liam and Noel Gallagher at the beginning of their barnstorming set</p>

In Cardiff, Oasis deliver the rock reunion to end them all

<p>Summertime happiness: Lana Del Rey proves the critics wrong at her Wembley Stadium show</p>

Lana Del Rey’s a demure performer – it doesn’t make her less of a star

<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

Retrospectives

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

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

<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

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