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CDs of the week: The Cars and Hugh Laurie

06.05.11
Our critics round-up this week's biggest music releases...... more

Million Dollar Quartet doesn't throb with heart and soul

01.03.11
Million Dollar Quartet is based on the remarkable convergence of talent, when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis combined for a jam session... more

Million Dollar Quartet is the sound of the south

09.02.11
As Million Dollar Quartet opens in London, David Smyth takes a musical tour of America's Deep South... more

Wanted: Rockers to fill the Million Dollar Quartet’s blue suede shoes

09.09.10
Hunt is on to find performers to recreate a jamming session with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins for a West End show... more

Chrysalis cashes in from Apple's choice of advert song

19.08.10
Music publisher Chrysalis gets lift to its revenues from the use of its songs in adverts for the Apple iPad and Halifax bank... more

Justin Bieber and crew get through 10,000 French fries and 75 Starbucks a day

28.07.10
It has been revealed that Justin Bieber likes to get a sugar fix before stepping out on stage.... more

Grisly instruments of Elvis Presley's death to be sold

21.07.10
Instruments used in Elvis Presley’s autopsy and embalming are to be auctioned in Chicago... more

CDs of the week

16.07.10
Are you expecting a visit from Richard Ashcroft in the near future? The bloke who used to sing with The Verve has come over all priest-like. ... more

Lee Westwood enjoys major boost

11.06.10
World No3 lays down a marker for next week’s US Open by taking first‑round lead at the St Jude Classic ... more

Elena Baltacha secures clash with Maria Sharapova

18.02.10
The British No 1 faces top seed Sharapova in the quarter-finals of the WTA Cellular South Cup in Memphis after an easy win over Valerie Tetreault... more

Is a New Women's Cinema emerging?

17.07.09
Female film-makers are making a big impact at the movies. Does this mean, asks Courtney Hunt, director of Oscar-nominated Frozen River, that we are seeing a New Women's Cinema emerge?... more

A privilege to welcome Cornell Dupree to Ronnie’s

14.07.09
Cornell Dupree is one of the most authentic guitarists of backwoods America.... more

Justine Timberlake - My London

10.07.09
Justine Timberlake loves staying at Claridge's and wants to go to 'Rainstonbury' one day...... more

City Spy: Story of princes and the tower

24.06.09
The Qatari Royal family may have taken notice of Prince Charles and abandoned plans for Chelsea Barracks... more

Graeme McDowell profiting from late invitation

12.06.09
Golf: Graeme McDowell made good use of his sponsors' invitation at the St Jude Classic to sit third after the first round in Memphis... more

EMI copyright deal to protect Martin Luther King speeches

18.03.09
The speeches of Martin Luther King are to be protected under a copyright deal with a British record company... more

Bono: My daughters think I'm SO uncool

27.02.09
Bono may have millions of fans across the world, but he still has trouble impressing his two teenage daughters.... more

Blundering LTA have held me back, says Keothavong

23.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong has claimed she would have done broken into the world’s top 50 years ago were it not for “unprofessional people” at the Lawn Tennis Association... more

Keothavong wins but is given tough time by teen

19.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong had to dig deep to beat 16-year-old Michelle Larcher De Brito and reach the quarter-finals of the Cellular South Cup in Memphis... more

Come on U2, let's go out for a family dinner

18.02.09
Bono wasn't going to let a silly little detail like that stop him from wearing his sunglasses. ... more

Hit and miss for Brit pack

17.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong reached the second round of the WTA Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis but fellow Briton Melanie South was knocked out... more

Bug's life at an end for rising star Keothavong

05.02.09
Britain's number one women's tennis player Anne Keothavong no longer has to share a room with cockroaches now she's on the verge of elite top 50... more

Chuck Berry is still reelin' & rockin'

18.11.08
Chuck Berry appeared in a red sequinned shirt and jaunty sailor's cap and played guitar in a way that no one else can.... more

Falling oil brightens outlook

03.10.08
It is tempting to believe when the credit markets are in turmoil and the banking world is coming apart at the seams that this is the only thing happening in the world... more

Mulgrew Miller is Old master with new tricks

12.08.08
Wisdom oozes from the cultured fingers of Mulgrew Miller, a musician old enough to have worked with trumpeter Woody Shaw.... more

Don't get Vertigo up there! Bono gets a lift from his high heels

11.08.08
Diminutive rocker Bono reached new heights yesterday as he and his wife stepped out in equally high shoes.... more

Isaac Hayes, the composer of Shaft, dies aged 65 after being found slumped beside treadmill

10.08.08
Soul singer Isaac Hayes - who wrote the Shaft film soundtrack - died after being found unconscious by his wife beside a running treadmill at his home, it was revealed today.... more

Pictured: The horrific car crash which nearly killed Morgan Freeman

04.08.08
The Oscar-winning star and a female passenger were cut free from the vehicle after it veered off the highway and flipped over several times before ending up in a ditch.... more

Mick Hucknall: Why I quit Simply Red for the blues

29.05.08
When Mick Hucknall was contemplating the most audacious about-turn of his pop career - last year's disbanding of Simply Red - he sought inspiration from a musical icon who had originally captured his imagination 30 years ago.... more

African roots and rock

12.12.06
It's been a good year for African music and the outstanding line-up at the Roundhouse, featuring Amadou and Mariam, K'Naan and Ba Cissoko, summed the year up. ... more


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