Neil Mccormick

What would “prog rock” sound like… without the rock? That was the question underlying this peculiar yet entertaining concert as Prog went to the

The World Cup half-time show was surprisingly nimble on its feet for a major sporting extravaganza.

The World Cup half-time show was surprisingly nimble on its feet for a major sporting extravaganza. Rather than going for the kind of spectacular blockbuster staging often seen at sporting events such as the American football Super Bowl, the World Cup rather surprisingly opted to keep things charming, friendly and intimate.

Boy George has released a new song defending Israel's unpopular military campaign in Palestine.

Glen Hansard was a shining light of Irish music . He was a maverick and a true artist – a gregarious, warm, thoughtful and caring lover of people

Ariana Grande has warned fans that her new album, Petal , comes from a place of “unfiltered rage”. “It's a little feral,” she said in a recent

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' concert in Preston Park, Brighton, was a kind of rapturous homecoming for the Australian émigré, who has made the British seaside town his base for decades.

How many musical masterpieces have been censured by the United Nations? When Paul Simon's Graceland was released in August 1986, his choice to record

Eric Barrett’s exhilarating memoir recalls life on the road beside rock’s greatest guitarist, from reckless excess to Woodstock chaos

The iconic album gave the American singer his biggest success since Simon & Garfunkel’s heyday but his breaking of a cultural boycott of South Africa sparked controversy on its release