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Shuggie Otis's third album was hailed as classic, but his record company dropped him: It took 40 years to make a fourth

The son of an R&B legend, guitar virtuoso Shuggie Otis did it his way, turning down the Rolling Stones and David Bowie in the process

Louder

“The A&R and the label actually didn’t like it. They were like, ‘Yeah, yeah, it’s a fun song, but it’s never going to get on the radio'": How Train went from nearly splitting up to proving them wrong with smash hit Hey, Soul Sister

Co-writer Espen Lind on how he got the ukulele back into the charts – after saving the song with it

MusicRadar

MGMT on their humble beginnings and return to form: "We demoed Oracular on a Radio Shack mic and a really bad interface with signal bleed. We thought we'd have to redo it, but our producer said there's a character about it we'll never be able to recreate"

15 years after their early success, MGMT explain how they’ve got their mojo back on new album Loss of Life

MusicRadar

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Billy Joel returns to the recording studio with first new song in nearly 20 years

The 74-year-old singer-songwriter's longtime label, Columbia Records, plans to drop 'Turn the Lights Back On' on Feb. 1st.

WEKU

"The crowd was berserk, and Bruce just beaming. It was like he knew. He'd taken a massive step": Bruce Springsteen and the long road from Sunday matinees to stardom

Like many young teenagers in the 60s, Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with rock'n'roll. A decade and a lot of hard graft later, he was being hailed as its future

Louder

Miley Cyrus was ‘thinking of Adele’ while writing new song ‘Used to Be Young’

Pop star reflects on her ‘wild’ youth in her latest single

The Independent UK

Taylor Swift Leads With 8 ‘MTV Video Music Awards’ Nominations

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Barbra Streisand: ‘It’s the funniest thing to me that people still can’t get my name right’

In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows her early career, the difficult transition into pop and how she rose above jabs at her appearance

The Guardian - US

The inauspicious arrival of The Boss

Before "Born to Run" gained Springsteen attention, he released two underappreciated albums 50 years ago

Salon

Early Streisand Nightclub Recording Remastered for Release

A series of 1962 performances by Barbra Streisand at a Manhattan nightclub before she became a superstar have been remastered and will be released this fall. “Barbra Streisand — Live at the Bon Soir” features songs from a three night stint at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village. The…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beyoncé Has The Second-Biggest Album Debut Of 2022: Here's Who Is No.1 And A Stock To Watch

Superstar Beyoncé is one of the biggest names in music. A recently released album saw strong sales and helped put a woman back on top of the leaderboard for the first time in 30 weeks. Here’s a look at Beyoncé’s latest album, who pushed her album to second place and a stock…

Benzinga

Maggie Rogers and George Ezra are headed to Manchester this summer - and more tickets up for grabs

Here are the latest shows and artists who are headed to Manchester this year

Manchester Evening News

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