Sly Stone: ‘Life is a record. But where do you drop the needle?’
Funk legend’s memoir excels on music but endless accounts of drug busts get tedious
Sly Stone
‘It’s been a wild ride’: funk legend Sly Stone announces memoir
Book will cover Stone's rise to fame, his contribution to funk music and his battle with drugs
Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connection
Dave Tiger Taylor, whose band who toured with Hendrix, remembers his ‘magic’
The Waterboys – Good Luck, Seeker: Mike Scott refuses to rest on former glories
The Waterboys cover both familiar and new ground on their fourteenth studio album
Prince live in Ireland: ‘We gotta go – I got too many hits’
Cork in 1990; Dublin in 2002; and again in 2011, after that no-show in 2008, Prince showed his live game was every note as sharp and groundbreaking as his studio work
Press play: 20 unmissable online gigs
Want to see James Brown, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and other megastars in concert for free? Head to YouTube for a trove of live music films
Our Love: Caribou’s Dan Snaith on the new album
The last Caribou record “Swim” put Dan Snaith and friends on top of the festival billing. The new album “Our Love”, he tells Jim Carroll is about reflecting his life now, including playtime with his three year old daughter
No more pagans or goat-slaughtering, the rock festival has become oh so sedate
Glastonbury now carries about as much menace as the Henley Regatta
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