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12 days ago

‘Dylan said: teach me that!’ Martin Carthy on six decades of Scarborough Fair – and his new solo album

As the folk icon celebrates his 84th birthday today, he looks back on falling out with Paul Simon, smashing up pianos with Dylan – and the classic song he’s still not got quite right

Martin Carthy has…

55 days ago

‘It ain’t over till one of us is gone’: the pop stars who refuse to bury the hatchet

Madonna and Elton John thawed their frosty relationship this week – but from Mariah and J-Lo to David Gilmour and Roger Waters, plenty more are still at loggerheads

Whether informed by the perspective…

58 days ago

3 months ago

‘If I’d written Happy Birthday, I wouldn’t be in comedy’: Josh Widdicombe’s honest playlist

The comedian gets a nostalgic rush from the Smiths and would have the Beatles soundtracking his funeral, but which Welsh indie classic can he no longer bear?

The first song I fell in love with
The Bo…

4 months ago

What links Lauryn Hill and Jon Bon Jovi? The Saturday quiz

From brazen bull and the Duke of Exeter’s daughter to the whirligig, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which first cousins were executed, respectively, in 1536 and 1542?
2 What fruit has the…

5 months ago

Singing Marsh family apologise for 'remarkably tasteless' Gisèle Pelicot parody of Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover and insist they weren't cashing on rape trial

The Marsh family, from Faversham, Kent, excitedly announced over social media that they had 'hastily assembled' what they described as a 'work of heart rather than of art'

'I can't believe they have done this'... Outrage after the singing Marsh family who previously appeared on the BBC's Children in Need release cringe Gisèle Pelicot parody of Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

The Marsh family, from Faversham, Kent, has been slammed for being 'remarkably tasteless' and 'shameful' after releasing a parody song exploring the Gisele Pelicot mass rape trial.

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