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  Chris Barber, one of the greatest figures in the history of British jazz – obituary

  Chris Barber, who has died aged 90, led the world’s most popular and longest-lived traditional jazz band. The unflagging appetite for its music, especially among British and north European audiences, defied every conventional tenet of the entertainment business. Barber’s enduring success was due partly to his astuteness in broadening his style and adapting judiciously to changing times. These innovations were often ahead of fashion and always the sincere product of his own wide-ranging enthusias

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  10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Tom Ravenscroft's playlist

  10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Tom Ravenscroft's playlist. From Sheffield to Tokyo via New York and rural France, the DJ recalls his adventures with friends and family – and the music that accompanied them

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  The gay svengalis who shaped the future of British pop

  If Russell T Davies wishes to follow his hit Aids-era saga, It’s a Sin, with another “queeriod” drama set against British social history, he could do worse than rewind to the Fifties skiffle scene for inspiration. There, the man who also gave us A Very English Scandal, about the infamous Jeremy Thorpe trial, would find many more attractive dramatis personae – but not the likes of Lonnie Donegan, Billy Fury or the other pretty-boy pioneers of British rock ’n’ roll. Rather, the seemingly disparate

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  John Pilgrim obituary

  John Pilgrim obituaryWashboard player with the Vipers, which helped set the stage for British rock’n’roll during the 50s teenage ‘skiffle craze’

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  Digital Spy

  Judy vs Judy: How the biopic matches up to the true story of Judy Garland

  Fact, fiction, and the spaces in between.

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  Evening Standard

  Rock Island Line The Song That Made Britain Rock: A magical mystery tour from a US train jingle to jazz, skiffle and The Beatles

  The song Rock Island Line, is about a railroad. It is not a Wonderwall, an Imagine or a Stairway to Heaven. There is, of course, a men-in-sheds aspect to the exhumation of half- forgotten pop tunes, but even among the shed-men of rock, the name of Lonnie Donegan is not often heard.

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  The Voice UK 2019, episode 1: old friends reunited and irresistible moments were had - but the show still needs to find a real star

  The swivel chairs were back to take on The Greatest Dancer’s sliding wall in yet another Saturday night talent show battle. Here are all the talking points from the singing contest’s series opener…

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  Evening Standard

  The Voice UK 2019: From Lonnie Donegan’s son to a dynamic trio- the must-see blind auditions in episode one

  The Voice UK is officially back with a fresh batch of contestants hoping to wow returning coaches Olly Murs, Sir Tom Jones, Jennifer Hudson and Will.i.am. The 32-year-old revealed his colleagues “secretly think I’m alright”, and he was optimistic his rendition of Maria McKee’s Show Me Heaven would captivate the coaches. Thankfully for Platt, his smooth vocals and wide vocal range proved enough to win him a place on Team Tom.

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  Chas Hodges, an appreciation: one of the most significant English folk musicians

  ‘There was never anyone quite like him’: Chas Hodges performing in 2014. Chas Hodges – in company with Dave Peacock – was one of the most original British musicians to have come out of the rock’n’roll era. Chas and Dave did something that had never occurred to anyone else: combining rock, blues, country and music hall with the sound of a London that was already disappearing by the time they released their first album, One Fing ’n’ Anuvver, in 1975.

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  England's World Cup musical efforts have often been rewarded on the pitch

  Live It Up, by reggaeton star Nicky Jam, dancehall singer Era Istrefi, and polite fast-talker Will Smith – was released at the weekend, and met by the worlds of football and music with thundering indifference ... just as committee-approved pop, designed to please everybody but satisfying no one, always should be. England don’t bother any more, which is a terrible shame, as for a while they’d been world leaders in the field. Spin back to 1965 when the FA commissioned over-the-brow skiffle legen

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