music
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Gig organised by Planned Parenthood is one of a number in the US capital to protest swearing-in of Trump, who voiced pro-life ideas during his campaign
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Orchestra’s musical director in waiting says new major venue is needed but acknowledges challenges of building one
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Musician Gary Kemp, a lifelong fan, and Nicholas Pegg, author of The Complete David Bowie, reflect on life without the Starman as they take a tour of some of Bowie’s London haunts
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George Michael, one of Britain’s biggest pop star of the 1980s, has ‘passed away peacefully’ at his Oxfordshire home
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Kanye West and Donald Trump meet at Trump Tower on Tuesday. Trump says the rapper is a good man
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A nervous Patti Smith sings ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ in Stockholm on Saturday, in a performance given to mark Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature
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Madonna joins James Corden for a trip around New York in the latest episode of Carpool Karaoke from The Late Late Show aired on Wednesday.
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quizzes
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It’s the 25th anniversary of the death of the Queen frontman on 24 November – test your knowledge of his life and times
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How many of the classical world’s comings and goings, openings and closings, bouquets and brickbats do you remember from the past 12 months? Try our quiz
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It’s our weekly test of your knowledge of pop arcania – come and have a go if you think you know enough
in pictures
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The Morrison Hotel Gallery is hosting Long May You Run, a retrospective of Neil Young, charts his rise from Buffalo Springfield to refusing to settle down in his 70s
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Since the 1980s, Melody Maker’s Tom Sheehan has captured the Cure’s ascent from the underbelly of British alternative rock to global stadium headliners. Now Sheehan – who was even enlisted as frontman Robert Smith’s official wedding photographer – has compiled a record of his journey with the band in a new book, In Between Days
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A pair of graphic designers and self-confessed Beatles geeks have mapped Fab Four trivia including the instruments they played, the outfits they wore and even some of their most famous press-conference quips
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Since the 1970s, Ross Halfin has photographed the biggest names in rock and pop, capturing seminal shows by the Who, AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. Shots from his career will be exhibited at The Indulgence Show in London
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