Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Nov 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more

Nov 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Safi Bugel |Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Roy Haynes, a drummer who was one of the last remaining musicians of jazz’s swing and bebop eras, has died aged 99. His daughter Leslie Haynes-Gilmore said he had died following a short illness. Haynes’s energetic style, which also encompassed fusion and avant-garde jazz, earned him the respect of many contemporaries across a career that began in the mid-1940s. He played with artists including Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and dozens more.

Nov 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Martin Belam |Hamish Mackay |Fran Lawther |Léonie Chao-Fong |Chris Stein |Maya Yang | +13 more

Pentagon officials discuss what to do if Trump were to attempt to deploy the military domestically, CNN reports

Nov 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Art Garfunkel has described a recent tearful reunion with Paul Simon, in which the pair moved past old enmities. Speaking to the Times, Garfunkel said: I actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back. First time we’d been together in many years. I looked at Paul and said, “What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?” Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him.

Nov 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Ben Beaumont-Thomas

The Cure have scored their first UK No 1 album in 32 years, with Songs of a Lost World. The band’s frontman Robert Smith said: “It is enormously uplifting, genuinely heartwarming to experience such a wonderful reaction to the release of the new Cure album. To everyone who has bought it, listened to it, loved it, believed in us over the years – thank you!”The Cure previously topped the chart in 1992 with Wish, the only other one of their 14 studio albums to reach the top spot.