Neil Mccormick

Taylor Swift is the great influencer , the reigning pop superstar of our social media fixated times.

I don't know what the frequency of 5,000 screaming girls is, but if it could be harnessed as a weapon then young women could surely take over the world.

I don't know what the frequency of 5,000 screaming girls is, but if it could be harnessed as a weapon then young women could surely take over the world.

The Jewish superstar was inspired to record her first song in five years, soundtracking The Tattooist of Auschwitz, to fight anti-Semitism

A delicate piano picks out a slow motif, strings swell with sweet sadness, and a very familiar voice eases softly into our ears with a tone of tremulous tenderness and a gorgeously world-weary stoicism.

A giant funeral card was projected at the London Roundhouse, displaying the ominous words “Death Songbook”. Stick thin, foppish-haired and dressed

Pet Shop Boys: Nonetheless “Why am I dancing?” wonders Neil Tennant in his wispy choirmaster voice, on a song of the same name, from the Pet Shop Boys th album, Nonetheless.

Pet Shop Boys revel in cheesy euro-pop, St Vincent knows how to rattle your bones, Justice get back to basics, Porij are the band to watch

The King of twang, who has died age 86, paved the way for some of the most memorable riffs in rock and pop. Here are five of the best

Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism ★★★★☆ There is a shark circling Dua Lipa on the cover of her third album, Radical Optimism.