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Pulp's hologram envy: how Abba Voyage helped birth a concert film

Jarvis Cocker and director Garth Jennings on turning a chart-topping comeback gig into a documentary hybrid - and why nobody's getting rich off nostalgia alone.

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Art Garfunkel goes back on the road at 83 - but the reconciliation story is thinner than the headline

The Sound of Silence singer describes a five-year absence from touring and a late-life reckoning with mortality, though the promised Paul Simon rapprochement gets little airtime.

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Mary Austin opens Freddie Mercury's lost lyric archive - but to what end?

Thirty-five years after Mercury's death, his closest confidante reveals she has finally unsealed trunks of handwritten lyrics - though what happens to them next remains unclear.

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Green Man survives the flames it couldn't light

Wildfires forced organisers to cancel the festival's signature burning ceremony, but the Welsh institution's economics look sturdier than its bonfire this year.

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Tupac Shakur murder trial opens in Las Vegas after nearly three decades

Prosecutors say Duane 'Keffe D' Davis directed the 1996 drive-by killing as payback for an attack on his nephew, but the case rests on one man, decades on.

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The arena ticket levy has made its first payment, and £500,000 does not go very far

The LIVE Trust has handed out the first money raised by the voluntary £1 levy on big shows. The interesting part is not the total, but how thinly it has to spread and who is holding the collection tin.

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