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Could Bob Dylan be auditioning a new album concept in Japan?
Theories abound as to why the 81-year-old artist has started covering Grateful Dead tunes
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Connor Roy’s Leonard Cohen moment was peak ‘Succession’
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‘In Der Heym/Down Home’ shows how two musical styles have a lot in common
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Why 1973 was a particularly Jewish year in pop music
Fifty years ago, Bette Midler, Kiss, Steely Dan and the Simons (both Carly and Paul) stormed the pop charts
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How Jane Eyre and Marvin Gaye helped to inspire a pop star’s debut novel
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Peter Gabriel’s not-so-secret Jewish weapon — and his little side project called King Crimson
When the rocker goes out on tour for the first time in a decade, Tony Levin will be there alongside him
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Why Prokofiev once called himself ‘the only Jewish composer’
The Russian composer produced one of the most significant works about Jewish cultural identity
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How one of the giants of jazz composed a hymn for Black-Jewish unity
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