Roxy Music’s Avalon gets a pretentious but illuminating overview
Music book reviews: Jon Savage reissues and Will Sergeant memoir among other highlights
How The Beatles baffled the KGB – and why Ringo Starr filled a suitcase with baked beans
Two new documentaries offer intriguing insights into the band’s escape to India in 1967
Anoushka Shankar: On My Culture Radar
The musician on her father Ravi Shankar’s biography, Sally Mann’s photographs, and how Tara Brach’s podcast is keeping her calm
Philip Glass: ‘Everyone needs a technique, whether they’re a plumber or a cook’
The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’
Lost Irish musical genius finally getting recognition
Michael O’Shea, a talented experimental musician who died in 1991, was the definition of enigmatic
The strange chemistry of Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra
Dublin was treated to the world premiere of the orchestra’s new commission, by Jonny Greenwood
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