Michael Cragg
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Journalist and author. Also run @maxopedia10. Email: mcraggfreelance at gmail dot com. My book, Reach For The Stars, just won the Penderyn Music Book Prize!
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Cragg
In September 1998, amid a rocketing pop career that would end up with every one of their 11 singles reaching the UK Top 10, British boyband Five went missing. They were due to visit the US, where the lascivious When the Lights Go Out had got huge, but Five – Ritchie Neville (curtains), Scott Robinson (spiky hair), Abz Love (hats), Sean Conlon (baby-faced), and Jason “J” Brown (eyebrow ring) – had other ideas.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Huw Baines |Michael Cragg |Ammar Kalia |Jenessa Williams
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Huw Baines |Michael Cragg |Ammar Kalia |Jenessa Williams
The A-list headlinersDownload13 to 15 June; Donington, Leicestershire All eyes will be on masked metallers Sleep Token as they gatecrash the cosy world of veteran rock headliners, joining Green Day and Korn atop a bill studded with barbed delights, from Svalbard’s grandiose hardcore to Loathe’s dreamily atmospheric post-metal.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Cragg
On a sleek white stage made to look like a 1960s New York penthouse, one of pop music’s biggest exponents Sabrina Carpenter is sitting on the toilet. A few seconds earlier she’d wiped down the seat with a tissue before taking her spot to sing Sharpest Tool, a sweary, country-flecked bop about a hapless man who found God at his ex’s house. It’s a brilliantly bonkers vista that encapsulates Carpenter’s ability to fuse unfiltered emotional sincerity with a heavy dose of kooky camp.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Cragg
Grammy-nominated American producer Tokimonsta, real name Jennifer Lee, postponed the release of this seventh album, originally due out last autumn, so she could care for her best friend in her final days. It followed Lee’s own health scare – in early 2016 she underwent two brain surgery operations following her diagnosis with Moyamoya disease, briefly losing language and comprehension skills.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt will officially return in the new ‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER’ movie. In theaters on July 18, 2025. https://t.co/yflt6VCrYz
Ahem, this is genuine Kylie book research; there’s a ‘special interest’ film in which one young man, wanting to woo another, reads out the spoken word lyrics to Shocked. Does anyone know its name? Here’s a still #kylieminogue #shocked https://t.co/zL9tZUfTrp
Charli smoking during Apple https://t.co/f8ECJ42Lwy
