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Monsters of doc: Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries
- For our festival-averse film critic, movies about concerts and musicians are essential viewing – and he believes we are living through a golden age for the form
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How does it f-e-e-e-e-l? Bob Dylan museum opening in Tulsa
Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples are all on hand in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend to celebrate to new Bob Dylan Center and archive
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Melissa Etheridge ready for Love Rocks NYC benefit's return
This year’s Love Rocks, which takes place at The Beacon Theatre in Manhattan Thursday night, boasts enormous star power – including headliners Melissa Etheridge, Keith Richards, with his “other” band The X-Pensive Winos, Mavis Staples, and others
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Summer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made?
Summer of Soul review – the best concert film ever made?. Questlove’s magnificent documentary of the forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural festival gives moving context to rediscovered footage of Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone et al in their prime
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Pervis Staples, Staple Singers co-founder, dies aged 85
Pervis Staples, Staple Singers co-founder, dies aged 85The gospel group singer embraced secular music with great success and helped soundtrack the civil rights movement ‘A true Chicago legend’ ... from left, Pops, Cleotha, Mavis and Pervis pictured in the late 50s. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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Summer of Soul review – thrilling documentary reveals a forgotten festival
Summer of Soul review – thrilling documentary reveals a forgotten festival. Revelatory footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural festival, crudely known for a while as the Black Woodstock, is brought to life in a spectacular new film
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TV tonight: how the American South's gospel music morphed into Motown
TV tonight: how the American South's gospel music morphed into MotownMartha Reeves and Mavis Staples are among those interviewed in this first episode on the soul singing that launched its black stars to commercial success. Plus: the BBC Proms. Here’s what to watch tonight
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Isle of Wight headliners: Festival announces Lionel Richie, Duran Duran and Sam Fender for 2021 line-up
Like countless others, it looks like organisers of the Isle of Wight festival are keen to pretend 2020 never happened.The festival has announced its line-up for next year and – in a move sure to please those who've rolled over their tickets from this year to next – will offer three days of music almost identical to that originally planned for this weekend.
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Womadelaide 2020: uplifting, political and expansive festival offers hope amid the doom
Womadelaide 2020: uplifting, political and expansive festival offers hope amid the doomBotanic Park, Adelaide With Mavis Staples, Aldous Harding and Spinifex Gum in the lineup, the world music festival offered plenty of reasons to look up from our phones – and towards each other
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Sheryl Crow - Threads review: Far from cohesive, but not without its gems
After more than 25 years of country-pop-rock fame, Sheryl Crow has released Threads, her 11th and apparently final full-length album.To mark the occasion, she has invited no less than 23 collaborators to join her — Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Sting and more sit beside newer names such as Maren Morris and Andra Day.
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Album reviews: Sheryl Crow – Threads, and Common – Let Love
Sheryl Crow – Threads★★★★☆
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