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<p>Keyboardist Richard Wright plays on stage in ‘Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII’</p>

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This was Pink Floyd at their experimental zenith

The 1972 concert film ‘Live at Pompeii’ has been restored and remixed for cinemas and IMAX. Stevie Chick explores how it captured the band at their majestic peak of invention

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<p>‘As musicians, all we do is push air – it’s everyone else [in the crowd] that is doing the emotional hard work’</p>

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Viral sensation Myles Smith: ‘I don’t want to disappear overnight’

<p>Crowd pleasers: The sheer variety on offer from this year’s festival guarantees an unforgettable music moment for everyone</p>

The Countdown

The 14 best UK music festivals, from Glastonbury to Mighty Hoopla

<p>Låpsley is channelling Boudica on her new record ‘I’m a Hurricane I’m a Woman In Love’</p>

Interview

Låpsley on the three-way relationship that inspired her new album

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<p>Perfume Genius: ‘In my daily life, I’m very avoidant and unwilling to do what I understand, intellectually, will get me out of whatever loop I’m in’</p>

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Perfume Genius: ‘America was built on racism and violence and fear’

<p>‘There’s probably gay people in positions of power that think, no, he’s an awful tw*t,’ says James Arthur</p>

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James Arthur: ‘I’ve never had to kiss arse – I got here on merit’

<p>Billy Idol</p>

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Billy Idol: ‘I’m the sexy sexagenarian!’

<p>Teddy Swims: ‘I’m just a blossoming flower’</p>

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Teddy Swims: ‘Men should tell each other how pretty we are’

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Watch rising singer-songwriter Nancy Williams’ Music Box session

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Watch Joshua Idehen’s brilliant Music Box performance

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Rising singer-songwriter Brooke Combe dazzles in new Music Box session

New Sensations

<p>Samia: ‘What I’m reaching for is self-certainty’</p>

New Sensations

Singer-songwriter Samia: ‘It’s easier to be an idea than a person’

<p>Chloe Moriondo makes music for mermaids</p>

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Chloe Moriondo: ‘I’ve been embarrassed by my online past selves’

<p>‘In a world that is very loud and everything is supposed to be faster and more efficient, for me, songwriting and folk music are the opposite of that’</p>

New Sensations

Clara Mann: ‘We’re alienated from each other – live music is a remedy’

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<p>Suzanne Vega in artwork for her new album ‘Flying with Angels’</p>

On her new album, Suzanne Vega reminds us of her greatest talents

<p>Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem</p>

Self Esteem’s A Complicated Woman adds theatre to lyrical snark

Live music

<p>Shane MacGowan, of The Pogues, in 2009 – the band is currently touring the UK nearly two years after his death</p>

A strange and beautiful tribute to Shane MacGowan at Brixton Academy

<p>Father John Misty’s latest album filled the setlist – proving he’s still in full swing</p>

Father John Misty’s songs about mortality come to life in London

<p>A group of pulsating performers surround FKA twigs at Magazine London, two-stepping to the glitchy techno beat of ‘Room of Fools’</p>

FKA twigs shows off her extraterrestrial star power at Eusexua rave

<p>Sabrina Carpenter performs at the Brit Awards in March 2025</p>

Sabrina Carpenter’s saucy O2 gig makes tweens shriek and parents blush

Retrospectives

<p>George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley at the Great Wall of China ahead of Wham!’s concert at Beijing's Workers’ Gymnasium in 1985</p>

In Focus

‘The police were scared’: When Wham! took Western pop to China

<p>Better Belieb it: Justin Bieber in concert in Germany in 2009</p>

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There’s a simple reason we owe Justin Bieber more respect

<p>‘A new breed of autonomous, self-defined and uninhibited female rock star’: Patti Smith pictured in 1976</p>

Horses at 50: How a reluctant musician made a punk-rock classic

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<p>The documentarians were able to dig up once-lost footage, like a performance from 1969’s Bath International Music Festival</p>

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The inside story of Becoming Led Zeppelin

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