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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday - 1947 - Singer

‘You’ve Changed’: Billie Holiday’s most devastating vocal performance

The penultimate recording of ‘Lady Day’.

Fiona MacPherson-Amador
Mar 28, 2025
That eerie feeling- 10 strange songs from equally strange artists

That eerie feeling: 10 strange songs from equally strange artists

“All songs are strange, when you’re strange.”

Matthew Ingate
Mar 25, 2025
Billie Holiday - 1947 - Singer

‘God Bless The Child’: Billie Holiday’s anti-nepotism anthem

Billie Holiday’s take on nepotism.

Lucy Harbron
Mar 9, 2025
Keith Richards - The Rolling Stones

The first musician to change Keith Richards’ life: “I really have to thank my mum”

“I really have to thank my mum.”

Joe Taysom
Feb 13, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr on the music that powered the ‘Freedom Movement’: “Speaks for life”

“This is triumphant music.”

Lauren Hunter
Jan 17, 2025
Kim Gordon - Glastonbury 2024 - Woodsies

The record that reminds Thurston Moore of Kim Gordon

“I discovered jazz”.

Will Howard
Dec 8, 2024
Censored ghosts- Chinese cinema's complicated relationship with the supernatural

The five greatest songs about ghosts

Hits from beyond the grave

Will Howard
Nov 26, 2024
Linda Ronstadt - Singer - Musician - 1981

“Enchanted”: Linda Ronstadt on the musician who “invented pop music”

“I tried to do what they did.”

Kelly Murphy
Nov 22, 2024
Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

Who wrote the legendary pop standard ‘Blue Moon’?

The origins of a classic song.

Ben Forrest
Nov 4, 2024
Linda Ronstadt at Schiphol (airport) in North Holland - 1976

“She made music so intimate”: Linda Ronstadt on the artist that invented pop music

The core of all good pop music.

Tim Coffman
Oct 17, 2024
Photo of Bing and Kathryn Crosby from his 1976 television Christmas special.

Five songs from the 1940s that still matter today

Timeless is the only word.

Dale Maplethorpe
Oct 16, 2024
Billie Holiday - 1947 - Singer

What is the “strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” in Billie Holiday’s song?

A powerful metaphor.

Guy Howie
Jul 24, 2024

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