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Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

No one expected these songs of off-key melancholy, imperfect singing and seasonal disappointment to succeed, but nearly 60 years on, the jazz pianist’s masterpiece endures

Alexis Petridis

01, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM

Christine McVie obituary

Fleetwood Mac singer and keyboardist who wrote many of the band’s canonical tunes, including Say You Love Me, Songbird and Don’t Stop

Caroline Sullivan

01, Dec, 2022 @11:47 AM

Christine McVie: her 10 greatest recordings with Fleetwood Mac and solo

Don’t Stop, Everywhere, Little Lies – the late singer-songwriter, who has died aged 79, was responsible for some of the soft-rock canon’s greatest hits

Annie Zaleski

01, Dec, 2022 @11:00 AM

Kanye West is paying $200,000 a month in child support. Where did that number come from?

Courts take both parents’ finances into account to ensure children affected by divorce maintain the lives they’re used to

Alaina Demopoulos

01, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

‘See you on the other side’: musicians pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie

Neil Finn, Haim, Questlove, the Doors and Fleetwood Mac bandmates Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood among those to remember a ‘beautiful presence’

Laura Snapes and Sian Cain

01, Dec, 2022 @12:40 AM

Little Simz and Knucks share best album prize as Mobo winners announced

PinkPantheress wins the best female act award, while Central Cee takes best male act in a ceremony that paid tribute to the late SBTV founder Jamal Edwards

Shaad D'Souza

30, Nov, 2022 @10:00 PM

Letter: Wilko Johnson obituary

Brian Bennison writes: the guitarist was a somewhat unorthodox chair of the Newcastle University Socialist Society

Brian Bennison

30, Nov, 2022 @5:01 PM

Cliff Richard and Stormzy compete for No 1 in UK albums chart

Richard’s first Christmas album in nearly two decades currently behind Stormzy’s This Is What I Mean

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

29, Nov, 2022 @4:09 PM

‘Never as popular as pie and peas’: Trevor Beales, Hebden Bridge’s lost musical son

Playing folk blues in West Yorkshire in the 70s, Beales looked to the future long before his hometown became trendy. His talent is now being recognised

Daniel Dylan Wray

29, Nov, 2022 @4:03 PM

‘It was revelatory for younger Asians’: Monsoon’s Sheila Chandra on her hit Ever So Lonely

In 1982, no-one had ever seen a British Asian teenager in a sari singing Indian music on Top of the Pops – until Chandra appeared, with a raga-influenced single that would inspire musicians and DJs for decades

Anu Shukla

29, Nov, 2022 @3:01 PM

Late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun accused of sexual assault

Posthumous lawsuit brought by Jan Roeg, who worked as a talent scout, alleges a long history of harassment and assault

Shaad D'Souza

29, Nov, 2022 @2:24 PM

BBCNOW/Jeannin review – exultant Ravel and extravagant Stravinsky

Making her debut with the National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Swedish conductor Sofi Jeannin controlled their massive sonorities with quiet authority

Rian Evans

29, Nov, 2022 @10:14 AM

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