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Alesha Dixon: "The biggest risk brought the biggest pay-off"
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Alesha Dixon: "The biggest risk brought the biggest pay-off"

The Big Issue's guide to virtual festivals
Isolation Fest
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The Big Issue's guide to virtual festivals

With gigs cancelled and venues closed, artists are turning to playing online
Kirsty Merryn
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With gigs cancelled and venues closed, artists are turning to playing online

Chris Stein: "I still feel protective about Debbie"
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Chris Stein: "I still feel protective about Debbie"

The story behind Lewis Capaldi's breakthrough song Someone You Loved
Lewis Capaldi
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The story behind Lewis Capaldi's breakthrough song Someone You Loved

Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross: "It's still OK to get angry now and again"
Deacon Blue 1399
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Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross: "It's still OK to get angry now and again"

Celebrating Mozart properly takes time
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Celebrating Mozart properly takes time

Deacon Blue’s Lorraine McIntosh reveals her own experience with homelessness
Deacon Blue 1399
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Deacon Blue’s Lorraine McIntosh reveals her own experience with homelessness

Alabaster dePlume's life-affirming outsider art
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Alabaster dePlume's life-affirming outsider art

Podcasts and audiobooks are transforming music to elevate storytelling
Stephen Fry London Theatre Direct
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Podcasts and audiobooks are transforming music to elevate storytelling

Nathaniel Rateliff reveals how grief and regret drove his emotional new album
Nathaniel Rateliff
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Nathaniel Rateliff reveals how grief and regret drove his emotional new album

Robbie Robertson: "My teenage self wouldn't believe the life I've had"
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Robbie Robertson: "My teenage self wouldn't believe the life I've had"

Keeping Up Appearances is a resonant farewell to Patrick Doyle
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Keeping Up Appearances is a resonant farewell to Patrick Doyle

Keep an eye out for this poverty battling badge at London DJ sets
DASP DJs against street poverty
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Keep an eye out for this poverty battling badge at London DJ sets

250 years after his birth, it's still worth celebrating Beethoven
Beethoven
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250 years after his birth, it's still worth celebrating Beethoven

David Bowie: the man who sold the world wide web
Music

David Bowie: the man who sold the world wide web

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Ivor Cutler and the collapse of legacies
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Ivor Cutler and the collapse of legacies

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: believe the hype about this young cellist
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: believe the hype about this young cellist

Base notes: bittersweet memories triggered by perfume and music
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Base notes: bittersweet memories triggered by perfume and music

It's time to redefine classical music
Music

It's time to redefine classical music

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