Jon Snow
The incredible creative life force that was David Bowie
Bowie was emblematic of my generation. He was revolution, rebellion – even in a time when we all rebelled against the given order.
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Grime artist Stormzy on ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’
His tweets make front page news, his concerts sell out in minutes, and his debut album is destined to top the charts: the grime artist Stormzy has caught the imagination of a generation.
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Brits: have they changed?
After the Oscars and Grammys, it was the turn of the Brit Awards earlier this year to face allegations of a lack of recognition for black and minority talent. When Channel Four News highlighted the diversity problem at Britain’s most important music awards show, the organisers promised they would change.
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Green Day on Trump win
The multi award-winning American band Green Day have never been shy of expressing their political views. So how do they feel about Donald Trump becoming their new president?
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Christine and the Queens: pop, personas and politics
Better known as Christine and the Queens, Héloïse Letissier’s self-styled brand of “freak pop” played to rave reviews at Glastonbury.
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Jon Snow
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Alex Thomson
L’Wren Scott’s death: let’s pause – but not to gawp
The death of L’Wren Scott is not a moment to peer into private grief but a time to reflect that everyone we meet is fighting secret battles.
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Geoff White
Play off: Spotify and Ministry of Sound in legal battle
Music-streaming website Spotify is being sued by the Ministry of Sound which accuses it of allowing its users to rip off its money-generating compilation albums.
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Jon Snow
A curtain raiser to the greatest show on earth
“From the very outset the crashing power of the opening bars announced something portentous – almost as if inaugurating the Olympics themselves.”
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Jon Snow
A fishy musical linguine delight
Despite my best efforts, the eleven minute dash on my bike from the studio after last night’s Channel 4 News to London’s Royal Festival Hall, only graced me with the echoes of the last chords of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto. To have missed Daniel Barenboim’s exuberant performance so closely, felt like an act of sacrilege.
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Jon Snow
Get ready for Fourplay
Block yer ears. Shut yer eyes. Krishnan and I and our able friend Mara Carlyle, are in preparation for tonight’s Newsroom’s Got Talent competition (no danger of any of us winning – we’re just ensuring that we can actually appear at all at Vinopolis in the Borough Market). It’s a contest between the BBC, Sky,…
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Jon Snow
Dinky toys, from Winchester Cathedral to Camden
The item on the rarest Dinky toy in the world on last night’s Channel 4 News gave me a pang of nostalgia as I glimpsed my beloved Dinky car transporter (not the actual one, but the model) on the right of screen in Nick Glass’s report. When I was seven years old my mum and…
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Jon Snow
Peggy Sue Got Reinterpreted
I don’t often get to sing on Channel 4 News. But last night, stirred by the appearance of Alvin Stardust on the 50th anniversary of Buddy Holly’s death, I found myself doing just that. Mr Stardust had a guitar which dated from his own encounter with the bespectacled rock legend. And the rest is replay.