The Mercury Prize-winning band start the countdown of the BBC’s annual list of music’s rising stars.
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BBC Sound of 2025: Indie band English Teacher kick off list at number five
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The one Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry
The nearly 20-minute-long Metallica track appears on an unlikely collaboration album that the band made with another Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
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Author: @FarOutMag
Every solo song John Lennon wrote for The Beatles
While songwriters never really stop, John Lennon felt that these demos from the Beatles days were worth fleshing out into full songs.
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Author: @timmusic13
Rory Gallagher – Crusader of the Blues…
Late sixties Belfast. It was the best of times. The worst of times was just round the corner. Waiting for us like a mugger in a darkened alley. It is surprising to think back to those days, pre – troubles. Such a different time. The troubles never really started, in my opinion, until July 1969, and even then 1969 recorded only 16 deaths. I remember this period well, I travelled daily to school in Belfast and socialised occasionally in Belfast …
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Author: John Pike
How did money change The Beatles?
Before their career completely took off, The Beatles had only ever experienced a modest, working-class way of living but money changed everything.
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Author: @FarOutMag
Rory Gallagher Statue Unveiled In Belfast
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Rory Gallagher. The Irish guitarist-songwriter founded the short-lived blues rock band Taste before embarking on a celebrated solo career, and his playing influenced a number of guitar legends. The virtuoso has regularly been dubbed “the greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of,” but he’s getting a little more recognition now with a new statue outside Ulster Hall, a venue he played often in Belfast.
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Author: Abby Jones
Julian Lennon says he was ‘heartbroken’ by the reaction to his last album
Musician and photographer said he’d hoped to appear on late-night TV but ‘sadly nobody would have me on’
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Author: Roisin O’Connor
Paul McCartney song was banned by the BBC but he had the last laugh
About the track, Paul said: “Everyone’s a bit anti-all-that-banning, all that censorship.”
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Author: Dan Haygarth
The one song that John Lennon “played constantly”
Revisiting comments made by Sean Ono Lennon about the music taste of John Lennon and the one song he played “constantly while Sean was growing up.
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Author: @josephtaysom
Julian Lennon reveals why he has ‘never’ had anything to do with the Beatles
Julian Lennon has “never” had anything to do with the Beatles. The 61-year-old singer is the son of late music legend John Lennon -who shot to global fame alongside Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison – and revealed that he and his mother Cynthia Powell very much retreated from the world of the rock group when his father quit the group in 1969. He told The Observer: “It’s news to me half the time. I’m not part of the inner circle – I never have been. You have to realise that whe
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Author: Bang Showbiz NZ
