It can’t be common for an album artwork brief to begin with a demand for the most expensive treatment available. But these were David Bowie’s manager Tony Defries’s exact instructions to Aladdin Sane ...

In June 2014, a parapet on the Pont Des Arts bridge in Paris collapsed under the weight of the padlocks attached to it by couples determined to immortalise their relationships in the City Of Love.

Since his death in 2021, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry has enjoyed a fertile, if inconsistent, creative afterlife. Two 2024 releases, however, placed the reggae magus’s unreleased incantations in friendly new ...