by Max Newman | Jun 4, 2026 | Latest, Music, People
Host of the Definitely Dylan Podcast, Laura Tenschert, criticises A Complete Unknown (2024) for its reductive portrayal of Bob Dylan’s partner, Suze Rotolo. James Mangold’s film follows Bob Dylan, played by Timothee Chalamet, and his rise to folk music superstardom in...
by Christopher Randall | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Music, Top Story
If you can brush past the high-flying singalongs and postcard-perfect Austrian mountains, you’ll find that The Sound of Music tells a story of something darker in its own way. But how, and why, does your favourite model musical avoid the twisted truth of history? ‘The...
by Moleed Mire | Jun 2, 2026 | Activism, Culture, Music, Present Day
What does Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse and Weird Al Yankovic have in common? All three are famous musicians, and all have had a biopic made about their lives that have been released in the past decade. They’re not the only ones. Robbie Williams, Bob Dylan, David...
by Max Astle | May 28, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Music, Top Story
Vera Brandes is the reason the world was blessed with The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett, leading it to become the best-selling solo album in jazz history and the best-selling piano album. But that’s not the interesting story; Köln 75 shows us how an 18-year-old...
by Lewis Kennedy | May 28, 2026 | Culture, Latest, Music, People, Top Story
The 2009 feature ‘Nowhere Boy’ helped launch the careers of Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, bringing John Lennon’s pre-fame years to the big screen. Covering life at Mendips and the conflict between his mother Julia and Aunt Mimi, the film promised to...
by Sophie Street | May 27, 2026 | Culture, Music, People, Top Story
In the opening frames of the 2017 blockbuster The Greatest Showman, a young P.T.Barnum and his father hustle through the bustling streets of New York City before racing tocatch a commuter train back to Bethel, Connecticut. It is a cinematic, propulsive momentthat...
