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“Oh I am a lonely painter/I live in a box of paints,” Joni Mitchell sings in her 1971 song A…

It is not their signature track – that would be Blue Monday – or their biggest UK chart success -…

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece of dystopian literature that explores the darkest aspects of human nature. As…

Chuck D is one of the most influential voices in hip-hop history. His music has consistently addressed political and social…

Public Enemy’s 1990 anthem Fight the Power stands as a powerful testament to the band’s fierce social and political activism.…

It was nearly 1am on a December 1958 night in Brownsville, Pennsylvania when musical history changed. The great Ray Charles…

It did not need a reappearance in Stranger Things to confirm the genius of Kate Bush’s timeless Running Up That…

In 1967, French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg created the breathy, dreamlike Bonnie And Clyde for himself and his on-off lover, the…

On their day – and there were many when their classic lineup was in place – the Sex Pistols were…

“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel,” wrote Hunter S Thompson. “On some…