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Tribute | Who was Nothing Compares 2 U singer Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023) who took on Pope John Paul II?
Her voice incandescent, icon of post-punk femininity, the Irish singer-activist spoke her mind and campaigned for a united Ireland, LGBTQ+ rights, and against the Catholic Church and child sexual abuse, which cost her her pop stardom.
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Elton John retires: The rise and rise of the Rocket Man, one of pop music’s greatest living showmen
More than half a century of making music, Sir Elton John’s commercial and artistic peak was between the years 1970 and 1976, as he innovated and reinvented himself with every album, dabbling in pop-rock, glam, and confessional art-rock, and finding success with each new iteration.
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Tribute: Who was Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian vocalist who didn’t get her due?
Gracefully she dealt with an exploitative and misogynist music industry in the 1960s, one that was yet to come to terms with women’s liberation. Most of all was the American saxophonist Stan Getz, the insecure bully who claimed her as his discovery.
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Like ABBA, will Sweden’s Loreen, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 winner, be the next global pop star?
Campy, surreal, but always entertaining, the Eurovision Song Contest has been one of global pop’s biggest events since its inception in 1956, organised by the Switzerland-based European Broadcasting Union.
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The enduring legacy of Oscars 2023 Best Original Song winner RRR's 'Naatu Naatu'
The MM Keeravaani composition, with Chandrabose's lyrics, Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava's singing, beat stars Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Mitski and Academy favourite Diane Warren, to join AR Rahman’s 2009 hit 'Jai Ho' on the vanishing small list of non-English tracks to win the award.
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Oscars 2023: Who will win the Best Original Score and Best Original Song?
A preview of the 95th Academy Awards’ two music categories and who among the contenders stands a chance to take the golden statuette home on Sunday.
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Seven historic moments in 100 years of India's radio broadcast
A hundred years ago, India’s first radio station, the Bombay Presidency Radio Club, powered by a small, low-range transmitter, started broadcasting in June 1923 and was soon followed by the Calcutta Radio Club in November that year and Madras radio club the following year.
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Grammys 2023: Bad Bunny's Latin pop moment harks back to '90s Latin explosion
Bad Bunny's last album 'Un Verano Sin Ti' is the first Spanish-language album to be nominated in the Best Album category at 65th Grammy Awards, a feat not achieved by generations of global Latin stars before him. If he wins, it will be historic for the expansive Latin pop and trap scenes, and even if he loses to Beyoncé, he's already changed the trajectory of global pop.
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65th Grammy Awards Predictions: Adele, Beyoncé or Harry Styles, who should win the 2023 Record, Song and Album of the Year?
Who made the cut, who should have made the cut, who's a surprise entry, and who among the Big Four nominees — Record, Song and Album of the Year, and Best New Artist — is the most likely to take home the gilded Grammy gramophone? Here's our take
