Rotten to the core … The Sex Pistols on their silver jubilee boat trip in 1977. Photograph: Brian Cooke/Redferns Rotten to the core … The Sex Pistols on their silver jubilee boat trip in 1977. Photograph: Brian Cooke/Redferns
It made painful viewing. Amy Winehouse, the tiny woman with the contralto voice, was mumbling her way through some of her most famous lyrics and managing only a few strained notes as she stumbled around a stage in Belgrade, apparently drunk. The Serbian gig was the first of what was supposed to be a 12-day European comeback tour. But the 20,000 fans who had paid around £40 a ticket to see the 27-y
No knighthoods for tabloid-backed stars, but Sheila Hancock, David Suchet and composer Howard Goodall make the list Despite the best efforts of the tabloid press, there were no knighthoods for either Bruce Forsyth or Simon Cowell, but veteran actors Sheila Hancock and David Suchet were both awarded CBEs, as was the composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall. Representatives of the arts and media make
Eighteen seconds in, a high-pitched drone begins. For the next six or so minutes, it does not stop. Segueing between the sampled intro – a snatch of Cicely Courtneidge singing Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty – and the entry of the group themselves, this subtly modulating guitar feedback is both a formal device, to bridge the song's various changes, and a statement of intent: this is serious, this
As of this week, visitors to the Southern Cemetery in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester, will find among the rain-smudged stones a brand-new memorial that resembles, among other things, an art gallery plaque, a giant business card and the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is the headstone of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, who died in August 2007. Attention-grabbing, unashamedly pretentiou
Directed by The Road's John Hillcoat, the video for UNKLE's new single features Ray Winstone describing how a brush with death gave him a new lease of life
When I lived in Manchester, musicians regularly told me why their city produced so much good music (I never asked this). The answer was always the same: the rain. The basic rationale is lots of time inside; gloomy weather, and the need to self-entertain. Interestingly, there could be something to this explanation as one of the culture regions with the most complex and elaborate art and expressive
However, the BBC Trust said it would accept a formal management proposal for the closure of 6 Music's digital sister station, BBC Asian Network, provided that it included alternative plans for meeting the needs of this ethnic minority audience "in different ways". It said 6 Music was encouraging the take-up of digital radio among listeners, describing it as a "highly distinctive" service that repr
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